President-elect Donald Trump said early Wednesday that he has run some of his Cabinet choices past President Barack Obama.
{mosads}“I would say that, yes, I take his recommendations very seriously and there are some people that I will be appointing and in one case have appointed where he thought very highly of that person, yes,” Trump told NBC’s “Today” show.
“I do like him. I love getting his ideas. And I may differ in many cases, I differ very greatly. In many cases I’m the opposite,” Trump said of Obama.
Trump visited the White House for his first visit with Obama as president-elect just after Election Day.
Trump for years criticized Obama’s policies before winning the presidential election last month.
The president-elect, who is roughly halfway through announcing his Cabinet choices, most recently selected Gen. James Mattis for secretary of Defense. Mattis, who retired in 2013, would need Congress to provide a waiver on a rule preventing former service members who have been out of the military for less than seven years from serving as Defense secretary.
This report was updated at 10:15 a.m.