Trump appears to backtrack on pledges over Clinton and climate change

Earlier on Tuesday, Trump abruptly cancelled a meeting with The New York Times, a newspaper he has frequently criticised, complaining on Twitter about inaccurate coverage and a “nasty tone”.

Asked if he would withdraw the United States from worldwide climate change agreements, Trump said he is “looking at it very closely”, according to Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were live-tweeting the meeting.

President Barack Obama made inroads with other countries – China in particular – toward new worldwide agreements to roll back global carbon emissions, progress activist groups have anxious will be undone by a Trump presidency.

Trump’s choice to name Stephen Bannon, the former chairman of conservative website Breitbart News, his chief strategist has drawn condemnation from critics who say Bannon is racist, anti-Semitic, and associated with the controversial “alt-right” movement.

Trump also tweeted that the meeting was back on, saying he was “looking forward to it”. According to CNN, he will have both a conversation with the newspaper’s heads as well an on-the-record interview. “If they are energised, I want to look into it and find out why'”. They were powerless. They probably didn’t know what Trump knew – that they had been disintermediated by technology, by the internet and social media.

The meeting between Mr Trump and Times staff followed two tweets from the President-elect – in the first he said he had cancelled the meeting after the news organisation changed the “terms and condition”. “I think we’d do as well or better”.

Here are the 10 most fascinating quotes from Trump’s sit-down with the news outlet as tweeted by New York Times staffers attending the meeting.

In Monday’s meeting, media executives collectively could have delivered privately a powerful message to the incoming president about the importance of transparency and accessibility in a democracy, he said.

Trump is pressed if he has definitively ruled out prosecuting Hillary Clinton. I have tremendous respect. “She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways.’ He added that the Clinton Foundation might have done ‘good work”.

Trump himself has appeared to waver on whether he would want to seek further probes into possible wrongdoing by the Clintons.

Trump now communicates with the media as well as the public through his social media accounts – as The New York Times discovered once more Tuesday morning.

But Tuesday, he said: “I don’t want to hurt the Clintons”.

President-elect Donald Trump is disavowing white nationalist sympathizers who celebrated his election during a conference in Washington over the weekend.

They approached the President-elect and informed him that no such changes had been approved of from their side. “And I will give you a very, very good and definitive answer the next time we do 60 Minutestogether”. It’s got readers, and it does cover subjects on the right, but it covers subjects on the left also. This morning, he was sacked up on #Twitter about the newspaper’s supposed treatment and attitude towards him, which led to him deciding that he had to ditch them, letting them know that they were “not nice”.