Posted on 11/23/2016 9:57:41 AM PST by Dave346
TRUMP: O.K. Well, I just appreciate the meeting and I have great respect for The New York Times. Tremendous respect. It’s very special. Always has been very special. I think I’ve been treated very rough. It’s well out there that I’ve been treated extremely unfairly in a sense, in a true sense. I wouldn’t only complain about The Times. I would say The Times was about the roughest of all. You could make the case The Washington Post was bad, but every once in a while I’d actually get a good article. Not often, Dean, but every once in awhile.
Look, I have great respect for The Times, and I’d like to turn it around. I think it would make the job I am doing much easier. We’re working very hard. We have great people coming in. I think you’ll be very impressed with the names. We’ll be announcing some very shortly.
Everybody wanted to do this. People are giving up tremendous careers in order to be subject to you folks and subject to a lot of other folks. But they’re giving up a lot. I mean some are giving up tremendous businesses in order to sit for four or maybe eight or whatever the period of time is. But I think we’re going to see some tremendous talent, tremendous talent coming in. We have many people for every job. I mean no matter what the job is, we have many incredible people. I think, Reince, you can sort of just confirm that. The quality of the people is very good.
We’re trying very hard to get the best people. Not necessarily people that will be the most politically correct people, because that hasn’t been working. So we have really experts in the field.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Just one lie in that whole statement, or you could call it a gesture of politeness: “I have great respect for The New York Times.”
We used to subscribe to the Times, although it was less and less readable as time went on. But I dropped my subscription I think it was about 30 or 40 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/podcasts/audio-donald-trump-new-york-times.html
They sound so beside themselves, acting as if humoring Trump, treating him so incredibly dismissively, that they completely discredit themselves and prove Trump's point about NYT and them media.
Strange he’d give an interview with one of the worst of the alt left media propaganda arms of the Democrat party.
Trump’s running a fool’s errand if he thinks handing an olive branch to them is going to make them want to start being honest.
Thank the LORD ... Hope springs eternal!!
God Bless America!
“Trump’s running a fool’s errand if he thinks handing an olive branch to them is going to make them want to start being honest.”
He’s not handing them squat. He walked into the lions den and pulled its teeth. Now when the Times decides to malign Trump, Trump can point to his own civility and then destroy them.
Ugh. Like listening to NPR.
Climate Change-
Really? These people picture Manhattan under water within their own lifetime?
I... I really don’t know how to relate to such a thought process.
THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN, opinion columnist: Mr. President-elect, can I ask a question? One of the issues that you actually were very careful not to speak about during the campaign, and haven’t spoken about yet, is one very near and dear to my heart, the whole issue of climate change, the Paris agreement, how you’ll approach it. You own some of the most beautiful links golf courses in the world …
[laughter, cross talk]
TRUMP: [laughing] I read your article. Some will be even better because actually like Doral is a little bit off … so it’ll be perfect. [inaudible] He doesn’t say that. He just says that the ones that are near the water will be gone, but Doral will be in great shape.
[laughter]
FRIEDMAN: But it’s really important to me, and I think to a lot of our readers, to know where you’re going to go with this. I don’t think anyone objects to, you know, doing all forms of energy. But are you going to take America out of the world’s lead of confronting climate change?
TRUMP: I’m looking at it very closely, Tom. I’ll tell you what. I have an open mind to it. We’re going to look very carefully. It’s one issue that’s interesting because there are few things where there’s more division than climate change. You don’t tend to hear this, but there are people on the other side of that issue who are, think, don’t even …
SULZBERGER: We do hear it.
FRIEDMAN: I was on ‘Squawk Box’ with Joe Kernen this morning, so I got an earful of it.
[laughter]
TRUMP: Joe is one of them. But a lot of smart people disagree with you. I have a very open mind. And I’m going to study a lot of the things that happened on it and we’re going to look at it very carefully. But I have an open mind.
SULZBERGER: Well, since we’re living on an island, sir, I want to thank you for having an open mind. We saw what these storms are now doing, right? We’ve seen it personally. Straight up.
FRIEDMAN: But you have an open mind on this?
TRUMP: I do have an open mind. And we’ve had storms always, Arthur.
SULZBERGER: Not like this.
TRUMP: You know the hottest day ever was in 1890-something, 98. You know, you can make lots of cases for different views. I have a totally open mind.
My uncle was for 35 years a professor at M.I.T. He was a great engineer, scientist. He was a great guy. And he was … a long time ago, he had feelings — this was a long time ago — he had feelings on this subject. It’s a very complex subject. I’m not sure anybody is ever going to really know. I know we have, they say they have science on one side but then they also have those horrible emails that were sent between the scientists. Where was that, in Geneva or wherever five years ago? Terrible. Where they got caught, you know, so you see that and you say, what’s this all about. I absolutely have an open mind. I will tell you this: Clean air is vitally important. Clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important. Safety is vitally important.
And you know, you mentioned a lot of the courses. I have some great, great, very successful golf courses. I’ve received so many environmental awards for the way I’ve done, you know. I’ve done a tremendous amount of work where I’ve received tremendous numbers. Sometimes I’ll say I’m actually an environmentalist and people will smile in some cases and other people that know me understand that’s true. Open mind.
JAMES BENNET, editorial page editor: When you say an open mind, you mean you’re just not sure whether human activity causes climate change? Do you think human activity is or isn’t connected?
TRUMP: I think right now … well, I think there is some connectivity. There is some, something. It depends on how much. It also depends on how much it’s going to cost our companies. You have to understand, our companies are noncompetitive right now.
They’re really largely noncompetitive. About four weeks ago, I started adding a certain little sentence into a lot of my speeches, that we’ve lost 70,000 factories since W. Bush. 70,000. When I first looked at the number, I said: ‘That must be a typo. It can’t be 70, you can’t have 70,000, you wouldn’t think you have 70,000 factories here.’ And it wasn’t a typo, it’s right. We’ve lost 70,000 factories.
We’re not a competitive nation with other nations anymore. We have to make ourselves competitive. We’re not competitive for a lot of reasons.
That’s becoming more and more of the reason. Because a lot of these countries that we do business with, they make deals with our president, or whoever, and then they don’t adhere to the deals, you know that. And it’s much less expensive for their companies to produce products. So I’m going to be studying that very hard, and I think I have a very big voice in it. And I think my voice is listened to, especially by people that don’t believe in it. And we’ll let you know.
FRIEDMAN: I’d hate to see Royal Aberdeen underwater.
TRUMP: The North Sea, that could be, that’s a good one, right?
“He’s not handing them squat. He walked into the lions den and pulled its teeth. Now when the Times decides to malign Trump, Trump can point to his own civility and then destroy them.”
LOVE IT!!
No different than the Godfather saying he has great respect for his enemies.
I think Trump got the NYT to publish his message without a filter by doing this meeting.
I just read the entire interview, and it's giving me GWB flashbacks. He comes off as if he's trying to please these NYT creeps and that's the highest priority for him now. It's a bad road to go down, IMHO.
Very Don Corleone - DJT keeps his enemies closer.
He doesn’t. He’s playing a longer game to discredit their future reporting more by being gracious.
I read the whole meeting. Amazing how the misinformation out there gives you the idea that it went bad. Another example of the guy in charge is unique and beholden to no on.
He’s setting them up.
LOL! If anything he threw down the gauntlet and sugar coated it in the name of being "polite". He's not naive and they understand exactly what he's saying.
The buyer's remorse we're going to be seeing with Trump from social conservatives and others will be pretty vast. For myself, I understood, he's at best a "New York Conservative", which in Texas terms isn't really all that 'conservative' at all but the alternative was too horrible to contemplate.
I expect Trump will do things that will please me, and will do things that will really piss me off. It's the nature of the beast. I'm supporting him because the things I think he'll do that I like are pretty important.
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