| This week we learned there are still hard feelings - lots of them - from Hillary Clinton's campaign folks. President-elect Donald Trump fulfilled his first campaign promise (even though he originally didn't realize he had made it), and the quest for secretary of State continued. |
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| #Hesyourpresident |
| Representatives from the Trump and Clinton campaigns sat down for a lengthy round table discussion on Thursday at a Harvard University forum. It was supposed to be a civilized conversation for the historical record but the campaign aides ended up tearing into one another. After such a nasty and unprecedented campaign, big surprise - people's emotions are still raw. |
| Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said she didn't want to win the way the Trump campaign did, which she charged was by "providing a platform for white supremacists." |
| Kellyanne Conway, Trump's campaign manager who is now his transition adviser, shot back: "Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform?" |
| "You did, Kellyanne. You did," Palmieri responded. |
| When Clinton's pollster accused Trump of using "dog whistles" to appeal to bigots, Conway responded with "Hashtag, he's your president, how about that?" |
| "Kellyanne, hashtag, if he's going to be my president he's got to show me that white supremacy is not acceptable steps from the Oval Office," Clinton adviser Karen Finney responded. She was referring to Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart News whom Trump has elevated to chief strategist. |
| "Handsome" Carrier worker saves the day |
| Trump started his victory tour this week and reminded us all how much he loves a good crowd. The tour kicked off in Indiana where Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence (Indiana's governor) made the official announcement that they had reached a deal to keep about 1,000 jobs in Indianapolis. |
| But in a very unlike-Trump fashion, the president-elect said the idea to save the jobs didn't come from him - at least not intentionally. |
| Trump said he had been watching the news one evening and a reporter was talking about Carrier. |
| "And they had a gentleman, worker, great guy, handsome guy, he was on, and it was like he didn't even know they were leaving. He said something to the effect, 'No, we're not leaving, because Donald Trump promised us that we're not leaving,' and I never thought I made that promise. Not with Carrier. I made it for everybody else. I didn't make it really for Carrier," Trump said. |
| He added that, while he had said "Carrier will never leave," he didn't actually mean that they would never leave because it was just "a euphemism." But because of this worker - very handsome! - he felt like he owed it to the people of Carrier to keep their jobs. |
| Trump and Romney break bread - or actually, frog legs |
| "The Apprentice: Secretary of State" continues with the four leading contenders being Gen. David Petraeus, Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and of course - the big one everyone is watching - "choker" Mitt Romney. |
| Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and former Massachusetts governor, was really hard on Trump during the election, often describing Trump as a "fraud" and "phony." Trump was pretty rough right back, and loved to remind Romney how he "choked" by losing to President Obama. But now Romney wants to be secretary of State. He also is suddenly confident that Trump is the "very man who can lead us to that better future." We're not going to speculate if there's any connection between the two, but let's just say the change of heart happened after the secretary of State job came open. |
| Because Romney and Trump have quite a complicated relationship (see this video), the two have met twice since the election to try and hash out their differences. They got together for the first time at Trump's golf club in New Jersey, and this week they had dinner in New York. |
| The menu was swanky: garlic soup with thyme and sautéed frog legs, scallops with caramelized cauliflower and a caper raisin emulsion, prime sirloin with a citrus glaze, and lamb chops with mushroom bolognese sauce. They had chocolate cake for dessert. |
| Trump loyalist Newt Gingrich did not take kindly to the dinner date. The former House speaker said he had never seen someone suck up the way Mitt Romney has and thought it looked like a scene from "Pretty Woman." We're going to guess his advice to Trump would be to nominate someone else. |
| Around the transition |
| • | Trump breaks precedent and talks to Taiwan's leader (USA TODAY) | | • | Pence's rental in D.C. is surrounded by gay pride flags as his neighbors troll (WUSA-TV) | | • | Scott Brown gets an interesting endorsement for VA secretary (USA TODAY) | | • | Wait a minute...GOP rejoices over Pelosi win (USA TODAY) | | • | @HRCintheWild shares photos of Clinton in the real world (USA TODAY) | |
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| Melania Trump's ties to the Aflac duck |
| Before she was the incoming first lady, Melania Trump was part of a Frankenstein-like swap with the Aflac duck. |
| In 2005, she appeared in an Aflac Inc. insurance commercial titled "experiment" where her voice and the Aflac duck's voice were swapped "to tell the world about the benefits of Aflac - with sex appeal." |
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