Posted on 11/13/2016 3:21:38 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump retreated on Sunday from some of his hardest-line campaign positions on immigration and health care, but he also used Twitter to lash out at his critics, leaving open the possibility that he would continue the practice in the Oval Office and radically change the way presidents speak to Americans.
In his first prime-time television interview since his upset victory on Tuesday, Mr. Trump referred to undocumented immigrants, whom he had demonized as criminals and rapists during his campaign, as “terrific people,” and said his priority would be to deport two million to three million lawbreakers before deciding how to treat others.
He also told the CBS program “60 Minutes” that the wall he has been promising to build on the nation’s southern border might end up being a fence in places, and he endorsed popular aspects of President Obama’s health insurance law, including a provision that requires coverage of people with pre-existing medical conditions and one that allows young people to remain on their parents’ plans until the age of 26.
But even as he appeared to inch toward the political center and a more high-minded approach, Mr. Trump used a series of postings on Twitter to argue that The New York Times’s coverage of him has been “BAD” and “very poor and highly inaccurate.” He falsely stated that The Times had issued an apology to readers....
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In the letter, The Times posed a series of what it called inevitable questions, including, “Did Donald Trump’s sheer unconventionality lead us and other news outlets to underestimate his support among American voters?”
Pffft! sorry ntslimes, let him get the word out w/o you 7ss kissing commie news outlets.
saw some lib talking head today on one of the shows declare that this is how he will get around the NY Times.....heck yeah!
He gets his message out inspite of you bozos at the lame stream media...welcome to our brave new world.
Unprecedented? It’s only been in existence 10 years.
No. Your blindness did. If you had just gone around asking folks their views rather than telling them what their views had to be and beating them over the head when they didn't espouse YOUR views, you might have gotten a clue.
Times, they are a changin; Get over it!
I am not, in principle, against reading well researched and well written stories in a published newspaper. But I am not going to pay anyone to preach and propagandize. Somehow I have a feeling that the Slimes won’t be able to restrain itself on either count.
Didn’t that old genius Obama brag about using his electronic thing to talk to us?? And didn’t that go to the wayside really, really quick?
Well, he should stop this “tweet” nonsense post haste.
It’s unseemly. As unseemly as Uhbama constantly taking time out to be on dozens of TV shows real-time.
It reeks of a) impulsiveness and b) wasting time just to blab off.
Not to mention it’s kind of like the old “don’t say anything without a lawyer”. Such shoot-from-the-hip, for all to see, can be completely damning. Keep it shut and to yourself, lest you sink the ship.
So you're saying Trump ran his campaign all wrong?
He might make YouTube videos too. I get the feeling that this is not the end. It is just the beginning.
I see him using Twitter to mobilize his supporters to melt down the DC phone lines when Mitch McDonald and Paul Rino get uppity.
No, but it’s unprofessional and unPresidential to do such things, frankly.
As for “all wrong”, I can’t say - bear in mind he still has only a razor-thin finish with Hitlery. Electoral notwithstanding, apparently tweeting (what a stupid, embarrassing term) is not the end-all be-all of impressing people.
He promised Youtube, which was brief until he saw that he would win unconditionally in the elections.
With all due respect.
Are you NUTS?!?
Razor thin? Landslide more like! And you’re whining because ‘unseemly’?
and Obamanistas used it frequently.
He didn't even campaign in Ca. He surely could have come up with a couple mil there.
He didn't win by a nose, he won by several lengths.
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