US President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the frontrunner Democratic presidential candidate, had a luncheon meeting at the White House for about 90 minutes, said a presidential spokesman.
"When their schedules permit, President Obama and Secretary Clinton enjoy the opportunity to catch-up in person," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said yesterday.
Clinton successfully served as Obama's Secretary of State in his first term.
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"This afternoon they met privately for an informal lunch here at the White House for about an hour and a half. They discussed a wide array of topics, but this was mostly a social occasion," Earnest said.
No other details about the meeting were available.
Clinton is seeking to bag Democratic presidential nomination for the 2016 elections. This is her second attempt. She lost to Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries. Currently she has a more than 30 point lead over her nearest Democratic rival Bernie Sanders.
Hitting out at Repuplican nominee Donald Trump, Obama said
he is "temperamentally unfit" to be the Commander-in-Chief.
"Look, think about this, over the weekend, his campaign took away his Twitter account. Now, if your closest advisors don't trust you to tweet then how can we trust him with the nuclear codes?" he asked.
He (Trump) is unqualified to be America's chief executive. He brags that he's a business guy, but we have got a lot of businessmen and women who succeed without stiffing small businesses and workers, Obama claimed.
"Once they've already done work for you, and then suddenly you don't pay them? And you basically say, you know what, because I got more lawyers than you I don't have to pay you," he said.
The President said said an individual's personality does not change with the change in position.
"One thing you learn about this job is who you are, what you are doesn't change once you move into the Oval Office. It only gets magnified, a spotlight is put on you. It's like an EKG for your character," he jokingly said.
"If you denigrate minorities before you take office, then you'll denigrate minorities after you take office. If you think of immigrants as criminals and rapists when you're running for office, then that's how you're going to think once you're in office," Obama said.
If you mock people with disabilities, or treat women as objects, calling them "pigs" and "dogs" and rating them on a 1-to-10 scale instead of based on their character and intelligence, then that's how you're going to think when you're in office, he said.
