2016-11-15newrepublic.com

"Regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up," Obama said. "And those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality--he will find shaken up pretty quick, because reality has a way of asserting itself."

Should Trump respond to such shakeups by transgressing governing norms where he once transgressed campaigning norms, Obama warned that he would find himself in the midst of scandal or crime.

"One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you've got to pay attention to them," Obama said, as if the president-elect weren't a 70-year-old person with a fancy education. "The people who work for you are also subject to those rules and norms. And that's a piece of advice that I gave to the incoming president."



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