Outgoing US President Barack Obama spoke to the press at the White House for the last time on Wednesday:
The forty-fourth President of the United States, Barack Obama, made his last statement on Wednesday, January 18, to reporters at the White House. He will leave power on Friday, with his successor Donald Trump swearing in.
Two days after his departure, Barack Obama has said he will be conservative to allow Donald Trump to rule, but he will speak if America's "core values" - immigration, press freedom, voting - are in danger.
"I am deeply convinced that it will continue," he said, defending a form of optimism about the future of American democracy, as he was already doing during his first campaign in 2008.
Very comfortable defending his budget, calm tone, and the outgoing president traced a line between the normal political game, which he does not intend to interfere with, and issues affecting the performance of democracy himself, in fact issuing a warning to him successor.
"I have placed in this category systematic discrimination, obstacles to the right to vote, attempts to silence dissenting voices or the press, or the idea of expelling the children who grew up here and who are in all respects from American children."
Barack Obama left power bragging by rating his popularity at its height, close to the one he enjoyed when he arrived in 2009.
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