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How to get hired by Donald Trump

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AFTER DONALD TRUMP won the presidential election in 2016—when he was a former television star rather than a former president—he managed the White House transition as if it were a high-stakes episode of “The Apprentice”. Aspiring cabinet members arrived at his eponymous tower in New York and walked past television cameras for interviews with the president-elect. Kanye West even made an appearance. This time Susie Wiles, Mr Trump’s campaign manager and his future chief of staff, has led an orderly, low-key process. Mr Trump’s deliberations at Mar-a-Lago in Florida are occasionally punctuated by announcements on social media. Applicants are skittish about discussing their job search publicly, but some patterns have emerged. As of November 12th several publications were reporting that Marco Rubio (pictured, with Mr Trump) would become secretary of state. How does one go about getting hired by Mr Trump?

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Climate change and the next administration

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“IT IS CLEAR the next administration will try to do a U-turn and reverse much of this progress,” declared John Podesta, America’s climate tsar, at a UN climate summit held this week in Azerbaijan. His statement to the gathered greens and diplomats acknowledged a shared anxiety. Donald Trump has vowed to yank America out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement for a second time. Meanwhile conservative energy wonks around Mr Trump want him to make a push in three areas.

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Back to the 1850s

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Immigrant voters may have won America’s presidential election for the nativist candidate

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The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep

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Donald Trump’s politics are so elastic that it is impossible to be certain what he means when he promises, as he did on election night, to “govern by a simple motto: promises made, promises kept”. Will he judge himself a failure if he does not end the war in Ukraine before he takes office?

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