President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump were changed men when they met on Thursday versus when each was out campaigning last week, political commentator Michael Reagan told Newsmax TV.
"The nation should wake up and see what the president of the United States did today and the words he used instead of these schools marching around California and other places out there and rioting, if you will," the eldest son of former President Ronald Reagan told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth.
"Last week, when the president was saying that during the campaign, Donald Trump was just campaigning for president.
"Today, Barack Obama was looking at his next president — and that's a whole different situation than what it was last week," Reagan said. "Today, when Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, Donald Trump became a changed man — because now, it is also different for him."
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Reagan then cited a conversation he had with his father when he assumed the White House from Democratic President Jimmy Carter in 1981.
"He said: 'You know, Michael, there's a big difference between being elected president and then that day that you actually become the president of the United States, because the weight of the world now is on your shoulders.'
"Today, the weight's starting to shift from Barack Obama to Donald Trump," Reagan told Hayworth. "He'll start feeling it — and we pray he makes the right decisions."
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