When it was Trump or Clinton the American public decided we may as well get a show out of it.
In the end both candidates are still terrible.
Either way it would not surprise me of Obama tapped Trump tower but the government denies the fact well just another story to munch popcorn for.
Obama has done it even before the POTUS elections, and I have no doubt that he might have done something similar to Trump. He was quite desperate to have a Democrat successor.