memeorandum: Poll: Looking ahead to a Trump presidency, a majority sees change (CNN)

10:15 AM ET, November 22, 2016

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Donald Trump's media summit was a ‘f—ing firing squad’ — More On: — President-elect Donald Trump exploded at media bigs in an off-the-record Trump Tower powow on Monday, sources told The Post. — “It was like a f—ing firing squad,” said one source.

New York Times:

Donald Trump Cancels New York Times Meeting and Pursues Battles With the Press — President-elect Donald J. Trump woke up on Tuesday to announce on Twitter that he was canceling a planned meeting with the “failing” New York Times, but would move ahead with meetings to form his government “for the next 8 years.”

Hadas Gold / Politico:
Trump asks for media ‘reset,’ but lashes out at execs

Discussion: NPR, Deadspin, Washington Post, Business Insider, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Independent Journal Review, Raw Story, The Week and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »

Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Report: Trump meeting with media a ‘f—ing firing squad’

Discussion: Mediaite, Daily Kos, BizPac Review, Balloon Juice, Business Insider, Politicus USA and Hot Air

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump is seeking to build a diverse administration, aides say

Discussion: Political Wire, Washington Monthly and Business Insider

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
After meeting, Gabbard vows to work with Trump

Discussion: Ron Paul Liberty Report, ABC News, Politico, Hot Air and McClatchy Washington Bureau

CNNMoney:
Protecting Donald Trump costs New York City more than $1 million a day

Discussion: New York Post, The Hill, New York Magazine, TalkLeft, CNN, RedState, CNBC, alan.com, Talking Points Memo, Daily Kos, The Week, Shakesville and The Last Refuge

Daniel Lombroso / The Atlantic:

‘Hail Trump!’: White Nationalists Salute the President Elect — “Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!” — That's how Richard B. Spencer saluted more than 200 attendees on Saturday, gathered at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., for the annual conference …

Discussion: Mashable, The Federalist, AOL, New York Times, Business Insider, Refinery29, The Week, KTLA, Politicus USA, Deadspin, RedState, The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze, Right Wing Watch, Little Green Footballs and CANNONFIRE

New York Times:

Donald Trump Rages, at the Wrong Target — Millions of Americans are justifiably frightened by the tide of racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia that has swept the country since the election of Donald Trump, whose campaign stoked these views and who named Stephen Bannon of Breitbart News his chief strategist in the White House.

Discussion: Salon, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Balloon Juice, twitchy.com, Independent Journal Review, VDARE, Mediaite, No More Mister Nice Blog and Talking Points Memo

ushmm.org:
MUSEUM CONDEMNS HATEFUL RHETORIC AT WHITE NATIONALIST CONFERENCE; CALLS ON THE NATION TO CONFRONT HATE SPEECH

Discussion: TheBlaze, Politicus USA and Politico

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Democratic presidential electors revolt against Trump — At least a half-dozen Democratic electors have signed onto an attempt to block Donald Trump from winning an Electoral College majority, an effort designed not only to deny Trump the presidency but also to undermine the legitimacy of the institution.

Discussion: RedState, Political Wire, The Resurgent and The Atlantic

New York Daily News:
The Hail Mary pass that could deny Donald Trump the presidency: It's up to you, electors

Discussion: Balkinization and Instapundit

Steven Bertoni / Forbes:

Exclusive Interview: How Jared Kushner Won Trump The White House — It's been one week since Donald Trump pulled off the biggest upset in modern political history, and his headquarters at Trump Tower in New York City is a 58-story, onyx-glassed lightning rod. Barricades, TV trucks and protesters frame a fortified Fifth Avenue.

Discussion: CNBC and The Week, more at Mediagazer »

David Wright / CNN:

Trump aide Kellyanne Conway: No plan to pursue charges against Clinton — (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's administration will not pursue further investigations of Hillary Clinton related to her private email server or the Clinton Foundation, Trump's former campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said Tuesday …

Discussion: New York Magazine, WCMH-TV and Talking Points Memo

Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump Aide Suggests He Wants No Clinton Probe

Discussion: Politico

New York Times:
Trump, on YouTube, Pledges to Create Jobs

Discussion: Politico, Forbes, New York Magazine, The Week, greatagain.gov, The Last Refuge, Engadget and Mashable

Mark Joseph Stern / Slate:

Pat McCrory Lost the North Carolina Governorship. Now He's Trying to Steal It. — North Carolina Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, champion of the country's most notorious anti-LGBTQ law, lost his bid for re-election on Nov. 8—at last count, by 7,448 votes. Yet nearly two weeks later, McCrory still refuses to concede.

Discussion: Heat Street, New York Magazine, AOL, Mother Jones and American Lens

Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
Legislature could revisit election laws in wake of McCrory complaints, Moore says

Discussion: electionlawblog.org and Politicus USA

Colin Campbell / Raleigh News & Observer:
McCrory campaign request on election complaint review rejected - for now

Discussion: American Prospect, Politico, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Pat McCrory for Governor

New York Times:

With a Meeting, Trump Renewed a British Wind Farm Fight — LONDON — When President-elect Donald J. Trump met with the British politician Nigel Farage in recent days, he encouraged Mr. Farage and his entourage to oppose the kind of offshore wind farms that Mr. Trump believes will mar …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Heat Street, Sputnik International, The Week, Raw Story, Politico and Jezebel

Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Reports: Trump Asked Brexit Architects To Oppose Wind Farms In Scotland

Discussion: Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »

NBC News:

Kanye West Hospitalized After Tour Canceled: Sources — Kanye Cancels Tour After Trump/Race Rant 2:12 — Kanye West was under observation at a Los Angeles area hospital late Monday after the remaining dates of his national tour were abruptly canceled, multiple authorities familiar with the case told NBC News.

Discussion: Los Angeles Times, fox4kc.com, Jezebel, Independent Journal Review, FanSided, Fox 59, CNN, Mashable, WCMH-TV, NBC News, theGrio, New York Magazine, Refinery29 and The Week

CNN:

Poll: Looking ahead to a Trump presidency, a majority sees change — Majorities think Trump will achieve several of the goals outlined during his campaign as top priorities — (CNN)Two weeks after Election Day, most Americans say President-elect Donald Trump will ultimately do a good job as president …

Discussion: Politico, RedState, Washington Times and Opinion Today

Thomas E. Ricks / Foreign Policy:

Mattis as defense secretary: What it means for us, for the military, and for Trump — I've known and admired General James Mattis (USMC, ret.) for years, and have written about him in a couple of books and in this blog. A few years ago, after Mattis was given the bum's rush into retirement …

Discussion: AOL

Jack Shafer / Politico:

Abolish the Office of the First Lady — Melania Trump has done the nation a great service by deciding to maintain Trump Tower as her full-time residence and not to move to the White House any time soon. But her resistance shouldn't stop there. Now is as good a time as any to eliminate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Katie J.M. Baker / BuzzFeed:

College Trump Supporters: “We're The New Counterculture” … A week after Donald Trump won the presidency, many students on the University of Delaware campus were still devastated. Professors at the blue-state public school where Vice President Joe Biden is an alumnus canceled classes …

Discussion: Raw Story

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Donald Trump's Business Dealings Test a Constitutional Limit — WASHINGTON — Not long after he took office, President Obama sought advice from the Justice Department about a potential conflict of interest involving a foreign government. He wanted to know whether he could accept the Nobel Peace Prize.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg and The Daily Caller

Tierney Sneed / Talking Points Memo:

Trump May Face An Early Test On Obamacare That Could Tell Us A Lot — A procedural step taken by the House GOP in its lawsuit targeting Obamacare is an early but revealing signal of the choices congressional Republicans and President-elect Donald Trump will face in repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Discussion: Washington Monthly

Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post:

The secretive brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders who are helping Trump — Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is putting together a brain trust of Silicon Valley insiders to share ideas with the transition team for President-elect Donald Trump. But he's having trouble finding takers.

Discussion: Raw Story

Scott W. Johnson / Weekly Standard:

The Trouble With Keith Ellison — He's a bad hombre. — In the aftermath of the election of Donald Trump and a Republican Congress, Minnesota representative Keith Ellison has emerged as a leading contender to chair the Democratic National Committee. Ellison resides on the far-left fringe of the Democratic party.

Discussion: Power Line, The Geller Report, The Daily Caller, Washington Free Beacon and The Daily Signal

Robert Farley / Lawyers, Guns & Money:

Goodbye — Scott has passed.

Bjorn Lomborg / Washington Post:

Trump's climate plan might not be so bad after all — Bjorn Lomborg is president and founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. — The election of Donald Trump and Republican majorities in both houses have terrified environmentalists …