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President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who infamously forgot the Department of Energy’s name in 2011 while running for president, to head that department in his future administration. According to CBS News, “two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process” said Perry had met with the president-elect at Trump Tower on…
storytext President-elect Donald Trump still has not held a news conference, a break from tradition that is keeping reporters and the public in the dark about the transition to his administration. Going back at least to 1976, when Jimmy Carter was elected, no president-elect has waited so long after the election was decided to speak…
storytext Donald Trump has decided to postpone his first press conference as President-elect until January, two transition sources confirmed to CNN. The press conference, previously scheduled for Thursday, had been advertised as an opportunity for him to address his plan for dealing with potential conflicts of interest stemming from his businesses. It was to be…
A top aide to Donald Trump says a Wall Street Journal editor was “sexist” for mocking the president-elect’s meeting with Carly Fiorina Monday. Bret Stephens, the Journal’s deputy editorial page editor, weighed in online after Trump huddled with the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and GOP White House hopeful. He called me ugly. He won. I kissed up….
Trump shows he has nothing in his pockets. Photo: Getty A remarkable thing occurred today. It was a Sunday morning, and instead of critiquing last night’s Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump decided to talk about all the things he’s going to change. He talked about lots and lots of things—including climate change. It has been…
Late on Wednesday night, the federal judge in Michigan whose emergency order set a statewide recount into motion earlier this week lifted that order, in deference to the state court of appeals, effectively ending the recount and confirming Donald Trump’s victory there over Hillary Clinton. The Green Party has petitioned for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan,…
Image via AP. The National Park Service, at the request of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, has filed a “massive omnibus blocking permit,” for the Lincoln Memorial, most of the National Mall, Pennsylvania Avenue, and the Washington Monument. The move means that as of yet, no protest permits have been given out for the weeks preceding…
Image via Getty. Donald Trump was scheduled to make a stop in Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday to meet with survivors of the Ohio State University attack in late November. At least one of the people stabbed by student Abdul Razak Ali Artan has taken a hard pass. Mediaite reports that Professor William Clark appeared on…
Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the Energy Department for a list of names of all agency employees and contractors who worked on the Obama administration’s climate change policy. A 74-point questionnaire, first reported on by Bloomberg and obtained by Politico, is being circulated by the DOE. The department, which has reportedly turned the questionnaire…
Photo: AP On Saturday, we learned that Tim Cook and Sheryl Sandberg were among a handful of tech moguls being summoned to Donald Trump’s gilded lair for a mysterious summit this week, but the full roster of invitees remained unknown. Today, The Wall Street Journal revealed another name on the President-elect’s guest list: Tesla and…