--- title: President Obama Meets Donald Trump: Transcript description: President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met in the Oval Office Thursday for a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation. canonical: https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-10T18:34:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:45:48.960Z article:section: Politics og:title: Read Obama and Trump's Remarks on Their White House Meeting og:description: A full transcript. og:url: https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d2f825b9bc23576/6988ae0d196cf478a903df06/trump-meets-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Obama Meets With President-Elect Donald Trump In The Oval Office Of White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Obama and Trump's Remarks on Their White House Meeting twitter:description: A full transcript. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d2f825b9bc23576/6988ae0d196cf478a903df06/trump-meets-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Read President Obama and Donald Trump's Remarks on Their White House Meeting by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Nov 10, 2016 6:34 PM UTC  President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with President-elect Donald Trump following a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 10, 2016. President Barack Obama speaks while meeting with President-elect Donald Trump following a meeting in the Oval Office on Nov. 10, 2016.Win McNamee—Getty Images by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Nov 10, 2016 6:34 PM UTC President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump [met in the Oval Office](http://time.com/4566234/barack-obama-donald-trump/) Thursday for a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation about how the White House works. Afterward, the two spoke briefly to a group of reporters. Here is a complete transcript. --- > “” --- ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/"},"headline":"Read President Obama and Donald Trump's Remarks on Their White House Meeting","datePublished":"2016-11-10T18:34:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:45:48.960Z","description":"President Obama and President-elect Donald Trump met in the Oval Office Thursday for a wide-ranging 90-minute conversation.","url":"https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/","keywords":["White House","Barack Obama","Donald Trump","transcripts"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d2f825b9bc23576/6988ae0d196cf478a903df06/trump-meets-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d2f825b9bc23576/6988ae0d196cf478a903df06/trump-meets-obama3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Obama Meets With President-Elect Donald Trump In The Oval Office Of White House","caption":"President Obama Meets With President-Elect Donald Trump In The Oval Office Of White House","creditText":"Win McNamee—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/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4566631/donald-trump-barack-obama-white-house-meeting-transcript/","name":"Read President Obama and Donald Trump's Remarks on Their White House Meeting"}}]}] ```