Pat Boone, the legendary hit-maker, movie star and TV personality, told Newsmax TV he is very confident in president-elect Donald Trump and his ability to lead the nation to a prosperous future.
"As I look at the White House now, I feel like it's more our house," Boone, who helped drum up conservative and evangelical support for Trump, said to Steve Malzberg on "America Talks Live."
He said Trump — who met Thursday with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office for his first transition meeting — likely entered the White House with a different perspective than other president-elects.
"The White House is a grand place, of course, it means everything to our country," Boone said. "But this man, the new president elect, is used to palaces. He's used to finery. He's not a man of humble origin. He's a man accustomed to moving in corridors of power.
"I wish I could be a fly on the wall as [Obama], the man who said that he is temperamentally unfit to be president, is now having to shake his hand and communicate with him and try to help make the transition peaceful, as I hope it will be."
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Boone said he worries Obama might wield his executive powers in the last two months of his administration.
"We've got to be careful now that he doesn't try to continually fundamentally transform America into something we don't recognize before he leaves office," he told Malzberg.
Boone's hit records include "Ain't That a Shame and "At My Front Door (Crazy Little Mama)" and his movies include "Journey to the Center of the Earth," and "State Fair."
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