Trump’s ‘Thank you’ tour gets off to raucous start

“He wasn’t originally my guy, but the more he spoke, the more he spoke to what rural America, what we want, it was just down to earth”, said Kim Pollack, 50, who took a break from her two jobs and drove two hours to attend her first Trump rally.

Of course, he also used the opportunity to brag about his wins in Midwest states that usually vote Democratic (including Wisconsin and Michigan), saying that he didn’t just “break the blue wall, we shattered it”.

The vintage Trump performance Thursday night reflected an emerging theme of his transition.

The Times is referring to the president of Kazakhstan, for whom Trump voiced admiration.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who lost the Democratic primary to Hillary Clinton, said the Carrier deal is incomplete and leaves the incoming Trump administration open to threats from companies.

Others see him as Trump’s wink to the neocons who so fear that his presidency will mean an end to senseless military conflict. “In order to restore deterrence, we have to show capability, capacity and resolve”, he has said.

The Trump team has also tapped a series of experienced Washington hands to oversee the transfer of power within government departments and agencies.

“Since you’ve been elected some people have had a hard time dealing with it”, Fox News host Sean Hannity said to Donald Trump.

But, back on the campaign trail even though the election is over, on the first stop on a pre-inauguration tour of battleground states, Trump couldn’t resist a chance to slam his critics and to spike the football over his upset victory. He loved them so much that he is going for it once again as president-elect.

If, as president, Mr. Trump ordered the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to close the inquiry, Mr. Comey could choose to rebuff him. He also responded to criticism of his early Cabinet picks, specifically Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor known as the “king of bankruptcy” for some of his investments. Speaker after speaker before Trump arrived made similar points. Instead of sticking to that script-terrifying, but also fine, considering the fact that we literally have no idea what the next four years will look like-Trump reportedly chose to relish in the spotlight and soak up energy from the crowd, growing in size like Shrinky Dink, but evil. How about it? Don’t tell me this is untrue. “How they sat in their magnificent rooms, the prime ministers, presidents, and how they sat watching in wonderment hearing how people came to vote”, Trump said.

In the agreement reached with Carrier and their parent company, United Technologies, 1,100 factory, as well as 300 research and technology jobs, will remain in IN rather than going to Mexico.

He was appearing at a big rally in Cincinnati Thursday night.

While the rally lacked some of the fury and seething sense of revolt that marked the final days of the election campaign, it was if nothing had changed since Trump became President-elect.

It was a familiar scene, with hundreds of Trump’s supporters lined up outside the arena.

Most recently, Trump said he wouldn’t seek to prosecute the former secretary of state, a campaign promise that widely resonated with the majority of his supporters, in an interview with the New York Times in November. The pre-rally soundtrack, heavy on Elton John and the Rolling Stones, rotated through the songs heard during the campaign.

The rally at the US Bank Arena in Cincinnati also played out under the lingering spectre of vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and MI.