“keep an open mind” on Paris Agreement, says Trump
“And when his audience is a group of people, like us, who haven’t clapped the way he’d like?”
“‘Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better, ‘” Mr. Trump said, quoting Mattis.
“Talk is cheap, and no one should believe Donald Trump means this until he acts upon it”, he said in a statement. Naturally, with Trump, it all began with a barrage of Tweets.
Trump has repeatedly shirked his pool, upending a long-standing tradition of the president and president-elect.
Trump University agreed to a $25 million dollar settlement Friday to resolve lawsuits which alleged that the seminars provided by the university failed to deliver the education promised. Obama, he said, “has said very nice things” about him.
Rhee is a Democrat who served as District of Columbia schools chancellor from 2007 to 2010, where she was viewed as a national leader in urban education reform. He called her “Crooked Hillary”.
The good news for those anxious that the USA will lose its leadership role in confronting climate change: President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday, “I have an open mind to it”.
The Paris Agreement was adopted on December 12, 2015 at the twenty-first session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Paris from November 30 to December 13, 2015. “Some, something. It depends on how much”, he said, adding he would nevertheless remain concerned about how much green measures would “cost our companies”.
But President-elect Donald Trump isn’t a politician.
He tells The New York Times that “I disavow and condemn them”.
Pictures have emerged of white nationalists giving Nazi salutes as they celebrated his election victory. The newspaper didn’t immediately release a transcript.
The fact that Trump isn’t even willing or able to acknowledge the massive conflict of interest his family’s business interests pose to his presidency is in and of itself a sign that he seems unlikely to do anything to avoid making decisions that are affected by those conflicts.
Granted, it is hard to put too much faith in someone who “refused to repeat his promise” in one breath and then offered assurances to the contrary of that same promise in the next.
There is no legal requirement to liquidate assets but past United States presidents have set aside their business dealings.
“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons, I really don’t”, Trump said in the interview. “I don’t think so, Dean”, the president-elect replied to Executive Editor Dean Baquet.
Earlier this year he claimed that he was not a big believer in climate change.
I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD. I probably thought that maybe I wouldn’t, but I did.
“The symbolism was powerful and all wrong for them”, said Frank Sesno, a former CNN Washington bureau chief and a journalism professor at George Washington University. Of course the president can have a conflict of interest.
Trump brushed aside questions about how his actions in the White House could benefit his businesses with a startling declaration. Meanwhile, Obama has committed to a smooth transition, and as a result, they have “spoken at least once” since that meeting.
He heaped praise on President Barack Obama, saying he appreciated Obama’s handling of the transition of power and liked him personally. “They’ll say I have a conflict because we just opened a handsome hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, so every time somebody stays at that hotel, if they stay because I’m president, I guess you could say it’s a conflict of interest”.
The situation keeps changing, de Blasio said, and the conversation with with the Secret Service to lock down what the security plan will look like only took place in the last few days. He had said this on Twitter early Tuesday.
“In the presence of television executives and anchors, Trump whined about everything from NBC News reporter Katy Tur’s coverage of him to a photograph the news network has used that shows him with a double chin”.
Trump then: “No media is more corrupt than the failing New York Times”.
Trump has not been inaugurated yet, but he’s already backtracking on some of his most high-profile campaign positions. She says that “he doesn’t wish to pursue these charges”. In addition to the FBI’s investigation, the House Select Committee on Benghazi has looked into Clinton’s emails, as did several media organizations and watchdog groups like Judicial Watch.
Trump during the campaign vowed to put his Democratic presidential rival “in jail” over the matter.
Later, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told a Times reporter serving as a pool reporter for the political press corps that the meeting was back on.
Trump also expressed openness to the possibility that global warming might be caused by human activity, though he said he wasn’t sure of the size of the man-made change. “We were unaware that the meeting was cancelled until we saw the President Elect’s tweet this morning”.