U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

After a meeting that lasted over an hour, President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump gave brief remarks to the media, both of them saying the discussion went well.

“I have been very encouraged by the interest by the President-elect Trump’s wanting to work with my team around many of the issues that this great country faces,” Obama said with little visible emotion.

Reiterating his remarks from yesterday, Obama directly addressed Trump: “Most of all, I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President elect, that we now are going to do everything we can to help you succeed because if you succeed then the country succeeds.”

The nation’s current and future leaders said they discussed a wide range of issues—or as Trump put it, “we discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties.”

“We had never met each other—I have great respect” for the president, said Trump, who has also claimed to have great respect for women in public and bragged in private about sexually assaulting them.

“Mr. President, it was a great honor being with you, and I look forward to being with you many, many more times in the future,” said Trump, a president-elect who only acknowledged that Obama was born in the U.S. two months ago. “Very good man, very good man,” he proclaimed.

They didn’t take any questions from the press, which practically exploded with queries.

President-elect Trump, his wife, and aides arrived this morning at the White House through the South Lawn entrance, as far away from the media as possible. As was his practice as a candidate, Trump traveled without a pool of journalists, breaking a longstanding tradition whereby reporters keep close watch on the president-elect’s actions.

Obama leaned in and told Trump, “This is a good rule: Don’t answer any questions when they start yelling.”

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