Obama Uses Final Weeks to 'Box In' Trump's Administration Aggressively

By Tyler Durden  /  ZeroHedge.com

Not liking the outcome of the 2016 election, President Obama has apparently made the decision to use his final days in office to do everything possible to “box in” and undermine President-elect Trump.  The latest actions, of course, revolve around sanctions on several Russian entities and the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats for “hacking” the election.  Unfortunately, that move seemingly backfired this morning when Putin announced that he “will not sink to the level of [Obama's] ‘kitchen’ diplomacy”…apparently “when the Obama’s go low, Putin goes high”…to paraphrase the First Lady (see “Putin Stunner: ‘We Will Not Expel Anyone; We Refuse To Sink To Obama’s Level’“).

Meanwhile, the reckless parting moves against Russian aren’t the only unilateral actions Obama has made in his waning days to undermine the incoming Trump administration.  He also allowed the UN Security Council to condemn Israeli settlement activity, permanently banned oil and gas drilling large swaths of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, closed off 1.6 million acres of Western land to development through the creation of new “national monument” and scrapped the last vestiges of a registration system used largely on Muslim immigrants.

Clearly, the unilateral moves and shear contempt for the will of the American people being displayed by the current administration is not sitting well with President-elect Trump.