Transition team on track
President-elect Donald Trump took to his favorite social media platform late Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning to dispel any notion of disorganization and disunity in his transition process.
For almost the entire week since he became president-elect, Donald Trump has been holed up in his gilded NY skyscraper. His first meeting with a world leader since the election last week.
Japan’s leader will likely seek reassurances that President-elect Donald Trump remains committed to the U.S. -Japan security alliance when the two meet in NY on Thursday.
A senior transition official said Trump’s team met Wednesday with Eva Moskowitz, a former NY councilwoman and charter school founder who is being considered for education secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump has vented online again, this time mentioning NZ as he lashed out against the New York Times. He has wielded his Twitter account as his main tool for disputing talk of his transition as unwieldly and unprepared.
One leader who got through was Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, who asked Trump on Tuesday for support against “Russian aggression” during a congratulatory call, the Ukrainian presidency said.
All of the skirmishes over Trump’s transition team and possible Cabinet picks may pale in comparison to furor over his controversial appointment of former Breitbart News head and Trump campaign CEO Steve Bannon to be his senior counselor in the White House.
Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte, who has been hostile to Barack Obama for criticising his deadly anti-drug crackdown, has congratulated Donald Trump for a “well-deserved victory”.
On Nov. 10, just one day after Trump was declared the victor of the election and as protests roiled the country, Trump tweeted the “professional protesters” were being incited by the media.
“Christie had the transition”. The gesture was seen as a message to everyone that there needs to be an order first before moving to the big things.
Former Bush administration official Eliot Cohen, a Trump critic, tweeted, “After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away”. Trump met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, among others.
Now, as his transition team asserts itself, an all-out repeal of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law – Trump called it a “disaster” and a “disgrace” – seems unlikely.
President-elect Donald Trump rejected claims of chaos and infighting straining his transition, declaring that he is running a “very organized process”. Bernie Sanders is calling on Donald Trump to apologize for some of his rhetoric during the presidential campaign.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence ordered the removal of all lobbyists from the transition team, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The report’s conclusions were at odds with the campaign position of Mr. Trump, who repeatedly blamed Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent and the secretary of state during the attacks, for the resulting deaths of four Americans.
Rooms set aside for Trump staffers at the Pentagon, for example, remained vacant Wednesday, an indication that Trump’s team had yet to begin the complicated process of getting up to speed on the details of taking over the military and other sectors of government. “And so, the bottom line is, we’re going to get the transition team where we need it to be”, Miller said.
He said the goal would be to end the system over time, adding: “I’m saying that they know the system right now, but we’re going to phase that out”.
Trump continued to meet with his top aides and prospective cabinet members at Trump Tower.
Trump’s transition released a list of 29 foreign or global leaders that they said the President-elect and Vice President-elect have spoken with. New England Patriots’ owner Robert Kraft also entered the gilded elevators for meetings.
Among them: ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is up for secretary of state; Sen.
The president-elect didn’t mean to mislead the press with the move, said Kellyanne Conway, his former campaign manager. Conway also says in a nationally broadcast interview she believes her boss is prepared for the weight of the presidency. They weren’t authorized to discuss internal deliberations publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Poland’s conservative government has welcomed the election of Trump for US president as a chance for even better ties between the two allies. They tried to play catch-up Wednesday, releasing a list of 29 world leaders who have spoken with Trump or Pence in recent days.
He’s speaking to reporters in Washington.