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It was a beautiful fall day when Barack Obama made one last attempt to give his country hope. The president looked tired, he had only slept a few hours the night before, which was also due to the fact that he still had a phone call to make around 3:30 in the morning – etiquette dictated that he congratulated his successor Donald Trump on election night. .
Now Obama was standing in the November sun in Washington, avoiding harsh words about the man who had called him the “founder” of the IS terrorist militia during the election campaign. Of course, being a losing party is always sad, the Democratic president said diplomatically. “But the truth is that we are all on the same team.” He had instructed his employees to do whatever they could to help Trump and his people. “A peaceful transfer of power is one of the essences of our democracy and we will show the world in the coming weeks that we are capable of doing it.”
How worried Obama was really could only be read between the lines. History does not run in lines, he said, there are always ups and downs. But that afternoon he left open the possibility that reason and love for the land would triumph over hatred and discord. “We are not Republicans or Democrats first, but Americans,” Obama said. “We are all patriots and we want the best for our country.” The telephone conversation with the future president had reinforced his belief.
