A look at 5 Trump business ties that pose conflicts

Though President-elect Donald Trump’s policy positions have been hard to pin down throughout the campaign and even now, one thing has become abundantly clear: Trump just wants to be loved.

I’m hoping by the time you read this Trump will have chosen Mitt Romney – the courtly Republican who once denounced Donald as a “total fraud and huckster” – to be his secretary of state.

During his campaign, Trump openly denied man-made climate change and called it a “Chinese hoax“, while threatening to cancel the landmark Paris climate accord – one of the most significant worldwide agreements that seek to combat climate change. They’re smart, they’re workers, and they’re angry.

“If Donald Trump can help her heal, then perhaps that’s a good thing”, she told reporters at Trump Tower in NY.

The most important was that on several key issues – like climate change and torture – where he adopted extreme positions during his campaign to galvanize his base, he went out of his way to make clear he was rethinking them. It’s also true that Trump’s position on the issue has been wildly inconsistent over time: Climate change is real, climate change is not real; climate change is caused by human activity, climate change is not caused by human activity; we need to invest in clean jobs, or we need to reopen the coal mines.

Consider the following: For the past year and a half, candidate Trump stormed across the country vowing to put “Crooked Hillary Clinton” in jail as soon as he was sworn in.

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.

Michael Bloomberg also pointed out that the success of the U.S.in reducing emissions had been driven by cities, businesses and even citizens – and none of them are planning on letting up.

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

Mayor de Blasio said the following regarding the unprecedented nature of protecting the President-elect, “We have never had a situation where a [President] would be here on such a regular basis”. “But the big question remains: what will USA national policy be?”

“I really liked him a lot and I’m a little bit surprised I’m telling you that I really liked him a lot”.

ON ROBOTS: When asked whether he was anxious about robots replacing factory workers, Mr Trump said: “They will, and we’ll make the robots too”.

“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said, ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed, ‘ ” the source said.

“I like those very much”, he said of those provisions.

Trump then: “I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding“, he said in a GOP debate February 6.

Trump denied that his campaign had energized the so-called alt-right movement, saying he disavowed it.

Interestingly, Trump had words of praise for the Times as well, a media outlet he called out numerous times for the negative coverage he received during the election. “And it’s much less expensive for their companies to produce products”. You can find all the highlights on the news pages, but since I had the opportunity to be included, let me offer a few impressions of my first close encounter with Trump since he declared for the presidency. “I wouldn’t only complain about the Times“.

You know the hottest day ever was in 1890-something, 98. “If I thought he was a racist or alt-right or any of the things, the terms we could use, I wouldn’t even think about hiring him”, he said. Unfortunately, the responsibility train left the station long ago.

“I think it would be very, very divisive for the country”, the president-elect admitted.

“He (Mattis) said, ‘I’ve never found it (torture) to be useful”, The Times quoted Trump as saying.

ON SYRIA: “I think what’s happened is a disgusting, frightful thing”.