{"id":101551,"date":"2017-05-09T05:51:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101551"},"modified":"2017-05-09T05:51:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:51:05","slug":"obama-starts-defining-his-new-role-in-the-age-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/09\/obama-starts-defining-his-new-role-in-the-age-of-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama starts defining his new role in the age of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_101552\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101552\" style=\"width: 591px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barack-Obama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101552\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barack-Obama.jpg\" alt=\"Former President Barack Obama is starting to define his new role in the age of Donald Trump. (Photo: Marc Nozell\/Flickr)\" width=\"591\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barack-Obama.jpg 591w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barack-Obama-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101552\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President Barack Obama is starting to define his new role in the age of Donald Trump. (Photo:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marcn\/7811032458\/in\/photolist-cUezPq-cUeJ8y-cUeRtA-cUeSbm-cUewg3-cUeM8h-bE6b7Y-cUexjA-cUeumu-cUeBPJ-cUeLqG-cUeE5f-cUeDG5-cUeAWY-cUeGdb-cUewWA-6mzQ6U-cUeLKQ-cUePyY-cUeuYJ-cUeQGS-cUeFkL-cUeMs7-cUeHqs-cUeH3Y-cUeCKq-cUePJ7-cUeCy5-cUeuFu-cUeKLJ-9x23mj-cUeKw3-cUeL5o-4n69ys-bX7fyB-5zyDKH-dgyZEn-dfNLt3-dfNLqb-5T4VEG-chBBTG-cetADQ-98Defz-dNBBNC-dNBBGm-dNw1ZV-dNBFG7-dm5g37-9wY5og-bCaf78\"> Marc Nozell\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Former President Barack Obama is starting to define his new role in the age of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>After dropping out of sight for a pair of glamorous island getaways, Obama is emerging for a series of paid and unpaid speeches, drawing sharp contrasts with Trump even as he avoids saying the new president&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is wielding his influence overseas, offering his support for some of the international political candidates who are clamouring for his endorsement. His aides are engaging in a real-time political combat with Trump, including revealing that Obama personally warned his successor against tapping Micael Flynn as national security adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s swift return to the spotlight has been cheered by some Democrats, who are still sifting through the wreckage of the party&#8217;s defeats in the November election.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Former President Barack Obama is starting to define his new role in the age of Donald Trump. After &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[503,9869],"class_list":["post-101551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","mauthors-julie-pace","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}