Jon Meacham, Time: Do Business Leaders Make Good Presidents?
It was a brief stop, but Donald Trump wouldn’t have missed it for the world. In late October, the Republican nominee traveled to Washington for a ceremonial ribbon cutting for his new Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue near the White House. “Under budget and ahead of schedule. So important. We don’t hear those words too often in government, but you will,” Trump said. “Today is a metaphor for what we can accomplish for this country.” Reporters covering the event got the message: Trump was promising to bring his much vaunted—mostly by himself—private-sector experience to fixing the public sphere. Two weeks later, on the night of his victory over Hillary Clinton, the President-elect of the United States put the matter plainly. “I’ve spent my entire life and business looking at the untapped potential in projects and in people all over the world,” Trump said. “That is now what I want to do for our country.”
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By scrapping TPP and TTIP, Trump has boosted American jobs in the short term – and destroyed them in the long term — Sean O’Grady, The Independent
Did Kerry plan’s failure hand Putin the Middle East? — Akiva Eldar, Al-Monitor
An Unlikely Solution to Russia and Japan’s Island Stalemate — Michael Buckalew, National Interest
As Trump stresses ‘America First’, China plays the world leader — Ben Blanchard, Reuters
The North Korean Security Challenge — Peter Huessy, RCS
Preventing another Pearl Harbor — Keith Payne, Washington Times
Are We Already Fighting World War III? — Joseph V. Micallef, Military.com
Jihadism is on the move in Mali – why this matters to western countries — C August Elliott, ABC News Online
Merkel’s Challenger Is Only a Pretend Outsider — Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Libya Chaos: If Italy Fails To Lead, Watch Out For Russia (Again) — World Crunch
Trump Must Avoid a False Start with Russia — Zalmay Khalilzad, National Interest
President Trump, Be Wary of a Mexican Backlash — Josee Cardenas, NRO
Media more interested in hating Trump than reporting news — Michael Goodwin, NYP
