News Conference: Mr Obama and People Fears

news conference: Mr Obama, in a joint news conference with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, said both Mr Trump election and the British vote to leave the European Union reflected the need to deal with people fears that their children wont do as well as they have . Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something and see if we can shake things up, Mr Obama said, according to Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He seemed sceptical that the new prescriptions being offered would satisfy the frustrations and anger evident in the election. Key points Obama tells Greek news conference that people economic fears must be dealt with Tsipras says criticising Trump is different now that he is the US President-elect Obama seeks to reassure Greece leadership of US commitment to NATOAnti-Obama protesters take to the streets The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counterproductive approaches that can pit people against each other, Mr Obama said as he opened the last foreign tour of his presidency. And he played a bit of defence, saying that his agenda over the past eight years had dealt with economic issues head on and the country indisputably better off . No man can serve two masters Will competing forces of party and populists tear the presidency apart Mr Obama added pointedly that some of the rhetoric seen in the elections was pretty troubling and not necessarily connected to the facts. He predicted that in the near future not much is going to change in the relations between the EU, Greece and the United States of America. For his part, Mr Tsipras said he had refrained from rushing to criticise Mr Trump as some other European leaders had done, saying that the Republican aggressive manner as a candidate might be different as president. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.