Donald Trump has not yet been sworn in, but the Republican Congress has convened. Shortly it will begin hearings on Trump’s appointments—as a block more like a cabinet suited for a corporatist President Ted Cruz than a populist like candidate Trump. Trump and the Republicans control the White House and Congress. What they don’t control—where […]
Whatever his voters intended, we can abandon the notion that President-elect Donald Trump is a right-wing populist. Right-wing, yes, authoritarian, probably, demagogue certainly. But his cabinet gives the lie to populism as part of his character. Wall Street may have paid Hilary Clinton hundreds of thousands of dollars to make speeches; but it is Trump […]
Even though Elon Musk once said that Donald Trump “doesn’t seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States,” the Tesla/SpaceX CEO is joining the president-elect’s Strategic and Policy Forum, an advisory board for the president on business issues. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi were also […]
By Steve Horn Waterkeeper Alliance, represented by Pace Environmental Litigation Clinic, submitted a 54-page petition with 358 footnotes and 448 pages containing 43 exhibits to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), calling for an end of all of its federal contracts with ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson was recently named U.S. Secretary of State by […]
By Kelly Mitchell On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump officially nominated Exxon Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, confirming a widespread leak from over the weekend. In response, everyone from preschool teachers to oil industry shill (and Senator, I guess) Marco Rubio are voicing their concerns. Trump Taps Exxon's Rex Tillerson as Secretary […]
Following weeks of speculation, President-elect Donald Trump has officially nominated Rex Tillerson—the longtime leader of world’s largest fossil fuel company, ExxonMobil—to be secretary of state. On the president-elect’s favorite mode of communication, Trump tweeted that Tillerson is “one of the truly great business leaders of the world” and likes his “vast experience at dealing successfully […]
By Steve Horn ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson—who has close personal and company ties to Russia and President Vladimir Putin—is President-elect Donald Trump’s top pick to become the next secretary of state, with the decision likely coming next week according to NBC News. The news comes amid reports that Congressional members and senior U.S. Central Intelligence […]
On Monday, former VP Al Gore made a surprise visit to Trump Tower to discuss climate change with Ivanka Trump, who is reportedly interested in the issue. Gore told reporters afterwards that he also met with Donald Trump and “had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for […]
The Donald Trump camp added fracking enthusiast, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) critic and ALEC-linked Amy Oliver Cooke to the EPA landing team on Thursday. Cooke once co-authored an op-ed titled Clean Energy’s Dirty Secret: Cancer. Trump Tower is President-elect Trump’s transition hub.Wikipedia NBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted that Trump is considering ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson […]
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