Trump hosts potential cabinet contenders at N.J. golf club

President-elect Donald Trump is welcoming a parade of officials at the white-pillared clubhouse of his New Jersey golf club this weekend as he weighs who will be in line for roles in the new administration. Trump's Sunday schedule in Bedminster includes New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Alec Baldwin’s President-Elect Trump Makes ‘SNL’ Debut

In the Nov. 19, 2016, episode of "Saturday Night Live," Alec Baldwin plays president-elect Donald Trump and actor Jason Sudekis plays Mitt Romney. The episode's cold open -- set at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey, where Trump is holding meetings this weekend -- kicked off with Baldwin's Trump telling Kate McKinnon's Kellyanne Conway that he could not have won the election without the campaign manager's help.

Trump hosts potential cabinet contenders at NJ golf club

US President-elect Donald Trump is welcoming a parade of officials at the white-pillared clubhouse of his New Jersey golf club this weekend as he weighs who will be in line for roles in the new administration. Trump's Sunday schedule in Bedminster includes New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Kansas Secretary Setting a rancorous year aside, the pugnacious billionaire put on a smiling show of goodwill Saturday with former rival Mitt Romney.

As he shapes Cabinet, Trump meets former rival Romney and retired Gen. Mattis

Vice president-elect Mike Pence, President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney leave the clubhouse after their meeting at Trump International Golf Club, November 19, 2016 in Bedminster Township, New Jersey. Trump and his transition team are in the process of filling cabinet and other high level positions for the new administration.

Former foes Trump and Romney hold a ‘great’ meeting

Mitt Romney emerged smiling Saturday from a closed-door meeting with President-elect Donald Trump - a face-to-face sit down he called "thorough and in-depth" after they traded bitter barbs with one another during a divisive election. Taking a softer tone, Trump and Romney seemed to bury the hatchet at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey - where the businessman-turned-politician moved his White House transition team for the weekend - in a meeting that lasted about an hour and a half.

Trump and Romney, once bitter rivals, smile and shake hands

President-elect Donald Trump and Mitt Romney met Saturday at the billionaire's golf club in New Jersey, putting a year of conflict aside for a smiling handshake - though they did not indicate what, if any, role the 2012 GOP hopeful might play in the new administration. Trump flashed a thumbs-up and said the sit down "went great."

Trump and Romney have ‘thorough and in-depth’ conversation as…

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney met Donald Trump at Trump's golf course in New Jersey on Saturday afternoon, though neither man said anything definitive about Romney joining Trump's administration. "We had a far reaching conversation," Romney told reporters after the hour-and-a-half long meeting.

Romney Meets with Trump

"Donald Trump met with Mitt Romney, once a fierce critic of the president-elect who is now being floated as a potential pick for secretary of state, on Saturday afternoon, setting aside the friction between the two men and signaling a willingness by Trump to entertain different points of view on foreign policy," the Washington Post reports. Romney said the men had a "very thorough and in-depth discussion" regarding "the various theaters in the world where there are interests of the United States of real significance."

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Here's the latest for Saturday, November 19th: President-elect Donald Trump meets with Mitt Romney; 'Hamilton' cast member gives Vice President-elect Mike Pence an earful; World leaders arrive at APEC summit; Exhibition of ice sculptures in Germany. AP Top Stories November 19 P Here's the latest for Saturday, November 19th: President-elect Donald Trump meets with Mitt Romney; 'Hamilton' cast member gives Vice President-elect Mike Pence an earful; World leaders arrive at APEC summit; Exhibition of ice sculptures in Germany.

Trump to meet Romney, a sharp critic in campaign

President-elect Donald Trump is filling his Twitter feed like the campaigner of old even while racing to fill senior positions in his administration. Trump planned to meet Saturday with one of his sharpest Republican critics of the campaign, 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney, at Trump's golf club in New Jersey, and on Sunday with two leading supporters, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Trump’s flirtation with Romney is big-league smart

The news, as always, came via Twitter: "NBC News: Source close to Trump with direct knowledge of his thinking confirms Sunday's meeting with Romney is to discuss Secretary of State." Mitt Romney, the face - and voice - of the resistance to Donald Trump in the Republican primary and the general election will huddle with the president-elect over the weekend to talk about possibly serving as the nation's top diplomat.

Melania Trump and Barron step out for lunch while Donald and the…

Pictured on his perp walk: Party boy, 25, who changed his last name to match close friend and celebrity jeweler Jeffrey Rackover is led out by police cuffed in a suit after being charged with murder Actress, 52, who had roles in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Gossip Girl and Ugly Betty commits suicide in her hotel room during a modeling trip in Peru 'Maybe I Would Have Been Elected President' says Bernie Sanders who says he'd team up with Trump if the president-elect has the 'guts' to take on corporate American Bobbi Kristina Brown's boyfriend Nick Gordon is ordered to pay $36million in damages for the wrongful death of Whitney Houston's daughter Obama says he is 'cautiously optimistic' about Trump's presidency - but the president-elect needs to moderate his tone and 'stand up to Russia' New York academic who killed herself in her upscale Manhattan condo 'was driven to suicide by a ... (more)

Donald Trumpa s chief strategist doesna t understand what makes America great

Steve Bannon, campaign CEO for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, right, looks on during a national security meeting with advisors at Trump Tower, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016, in New York. There's no such thing as a free lunch in economics, but high-skilled immigration is at least a heavily-discounted one.

Trump considering woman, openly gay man for leadership posts

President-elect Donald Trump is considering a woman and an openly gay man to fill major positions in his administration, history-making moves that would inject diversity into a Trump team. The incoming president is considering Richard Grenell as United States ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump names Priebus, Bannon to senior White House roles

President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. In bringing Priebus and Bannon into the White House, Trump is making overtures to both traditional Republican circles and the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman's political rise.

Trump’s Twitter takes shots at New York Times

President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Sunday morning to blast one of the country's biggest news outlets - the New York Times . Trump sent out three tweets within about an hour of each other separated by mentions of high-profile figures who called to congratulate him on winning election, such as both former president Bushes and Mitt Romney.