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First up, a highest level meeting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. U.S. President Barack Obama hosted U.S. President-elect Donald Trump¹ yesterday afternoon. The two men have a history of taking verbal shots at one another. While campaigning for the presidency², Mr. Trump called President Obama incompetent³. While campaigning for Democratic nominee⁴ Hillary Clinton, President Obama called Mr. Trump incompetent.

Tensions remain in the U.S. over the historic election. The country, which has been repeatedly characterized as divided, saw protests and rallies and dozen of cities after the vote. Most were peaceful, but there was some violence in places like Oakland, California, where emergency workers had to extinguish about 40 fires. Many of the protesters turned out to say they opposed the election of Donald Trump. Some supporters of the president-elect turned out to celebrate.

But at the White House, both leaders had kind words for each other and seemed focus on working together to move the nation forward.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, I just had the opportunity to have an excellent conversation with President-elect Trump.

It was wide ranging. We talked about some of the organizational issues in setting up the White House. We talked about foreign policy. We talked about domestic policy.

And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.

I believe that it is important for all of us, regardless of party and regardless of political preferences, to now come together, work together, to deal with the many challenges that we face.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT: This was a meeting that was going to last for maybe 10 or 15 minutes. And we were just going to get to know each other. We had never met each other. I had great respect.

The meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half. And it could have, as far as I'm concerned, it could have gotten for a lot longer. We really — we discussed a lot of different situations, some wonderful and some difficulties.

I very much look forward to dealing⁵ with the president in the future, including counsel.

So, 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. Thank you, sir.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

3 incompetent   

adj.无能力的，不能胜任的

参考例句：

• He is utterly incompetent at his job.他完全不能胜任他的工作。
• He is incompetent at working with his hands.他动手能力不行。

4 nominee   

n.被提名者；被任命者；被推荐者

参考例句：

• His nominee for vice president was elected only after a second ballot.他提名的副总统在两轮投票后才当选。
• Mr.Francisco is standing as the official nominee for the post of District Secretary.弗朗西斯科先生是行政书记职位的正式提名人。

5 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。