Kathleen Parker: On hallowed ground
Witnesses who tuned in to Donald Trump and Barack Obama's post-election get-together can't have missed the change in the president-elect's demeanor and affect. Quiet and reserved, he seemed almost chastened.
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Obama to Dems: ‘Train new voters’ to overcome geography
As part of an outreach effort to Americans who are difficult to reach due to "geographic distribution," President Obama said it is key for Democrats to "train new voters" and volunteers to rally support. "We have better ideas.
Human Rights Watch founder: Trump win encouraging European anti-Semites
Trump, a Republican who defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, fought allegations during the campaign of encouraging racism and xenophobia. A founder of Human Rights Watch warned that Donald Trump's election as US president is encouraging anti-Semitism in Europe.
Hedwig Still Angry, Still Brilliant Extended thru 27th At Pantages
The world is not new to being in shock on November 9th. In 2016, the worldwide shock was that Donald Trump could garner over 59 million votes and even though getting less votes than Hillary Clinton, seal the Electoral College and become President Elect.
How a professor in China predicted Trump’s victory more accurately than most U.S. pollsters
An international relations professor in China believes that social pressure in the U.S. prevented voters from sharing their views about Donald Trump. The professor also sensed many Americans' fundamental distrust of Hillary Clinton, a sentiment the Democrat couldn't shake.
US comedian Wanda Sykes bites back after being booed for anti-Trump jokes
Wanda Sykes is used to making people laugh, but her jokes about president-elect Donald Trump at a charity comedy event was met with negative backlash from the audience. Performing to an audience of thousands at the 22nd annual Comics Come Home fundraiser in Boston, the comedian - who was a vocal advocate for Hillary Clinton during the election campaign - had been enjoying a largely receptive crowd until she veered into politics.
Why can’t people focus on the good things about having a bigoted BBQ potato chip for president?
Trump hired the head of Breitbart "News" to be CEO of his campaign. Here's a sample of their work: pic.twitter.com/y8loOnkbNu In the Trumpnited States of MAGAmerica, a president who makes a white supremacist one of his top advisers is not divisive.
Nick Akerman: What Trump gets wrong about Comey
Sunday night on "60 Minutes," Lesley Stahl asked President-Elect Donald Trump whether he was going to ask FBI director James Comey for his resignation. Trump responded, "I haven't made up my mind.
Errol Louis: A moment for forceful action
"What will Trump do?" is a fair and logical question, but the wrong one to ask right now. The more pressing issue for every American is: What do I, personally, plan to do? That applies whether you earnestly support or bitterly oppose the President-elect, or fall somewhere in between.
Trump gets ‘arms around’ foreign policy, talks to China’s Xi
US President-elect Donald Trump has made his first call to the leader of China, and is "getting his arms around our foreign policy" as he prepares to assume the leadership of the world's sole superpower, a top aide said Monday. The Republican billionaire's diplomatic foray came as US President Barack Obama was about to leave for a farewell visit to Europe to reassure worried allies about a man he once warned was "unfit" to lead the United States.
For ECB and Fed, Trump complicates decisions on rate policy
Newspapers headlining the US President-elect Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton hang from a wall outside a Democratic party office in downtown Rome, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Headline reads in Italian "And the world woke up with Trump nightmare".
Trump poses daunting new challenge for Germany’s Merkel
Donald Trump's victory has been a shock for America's major partners around the world. But perhaps nowhere has the blow been more painful than in Germany, a country that under Angela Merkel has come to see itself as a bastion of openness and tolerance.
Concerns about Trump loom over Obama’s final foreign tour
It was supposed to be his grand valedictory tour. Now President Barack Obama must use his last major trip abroad to try to calm shocked world leaders about the outcome of the U.S. election, and what comes next when Donald Trump is president.
For New President Trump, It’s Already Late in Stock Market
The election's over, but for equity investors it's the same old bull market, one the new president might prefer die a quick death. Donald Trump inherits a 2,826-day-old rally in U.S. stocks that has defied history, overcoming anemic economic growth and a 15-month earnings recession that pushed valuations to a seven-year high.
U.S. Protests Trump for a Sixth Straight Day
The nationwide protests against Donald Trump stretched into their sixth day on Sunday as demonstrators gathered in cities like New York, Seattle, and Los Angeles to voice their opposition to the president-elect. Following Trump's upset victory in the Electoral College over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, protests not only swept the nation but the entire world.
Trumpton
In many ways Hillary Clinton's campaign was the apex of this champagne-feminist madness. I don't blame Hilary, who I think is unfairly hated, and who in some ways strikes me as a modern Lady Jean Grey: surrounded by people telling her she's going to be Queen without really having done the work to make it possible.
Jennifer Rubin: Trump voters: We did hear you. We just thought better of you.
Democrats are rending their garments, bemoaning their failure to connect with rural and small-town America. They are supposed to feel guilty about insufficient empathy for the industrial heartland.
Trump shapes White House, hires establishment figure, firebrand
President-elect Donald Trump was weighing contenders for other top jobs in his administration after choosing Washington insider Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and firebrand outsider Stephen Bannon as senior counselor. Less than a week after his upset win over Democrat Hillary Clinton in last Tuesday's presidential election, Trump's choice on Sunday of Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman and friend of House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, could help him repair his strained relations with members of the Republican Party establishment.
Trump to supporters harassing minorities: ‘Stop it’
Donald Trump on Sunday told his supporters to stop harassing minorities, in his first televised sit-down interview since becoming President-elect. "I am so saddened to hear that," Trump told CBS' Lesley Stahl on "60 Minutes" when she said Latinos and Muslims are facing harassment.
The Big Losers on Election Day
The biggest losers on election night were in the liberal media, an adjunct of the national Democratic Party. But the far-left "progressives" who had backed Senator Bernie Sanders and then rationalized voting for Hillary Clinton lost big.