--- title: Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House description: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will meet with President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the White House canonical: https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-09T23:49:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:19.517Z article:section: Politics og:title: The Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House og:description: President Obama and Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office og:url: https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ce9c8e75cdcd04/6988adf4e20a87cb60a932c8/obama-white-house-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House twitter:description: President Obama and Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ce9c8e75cdcd04/6988adf4e20a87cb60a932c8/obama-white-house-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House > Sponsored content. 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U.S. President Barack Obama makes a statement on the election results at the Rose Garden of the White House November 9, 2016 in Washington, DC. Alex Wong—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Nov 9, 2016 11:49 PM UTC President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will meet with President-elect Donald Trump and Melania Trump at the White House, following Trump’s election win on Tuesday night. Obama and Trump will meet in the Oval Office at 11 a.m. on Thursday, while the First Lady will meet with Melania Trump in the White House Residence, according to the White House [schedule](https://twitter.com/search?q=white%20house%20schedule&src=typd) sent to reporters. > [](https://twitter.com/davidshepardson/status/796493615275114497) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/"},"headline":"The Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House","datePublished":"2016-11-09T23:49:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:19.517Z","description":"President Obama and Donald Trump will meet in the Oval Office","url":"https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ce9c8e75cdcd04/6988adf4e20a87cb60a932c8/obama-white-house-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt94ce9c8e75cdcd04/6988adf4e20a87cb60a932c8/obama-white-house-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election","caption":"President Obama Makes At Statement At White House After Presidential Election","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4565692/barack-obama-donald-trump-meet-white-house/","name":"The Obamas Will Meet With the Trumps at the White House"}}]}] ```