President-Elect Trump Reminds All That Voters Felt Big ‘Let Down’ On Jobs, War, Corruption

As protests continue nationwide, President-elect Donald Trump gave his very first lengthy, post-election interview to the nation and revealed some of what he discussed with the current sitting president Barack Obama during their 90-minute meeting on Thursday at the White House as well as offered viewers a reminder that voters have felt “let down” by their elected leaders for a long time now.

From the 60 Minutes interview with President-elect Trump, broadcast Sunday evening on CBS, Americans tuning in heard gracious words and a serious tone from the man just elected to succeed Obama in the White House. President-elect Trump said he thought Obama to be “terrific” and “very smart,” and it seems evident the two men had quite a lot to discuss with each other as the meet up was only scheduled to last “15 minutes max.”

“This was just going to be a quick little chat and it lasted close to an hour and a half. And it could have gone on for four hours. I mean it was– just– in fact, it was almost hard breaking it up because we had so many things to say.”

When interviewer Lesley Stahl asked for some details, President-elect Trump demurred. Obama had previously remarked to reporters on Thursday that the president-elect and he conversed about foreign and domestic policy. In this interview the president-elect mentioned North Korea and healthcare as topics, but Trump told Stahl he was particularly interested in getting Obama’s thoughts on the Middle East.

“Well, look I don’t want to divulge, but we talked about the Middle East, that’s tough. It’s a tough situation. I wanted to get his full view and I got his, you know I got a good part of his view.”

Sarah Huckabee, the daughter of a GOP rival for the Presidency, Governor Mike Huckabee, who served as a senior adviser to Trump during this campaign, tweeted her thoughts about the President-elect and his remarks on the broadcast.

.@realDonaldTrump built a movement of Americans sick & tired of business as usual in Washington. On @60Minutes he declares change is coming.

— Sarah Huckabee (@SarahHuckabee) November 14, 2016

From YouTube, people are perhaps familiar with the anger over the election results. Here is just one video clip:

President-elect Trump addressed those supporters who were being negative to other voters over the election results to “Stop it,” as can be seen from the VOA tweet.

Trump Says ‘Stop It’ to Those Intimidating Minorities in His Name https://t.co/It84ou1AIS via @VOANews

— Alexander Myint Swan (@myintswan) November 14, 2016

Stahl, however, failed to make any mention if she would ask the same thing of Clinton or Obama regarding those protestors who were attacking Trump supporters. In the next YouTube video, thanks to Florida cops, a bad situation was not made worse when Trump protesters entered a pub.

Some may recall an Inquisitr story on a WikiLeaks dump and the revelation that “fake” protesters allegedly were bussed in to Trump campaign events and then handed Bernie Sanders shirts to “cause terrible violence” and blame Sanders supporters for it, according to one witness who tweeted about it. It is not clear if someone is still orchestrating such protests against the president-elect.

Trump also hit on other topics during the interview, of course. When asked a loaded question about his win last week, if Trump believed the election is a “repudiation” of Obama’s presidency, he said “No.”

“No, I think it’s a moment in time where politicians for a long period of time have let people down. They’ve let ’em down on the job front. They’ve even let ’em down in terms of the war front. You know, we’ve been fighting this war for 15 years–“

Stahl interrupted Trump and stated that “[t]his was the message of your campaign.” Trump then continued.

“We’ve spent $6 trillion in the Middle East, $6 trillion, we could have rebuilt our country twice. And you look at our roads and our bridges and our tunnels and all of the– and our airports are, like, obsolete. And I think it was just a repudiation of what’s been taking place over a longer period of time than that.”

Regarding the promise to “secure the border,” President-elect Trump answered that he would really build a wall, and if Congress wanted to make it more like a fence because of the terrain in certain sections, they could discuss if it would be “appropriate.” He reminded Stahl he understood issues of construction.

Asked about deporting “millions and millions of undocumented immigrants,” the president-elect replied that he was most concerned with protecting Americans from criminal gang members and drug dealers.

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, we have a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate. But we’re getting them out of our country, they’re here illegally.”

From the conversation, it did seem he mainly wanted to keep his promise to secure the border and protect the law-abiding people.

“After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about who are terrific people, they’re terrific people but we are gonna make a determination at that– But before we make that determination– Lesley, it’s very important, we want to secure our border.”

About Trump’s meeting with Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the president-elect was asked about issues they intend to work on together.

“Well, I would say there was more than one thing, there were three things, it was healthcare, there was immigration and there was a major tax bill lowering taxes in this country. We’re going to substantially simplify and lower the taxes….”

Trump agreed with Stahl about how he still wanted to do something to stop lobbyists and their money from tainting and corrupting elected leaders. Trump clarified.

“And when you say lobbyists, lobbyists and special interests. I don’t like it, no.”

Trump agreed that Washington D.C. was filled with lobbyists.

“[T]hat’s the problem with the system. Right now, we’re going to clean it up. We’re having restrictions on foreign money coming in, we’re going to put on term limits, which a lot of people aren’t happy about, but we’re putting on term limits. We’re doing a lot of things to clean up the system. But everybody that works for government, they then leave government and they become a lobbyist, essentially. I mean, the whole place is one big lobbyist.”

The president-elect was also asked about Roe v. Wade and abortions. Trump answered that he is pro-life. Stahl did not seem to appreciate that a lot of evangelical voters put their faith in Trump in this election because he said he was pro-life, a sentiment which can be seen on social media, of course.

As a nation, we cannot have peace if we allow the killing of our most vulnerable through abortion. #prolife pic.twitter.com/7Fe6axSX3e

— Live Action (@LiveAction) November 8, 2016

Trump added that the judges he chooses for the Supreme Court “will be pro-life” and also will “know the Second Amendment.” He anticipated that the question of abortions would likely “go back to the states.”

President-elect Trump’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, addressed questions on another weekend show. She told Chris Wallace of Fox news that this election cycle “the voters have also said, ‘stop hiding behind divided government. For both sides and both legislative — the legislative and the executive branch, stop using the excuse that you don’t have one party rule where you can actually get things done.'”

[Featured Image by Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Images]