--- title: President Obama's Speech About Donald Trump Win: Watch Live description: Watch Barack Obama deliver a statement from the White House at 12.15 local time today, following Donald Trump's surprise victory canonical: https://time.com/4564407/president-obama-donald-trump-election-speech-watch-live/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-09T16:18:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:06.747Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch President Obama's Speech on Donald Trump's Election Victory Live og:description: Watch Obama deliver a statement from the White House og:url: https://time.com/4564407/president-obama-donald-trump-election-speech-watch-live/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4a034afd005ceb8/6988adcb8e0601c3ce468323/obama1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5498 og:image:height: 3093 og:image:alt: Obama Campaign 2016 Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch President Obama's Speech on Donald Trump's Election Victory Live twitter:description: Watch Obama deliver a statement from the White House twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd4a034afd005ceb8/6988adcb8e0601c3ce468323/obama1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch President Obama's Speech on Donald Trump's Election Victory Live > Sponsored content. 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President Obama waves after addressing a crowd at a Hillary for America campaign event in Orlando, FL, on Oct. 28, 2016. Phelan M. Ebenhack—AP by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Nov 9, 2016 4:18 PM UTC President Obama will deliver a speech from the White House at 12:15 p.m. EST today, following one of the most [shocking U.S. elections](http://time.com/4564155/donald-trump-president-celebrity-advice/?xid=homepage) in modern political history. His comments comes after Hillary Clinton’s [concession speech](http://time.com/4564143/hillary-clinton-concession-speech/), which she delivered from New Yorker Hotel’s Grand Ballroom following her unexpected loss [to Donald Trump](http://time.com/4563685/donald-trump-wins/?xid=homepage) on Tuesday night. ### See How the World’s Newspapers Reported Donald Trump Victory  The Washington Post  The Daily News New York Daily News  USA TODAY  Liberation, France  "Populist States of America" on La Razon, Spain  The Wall Street Journal  The Daily Telegraph, Australia  The Times, U.K.  El Financiero, Mexico  The Daily Telegraph, U.K.  L'Echo, Belgium  "Trump's Sprint", Il Secolo XIX, Italy  Toronto Star, Canada  "God forgive America", El Periodico, Spain According to the [White House](http://time.com/4564027/obama-congratulates-trump/), Obama already called Trump to congratulate him on his victory in becoming the president-elect and invited him to meet at the White House on Thursday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest says the meeting is to discuss the presidential transition. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway [said Obama called Trump](http://time.com/4564027/obama-congratulates-trump/) while he was speaking to his supporters in New York, and so Trump called him back after he left the stage. 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