Ben Rhodes: Obama Was ‘Kind of Stunned’ on Election Night When Trump Won

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RHODES: "Actually, what I was conveying, what I described in the book is that after the election, President Obama went through the same process that a lot of us did in just trying to figure out what happened here. I remember he called me on election night and was just kind of stunned, 'How did that happen? What do we do? How do we pick ourselves up?' And he went through the theories, you know, Russian meddling or the Comey letter or did the Democrats not run a good campaign. In that vignette we were in the limousine coming to Air Force One on his last foreign trip and he was contemplating a bigger question, which is, what if Trump’s on to something, the desire the people have to retreat back into their tribe, the politics of grievance that he’d soaked."