Barack Obama jokes that the Navy SEALs may have to 'dig' Trump out of the White House

Barack Obama has joked that President Donald Trump could be removed from the White House by Navy SEALs if he refuses to leave office following Inauguration Day.

The quip was made in an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday (Thursday, November 20), where the host talked in jest about a potential situation whereby the incumbent president might hide in the White House in order to avoid leaving office.

Kimmel said to the former president: "You know the White House well. You lived there for eight years. Are there places someone could hide? Like, if, say, they were going to be removed? Are there little cubby holes or anything that you know about?"

Obama laughed before responding: "Well, I think we can always send the Navy SEALs in to dig him out."

President Trump made a string of allegations of fraud prior to his opponent's projected win and has continued to do so.

He has demanded that states recount the ballots and is threatening legal action.

The president also continues to post tweets claiming that there had been a "cesspool of fake votes" and "unthinkable and illegal" activity during the election.

On November 7, Mr. Trump became the first president since 1992 to fail to get a projected re-election, after it was announced that Biden had won the states of Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia.

Obama told Kimmel that he wishes "the transition was going better. We lose time during these crises."

Obama continued: "When I came in, we were in the middle of a big crisis: the financial crisis."

"George W. Bush - he and I had obviously big policy differences - but he's a good man. He's a patriot. And he ordered everybody on his team to work seamlessly with us on the transition."

He said that Bush "could not have been more gracious, could not have been more helpful."

"And that actually helped us be able to get a head start on trying to stem what could have been a great depression instead of a great recession."