The Latest: White House to host Trump's chief of staff


              President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus, left, stands with his chief strategist Steven Bannon during a rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President-elect Donald Trump's chief of staff Reince Priebus, left, stands with his chief strategist Steven Bannon during a rally at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016, in West Allis, Wis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times local):

12:15 p.m.

President Barack Obama's chief of staff Denis McDonough will have lunch Friday with President-elect Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus.

McDonough has invited Priebus to dine at the White House along with former White House chiefs of staff. The White House says the lunch is similar to a meeting that former President George W. Bush's chief of staff, Josh Bolten, held to welcome Rahm Emanuel, who was Obama's first chief of staff.

Emanuel is among those invited on Friday, as are former Obama chiefs Bill Daley and Jacob Lew, who now serves as Treasury secretary. Others invited to attend include former Bush chiefs Bolten and Andy Card, as well as John Podesta, who chaired Hillary Clinton's campaign and was chief of staff to Bill Clinton.

So are Samuel Skinner from George H.W. Bush's administration, Ken Duberstein from Ronald Reagan's administration and Jack Watson from Jimmy Carter's administration.

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3 a.m.

Donald Trump's barnstorming tour across the states that won him the White House continues to feature far more taunts of triumph than notes of healing after a bruising election.

Thursday's rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, found the president-elect calling for the mostly white crowd to cheer for African-Americans who were "smart" to heed his message and therefore "didn't come out to vote" for his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Trump said: "That was the big thing, so thank you to the African-American community."

Trump's victory lap continues Friday night with an event in Orlando, Florida, then wraps up Saturday in Mobile, Alabama.

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