President-elect Trump sits down for high-profile meeting with New York Times
– February 27 interview on Fox News.
Trump tweeted Monday, “Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world”. Trump told the Times that he “liked [President Obama] a lot”.
Leave it all to his kids?
During the 2012 presidential election, Trump called the Electoral College “a disaster for a democracy” and said it had made “a laughingstock out of our nation”.
The FBI investigated Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state during President Barack Obama’s first term, concluding in July that her actions were careless but that there were no grounds for bringing charges.
In one of his few outings from Trump Tower, the president-elect visited The New York Times headquarters for over an hour to be interviewed by journalists of the daily, one of his favorite targets when slamming the press. I feel that I want to focus on jobs, I want to focus on health care, I want to focus on the border and immigration and doing a really great immigration bill.
“I’d assumed that you’d have to set up some type of trust or whatever and you don’t”, Trump said.
IndiabloomsDuring the presidential campaign Donald Trump suggested that man-made climate change was a “hoax” perpetrated by the Chinese.* In addition, he declared that he would “cancel” the Paris climate change agreement. He added that he has “an open mind to it”, despite explicitly promising to withdraw from at least one climate accord on the campaign trail. After the meeting today, though – and I am being human with you here – I think, f*ck him!
“It depends on how much”, the reporter quoted Mr Trump as saying.
On Monday, Donald Trump invited TV executives and reporters to a meeting at Trump Tower, where he berated them for nearly a half hour about their “dishonest” and “outrageous” coverage of him and his campaign, reportedly whining about-among other things-a photo NBC News ran that showcased his double chin. According to Grynbaum, Trump also said, “You could make the case the Washington Post was bad, but every once in while I actually got a good article”.
He also said he thought clean energy was “very important”.
“Toward the end of the campaign, it got to a point where I thought that the coverage was all about [Trump’s] flaws and problems – and that’s legit”, the participant continued.
The president-elect’s phenomenal rise to the White House was characterized in part by his boisterous personality and flair for the theatrical.
Conflict-of-interest rules for executive branch employees do not apply to the president, but Trump will be bound by bribery laws, disclosure requirements and a section of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits elected officials from taking gifts from foreign governments, according to Republican and Democratic ethics lawyers.
Trump said his son-in-law and close aide, Jared Kushner, could help broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and that the president-elect himself could play a role in achieving what has eluded his predecessors.
As for Breitbart itself, Trump called the website “just a publication”.
# Trump on The New York Times: “I do read it”.
Of course, Trump would be wise to shut down any more talk of libel laws while he still can, considering his own track record. “Unfortunately. I’d live about 20 years longer if I didn’t”. Scott was an early supporter of Trump’s campaign and has expressed enthusiasm for Trump’s transition efforts so far. Trump has previously threatened to sue the company for libel over a published article that put him in a awful light, about two women who accused him of touching them inappropriately.
I am seriously considering Dr. Ben Carson as the head of HUD.
Trump noted that he has turned the management of his businesses over to his children, giving him a requisite distance from the operation, but he protested: “If it were up to some people, I would never, ever see my daughter Ivanka again”.