Schram: The Donald shows he can change his mind…maybe

But working-class whites overwhelmingly voted for politicians who promise to destroy those gains. Although he has always maintained that he doesn’t settle lawsuits, he very sensibly permitted his lawyers to settle the one involving former Trump University students who said he had defrauded them.

A few days ago on Facebook a post asked to use one word to describe President Obama.

But during the same news conference, he suggested there might be a breaking point for his vow of silence.

In 2008, I said journalism was dead, but this election showed it was far worse than any of us ever thought. The two men had previously not met.

Now that a Trump transition team is developing the president-elect’s administration, I think it’s only right that an olive branch be extended to the Democratic Party. Mr. Crouch, I feel sorry for you and your ilk.

That’s not the only reversal from Trump’s oft-repeated campaign rhetoric.

Perhaps Democrats should also take a page from their outgoing president, who said when McCain was trying to get him to compromise on an issue: “I won”.

Mayor de Blasio said the following regarding the unprecedented nature of protecting the President-elect, “We have never had a situation where a [President] would be here on such a regular basis”.

Another factor is so-called “faithless electors” who will not vote for the candidate which won in the popular vote in their state. In that electionapproximately 500 thousand more Americans votedfor Gore than Bush.

Well, ma-a-a-yybe, but of course then we would need a mainstream media that actually covered such policy proposals.

“There is a vacuum right now”. Additionally, he won over 62 million votes in the popular vote, the highest all-time for a Republican nominee.

On a well-selected subset of these issues, an opening move could be for Mr. Obama -with his reasonable and non-confrontational style – to step up and publicly request a meeting with the President to discuss the issue at hand, and his “concerns” that it be dealt with in a way that well serves the good of the nation.

If Trump doesn’t separate himself from his and his family’s business interests, how long before he’s seen as taking action as president because it was good for Trump and not America? Other Republicans chimed in that President Obama was out to destroy the country.

There are risks if Obama eventually decides to play Trump’s foil.

“If he does it in a way that’s in a partisan fashion, his outgoing approval rating would fall”, he added.

Obama has sought to influence Trump in multiple private conversations since Election Day. A drawn-out probe, fueled by Mr. Trump from the White House, would invariably become a political circus, take on the overtones of vendetta and deepen the wounds of the election. There is also the value of Trump Tower Mumbai.

The president has said Clinton’s loss is pushing him to intervene. Some visitors have come by just to establish rapport with the new president, others simply to offer congratulations, and others looking for work.

Yet during an interview this week with New York Times editors and reporters, Trump sounded uncharacteristically conciliatory. He went on to say that they “will begin the conversation with the federal government shortly on reimbursement for the NYPD for some of the costs that [they] are incurring”.

“That said, since we do not know if the Russians had planned any malicious cyber activity for election day, we don’t know if they were deterred from further activity by the various warnings the USA government conveyed”, he said.