White House will shake up Trump: Obama

US President Barack Obama says good sound bites do not always make good policy, and he says President-elect Donald Trump will find that being in the White House will shake him up pretty quick. 

Obama held his first White House news conference yesterday since Trump's stunning election upset over Hillary Clinton last week.The president already had held a White House meeting with Trump and said he believes the incoming president is not as ideological as people think, and that he will be a pragmatic leader as long as he is surrounded by good people. 

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the



Oval Office of the White House in Washington, November, 10th, 2016.Obama said he is leaving the country in better shape than it was when he took power in 2009, when the economy was on the verge of a depression and there were a huge number of fires to put out.

He said Trump will have the time and space to make judicious decisions, and that the infamous Trump temperament will not always serve him well.The president said those who oppose Trump have to recognize that this is the way democracy works. He appealed to them to let Trump make his decisions, saying the American people will judge if they like what they see.