Barack Obama shows his class on the Humans of New York page

Hours after Donald Trump was elected president-elect of the US, the man currently in the role has posted a message of hope for everyone else, and perhaps a hint of what his time in office has been like.

The message from President Barack Obama was put up on the Humans of New York Facebook page, and it tells us about when he got frustrated with his work in the state legislature.

As he admits, he "wasn’t getting a lot done" at the time and he "got whooped" when he ran for Congress, which made him think that politics wasn’t "what I was cut out to do".