President Barack Obama's is conducting his final foreign trip as U.S. president this week. His stops include Greece, Germany, and Peru. Obama’s team expects the topic of president-elect Trump to come up all along the way.
On Tuesday Obama delivered a speech to the Greek people on the first leg of his tour. The visit to Greece was the first official visit by a sitting U.S. president since Bill Clinton.
Speaking in Athens, Obama said "only a truly collective response by Europe and the world" can handle the hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence in the Middle East.
A reluctance by many other European Union countries to host refugees has left more than 60,000 people stranded in Greece, many living in overcrowded camps dotted across the country.
But Obama says Greece "cannot be expected to bear the burden alone."
Addressing the recent U.S. elections, the President offered reassurances that as long as people retain faith in democracy and don't waver from democratic principles, “our future will be okay.”
Obama says he'll work with Trump's team on a smooth handover of power. He says "that's how democracy has to work."
Before heading to Germany, Obama warned that world leaders must do more to make governments more effective and fight corruption in order to restore citizens' trust.
