Washington sets aside divisions as US bids farewell to Bush

"The deal is not dead. There’s an American withdrawal from the deal but it is still there.”

Trump’s decision intensifies the strain on the trans-Atlantic alliance since he took office.

A majority of people that are most applauded in Vietnam are foreigners.

'Our partners made clear they want to move forward with TPP,' said U.S. President Obama.

'Either Obamacare will be amended, or repealed and replaced.'

Trump called Obama "a very good man".

'If Trump wins, the world will change and may be in a good situation because Trump is a businessman so he doesn't want war.'

The two leaders made sales pitches for a Pacific Rim trade deal that both U.S. presidential candidates have derided and that has been stalled in Congress.

American presidential candidates are turning their backs on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and pushing to rewrite the deal. Japan has become the first country member to make a firm stand against renegotiating the trade pact. Australia and other pact participants are roughly on the same page with Japan.

Barack Obama will on Friday becomes the first U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, site of the world's first atomic bombing, a gesture Washington and Tokyo hope will showcase their alliance and breathe life into stalled efforts to abolish nuclear arms.

Vietnam-based budget airline VietJet Air signed a $3.04 billion contract with engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney on Monday in Hanoi witnessed by U.S. President President Barack Obama and Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang.

VietJet Aviation Joint Stock Co. and Boeing on Monday agreed on a deal for 100 aircraft worth $11.3 billion, the largest ever single commercial airplane purchase in Vietnam's aviation history.

In 1990, Vietnam and the U.S. got together for the first time since the war ended to discuss normalizing bilateral relations. Fast forward 26 years, and Barack Obama is the third U.S. president to visit Vietnam.