Trump was 'awed' when Obama told him what he would have to handle as president

The Wall Street Journal previously cited sources saying that during Trump's private meeting with Obama last week, the president-elect was surprised
by the wide range of the president's job.
New Yorker editor David Remnick described some of the topics the two covered, as explained to him by
some of Obama's staff members:
"Obama told staff members that he had talked Trump through the rudiments of forming a cabinet and policies, including the Iran nuclear deal, counter-terrorism policy, health care — and that the
President-elect's grasp of such matters was, as the debates had made plain, modest at best. Trump, despite his habitual bluster, seemed awed by what
he was being told and about to encounter."
Despite Trump's apparent "loose grasp of policy," Remnick wrote, Obama and his team made sure to respect the traditional etiquette displayed during a
presidential transition — in part to preserve a shot at influencing Trump in the future, Remnick said.
Denis McDonough, the White House chief of staff, also painted a less-than-rosy picture of the Trump transition effort. On the day after Election Day, he
reportedly chatted with the person Trump sent to learn how to staff and run the White House — Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
"Everything's great!" McDonough told The New Yorker, evidently with a struggle.