A look at 5 Trump business ties that pose conflicts

Campaigning ahead of November 8, Trump repeatedly told crowds of rustbelt and southern voters – factory workers, coal miners and oilmen among them – that he would tear up global climate agreements.

But on Tuesday, he said he would “keep an open mind” about pulling the United States out of the landmark, multi-national Paris Agreement on climate change – he’d said in the campaign he would yank the US out – and he allowed, “I think there is some connectivity” between human activity and climate changes. And, as they spoke, Trump proceeded to nonchalantly walk back several major promises he made during the campaign, prompting spittle-flecked headlines on Breitbart like “BROKEN PROMISES” and outrage from all corners of Trump’s Internet. Mr. Trump, who told the Times he thought its reporters had been “very rough” on him during the campaign, has threatened to sue the Times over its stories on him. But in cases of any reforms in the education systems in schools, the district school association has often the last decision while Trump has the power to bring a change by proposing a legislation in Congress and that can really help in a lot of ways.

Was this really the same lout who just a few weeks ago sneered that Hillary was “a nasty woman”, who pledged to appoint a special prosecutor to send her up the river?

Asked whether he would make good on his threat to pull the United States out of UN climate accords, he said: “I’m looking at it very closely”. Trump, she told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”, is “thinking of many different things as he prepares to become the president of the United States, and things that sound like the campaign aren’t among them”.

“‘Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I’ll do better, ‘” Mr. Trump said, quoting Mattis. What is being said that he was nervous that Trump wasn’t prepared to answer tough questions (which would explain his breaking history by not having any press conferences since being elected) so he told him that the Times had changed the conditions of the meeting. Back in 2012, when President Obama was re-elected, Trump tweeted that the electoral college “is a disaster for a democracy”.

“It is a very overwhelming job, but I’m not overwhelmed by it”, Trump said. “There is some, something”.

However, he went on to say that “it depends on how much” connectivity.

And he may no longer try to “cancel” the nation’s participation in the Paris climate change agreement, which almost 200 nations signed in 2015 to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

ON CLIMATE CHANGE: “I have a very open mind”. What we do want to do is we want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided, and that’s one thing I did see, big league.

President-elect Donald Trump Tuesday visited the offices of New York Times for a meeting with newspapers’ staff. – February 27 interview on Fox News.

■ Trump confirmed reports that he is strongly considering Gen. James N. Mattis as his nominee for defense secretary. I’ve received so many environmental awards for the way I’ve done, you know. And finally, the meeting actually took place. If it’s so important to the American people, I would go for it.

TRUMP: [laughing] I read your article. “Look, I have great respect for The Times, and I’d like to turn [our relationship] around”. “You don’t tend to hear this, but there are people on the other side of that issue”. “I’ve gotten to know him well – he’s a greatly talented person who loves people!”

For instance, there is the newly opened Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Not only is the property’s lease held by the General Services Administration that Trump will be staffing, but it has already been host to a number of foreign diplomats trying to curry favor with the president-elect.