MIDWESTERN voters decided the election for Donald Trump. So it is hardly surprising that the president-elect would start his thank you tour in two Midwestern states. In the early afternoon of December 1st he visited Indianapolis, Indiana’s capital, to claim credit for Carrier, a local maker of air conditioners and heaters, deciding to keep some 1,000 manufacturing jobs in America rather than move them to Mexico, as planned. The same evening he celebrated his victory at a rally of thousands of raucous supporters in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Revelling in the adulation of the Cincinnati crowd, Mr Trump used the rally to blast “extremely dishonest” people in the media, who he says were in denial of his victory even after he won important swing states on November 8th. He recounted examples of how the media underestimated his pull, exclaiming, “I love this stuff. Should we go on with this a little longer?” His supporters, some clad in T-shirts reading “Deplorable Lives Matter”, loved it too.
Burying hopes that the next president would moderate his tone after his election victory, he smiled like a Cheshire cat when the crowd chanted “lock her up” and...Continue reading
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