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Trump vs Obama: The stark differences and open similarities

President Barack Obama meets with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016.

In Donald Trump, the United States elected a president as opposite to Barrack Obama as can be.

Twice, in 2008 and 2012, American voters chose a 48-year-old, urbane, liberal black man; now in 2016, they have elected a 70-year-old, unrepentantly coarse white man.

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