President-elect Donald Trump accused President Barack Obama Wednesday of hobbling the transition to the Republican’s administration by unspecified "inflammatory" statements and "roadblocks," as tensions between the two men spilled into the open less than a month before Inauguration Day. "Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks," Trump tweeted on Wednesday. "Thought it was going to be a smooth transition — NOT!" Last week, Obama ordered his UN ambassador to abstain from a vote on a resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal, allowing the measure to pass. Obama also said in an interview published by CNN on Monday that he would have beaten Trump, had he run for a third term. He then cautioned against "tribalism" and "the urge to demonise those who are different" in a speech at Pearl Harbour on Tuesday. "We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect," Trump wrote in a follow-up twe...
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