Posted on 12/05/2016 11:33:26 AM PST by Pinkbell
As Donald Trump continues to indicate that he might be willing to change his position on climate change, which he has long called a “hoax,” the president-elect met Monday with former vice president Al Gore, who has become a prominent activist in the fight against global warming.
Gore was originally scheduled to meet just with Trump's oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, who is not registered with a political party and has already pushed her father to adopt positions usually promoted by Democrats. Gore told reporters that after that meeting, he then had “an extremely interesting conversation” with the president-elect.
“I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground,” Gore told reporters after spending about 90 minutes at Trump Tower in Manhattan during the lunch hour Monday. “I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the president-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I'm just going to leave it at that.”
Trump has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax” and has even accused the Chinese government of creating this fake problem to steal manufacturing jobs from the United States. But Trump seemed to soften that position during a meeting with the New York Times late last month, saying that he would keep an “open mind” on the issue and acknowledging that human activity might be connected to changes in the climate.
Ivanka Trump is one of the most influential people in Trump's life and is a member of his transition team, although she has said she does not plan to take an active role in her father's administration. Her husband, Jared Kushner, is one of Trump's most trusted aides, and the couple are reportedly house-hunting in Washington.
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No, Trump does not make his supporters look like idiots. We might disagree with his some of his decisions. However, the only other alternative was Hillary. I never expected to be in agreement with him 100%.
I’m not worried. That succubus has no power over Trump.
Neutering the environmentalists before he starts cutting back the EPA?
Indeed. A Democrat President would be praised for doing so.
If only recon, good move.
I voted for D. Trump not Ivanka or algore.
I can do without algore and anything he says for the rest of his life.
I don’t believe anything that the Sex Poodle, algore, has to say about anything. Shouldn’t this obese criminal and liar be in prison for his many crimes?
He’s not President yet and is set no formal policy, so I while I rather he not have had this meeting, I have a wait and see approach.
For crying out loud- Trump would have been Way Way WAY better off meeting with the creators of ‘an inconvenient truth’ to ‘learn about’ the lies gore believes and is trying to pawn off on all of us
Like the media in this election. It was composed of so many liberals and elitists that they didn’t see the possibility that Trump could win.
Well, there is video of Al Gore going in and coming out, and he speaks to the press briefly.
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