Nearly five months ago, President Donald Trump bid farewell to a grinning Barack Obama, waving as the military helicopter shuttling his predecessor into post-White House life got smaller and smaller.
They haven’t spoken or seen each other since.
For a President who seeks extensive counsel from outside the White House — in calls to old friends, business executives, and even despotic foreign leaders — Trump has largely forgone advice or guidance from any of the men who have held his job previously.