Trump's counselor chosen

Former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was chosen as Trump's counselor what makes her the most influential woman in the White House. Conway was the first female campaign manager for the major party to win a presidential general election.

The president-elect stated that Conway played a very important role during presidential campaign and contributed to Trump's victory. She has been serving as a key member of Trump’s transition team since his victory on 8 November. She came on board as campaign manager in August, after Trump fired Corey Lewandowski and Paul Manafort from this position.

She quickly became one of the most crucial campaign’s managers, making frequent television appearances to defend Trump’s actions, no matter how controversial they became. Thanks to this, Conway was credited with helping to soften the campaign’s and Trump's image. Trump has praised Conway as an example of his support and promotion of women.

Conway was recently criticized for suggesting that mothers shouldn’t take up roles in the White House. At the same time she is he mother of four children (all under the age of 12) herself. She implied that husbands wouldn't like mothers of their children to sacrifice to such job.

Find out what are counselor's duties.

Trump Still in "Celebrity Apprentice"?

Not as a host. Trump will be replaced by... Arnold Schwarzenegger.

However, he will still be the executive producer of NBC's Celebrity Apprentice. It may be a bit surprising for some of us after Trump's declaration of giving up his business "in total". Some may say: "Yeah, that's what I thought." ;)

"Presidents have a right to do things in their spare time," told CNN Kellyanne Conway. She also says that Trump consults experts who tell him what the President of the United States can and cannot do so no one should worry about that activity,

What is more, Trump will be one of multiple executive producers and it is not clear what his exact role will be. "Some executive producers are given the title but do not have to actively work on the project." It is also not sure if he'll be receiving a payment for his work. As the President of the United States he has to avoid conflicts of interest.


Do you know who is Kellyanne Conway? If not, Google her and write a few words about her in a comment.

Orange Is the New Black

Something completly different today, but still, in some fashion, connected to the US politics. Hence, I believe you'll forgive me that I'm not writing about serious issues this time. ;)

Trump memes are winning the Internet recently. That should not be surprising since we all know the President-elect's rich facial expression, characteristic "tanned" complexion and his immortal haircut. If we add some of his "brilliant" quotes, we will have a recipe for a successful meme.

 Campaign slogan jibes

Trump's views ;)

We remember everything, Mr. President

Trump promised to change his hairstyle if he won the elections. What will happen to famous "comb-over"?

A LOT of opponents

A competent person for a president?

Find some more Trump memes and link your favorite one in comment! Try to explain why you like it the most. ;)

"South Park" and the elections

If you are a "South Park" fan, you probably know that all of the episodes are really current. However, you may be curious about the "Oh Jeez" episode as it had its premiere only one night after the elections. How is it possible that they've predicted Trump's win (which was quite unexpected)? The fact is – they didn't!

Descriptions and a teaser of the episode were clearly suggesting that "South Park" creators had anticipated Hillary Clinton's victory. The episode was initially called "The Very First Gentleman" and a promo "showed PC Principal getting South Park Elementary ready for a visit from Bill Clinton to fight male locker room mentality." At the last minute, Matt Stone and Trey Parker – creators of the show, had to change the name of the episode and rewrite some of the scenes they’d made before, so that they would capture the shock of Trump's win.

Click to watch "Oh Jeez" episode

The 2008 "About Last Night..." episode had also been written before the voting night when Obama won. However, that time Trey Parker said that in case of  McCain's win "they would have aired the episode anyway and later dealt with their own Dewey defeats Truman moment." Nevertheless, the episode wasn't finished until the morning of the day of its premiere. The reason of this was that they wanted to include excerpts of Obama's acceptance speech into the episode.

Click to watch "About Last Night..." episode

Are you "South Park" fans? 
Do you know what other political events were included in the series? Search for one more South Park episode connected to politicians or political events. Then, link the episode in a comment and write briefly what it is about! ;)

Hint!
All of the episodes are available for free on http://southpark.cc.com/ and dercribed on Wikipedia ;)


Sources:
Esquire
The Hollywood Reporter
Los Angeles Times

Just a little bit more up his sleeve

As we have already learnt the new President-elect of the United States hasn't really a heart of gold. Let's look at some another cases of his history so that we can learn more about one of the most important people in the world within the next few years.

Trump University

In 2005, Donald Trump announced establishing a for-profit education company, which he called "university". It ran a real estate training program to teach his business secrets. "Students", encouraged by satisfying free seminars, payed between $1,000 and $35,000 to learn how to get rich. As it turned out, Trump had little in common with the university and its curriculum and, as a result, participants started faulting Trump for the university being a scam.


            


New York State authorities pointed out that the use of the word "university" is a violation of the state law, however, the institution hadn't change its name until a second such notification five years later. It was made over into "Trump Entrepreneurial Institute". A civil suit, accusing Trump of making false claims and defrauding consumers, was filed by the New York State in 2013.


            

Finally gave up?

On November 18, 2016 Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle a series of lawsuits concerning Trump University, including $1 million assessed by the State of New York for violating education laws. The settlement, however, specifies that Trump doesn't admit to do any wrongdoing. He also mentioned that during a February debate: "It’s something I could have settled many times. I could settle it right now for very little money, but I don’t want to do it out of principle. The people that took the course all signed — most — many — many signed report cards saying it was fantastic, it was wonderful, it was beautiful."


            


What else Donald Trump will surprise us with?
Look up for some Trump news and share with us writing a comment about something that surprised you! ;)


Sources:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/us/politics/trump-university.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/nyregion/trumps-for-profit-school-said-to-be-under-investigation.html
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/02/26/conservative-group-to-air-ads-of-ex-students-complaining-about-trump-university/

Living the American Dream

Being born in a prosperous family, as a son of the development company owner? Sounds like a great beginning of life but... Looking back at some cases from history we can assume that money doesn't always give happiness. However, it can undoubtedly give you fame if you use it in an appriopriate way. And "fame" isn't always a positive-sounding word, especially when we consider the new President-elect of the United States.

Donald Trump was born in New York where he also received a bachelor's degree in economics in 1968. Being only 25 he took control of his father's real estate and construction firm and that's how everything begun. Owning the Miss USA pageants, hosting a reality show, building golf courses or even owning a football team were only few of Trump's ways of "earning a living".

The Beauty Pageants

After the decision of getting in on the business, Donald Trump met with the couple - George Houraney and Jill Harth - who ran the American Dream pageant. After that meeting Trump was said to had "started making passes at her (Harth) almost immediately". Another time, he allegedly "asked them to bring some models to a party", at which he groped Harth. After breaking the contest dealings off, Trump was sued by Harth for sexual misbehaviour and, at the same time, by the couple together for the violation of contract. Trump was also alleged to keep black women out of the pageant.

In 2006, Tara Conner, Miss USA, was caught drinking underage and using cocaine at a New York nightclub. Nevertheless, Trump let her keep the title, provided she enter a drug rehabilitation program, what was criticized by Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian and television personality. This led to Trump's very blunt and personal reply criticizing O'Donnell, "After hearing about her comments, Trump fired back to People, calling her 'a woman out of control'".

Bankruptcies

Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy. However, his hotels and casinos declared bankrupt several times to, as he admitted himself, re-negotiate debt with banks and owners of stock and bonds. "I’ve used the laws of this country to pare debt. ...this is nothing to do with me, personally. This is just a business. I haven’t even run these things. I only owned a piece of them. But if you look at our greatest businesspeople, most of them, in order to pare debt or change a company or change a structure, have used the laws to take a deal." - Trump told George Stephanopoulos in the interview for ABC News.

Donald Trump is very sensitive about implications about his personal bankruptcy. In an answer to these he declares that he's just playing the game. "...we’ll buy a company. We’ll have the company. We’ll throw it into a chapter. We’ll negotiate with the banks. We’ll make a fantastic deal. We’ll use those. But they were never personal. This is nothing personal. You know, it’s like on The Apprentice. It’s not personal. It’s just business. Okay?"

Do you think Donald Trump has nothing more up his sleeve?
Find one more scandal connected to the President-elect of the USA which is interesting for you and share with us writing a comment! ;) 

Sources:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-trump-scandals/474726/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070128220604/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/480614p-404432c.html
http://people.com/celebrity/rosie-slams-trump-the-donald-fires-back/
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/04/donald-trump-interview-transcript-part-two.html