WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday refused to let a group of journalists travel with him to cover his historic first meeting with President Barack Obama, breaking a long-standing practice intended to ensure the public has a watchful eye on the nation's leader.
Trump flew from New York to Washington on his private jet without that "pool" of reporters, photographers and television cameras that have traveled with presidents and presidents-elect.
Trump's flouting of press access was one of his first public decisions since his election Tuesday.
Trump's meeting with Obama on Thursday will be recorded by the pool of White House reporters, photographers and TV cameras who cover the president.
News organizations had for weeks tried to coordinate a pool of journalists who could begin to travel with Trump immediately after Election Day if he won election. But his campaign did not cooperate with those requests and his senior advisers refused Wednesday, the day after the election, to discuss any such press arrangements.
Trump also broke from tradition as a candidate, refusing to allow a pool of campaign reporters, photographers or cameras to fly on his plane as he traveled to events.
Every president in recent memory has traveled with a pool of journalists when they leave the White House grounds. A pool of reporters and photographers were in the motorcade when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas.
The pool was just steps away from President Ronald Reagan when he was shot outside a hotel in the District of Columbia, and was stationed outside his hospital room as he recovered. The pool also travels on vacation and foreign trips and at times captures personal, historic moments of the presidency.
News organizations take turns serving in the small group, paying their way and sharing the material collected in the pool with the larger press corps. The pool also covers official events at the White House when space doesn't allow for the full press corps.
The Associated Press is among those reaching out to Trump advisers about press access.
There is no "press." Change the headline to "Trump bucks protocol on leftist propagandists" and it elicits a big shrug. Of course he does. Good for him. And fuck them.
That would be highly illegal. An employer cannot discriminate based on race, religon, or creed.
Since when have libtards embaced the rule of law?
The quote from the article “I want to reaffirm to anyone on our team that is scared or feels personally exposed, that I and everyone else here at Grubhub will fight for your dignity and your right to make a better life for yourself and your family here in the United States.”
Seems to contradict him throwing out everyone who disagrees with his political views
'Or', it offers a window into his severe liberal/progressive mental illness and hypocrisy, given he's ready to throw one group of people onto the street while coddling another through Dem talking points.
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"Here’s what happened: I used the New York Times vote-record database for the numbers in this post.
Here’s the problem: The NYT database doesn’t have the correct numbers in some states."
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The article sounded odd, because it was totally wrong.
The author should have realized that a 6 million vote advantage should have won the needed EVs
So back to the original point.
Why did Clinton lose ?
Because 6 million DEMs that voted for Obama in 2012, did not vote for her in 2016.
The black vote and the young people vote did not support her like they did Obama.
Some of those 2012 DEM votes may have gone to Trump.
I am so glad that Trump won, but this election was razor thin in several key states. It amazes me that several million people vote in a state, and the winner wins by a handful of votes.
Don't ever think your vote isn't important.This message has been edited. Last edited by: sdy, November 10, 2016 10:21 PM
November 10, 2016, 07:50 PM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by Tonyny: Twitter erupts with calls for Donald Trump to be assassinated Donald Trump 'assassination' calls erupt on Twitter
Just when you think liberals are stupid, they keep raising the bar.
Trump is not officially POTUS yet, but everyone here knows the Secret Service loves Trump coming into the White House. And they will not ignore these twitter accounts...
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
November 10, 2016, 07:52 PM
Skins2881
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Originally posted by 10P8TRIOT: These election maps are still active. I like the NYT map best because of the ability to drill down to the state results.
"You get much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone."
November 10, 2016, 08:01 PM
parabellum
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Originally posted by lkdr1989: I give you today's WTF moment, please listen carefully about the Guam part
Donald Trump is gonna deport so many people back to Guam, it's gonna flip over.
November 10, 2016, 08:03 PM
sdy
Obama the utter classless "cool kid" to the bitter end:
Despite the pleasantries exchanged between the two political foes, Earnest specified afterwards that Obama still believed that Trump was unsuitable to be president.
“Look, the president’s views haven’t changed, he stands by what he said on the campaign trail,” Earnest said in response to a question during the White House press briefing.
Earnest’s remarks contrasted with Obama’s welcome of Trump at the White House, promising to meet the standards set by President George W. Bush.
quote: Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, is known for its general social conservatism and its ability to consistently channel the feelings of its readers onto its front page.
Via the editor Chris Dore, here’s what it’s done with the news that Donald Trump is the U.S. president-elect: (end quote)
... I can't write politely about this ...
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin.
"If anyone in this country doesn't minimise their tax, they want their head read, because as a government, you are not spending it that well, that we should be donating extra...: Kerry Packer
SIGForum: the island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea.
November 10, 2016, 08:03 PM
Balzé Halzé
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Originally posted by bald1: Now if this doesn't have you laughing....
about electoral college, bama posted a CNN link that said CNN was forecasting Trump would win the popular when all the counting was done
It just gets better and better, doesn't it?
Yes, it really does. Please oh please nominate either one of those clowns to head the DNC.
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November 10, 2016, 08:05 PM
oddball
quote:
Originally posted by BBMW: I'm going to suggest that maybe it's time to end the ass clown thread, now that he's actually been elected president.
We can't kill this thread!
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
November 10, 2016, 08:06 PM
MRBTX
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Originally posted by recoatlift: Imam Hussein willingly knows his place & takes the submissive position.
The optic Zippy never wanted to be a part of.
November 10, 2016, 08:09 PM
Balzé Halzé
quote:
Originally posted by lkdr1989: I give you today's WTF moment, please listen carefully about the Guam part
Watter's World tonight on O'Reilly had some gems. It's legitimately disturbing to me how brainwashed--and yes brainwashed is not too strong a word here--these intellectually immature people have been by the left.
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November 10, 2016, 08:15 PM
sdy
article by Rush Limbaugh
worth a read.
He says the DEMs are very damaged organizationally from the last 8 years, and we shouldn't fall for their tricks about compromising w them.
He is saying they are actually very weak and we need to wield our superior political power.
Originally posted by jimmy123x: I find it amazing that he's not even in office yet and only been voted President a day or so, and Mexico and Canada are already agreeing to change NAFTA, everyone in the House and Senate are saying they're willing to work with him, and on and on. The support from both sides and how even the opposition is willing to go along with Trumps ideas, just shows how afraid they are of a strong leader!
Fear of the unknown and a man with a big hammer who is not afraid to use it.
RMD
I think a lot of it is empty rhetoric and pure politics. Even Trump was playing nicely-nice today.
Huum. A little grumpy?
I was also encouraged that Netanyahu and the president of Egypt spoke positively about their future with the United States in a Trump presidency. It looks like he's getting the band back together. The Muslim Brotherhood is not happy.
It looked to me that Obama was engaging in international and national redistribution of our wealth to buy love from internal voters and international enemies. It seemed idiotic to me.
I also remember how the world snapped to when Reagan was elected. I also remember about one president who spoke of walking softly and carrying a big stick.
That Trump plays "nice" is a choice. No one believes he's incapable of strength and dogged determination when needed.
By the way, "politics" is not a bad thing. It is the process whereby what is possible is achieved in our system.
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November 10, 2016, 08:18 PM
radioman
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Originally posted by sdy: article by Rush Limbaugh
worth a read.
He says the DEMs are very damaged organizationally from the last 8 years, and we shouldn't fall for their tricks about compromising w them.
He is saying they are actually very weak and we need to wield our superior political power.
