Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency
David Remnick writes about Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election, and what President Barack Obama’s reaction to the new political landscape is.
"I don't believe in apocalyptic—until the apocalypse comes. I think nothing is the end of the world until the end of the world." — Obama, consoling his shell-shocked staff after Trump's victory, his insistence on hope feeling more willed than audacious.