Tag: Donald Trump

Thursday, November 10th 2016 - 11:04 UTC
PM May congratulates Trump and looks forward to working with him

Prime Minister Theresa May has led UK political congratulations for Donald Trump after his US election victory. The PM said Britain and the US had an “enduring and special relationship” and would remain close partners on trade, security and defense.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 15:42 UTC
Preconceptions, misconceptions and experts that fail to see reality

Explaining the not so quite unexplainable. Donald Trump's victory by a convincing margin left all those so called analysts who had foreseen his defeat as inevitable trying to find out how they had so spectacularly misread the world. The role of mass media under fire.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 09:29 UTC
Trump becomes US 45th president with support from white working class and rural voters

Donald John Trump has been projected as the winner of the presidential election, according to the Associated Press, after election returns showed that Trump had won stunning come-from-behind victories across a swath of contested states. Trump, 70, will be the 45th president of the United States. A real-estate developer and former reality-TV star,
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 09:02 UTC
Close friends and loyalists considered for the Trump cabinet

Now that Donald Trump will be moving to the White House next January, speculation about the names being considered for his cabinet have started to emerge. According to sources close to the winning team some of the names included are Rudy Giuliani for attorney general, Newt Gingrich for secretary of state, retired Lt. Gen Michael Flynn for defense secretary or national security adviser, Trump finance chairman Steve Mnuchin for Treasury secretary, and Republican National Committee finance chair Lew Eisenberg for commerce secretary.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:32 UTC
Stock markets sink, Mexican peso plunges as Trump takes early lead

The U.S. dollar sank and stock markets slammed into reverse in wild trade as investors faced the real possibility of a shock win by Republican Donald Trump that could upend the global political order. Major indexes in Asia fall by more than 2%.
Wednesday, November 9th 2016 - 08:22 UTC
Republicans retain control of the US House of Representatives

The Republican Party has retained its majority in the US House of Representatives, projections suggest early Wednesday. The TV networks ABC and NBC both projected a Republican majority in the 435-seat chamber, which the party has controlled since 2010.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:49 UTC
A Trump victory could mean a brake for the Argentina/US dynamic relation, says Malcorra

Under the administration of president Mauricio Macri, the relation between Argentina and the US has “entered a new dynamic phase” and somehow those close links could be affected if the Republican candidate wins on Tuesday, said foreign minister Susana Malcorra.
Tuesday, November 8th 2016 - 07:04 UTC
Argentine economists choose Hillary Clinton for president

Analysts estimate Clinton would continue the bilateral relationship, while Trump is a mystery that would halt trade and investment worldwide
Friday, November 4th 2016 - 11:53 UTC
Clinton stays ahead in polls, but lead get narrower down by the minute with five days to go

Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump, 46%-42% natiowide, with data updated Thursday to include two new national surveys taken after Friday's revelation that the FBI would review new emails to assess The Decmocrate candidate's handling of classified material at the State Department.
Friday, November 4th 2016 - 07:14 UTC
Trump not such an unlikely winner has Mexico drafting alternate plans

Central Bank governor and finance ministry are in the process of adjusting their economic policy should the Republican candidate be elected. Mexican Central Bank governor Agustín Carstens, notorious for having stated that a victory for Donald Trump would hit his country like a hurricane, admitted Thursday he is readying a contingency plan for an “adverse” election result in the United States' presidential elections.
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