--- title: President Obama Holds First Press Conference Since Election description: The president will answer questions from the press on Monday before taking a trip overseas canonical: https://time.com/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-14T17:00:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T01:48:20.067Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama Holds First Press Conference Since Election og:description: The president will answer questions from the press on Monday before taking a trip overseas og:url: https://time.com/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt194c794fdbf51c5a/6988ae5a8e0601f90a4683f6/gettyimages-622272796.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican presidential elect Donald Trump meets with og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama Holds First Press Conference Since Election twitter:description: The president will answer questions from the press on Monday before taking a trip overseas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt194c794fdbf51c5a/6988ae5a8e0601f90a4683f6/gettyimages-622272796.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch President Obama's First Press Conference Since the Election by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 14, 2016 5:00 PM UTC  President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016\. The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016\. The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty ImagesThe Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 14, 2016 5:00 PM UTC [President Obama ](http://time.com/tag/barack-obama/)will take questions from the press for the first time since the historic 2016 presidential election on Monday afternoon. After delivering statements from the Rose Garden and the Oval Office, President Obama will answer questions ahead of a days-long trip overseas. The president will likely be questioned about his feelings on the U.S. election, the status of his legacy including his signature health law under a Trump administration, as well as the ongoing protests in cities across the U.S. in the wake of the election. While overseas, the president will likely face similar questions from world leaders. The president spent the bulk of the 2016 presidential election denouncing his now-successor, calling him unqualified for the presidency and “temperamentally unfit” to serve. Now, President Obama has said his main priority going forward is [ensuring a smooth transition of power](http://time.com/4564787/president-obama-congratulates-donald-trump-calls-for-peaceful-transition-of-power/), which he’s called one of the “hallmarks” of our democracy. Following a meeting with president-elect Donald Trump last week, Obama [signaled the transition was off to a good start ](http://time.com/4566234/barack-obama-donald-trump/)and Trump agreed, calling a man whose legitimacy he once questioned a “very good man.” The public at large, however, is less optimistic. [Protesters have taken to the streets](http://time.com/4569243/anti-trump-protests-immigrants-new-york-la-philadelphia/?xid=homepage) since Election Day denouncing Trump and his statements on the campaign trail. A series of racially charged incidents have also caused concern among those who have said Trump’s candidacy emboldened bigots. Though Trump ran on a platform of undoing most of the president’s signature policies, he has suggested some key components of the health care law known as Obamacare will be safe. In an interview with the [Wall Street _Journal_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-willing-to-keep-parts-of-health-law-1478895339), Trump said he liked the provisions that protected patients with preexisting conditions and allowed children under 26 to stay on their parent’s plans. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama's First Press Conference Since the Election","datePublished":"2016-11-14T17:00:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T01:48:20.067Z","description":"The president will answer questions from the press on Monday before taking a trip overseas","url":"https://time.com/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/","keywords":["White House","2016 Election topic","Barack Obama","Obama","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt194c794fdbf51c5a/6988ae5a8e0601f90a4683f6/gettyimages-622272796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt194c794fdbf51c5a/6988ae5a8e0601f90a4683f6/gettyimages-622272796.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican presidential elect Donald Trump meets with","caption":"Republican presidential elect Donald Trump meets with","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/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/4569736/president-obama-press-conference-livestream/","name":"Watch President Obama's First Press Conference Since the Election"}}]}] ```