The US president-elect emerged from cabinet-building talks in his Trump Tower headquarters and traveled ten minutes across town to The New York Times to give a wide-ranging interview on his plans. I have an open mind to it," he told New York Times executives and journalists over lunch at their headquarters, according to the paper's own account. Campaigning ahead of November 8, Trump repeatedly told crowds of rustbelt and southern voters -- factory workers, coal miners and oilmen among them -- that he would tear up international climate agreements. Nazi salutesThe New York Times sit-down, which followed a reportedly hostile off-the-record clash with TV network chiefs on Monday, appeared to represent a perhaps temporary truce with the hated media. A similar CNN/ORC poll found a narrow majority, 53 percent of voters, thought Trump would do a good job.

Source: The Nation Bangkok November 23, 2016 04:14 UTC