Obama Urges Donald Trump to Send 'Signs of Unity' to Minority Groups and Women

President Obama said on Monday that he had asked President-elect Donald J. Trump to connect with minority gatherings, ladies and other people who were estranged by his crusade, amid the president's first news meeting since Mr. Trump won the decision in a shocking surprise that has endangered Mr. Obama's legacy.

"There are sure things that make for good solid chomps yet don't generally convert into great strategy, and that is something that I believe that he and his group will grapple with," Mr. Obama said in the White House preparation room. "I said to him, as I've said freely, that in light of the way of the crusades and the sharpness and the savagery of the battles, that it's truly critical to send a few signs of solidarity, and to connect with minority gatherings, or ladies, or others that were worried about the tenor of the battle, and I surmise that is something that he will need to do."

Mr. Obama additionally said he believed that Mr. Trump was entering office with less set approach thoughts than different presidents-choose. "I don't think he is ideological," Mr. Obama said. "I think eventually he is realistic."

Mr. Obama, who amid the battle called Mr. Trump irritably unfit and perilously inadequate to be president, has since said his need is to lead an organized move of energy to help Mr. Trump prevail for the benefit of the nation. He avoided a question about Mr. Trump's activities since his triumph, including his choice on Sunday of Stephen K. Bannon, a media big shot whose site, Breitbart.com, has advanced white patriot, supremacist and against Semitic perspectives, as his main White House strategist and senior advisor.

"Without copping out, I believe most would agree that it would not be proper for me to remark" on Mr. Trump's work force choices, Mr. Obama said.

The president commented a week ago that Mr. Trump's remarks and conduct had been more statesmanlike since the race, saying that he had been "empowered" by the adjustment in tone. From that point forward, the president-elect has utilized Twitter to gripe about postelection challenges him and question the way The New York Times has secured him. Mr. Trump's rise of Mr. Bannon, who was a top consultant to the crusade, has drawn blistering feedback from Democrats and a few Republicans who caution that the president-elect is putting a divisive figure with periphery sees somewhere inside the West Wing.

White House authorities say Mr. Obama has not changed his perspective of Mr. Trump since the crusade this fall, when he censured Mr. Trump as a narrow minded person who had cozied up to white supremacists and couldn't be trusted with the atomic codes. In any case, Mr. Obama has told the American open that he trusts the will of the voters ought to be regarded.

Amid a hour and a half one-on-one meeting on Thursday in the Oval Office, the president guided Mr. Trump, who has no administration approach or elective experience, on an extensive variety of residential and remote arrangement matters he will need to manage on his first day in office.

Mr. Obama held the news gathering just before leaving for a weeklong trek to Greece, Germany and Peru — his last booked excursion abroad as president — where he anticipated that would confront questions from on edge American partners. For quite a long time, Mr. Obama guaranteed the partners that Mr. Trump would not win the White House.

Presently, he said on Monday, he will tell European partners that they ought not fear for the eventual fate of NATO under a Trump administration.

In the Oval Office discussion on Thursday, Mr. Obama said, Mr. Trump "communicated an extraordinary enthusiasm for keeping up our center vital connections, thus one of the messages I will have the capacity to convey is his dedication to NATO and the trans-Atlantic union."