re: #78 HappyWarrior

Obama is a better man than I am. He doesn’t have to do what he’s doing. Plenty of Presidents have been not too gracious to their successors. but I nonetheless think he’s doing the right thing even if I could not do it

I think he has to do what he is doing. In the process he may convince the big child Trump (on a psychological level) not to be such a destructive douche, maybe he explains what a wholesale repeal of the ACA would bring, etc.
Will it work? Maybe not, but it would be a crime not to try.
And that requires showing respect to Trump, even if Obama is dying inside a little at that moment.