memeorandum: 5 takeaways on Trump's first 5 days (Glenn Thrush/Politico)

9:35 AM ET, November 14, 2016

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Jose A. DelReal / Washington Post:

Trump draws sharp rebuke, concerns over newly appointed chief White House strategist Steven Bannon — President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog, NPR, Politico and The Week

Glenn Thrush / Politico:

5 takeaways on Trump's first 5 days — This is what winging it looks like, America. — Donald Trump is compulsively improvisational, and ran the most successful back-of-the-napkin operation in American political history, but the challenge confronting him is, by his own admission, nothing like anything anybody has ever faced.

Discussion: Associated Press

The Daily Beast:

Steve Bannon's Dream: a Worldwide Ultra-Right — PARIS—Never mind that the French cable television report on Stephen Bannon made him look like one of the winos living on grates in Paris, or that it compared Bannon, Donald Trump's grizzled éminence grise and newly-named White House chief strategist …

Discussion: CANNONFIRE and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Kim Bellware / The Huffington Post:

A White Nationalist Is The New White House Chief Strategist — Steve Bannon, who stoked the flames of alt-right fury while running Breitbart News, is headed to the presidential inner circle. — Steve Bannon, the Breitbart News Network executive chairman known for having white nationalist views …

Discussion: Raw Story, Occupy Democrats, BuzzFeed, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Daily Kos

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trump names white nationalist figure ‘Chief Strategist to the President’

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New York Times:
Donald Trump Picks Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff and Stephen Bannon as Strategist

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, The Week, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Patterico's Pontifications and alan.com

Michael C. Bender / Wall Street Journal:
RNC Chair Priebus Is Leading Contender to be Trump's Chief of Staff

Discussion: Business Insider Australia, Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine, AOL, The Week, alan.com, Business Insider, Mediaite and Politico, more at Mediagazer »

Colin Dwyer / NPR:
Trump Taps Reince Priebus As Chief Of Staff, Steve Bannon As Chief Strategist

Discussion: Guardian, Outside the Beltway, The Verge and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Marc Caputo / Politico:
Trump names Priebus and Bannon as top aides

Discussion: ABC News, Fox News, Electoral-vote.com, Media Matters for America, Boing Boing, Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and TheBlaze

CNN:
Trump picks Priebus as White House chief of staff, Bannon as top adviser

Discussion: ABC News, Business Insider, TheBlaze, Hot Air, RedState, pundit from another planet, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and twitchy.com, more at Mediagazer »

Yahoo:
President-elect Trump names Steve Bannon and Reince Priebus to his senior White House leadership team

Discussion: Politico, Advocate and Balloon Juice

Jill Lawrence / USA Today:

The real voices that aren't heard: Jill Lawrence — Our numbers are legion, but where we live has cost us two presidents and a Supreme Court majority. — Poor, poor pitiful flyover country. Never getting the attention or respect or economic consideration it deserves. Never having a president to call its own.

Eli Stokols / Politico:

Trump says he's ‘fine’ with legalization of same-sex marriage — Donald Trump said he is “fine with” same-sex marriage but offered few specifics about his plans for the first 100 days of his administration during his first television interview since becoming the president-elect.

Discussion: Vox, Townhall.com, Advocate and Joe.My.God.

Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Donald Trump Appears to Soften Stance on Immigration, but Not on Abortion

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Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Trump backs off promise of special prosecutor for Clinton

Discussion: RedState

CBS News:
Trump talks to “60 Minutes” about same-sex marriage, abortion and the Supreme Court

Discussion: The New Civil Rights Movement

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is Settled Law, Abortion Isn't

Discussion: Guardian and New York Magazine

Benjamin Siegel / ABC News:
GOP President-Elect Donald Trump Says Same-Sex Marriage Is ‘Settled’ Law

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Trump ‘fine’ with Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling

Discussion: RedState and The New Civil Rights Movement

Theodore Schleifer / CNN:

CNN's ‘Unprecedented’: Trump told Christie he didn't think he'd last past October 2015 — “They always had an understanding that the first one out would probably endorse the other,” the adviser said. — Washington (CNN)New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's February endorsement of Donald …

Discussion: RedState, alan.com and The Week

New York Post:
Insiders say Donald Trump is ‘disgusted’ by Chris Christie

Discussion: Mendham-Chester, NJ Patch, Mediaite and RedState

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:

Conway: Trump May Hold Special Session To Repeal O'care On Inauguration Day — Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that Trump has considered calling a special session of Congress on the day of his inauguration to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Discussion: Vox, Wall Street Journal, alan.com, New York Times, Politico, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress and Fox News, more at Mediagazer »

Allegra Kirkland / Talking Points Memo:
Ryan Won't Say Whether Plan To Replace Obamacare Will Cover Free Birth Control (VIDEO)

Discussion: The Week

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: Ryan Plans to Phase Out Medicare in 2017

Juan Williams / The Hill:

Where now for the Democrats? — What happens to Democrats in the Trump era? — In the 1992 presidential election, after three straight terms of Republicans in the White House, Bill Clinton — successfully remade the Democrats into a party of political centrists to regain the support of so-called ‘Reagan Democrats.’

Discussion: Politico

Zach Carter / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid Endorses Keith Ellison For DNC Chair

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Real Clear Politics and ABC News

Lesley Stahl / CBS News:

President-elect Trump speaks to a divided country on 60 Minutes — What can we expect from a Trump presidency? 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl finds some of his campaign issues were not meant to be taken literally, but as opening bids for negotiation — The following script is from “The 45th President,” which aired on Nov. 13, 2016.

Discussion: Hit & Run, Washington Post, Althouse, New York Times, New York Magazine, The Verge, The Week, twitchy.com and CBS Dallas

Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch:

Sweden: Muslims brutally beat TV chef because he “looked like Mr. Trump” — Because, you know, Trump is supposedly going to victimize innocent Muslims, and so in protest of the possibility of that happening, innocent and peaceful Muslims are justified in victimizing innocent people. Got it?

Fria Tider:
Swedish TV chef brutally beaten by “Muslim men” because he “looked like Mr. Trump”

Discussion: Infowars, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and The Gateway Pundit

Jonathan Martin / New York Times:

Pulling Democrats Back to 'It's the Economy, Stupid' — WASHINGTON — The Democrats' stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower-level contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on cultural issues has all but crippled …

Discussion: Political Wire

Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:

Anti-Trump Protests: Proof Of Professional Activist Involvement — In a story from November 12, USA Today writes an article to discredit the idea that the professional activist community is involved with organizing anti-Trump protests. They invite you to meet the protesters.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Infowars and Instapundit

Mark Hensch / The Hill:

Trump camp mulls wrestling's McMahon for Commerce: report — 's transition team is considering former WWE CEO Linda McMahon for the president-elect's future secretary of Commerce, according to a new report. — NBC Connecticut said Sunday it confirmed McMahon's possible appointment …

Discussion: RedState

Roque Planas / The Huffington Post:

Trump Says He'll Immediately Deport Or Imprison Up To 3 Million Undocumented Immigrants — The Republican leader is embracing mass deportation. — President-elect Donald Trump plans to deport or imprison somewhere between 2 million and 3 million undocumented immigrants as soon as he takes office.