{"id":49857,"date":"2016-11-10T19:40:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T19:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49857"},"modified":"2016-11-20T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T01:47:35","slug":"what-must-it-feel-like-to-be-president-obama-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49857","title":{"rendered":"What must it feel like to be President Obama today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/11\/10\/what-must-it-feel-like-to-be-president-obama-today\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>What must it feel like to be President Obama today?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\" target=\"_blank\">Salon<\/a><br \/>\n2016-11-10<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SophiaTesfaye\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sophia Tesfaye<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/11\/10\/what-must-it-feel-like-to-be-president-obama-today\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.salon.com\/2016\/11\/trump_obama_wh-620x412.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> meet in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oval_Office\" target=\"_blank\">Oval Office<\/a>, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> Thursday<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While at least a quarter of the country begins to shrug off their shell shock from waking up on Wednesday to news that their fellow Americans had just elected an authoritarian reality-TV star to be the 45th president of the United States, the current president, his family and staff had to quickly snap back to patriotic professionalism in order to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald J. Trump<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_House\" target=\"_blank\">White House<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>I, for one, can\u2019t even begin to imagine what that must feel like \u2014 to welcome a\u00a0man who\u00a0reached the political prominence he had flirted with for years, in part by insisting that the first African-American president is illegitimate. To realize that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama_citizenship_conspiracy_theories\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s birther campaign<\/a> succeeded not only in forcing a sitting president to show his papers to a white man who derives his only sense of authority from his wealth but then to also watch as he serves the ultimate humiliation by dismantling your legacy.<\/p>\n<p>What must <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> feel like today?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/11\/10\/what-must-it-feel-like-to-be-president-obama-today\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP\/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,8,26,20],"tags":[24986,21057],"class_list":["post-49857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50085,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49857\/revisions\/50085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}