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| Donald Trump at the White House: Obama reports 'excellent conversation' – live | Donald Trump at the White House: Obama reports 'excellent conversation' – live |
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| 8.38pm GMT | |
| 20:38 | |
| Words for solace and strength | |
| Cora Currier writes for the Guardian: | |
| Audre Lorde once wrote that “poetry is not a luxury”, and right now it is a necessity. What kind of poetry can get us through a Donald Trump presidency? We’ll need satire and spitting vitriol. We’ll need rallying cries. We’ll need reminders of human dignity. | |
| Each poet here has struggled with the relationship between poetry and action, with the question of poetry’s relevance in a time of crisis. Adrienne Rich said: “A poem can’t free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites buried under the accumulating emergencies of life.” These are words carefully chosen not for solace but for strength, poems that dip into the reservoirs of literature to find fuel for the day ahead. They are, to borrow from WH Auden’s famous poem September 1, 1939, “ironic points of light” that “flash out wherever the Just / exchange their messages”. Poems that serve as signals through the ages that good exists, and that someone is awake and listening. | |
| Click through for: | |
| Gwendolyn Brooks – Langston Hughes | |
| Adrienne Rich – What Kind of Times Are These | |
| Nayyirah Waheed – Some words build houses in your throat | |
| Margaret Atwood – Men with the Heads of Eagles | |
| Muriel Rukeyser – Poem | |
| 8.31pm GMT | |
| 20:31 | |
| 'A great campaign device' | |
| Very interesting quote from Gingrich today on the border wall. Throughout campaign Trump repeatedly insisted Mexico would pay. pic.twitter.com/qPgig2wSi4 | |
| 8.27pm GMT | |
| 20:27 | |
| Curiel to allow campaign remarks in Trump University trial | |
| A US judge on Thursday tentatively rejected a bid by Donald Trump to keep a wide range of statements from the presidential campaign out of an upcoming fraud trial over his Trump University venture, Reuters reports: | |
| The ruling came in advance of a pretrial hearing later on Thursday where lawyers for the president-elect will square off against students who claim they were they were lured by false promises to pay up to $35,000 to learn Trump’s real estate investing “secrets” from his “hand-picked” instructors. | |
| Trump owned 92 percent of Trump University and had control over all major decisions, the students’ court papers say. The president-elect denies the allegations and has argued that he relied on others to manage the business. | |
| Trial is scheduled to begin Nov. 28. | |
| In the ruling on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego said Trump’s lawyers can renew objections to specific campaign statements and evidence during trial. Trump’s attorneys had argued that jurors should not hear about statements Trump made during the campaign, including about Curiel himself. | |
| Trump attacked the judge as biased against him. He claimed Curiel, who was born in Indiana but is of Mexican descent, could not be impartial because of Trump’s pledge to build a wall between the United States and Mexico. | |
| Read the full piece here. | |
| Judge rejects Trump's bid to keep campaign statements out of upcoming Trump University fraud trial: https://t.co/c8DgxKS7G4 pic.twitter.com/lSuai8mO2D | |
| 8.21pm GMT | |
| 20:21 | |
| On Capitol Hill, Trump describes agenda: 'big league jobs' | |
| Here’s footage of the impromptu press conference, via the Huffington Post: | |
| Asked about his priorities, Trump mentions immigration, the border, health care and jobs, “big league jobs.” | |
| What are Donald Trump's three biggest priorities?Immigration, health care and jobs. "Big league jobs." pic.twitter.com/tvuiwtNUk5 | |
| Updated | |
| at 8.22pm GMT | |
| 8.20pm GMT | |
| 20:20 | |
| Ohio governor John Kasich is praying for the success of Trump, whom he has come very close to openly despising. | |
| Kasich outside WH now following Cavs event saying he is praying for success of Donald Trump. | |
| 8.18pm GMT | |
| 20:18 | |
| Trump meets press, until Muslim ban comes up | |
| Trump has emerged from the meeting and started an impromptu gaggle with reporters that ended when he was asked about his plan to ban Muslims, CNN reports: | |
| Trump ends impromptu gaggle on the Hill when asked about his plans to ban Muslims | |
| Updated | |
| at 8.19pm GMT | |
| 8.17pm GMT | |
| 20:17 | |
| Trump is still meeting with McConnell, the press pool reports: | |
| The President-elect is still in his meeting with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, which an aide said should last up to an hour. | |
| The two walked by earlier, but have remained inside since. The Vice President-elect has already left the Capitol. | |
| Updated | |
| at 8.20pm GMT | |
| 8.16pm GMT | |
| 20:16 | |
| Trump, with Ryan: 'we're going to lower taxes' | |
| Here’s a transcription via the Trump press pool of Trump’s meeting with speaker Paul Ryan: | |
| Ryan repeatedly chided reporters for shouting questions --- including how the “wall is going to be paid for.” | |
| Ryan: | |
| Donald Trump had one of the most impressive victories we have ever seen and we’re going to turn that victory into progress for the American people, and we are now talking about how we are going to hit the ground running to get this country turned around and make America great again.” | |
| Trump: | |
| Speaker Ryan, thank you very much. We had a meeting, I met with president before, as you know. I think we are going to absolutely spectacular things for the American people and I look forward to starting --- quite frankly we can’t get started fast enough.” | |
| [Inaudible] “… Whether it’s on healthcare or immigration so many different things. We’re going to lower taxes, so many different things we are going to be working on.” | |
| “We had a very detailed meeting, and we’re going to lower taxes, as you know, health care we’re going to make it affordable. We are going to do a real job on healthcare [inaudible]. | |
| As he wrapped up, Trump said he had a “great meeting” with Ryan and then the Speaker led him out onto his balcony. | |
| 7.55pm GMT | 7.55pm GMT |
| 19:55 | 19:55 |
| The Obamas’ dogs got one whiff of Trump and ambled elsewhere. | The Obamas’ dogs got one whiff of Trump and ambled elsewhere. |
| Bo and Sunny leave the West Wing shortly after Trump's arrival pic.twitter.com/yD0BLp6Xbt | Bo and Sunny leave the West Wing shortly after Trump's arrival pic.twitter.com/yD0BLp6Xbt |
| 7.47pm GMT | 7.47pm GMT |
| 19:47 | 19:47 |
| Trump will stay in DC for the night, spokeswoman Hope Hicks has informed the media pool. But no word on whether he’ll stay at his new hotel on Pennsylvania avenue. | Trump will stay in DC for the night, spokeswoman Hope Hicks has informed the media pool. But no word on whether he’ll stay at his new hotel on Pennsylvania avenue. |
| 7.40pm GMT | 7.40pm GMT |
| 19:40 | 19:40 |
| Endorse. | Endorse. |
| Man, @AlecMacGillis is such a good writer & reporter. A compelling read on the Trump phenomenon https://t.co/jvwsVUDcit | Man, @AlecMacGillis is such a good writer & reporter. A compelling read on the Trump phenomenon https://t.co/jvwsVUDcit |
| From the piece: | From the piece: |
| And she [the heavy-construction worker] shared an anecdote that reflected how differently Trump’s comments had been received in some places than others. “I’m setting steel for this new gas plant…I’m operating a rough terrain forklift,” she wrote. “So today, I kept thinking about the debate and the audio was released … And I got underneath a load of steel and was moving it…I was laughing and laughing and one of the iron workers asked ‘what are u laughing at.’ I said ‘I grabbed that load right by the pussy’ and laughed some more…And said ‘when you’re an operator you can do that ya know’, laughed all fucking day.” | And she [the heavy-construction worker] shared an anecdote that reflected how differently Trump’s comments had been received in some places than others. “I’m setting steel for this new gas plant…I’m operating a rough terrain forklift,” she wrote. “So today, I kept thinking about the debate and the audio was released … And I got underneath a load of steel and was moving it…I was laughing and laughing and one of the iron workers asked ‘what are u laughing at.’ I said ‘I grabbed that load right by the pussy’ and laughed some more…And said ‘when you’re an operator you can do that ya know’, laughed all fucking day.” |
| Just last week, I was back in Ohio, in the southeastern Appalachian corner. I was at a graduation ceremony for opiate addicts who had gone through a recovery program, and sitting with four women, all around 30, who were still in the program. Someone mentioned the election, and all four of them piped up that they were voting for the first time ever. For whom? I asked. They looked at me as if I had asked the dumbest question in the world. All four were for Trump. | Just last week, I was back in Ohio, in the southeastern Appalachian corner. I was at a graduation ceremony for opiate addicts who had gone through a recovery program, and sitting with four women, all around 30, who were still in the program. Someone mentioned the election, and all four of them piped up that they were voting for the first time ever. For whom? I asked. They looked at me as if I had asked the dumbest question in the world. All four were for Trump. |
| The most of the loquacious of the group, Tiffany Chesser, said she was voting for him because her boyfriend worked at a General Electric light-bulb plant nearby that was seeing more of its production lines being moved to Mexico. She saw voting for Trump as a straightforward transaction to save his job. “If he loses that job we’re screwed — I’ll lose my house,” she said. “There used to be a full parking lot there — now you go by, there are just three trucks in the lot.” | The most of the loquacious of the group, Tiffany Chesser, said she was voting for him because her boyfriend worked at a General Electric light-bulb plant nearby that was seeing more of its production lines being moved to Mexico. She saw voting for Trump as a straightforward transaction to save his job. “If he loses that job we’re screwed — I’ll lose my house,” she said. “There used to be a full parking lot there — now you go by, there are just three trucks in the lot.” |
| 7.33pm GMT | 7.33pm GMT |
| 19:33 | 19:33 |
| Look who else is visiting the White House today! John Kasich, the Ohio governor who never gave Trump the time of day and voted for John McCain for president and whose state was then won by Trump by almost 9 points. | Look who else is visiting the White House today! John Kasich, the Ohio governor who never gave Trump the time of day and voted for John McCain for president and whose state was then won by Trump by almost 9 points. |
| That’s Kasich there at left. Oh yes and also that’s the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James, who campaigned a lot for Clinton, is in the White House today. | That’s Kasich there at left. Oh yes and also that’s the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers. LeBron James, who campaigned a lot for Clinton, is in the White House today. |
| President Barack Obama greets the @cavs at The @WhiteHouse! pic.twitter.com/A2TAqVbMUH | President Barack Obama greets the @cavs at The @WhiteHouse! pic.twitter.com/A2TAqVbMUH |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 7.34pm GMT | at 7.34pm GMT |
| 7.26pm GMT | 7.26pm GMT |
| 19:26 | 19:26 |
| What he said. | What he said. |
| And when Donald Trump saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer... pic.twitter.com/l0PM8BA9cz | And when Donald Trump saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer... pic.twitter.com/l0PM8BA9cz |
| 7.22pm GMT | 7.22pm GMT |
| 19:22 | 19:22 |
| Obamacare enrollments (or preliminary signups? it’s not clear) spiked after the election, the secretary of health and human services reports: | Obamacare enrollments (or preliminary signups? it’s not clear) spiked after the election, the secretary of health and human services reports: |
| Best day yet this Open Enrollment. Nov 9: Over 100K plan selections on https://t.co/VvaQqwzQu6. Consumers shopping & enrolling. #GetCovered | Best day yet this Open Enrollment. Nov 9: Over 100K plan selections on https://t.co/VvaQqwzQu6. Consumers shopping & enrolling. #GetCovered |
| 7.18pm GMT | 7.18pm GMT |
| 19:18 | 19:18 |
| Now Trump and Pence and Melania Trump are meeting with senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill. | Now Trump and Pence and Melania Trump are meeting with senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill. |
| McConnell said yesterday he expected to work with Trump on filling the supreme court vacancy, on tax reform, on Obamacare and more. | McConnell said yesterday he expected to work with Trump on filling the supreme court vacancy, on tax reform, on Obamacare and more. |
| Developing... | Developing... |
| .@realDonaldTrump, @MELANIATRUMP and @mike_pence tour the United States Capitol with @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell https://t.co/YdvlSoD9PK pic.twitter.com/esY6W7XFFJ | .@realDonaldTrump, @MELANIATRUMP and @mike_pence tour the United States Capitol with @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell https://t.co/YdvlSoD9PK pic.twitter.com/esY6W7XFFJ |
| Updated | Updated |
| at 7.20pm GMT | at 7.20pm GMT |