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Why Did Trump Invite Al Gore Over for Tea?
Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on Trump.
Donald Trump followers were shocked to see former Vice-President Al Gore walking into Trump Tower on Monday.
Al Gore for Sec. of State?..... Hardly!
The meeting was initially scheduled by Ivanka Trump who said that climate change is an issue she wanted to support. But according to Gore, he ended up spending most of the time with the president-elect himself.
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“I found it an extremely interesting conversation.”
Trump has never supported climate change, calling it a “hoax.”
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Trump had it right when he tweeted 4 years ago:
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
Was Trump calling Gore in to see if he could convince the president-elect on the climate-change cause? Hardly!
According to Reince Priebus, Trump was just keeping an open mind on some climate policies, but Trump still believes most of climate change issue is just a “bunch of bunk.”
But I think it goes beyond that. Trump knows to not antagonize your enemies, but in addition, any amount of befriending you can do with someone you basically are opposed to politically, pays you back double in preventing the damage they could do to you if they got really mad.
In short, any bit of being friends is way, way better than resigning yourself to being devout enemies for life.
In other words it’s a political skill of minimizing risks that Trump already learned in the business world.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington.
Why Did Trump Invite Al Gore Over for Tea?
Good afternoon, I’m still reporting on Trump.
Donald Trump followers were shocked to see former Vice-President Al Gore walking into Trump Tower on Monday.
Al Gore for Sec. of State?..... Hardly!
The meeting was initially scheduled by Ivanka Trump who said that climate change is an issue she wanted to support. But according to Gore, he ended up spending most of the time with the president-elect himself.
[insert tweet]
“I found it an extremely interesting conversation.”
Trump has never supported climate change, calling it a “hoax.”
[Insert tweet]
Trump had it right when he tweeted 4 years ago:
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
Was Trump calling Gore in to see if he could convince the president-elect on the climate-change cause? Hardly!
According to Reince Priebus, Trump was just keeping an open mind on some climate policies, but Trump still believes most of climate change issue is just a “bunch of bunk.”
But I think it goes beyond that. Trump knows to not antagonize your enemies, but in addition, any amount of befriending you can do with someone you basically are opposed to politically, pays you back double in preventing the damage they could do to you if they got really mad.
In short, any bit of being friends is way, way better than resigning yourself to being devout enemies for life.
In other words it’s a political skill of minimizing risks that Trump already learned in the business world.
I’m still reporting from Washington. Good day.
Bill Still is a former newspaper editor and publisher. He has written for USA Today, The Saturday Evening Post, the Los Angeles Times Syndicate, OMNI magazine, and has also produced the syndicated radio program, Health News. He has written 22 books and two documentary videos and is the host of his wildly popular daily YouTube Channel the “Still Report”, the quintessential report on the economy and Washington.
