Trump Seems to Soften on Campaign Promises

Donald Trump canceled and then rescheduled a meeting with reporters from the paper he calls the “failing” New York Times.

He also talked about his desire to make a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

Trump, who has blasted worldwide trade agreements as costing American jobs, has said he will announce the United States’ withdrawal from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, as soon as he takes office on January 20.

During his presidential campaign, the response to Trump from the mainstream media tended to be something like this.

And “they continue to cover me inaccurately and with a nasty tone!” “Not nice”, tweeted Trump.

Trump said that alone hasn’t changed his mind, but he made clear that he’s now reconsidering all that he once assumed was right about waterboarding and terrorist interrogation. Civil rights groups have blasted Bannon and the organization he once represented as anti-Semitic, white supremacist, and alt-right.

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 and said “I think there is some connectivity” between human activity and climate changes.

Trump, who takes office on January 20, also said he was thinking about climate change and American competitiveness and “how much it will cost our companies”, he said, according to a tweet by a Times reporter in the interview.

The Times responded in a tweet, disputing Trump’s reason for the cancellation. Here are four topics he covered that you need to know about. “It’s a pretty big thing”.

He also mocked Nevada Rep. Joe Heck, a Republican who lost his Senate race after similarly staying far away from Trump. He has also named prominent lobbyists to his transition team and appointed several Republican stalwarts, such as party chairman Reince Priebus as chief of staff, and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. A world jewel. And I hope we can all get along.

During the campaign, Trump said he would abandon those pledges.

On Nov. 23, two Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the Trump White House transition process to determine if there have been potential conflicts of interest, Politico reports. Apparently they’ve mended fences, at least for now.

On Tuesday, the White House also confirmed President Obama has been in contact with his successor.

In the course of his hour-long interview with the New York Times, he reportedly told reporters that he didn’t “want to hurt the Clintons” and that Hillary Clinton had already “suffered greatly in many different ways”.

“He said: “I’ve never found it to be useful”,” Trump said, adding that Mattis advised building a rapport with detainees.

Asked about deporting illegal immigrants, he told CBS that the initial focus would be on those immigrants who are “criminal and have criminal records”, who he said probably numbered 2 million and possibly even 3 million. At a conference this weekend in Washington, adherents used racist innuendo and arm salutes that resembled those of the Nazis. The man in the video is Richard Spencer, widely credited with creating the term alt-right.

Days earlier, Trump told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he wants to think about whether to look more into Clinton’s homebrew email server and the Justice Department’s decision to not recommend charges against her. In fact, I met with a number of other generals, they say he’s the finest there is.

“Right now they’re in love with me”, Trump said.

Trump did not raise his voice during the meeting, but instead complained at so steadily a rate that the gathered media members were unable to ask questions or comment.