There was always a strong chance it was going to happen but that didn't make it any less strange to see President Barak Obama and President Elect Donald Trump shaking hands over a sit down at the White House after Trump won the presidency on Tuesday.
Obama told the man who shot to fame partly on a false claim that the sitting president was not born in the US, he would "do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed, then the country succeeds".
Trump was full of praise for the sitting president. "This was a meeting that was going to last for maybe 10 or 15 minutes," Trump said.
"The meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half. And it could have, as far as I'm concerned, it could have gone on for a lot longer."
"I have great respect," he added, saying: "I very much look forward to dealing with the president in the future, including counsel."
This is after Obama described Trump at the 2011 White Correspondents Dinner as a conspiracy theorist who was waiting to prove the moon landing was fake.
“Now, I know that he’s taken some flak lately, but no one is happier, no one is prouder to put this birth certificate matter to rest than The Donald,” Obama said.
"And that’s because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter — like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?”
He more recently said Trump couldn't be trusted with his own Twitter account let alone the nuclear codes.
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"In the last two days, they had so little confidence in his self-control they said we are just going to take away your Twitter. Now, if somebody can't handle a Twitter account, they can't handle the nuclear codes," he told a Hillary Clinton rally last Sunday.
"If somebody starts tweeting at three in the morning because SNL made fun of you, then you can't handle the nuclear codes."
Meanwhile Melania Trump and First Lady Michelle Obama played out another traditional charade by sitting down for tea together and reportedly talked about the White House, children and took a tour.
Meanwhile, in her first appearance since the result on Tuesday, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton was spotted hiking near Chappaqua, New York.
Hiker Margot Gerster who took the photo after encountering Clinton on the trail said Clinton seemed well after the result.
"She seemed as well as anybody could be expected after such a crazy, crazy experience," Gerster told CNN. "She couldn't have seemed any nicer or, you know, kinder and gracious to me."
