--- title: Donald Trump Lashes Out at Barack Obama on Israel description: Donald Trump lashed out at Barack Obama, tweeting that the current president had put out "inflammatory" "statements and roadblocks." canonical: https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-28T15:37:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:54:47.582Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Lashes Out at President Obama for Transition 'Roadblocks' og:description: "Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!" og:url: https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28b20f5ab2e3b078/6988b4190a4a22fba29cc716/donaldtrump.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Lashes Out at President Obama for Transition 'Roadblocks' twitter:description: "Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28b20f5ab2e3b078/6988b4190a4a22fba29cc716/donaldtrump.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Lashes Out at President Obama for Transition 'Roadblocks' ## Video: President Obama: I Could Have Beaten Donald Trump [Watch (HLS stream): President Obama: I Could Have Beaten Donald Trump](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/q1pf6NGe.m3u8) (1:07)  _Published 2016-12-26. Despite the twists and turns of the 2016 election, and the punishing defeat for his Democratic Party at the hands of Donald Trump, President Obama thinks he could have won a third term if he had run._ by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 28, 2016 3:37 PM UTC  US President-elect Donald Trump addresses a 'Thank You Tour 2016' rally on December 17, 2016 in Mobile, Alabama. US President-elect Donald Trump addresses a 'Thank You Tour 2016' rally on December 17, 2016 in Mobile, Alabama.JIM WATSON—AFP/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Dec 28, 2016 3:37 PM UTC President-elect Donald Trump lashed out at President Barack Obama on Wednesday morning, [tweeting](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/814110460761018368) that the current president had put out “inflammatory” “statements and roadblocks.” Although the president-elect seemed ready to collaborate with Obama [early in the transition](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/us/politics/white-house-transition-obama-trump.html), he has redirected his sentiments since Obama stated in an [interview](http://time.com/4618125/barack-obama-president-third-term-hope/) that he could have won in a presidential race against Trump. The president-elect refuted that claim several times on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/813498739923054593) in recent days, and now he’s taking aim at the [U.N. resolution against Israeli settlements](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/world/middleeast/israel-settlements-un-vote.html?%5Fr=0), which the Obama administration abstained from voting on and chose not to veto. “We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to have a great friend in the U.S.,” Trump wrote, but “not anymore. The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!” > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/814110460761018368) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/814113616110751744) > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/814114980983427073) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Lashes Out at President Obama for Transition 'Roadblocks'","datePublished":"2016-12-28T15:37:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:54:47.582Z","description":"\"Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!\"","url":"https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28b20f5ab2e3b078/6988b4190a4a22fba29cc716/donaldtrump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt28b20f5ab2e3b078/6988b4190a4a22fba29cc716/donaldtrump.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP","caption":"US-POLITICS-TRUMP","creditText":"JIM WATSON—AFP/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/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/","name":"Donald Trump Lashes Out at President Obama for Transition 'Roadblocks'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Obama: I Could Have Beaten Donald Trump","description":"Despite the twists and turns of the 2016 election, and the punishing defeat for his Democratic Party at the hands of Donald Trump, President Obama thinks he could have won a third term if he had run.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/q1pf6NGe/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-12-26T20:32:19.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/q1pf6NGe.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/","duration":"PT1M7S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4618844/donald-trump-barack-obama-israel/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```