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But what’s particularly galling, Obama doesn’t appear to have left the affairs of state to his successor. He instead galivants around the globe meeting heads of state, sometimes either immediately before or after Trump does. What’s that all about?

While Obama was discussing democracy with Merkel, Trump was in Brussels telling Germany, and other NATO member nations, to start paying their fair share of defense spending.

During both Obama-Merkel meetings, Great Britain was working on a framework to exit the European Union, something to which Merkel is adamantly opposed. During the second meeting, Trump was also working out trade agreements with the UK in anticipation of its departure from the EU.

As 2017 was coming to a close, Obama met with the leaders of India and China. His supporters back home thought nothing of it.

"Barack Obama is the great explainer to the rest of the world of what the heck is going on in America," said Douglas Brinkley, a Rice University presidential historian. America needs explaining now?

Those meetings came at a time when Trump was negotiating trade agreements with both countries — particularly China. Those talks are continuing.

Trump campaigned for the presidency, in part, on renegotiating international trade deals in which he believed the United States came out the loser. One in particular was NAFTA, entered into with Mexico and Canada.

So while the Trump White House was working on what eventually became the USMCA, Obama shared a private dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, reportedly to discuss how to get young leaders engaged in politics.

Possibly meaning nothing, Trump was days away from turning 71 at the time of the meeting.

Obama promised during his first presidential campaign that he would willingly meet with world dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un without preconditions. He never dd.

Trump, however, had two meetings with Kim, in which both China and South Korea played a pivotal role.

As noted above, Obama met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He also met with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in.