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In an interview with “60 Minutes” that’s set to air Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll be “very restrained” on social media as commander in chief. 

“I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all, I’m going to be very restrained,” Trump said (video above). 

But even before the “60 Minutes” interview could air, Trump was back to his old ways, launching another one of the attacks against the media that were a signature of his divisive campaign. 

The irony of Trump’s criticism of The New York Times and other outlets is that some on the left blame the mainstream media for his victory. 

On Friday, New York Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger vowed in an email to staff that the newspaper will cover Trump’s administration “fairly” and “without bias” — which sounds an awful lot like normalizing his bigotry. 

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‘Look It Up’: Buttigieg Busts ‘Agitated and Aggressive’ Fox News Host in Heated Interview

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U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg appears to have schooled Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, explaining that due to Donald Trump’s policies during his presidency China was able to establish itself as the leading producer of electric vehicles, in a rancorous interview Tuesday.

“The manufacturing recession is in your head,” Kilmeade falsely declared to the Secretary of Transportation. “It never happened.”

Secretary Buttigieg invited Kilmeade to “look it up on Politifact,” and “maybe bring it up on screen right now because there was a Trump manufacturing recession. Look it up.”

“Mr. Mayor,” Kilmeade, ignoring Buttigieg’s request and his current job title, then said, “Michigan matters a lot. That’s why you’re there, right?”

“That’s right—that, and because I live here.”

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“How much did the EV [electric vehicle] mandate hurt the uh, the Kamala Harris quest to be the next president?” Kilmeade asked, mispronouncing the name of the Vice President of the United States.

“Well, first of all,” Buttigieg responded, “the statement that there is an EV mandate is a lie. You can buy a gas car right now if you want one, you can buy an EV car if you want one, and we’ll help make it cheaper.”

“Really, an incredulous Kilmeade asked. “For how long?”

“As long as you want,” Buttigieg replied. “Now, our goal with the tax supports—and by the way, you you admit, right, that you can buy a gas car if you want right now, which means by definition there’s no mandate.”

“But if he has a goal by 2035, California is gone. By 2035, New York’s gone. And do you get any incentive, Mr. Mayor—” Kilmeade said as Buttigieg talked over him.

“But you admit you don’t have to, we’re not making you buy this car or that car, right?” the Secretary asked. “Now, the goal, and I gotta be careful, right, because I can’t get into the administration side, but what I’ll say is, the goal has been to be about half and half by the end of the decade.”

After some cross talk, Kilmeade asked, “if you had your druthers, would there be combustion engines?”

“If I had my druthers, every car would be made in America,” Buttigieg replied. “Now, we know that EV technology is coming. Whether people are ready for it or not, it is coming, it’s happening around the world and Donald Trump allowed China to take the lead on EVs. I want those EVs made in America.”

“Allowing China?” Kilmeade interjected, “you guys won’t ’em mine. You will not let ’em mine in Minnesota, where the governor wants to be vice president.”

“Let’s be super clear right now,” Buttigieg said.  “Let’s be very clear—Sorry, is this an interview or a debate? Can I at least finish?”

“Well, I just can’t let you throw out fallacies,” Kilmeade said. “It’s important.”

“Can I at least— excuse me? Name one statement that I just made that you would say is factually inaccurate.”

“The statement you just made that Donald Trump let China take the lead?” Kilmeade charged. “If somebody wants an EV, they should be able to get it, not get a rebate if they buy one.”

“If somebody wants an EV, they can get it,” Buttigieg replied. “And if somebody wants a gas car, they can get it, but what we’re doing is we’re making sure more of those are built in the US and here.”

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Zeteo News media columnist Justin Baragona observed, “What stands out here is that Kilmeade comes across as harried, agitated and aggressive — while Buttigieg remains calm and unflustered amid the Fox host’s constant agenda-driven haranguing.”

Business Insider in December of 2019 reported: “President Donald Trump won over Rust Belt states in 2016 on pledges to revive American manufacturing. But the sector slipped deeper into a recession in November, with a key gauge of factory activity falling for a fourth straight month.”

ABC News last month reported that experts say Donald Trump’s “tariff proposals would all but certainly trigger a global trade war.”

An October, 2024 report by the International Energy Agency (IEA) appears to show that by the number of vehicles produced (“registered,”), China is by far the leading global producer. And in 2023, the MIT Technology Review reported, “China [has] managed to build a world-leading industry in electric vehicles,” and, “dominate the world of electric cars.”

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Trump Pledges to Concede ‘Fair’ Loss Before Quickly Casting Doubt on Election Integrity

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Four years after losing the 2020 presidential election that he has never formally conceded, Donald Trump on Election Day claimed he will concede this year’s election if it’s “fair,” before attempting to sow doubt on how secure America’s elections are. The Republican presidential nominee also insisted he did not need to tell his supporters there should be no violence, despite the January 6, 2021 insurrection that Trump was impeached for inciting.

Told by a reporter at a polling station that some Americans are “concerned that if you lost this election, you wouldn’t concede again,” Trump was asked, “what do you say to those people?”

The Republican presidential nominee replied, “I think they’re crazy.”

“If I lose an election, if it’s a fair election, I’d be the first one to acknowledge it,” Trump said (video below), a claim he also made in 2020. “And I think it’s, well, so far, I think it’s been fair. I think there’s been a lot of court cases, both sides are lawyered up. Thousands of lawyers are involved, you know, thousands, can you imagine?”

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“And part of that is because we have too complicated a process,” Trump alleged, before touting the sophistication of watermarking paper ballots. “If we had a piece of paper, watermarked, you know that paper is more sophisticated now than computers. It’s watermarked paper.”

Trump then moved on to criticizing computers, saying, “hopefully they’ll be able to get these expensive computers going.”

“You know, the reason you use computers is to make time, so that it’s like fast. You don’t use them so that you have to come up with an answer three days later, and that’s a little scary when they say, what what are they doing? You use a computer because it calculates quickly. And you use paper because you save costs, but the paper turns out to be much quicker than the computer. There’s something wrong with that, so we don’t like that.”

Amid concerns in 2016 that he would not concede if he lost, Trump said: “I would like to promise and pledge to all of my voters and supporters and to all of the people of the United States that I will totally accept the results of this great and historic presidential election, if I win.”

Early in 2020 Trump began to lay the groundwork to contest that election, which his own Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Chris Krebs, would come to tell Americans, “was the most secure in American history.” He did so again this year.

Asked if he should tell supporters there should be no violence if he loses, Trump quickly snapped (video below), “I don’t have to tell them that, that they’ll be no violence. Of course there will be no violence. My supporters are not violent people.”

“I don’t have to tell them that. I certainly don’t want any violence, I certainly don’t have to tell — these are great people. These are people that believe in no violence, unlike your question. You believe in violence.”

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Critics lashed out at Trump.

“He needs to leave out the qualifier. If he loses, he loses. The damage he has done to our fundamental American institutions and processes, including democracy itself, will not be easily repaired. The sooner he is gone, the better for us all,” remarked professor of political science Jeff DeWitt.

Justin Kanew, founder of the progressive website The Tennessee Holler, responded to Trump’s remarks about violence: “That part at the end gives big ‘I know you are but what am I?’ Vibes. Also: last time happened, bro.”

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Trump Closes Campaign With Misogynistic Slur, Violent Rhetoric Against Women

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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his vice-presidential running mate JD Vance closed out their run for the White House by targeting powerful women leaders with name-calling, a misogynistic slur, and surrounding them with violent imagery.

Monday night, with a young child sitting just a few feet away, Donald Trump went on a misogynistic rant attacking House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, which she did twice.

“She’s a crooked person,” Trump said of the Democratic U.S. Congresswoman from California. “She is a bad person. Evil. She’s an evil sick, crazy. B—. Oh, no. It starts with a B, but I won’t say it.”

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“I wanna say it,” he declared, pleading, riling up the audience who cheered him in.

When Trump said “B—,” he appeared to mouth the word “bitch,” according to multiple reports including HuffPost.

Also on Monday, Trump asked his supporters if he is allowed to “hit” Democratic former First Lady Michelle Obama, after she accused him of “gross incompetence,” and alleged an “obvious mental decline.”

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And, after praising boxer Mike Tyson, Trump on Monday, surround by women holding “Women for Trump” signs, responded to a supporter by saying it would be “interesting” to see one of the world’s best heavyweight boxers in a ring with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee.

Earlier in the day, U.S. Senator JD Vance, the freshman Republican from Ohio, told supporters Vice President Harris is “trash.”

U.S. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) responded, writing: “Dear JD Vance: Have you found that calling a woman trash has worked for you Because we generally don’t forget that shit.”

Last week, Trump was flooded with tremendous criticism after appearing to suggest Republican former U.S. Congresswoman Liz Cheney should face a firing squad. While there was disagreement as to what the top-line meaning of his remarks were (some said it was a call for execution, others that she should face a firing squad, others that she was too much of a coward to fight,) historian and professor Heather Cox Richardson wrote on her popular Substack: “Trump’s suggestion that Cheney should face a firing squad seems to be a general expression of the anger of white men accustomed to dictating the terms of public life when faced with the reality that they can no longer count on being able to cow the people around them.”

David Rothkopf, the foreign policy, national security, and political affairs analyst and commentator, Tuesday morning wrote: “Yesterday Donald Trump ended his campaign calling a strong woman a bitch and his VP candidate called the actual vice president of the United States ‘trash.’ They are the worst ticket for women in the history of the country. Reject their misogyny today.”

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