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"content": "\u003cp>This was to be the day President-elect Donald Trump would hold his first press conference since winning the presidency last month. It was supposed to be about how he would address his potential business conflicts of interest as president. It isn't happening — postponed, his team says, until January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/18/media/donald-trump-post-election-news-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">no president-elect (dating back to at least Carter)\u003c/a> has waited longer to hold a press conference. One irony of Trump's extended run without a press conference is \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/06/71-times-donald-trump-and-his-team-criticized-hillary-clinton-for-not-holding-a-press-conference/?utm_term=.b4b964b6cdc1\" target=\"_blank\">just how critical\u003c/a> he and his campaign were of rival Hillary Clinton's choice to go an extended period (276 days in total) \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/25/491311747/tallying-hillary-clintons-appearances-with-the-news-media\" target=\"_blank\">without holding a press conference\u003c/a>. His campaign sent out daily press releases counting the days since her last press conference, headlined, \"Hiding Hillary Watch\" — and at one point Trump even tweeted about it:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/737785114239864832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless Trump holds a press conference by Jan. 21, one day after his inauguration, he will hit the very mark for which he ridiculed Clinton on Twitter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why does this matter?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike other ways of getting messages out, press conferences hold public officials more accountable to the American people because they have to answer questions in an uncontrolled environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public expects that a president isn't just going to announce something, that he's going to explain it and be able to answer questions about it,\" said Martha Joynt Kumar, a political scientist at Towson University and director of the White House Transition Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://www.npr.org/player/embed/505557146/505658560\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two days after the Supreme Court decision that made George W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>This was to be the day President-elect Donald Trump would hold his first press conference since winning the presidency last month. It was supposed to be about how he would address his potential business conflicts of interest as president. It isn't happening — postponed, his team says, until January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, \u003ca href=\"http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/18/media/donald-trump-post-election-news-conference/\" target=\"_blank\">no president-elect (dating back to at least Carter)\u003c/a> has waited longer to hold a press conference. One irony of Trump's extended run without a press conference is \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/06/71-times-donald-trump-and-his-team-criticized-hillary-clinton-for-not-holding-a-press-conference/?utm_term=.b4b964b6cdc1\" target=\"_blank\">just how critical\u003c/a> he and his campaign were of rival Hillary Clinton's choice to go an extended period (276 days in total) \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/08/25/491311747/tallying-hillary-clintons-appearances-with-the-news-media\" target=\"_blank\">without holding a press conference\u003c/a>. His campaign sent out daily press releases counting the days since her last press conference, headlined, \"Hiding Hillary Watch\" — and at one point Trump even tweeted about it:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Bush president-elect in 2000, he held a press conference in Austin. He took questions from reporters about his potential Cabinet picks, whether he would call for tax cuts and when the weight of being the next president of the United States hit him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Bush introduced his choice for secretary of state and took more questions. The day after that, he answered yet more questions during a press conference to introduce his national security adviser and White House counselors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President-elect Barack Obama followed a similar pattern, regularly fielding questions from reporters, as he made choices about who would serve in his administration. In all, Obama fielded questions from the White House press corps on 18 different occasions as president-elect. George W. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump, in a statement early this morning, announced his intention to nominate ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department and become the country’s top diplomat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection, which had been rumored for the past week, is unusual in a number of ways, and could face more scrutiny than usual when the Senate holds confirmation hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key facts about the president-elect’s nominee for the final major position to be filled in his Cabinet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tillerson never has worked for the government — or anyone other than Exxon since 1975\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson is the Wichita Falls, Texas-born son of a Boy Scouts of America administrator who rose to become an Eagle Scout himself, \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/11/505187939/who-is-rex-tillerson-trumps-reported-pick-for-secretary-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Coll told NPR’s Michel Martin\u003c/a>. He joined Exxon Co., U.S.A. shortly after earning a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never left, working his way up through the ranks to eventually lead the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection of a private-sector executive as secretary of state has happened before, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> notes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/exxons-rex-tillerson-is-top-candidate-for-secretary-of-state-1481318464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Bechtel executive George Shultz serving under Reagan\u003c/a> — but Shultz had previously served as secretary of Labor and Treasury secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11217197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11217197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an Arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011. \u003ccite>(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Coll notes in a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece that \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rex-tillerson-from-a-corporate-oil-sovereign-to-the-state-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the oil giant runs a very State Department-like team of analysts\u003c/a> that predicts which countries will remain stable enough to ensure profitable investment. And \u003cem>The \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/808515387335839744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>‘s Philip Rucker reported late Monday\u003c/a> that Tillerson came with recommendations from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told NPR’s David Greene \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505227834/trump-expected-to-name-his-pick-for-secretary-of-state-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the selection could work, with the right support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some difference between knowing about the world and knowing about foreign policy,” Haass said. “He’d obviously need to surround himself with people who had experience on the ground inside the department and around the inter-agency process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s had extensive dealings with Russia — which may complicate his confirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson spent much of his ExxonMobil career in the company’s international division, Coll told NPR, developing ties to countries around the world — particularly Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That brought him into contact with Vladimir Putin,” Coll said. “ExxonMobil is one of the few American oil companies that has managed to stay in Russia through all kinds of political weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”7cXYUs4A9uhJI5gytbv4kt9cro81LNnu”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/12/505272577/in-exxonmobils-rex-tillerson-moscow-sees-trusted-highly-regarded-figure'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tillerson developed close ties to state-run oil company Rosneft\u003c/a>, NPR’s Lucian Kim reports, and had reached agreements to run development projects with Rosneft in Siberia and the Russian Arctic. Those projects came to a halt when the U.S. imposed economic sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the agreements left him with a good reputation in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” ‘The Russians respect strength, and they see it in ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson. They like him,’ Edward Verona, a former ExxonMobil Russia vice president, told NPR. ‘Putin likes that personality type — not exactly the Trump personality, but the personality that quietly projects power, discipline, control. … It’s a pretty good example of diplomacy, alliance-building, seeing who your friends are and what they can do for you. It was pretty shrewd deal-making.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Following CIA allegations of Russian hacking to benefit Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, Tillerson will have to explain those ties to senators if he’s to be confirmed, CFR’s Haass told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He would have to say, ‘Here’s why I did what I did at the time. Here’s how I’m going to separate myself from it now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump, in a statement early this morning, announced his intention to nominate ExxonMobil chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson to lead the State Department and become the country’s top diplomat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection, which had been rumored for the past week, is unusual in a number of ways, and could face more scrutiny than usual when the Senate holds confirmation hearings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some key facts about the president-elect’s nominee for the final major position to be filled in his Cabinet:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tillerson never has worked for the government — or anyone other than Exxon since 1975\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson is the Wichita Falls, Texas-born son of a Boy Scouts of America administrator who rose to become an Eagle Scout himself, \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> reporter \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/11/505187939/who-is-rex-tillerson-trumps-reported-pick-for-secretary-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Coll told NPR’s Michel Martin\u003c/a>. He joined Exxon Co., U.S.A. shortly after earning a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He never left, working his way up through the ranks to eventually lead the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selection of a private-sector executive as secretary of state has happened before, \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> notes, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/exxons-rex-tillerson-is-top-candidate-for-secretary-of-state-1481318464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">with Bechtel executive George Shultz serving under Reagan\u003c/a> — but Shultz had previously served as secretary of Labor and Treasury secretary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11217197\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11217197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-520x390.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an Arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011. \u003ccite>(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Still, Coll notes in a \u003cem>New Yorker\u003c/em> piece that \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rex-tillerson-from-a-corporate-oil-sovereign-to-the-state-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the oil giant runs a very State Department-like team of analysts\u003c/a> that predicts which countries will remain stable enough to ensure profitable investment. And \u003cem>The \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/PhilipRucker/status/808515387335839744\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cem>Washington Post\u003c/em>‘s Philip Rucker reported late Monday\u003c/a> that Tillerson came with recommendations from former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haass told NPR’s David Greene \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/12/12/505227834/trump-expected-to-name-his-pick-for-secretary-of-state-soon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that the selection could work, with the right support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s some difference between knowing about the world and knowing about foreign policy,” Haass said. “He’d obviously need to surround himself with people who had experience on the ground inside the department and around the inter-agency process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>He’s had extensive dealings with Russia — which may complicate his confirmation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson spent much of his ExxonMobil career in the company’s international division, Coll told NPR, developing ties to countries around the world — particularly Russia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That brought him into contact with Vladimir Putin,” Coll said. “ExxonMobil is one of the few American oil companies that has managed to stay in Russia through all kinds of political weather.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/12/12/505272577/in-exxonmobils-rex-tillerson-moscow-sees-trusted-highly-regarded-figure'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tillerson developed close ties to state-run oil company Rosneft\u003c/a>, NPR’s Lucian Kim reports, and had reached agreements to run development projects with Rosneft in Siberia and the Russian Arctic. Those projects came to a halt when the U.S. imposed economic sanctions following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. But the agreements left him with a good reputation in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>” ‘The Russians respect strength, and they see it in ExxonMobil and Rex Tillerson. They like him,’ Edward Verona, a former ExxonMobil Russia vice president, told NPR. ‘Putin likes that personality type — not exactly the Trump personality, but the personality that quietly projects power, discipline, control. … It’s a pretty good example of diplomacy, alliance-building, seeing who your friends are and what they can do for you. It was pretty shrewd deal-making.’ “\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Following CIA allegations of Russian hacking to benefit Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign, Tillerson will have to explain those ties to senators if he’s to be confirmed, CFR’s Haass told NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“He would have to say, ‘Here’s why I did what I did at the time. Here’s how I’m going to separate myself from it now. Here’s how I view Russia and how I would approach policy toward Russia.’ So this is now probably the biggest single set of questions he would have to tackle.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11218487\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11218487\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Oil trucks line up in April 2013 at the Bazian refinery near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. ExxonMobil was one of several oil companies to negotiate with the regional government, despite opposition from Baghdad and the United States.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-1180x663.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-960x539.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks-520x292.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/Trucks.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oil trucks line up in April 2013 at the Bazian refinery near the city of Sulaymaniyah in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump is leaning toward choosing Rex Tillerson as his nominee for secretary of state, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobil-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371\">according to multiple news reports \u003c/a>this weekend. NPR has not independently confirmed those reports. The potential pick is already drawing scrutiny for the ExxonMobil CEO's close relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he has no government experience, the 64-year-old Tillerson oversees a company that has operations in 50 countries around the world and has worked closely with Putin. In 2011, he struck a deal with a Kremlin-controlled oil company to drill in the Arctic, but the project was put on hold after the U.S. and Europe imposed sanctions on Russia over its actions in Ukraine, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-candidate-for-state-has-close-ties-to-vladimir-putin-1481033938\">\u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson has opposed U.S. sanctions against Russia, telling his company's shareholders in May 2014 that \"we don't find them to be effective unless they are very well implemented comprehensively and that's a very hard thing to do,\" according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/rex-tillerson-exxon-mobile-expected-be-named-trump-s-secretary-n694371?cid=eml_nbn_20161210\">NBC News\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11217197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11217197\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823-520x390.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/gettyimages-123065051-93e1f43fa2415e4b6abfdeb752e046b1f2f2e823.jpg 926w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson, chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil, share a laugh during a signing ceremony for an Arctic oil exploration deal between Exxon Mobil and Rosneft in August 2011. \u003ccite>(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The prospect of Tillerson as secretary of state sparked a round of criticism from Democrats, and even pushback from Republican senators who would vote on his nomination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which conducts hearings for secretary of state nominees, and tweeted on Sunday, \"Being a 'friend of Vladimir' is not an attribute I am hoping for from a #SecretaryOfState.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., pledged that Tillerson will get a fair hearing in the Senate during at interview with CBS's \u003cem>Face The Nation\u003c/em>, but added, \"It's a matter of concern to me that he has such a close personal relationship with Vladimir Putin.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump and his transition team insist that no final decision has been made and that an announcement is coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/807970490635743237\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump praised many of the candidates he has interviewed for the job in an interview on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em>, where he was asked to make the case for Tillerson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"He's much more than a business executive. I mean, he's a world-class player,\" Trump said of the ExxonMobil chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's been a company that's been unbelievably managed,\" Trump continued. \"And to me, a great advantage is he knows many of the players, and he knows them well. He does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself, for the company.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tillerson represented his company in Russia during Boris Yeltsin's administration, and in 2013 the Kremlin awarded him Russia's \"Order of Friendship.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"vRPwoWj4ArEuoSVahKYzyP32g31yspuv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news of Tillerson's likely nomination comes just as the CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election specifically to help Trump win. Trump pushed back on that report late Friday, in a statement that disparaged the CIA but didn't address Russia's involvement. Throughout the campaign, Trump repeatedly praised Putin and questioned earlier reports from the CIA that Russian hackers were behind the release of emails from the Democratic National Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's deliberation over who should serve as the country's chief diplomat has been very public. In an interview process that has seemed at times to mirror the drama that the former reality TV star loves, other finalists for the job included Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn.; former CIA Director David Petraeus; and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, a leading critic of Trump in the 2016 campaign. Romney recanted his comments calling Trump a \"phony\" and a \"fraud\" as he lobbied for the secretary of state job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton was also seen in contention, but reports indicate he is likely to be named as deputy secretary of state, responsible for daily operations as the State Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolton served under President George W. Bush in the State Department and as U.N. ambassador, and he stands by the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and overthrow Saddam Hussein. He also \u003ca href=\"http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/trump-needs-to-reverse-the-iran-deal-and-assert-our-interests/\">advocates for tearing up the Iran nuclear agreement\u003c/a> reached by the Obama administration. Bolton said recently that the only lasting solution is \"regime change in Tehran.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another onetime top pick, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/09/politics/rudy-giuliani-removes-himself-from-consideration-for-trump-cabinet-post/\">announced\u003c/a> Friday he had taken himself out of the running, though earlier reports had indicated it was Trump who had already decided that one of his most fervent supporters and frequent surrogates would not get the plum post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Tillerson is nominated, there will be some tough questions ahead about how he can take on the role of America's top diplomat and distance himself from his company's interests and his vast holdings of Exxon shares, which are reportedly worth about $151 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some breaks between Tillerson and the president-elect. 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"content": "\u003cp>Even before he is sworn in, Donald Trump is putting his own stamp on the role of chief executive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has some people rejoicing — and others worried about where he's going to take the country. Here is why some of Trump's critics say the president-elect could be a threat to democratic institutions and why others say those fears are overblown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump is shaping up to be more than just an activist president. With one tweet, he drives down the stock price of a major American company. With another, he unleashes a flood of death threats against a local labor leader who displeased him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evan McMullin, a former Republican House staffer and CIA operative who ran as an independent for president against Trump, points to Trump's intervention with the Carrier company. Trump's involvement led to Carrier agreeing to keep 750 jobs in the U.S. instead of moving them to Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McMullin charged that the Carrier deal showed that Trump has authoritarian instincts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most fundamental part of authoritarianism is this idea that what the authoritarian believes should go,\" McMullin told NPR. \"They are the only authority. It's the president making decisions about particular companies rather than working within the system to create laws that affect companies in the context of the rule of law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, even critics of Trump, say the Carrier deal was not necessarily a sign of a populist authoritarian in the making — it was merely bad economic policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> columnist Bret Stephens, a Trump critic, said the president-elect is giving new meaning to the bully part of the bully pulpit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just sets a dangerous precedent that a president can take a private company by the throat,\" Stephens said. \"It's not what you'd expect from a guy who supposedly believes in the power that supports free markets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, say others, it was a pretty lousy deal — since Carrier has announced it plans to automate the plant and lay off even more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump's supporters say his intervention with Carrier shows Trump is a strong leader — doing exactly what he promised to do during the campaign. Conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham, who is in contention for White House press secretary, said what Trump did, when he reminded Carrier's parent company about its defense contracts with the federal government and got the company to accept the package of incentives the state of Indiana was already offering, was well within the bounds of executive action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Giving companies incentives to stay in states, as you see governors do all the time,\" Ingraham said, \"what's wrong with that? What's wrong with doing things that actually help regular, working-class Americans and that are popular?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the debate about Trump and democracy doesn't stop there. His critics say they can find no instance where Trump spoke in defense of democratic institutions or values. During the campaign he questioned the ability of a U.S.-born judge with Mexican parents to preside fairly over a lawsuit against him. Trump was suggesting that being an American has more to do with ethnic heritage than shared values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, Trump cast doubt on U.S. intelligence and said he doesn't plan to take daily intelligence briefings. He has repeatedly sided with Russia, casting doubt that Russians hacked Democratic National Committee emails and the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta — and colluded to release them via WikiLeaks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CIA concluded Russia did so in an effort to help install Trump as the next U.S. president. Trump dismisses any evidence of that. President Obama has launched a \"full review\" of international meddling related to U.S. elections going back to the 2008 election, when China was found to have hacked both the Obama and McCain campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to freedom of speech, Trump is famous for his attacks on the media. Those are standard for political candidates, but Trump went even further, threatening to alter libel laws so journalists could be \"sued like they've never been sued before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the campaign, Trump also promised to throw Hillary Clinton in jail. Even after he won, his critics say his magnanimous offer to \u003cem>refrain\u003c/em> from prosecuting her showed a lack of understanding of the U.S. democratic system, under which presidents don't get to decide by themselves whom to prosecute, let alone throw in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the ongoing debate about Trump's constant stream of statements that have no basis in fact. 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They understood that sometimes when you have a conversation with people, you're going to say something, and maybe you don't have all the facts to back that up, but that's how the American people live.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lewandowski seems to be arguing that since the average American might not know what he's talking about, why should Trump?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other Trump surrogates, like Scottie Nell Hughes, openly embrace Trump's role as the first president operating in a post-factual world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts,\" Hughes said recently on \u003cem>The Diane Rehm Show.\u003c/em> \"And so Mr. Trump's tweets, amongst a certain crowd, a large — a large part of the population, are truth.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The argument that Trump's repeated prevarications pose a threat to democratic institutions, and to American democracy itself, is rejected by former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove. He dismissed it as nothing more than left-wing hyperventilation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is far-fetched, starting with the authoritarianism,\" Rove told NPR. \"Yes, there are Republicans concerned that he rambunctiously doesn't understand the restraints on the executive, that he doesn't understand the prerogatives under Article 1 that Congress enjoys — yeah. But the process is going to teach him those constraints — and reality is going to teach him those constraints.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Clinton White House aide Bill Galston agrees. 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It's the president making decisions about particular companies rather than working within the system to create laws that affect companies in the context of the rule of law.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others, even critics of Trump, say the Carrier deal was not necessarily a sign of a populist authoritarian in the making — it was merely bad economic policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Wall Street Journal\u003c/em> columnist Bret Stephens, a Trump critic, said the president-elect is giving new meaning to the bully part of the bully pulpit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It just sets a dangerous precedent that a president can take a private company by the throat,\" Stephens said. \"It's not what you'd expect from a guy who supposedly believes in the power that supports free markets.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, say others, it was a pretty lousy deal — since Carrier has announced it plans to automate the plant and lay off even more workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Trump's supporters say his intervention with Carrier shows Trump is a strong leader — doing exactly what he promised to do during the campaign. Conservative talk-show host Laura Ingraham, who is in contention for White House press secretary, said what Trump did, when he reminded Carrier's parent company about its defense contracts with the federal government and got the company to accept the package of incentives the state of Indiana was already offering, was well within the bounds of executive action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Giving companies incentives to stay in states, as you see governors do all the time,\" Ingraham said, \"what's wrong with that? What's wrong with doing things that actually help regular, working-class Americans and that are popular?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the debate about Trump and democracy doesn't stop there. His critics say they can find no instance where Trump spoke in defense of democratic institutions or values. During the campaign he questioned the ability of a U.S.-born judge with Mexican parents to preside fairly over a lawsuit against him. 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Those are standard for political candidates, but Trump went even further, threatening to alter libel laws so journalists could be \"sued like they've never been sued before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the campaign, Trump also promised to throw Hillary Clinton in jail. Even after he won, his critics say his magnanimous offer to \u003cem>refrain\u003c/em> from prosecuting her showed a lack of understanding of the U.S. democratic system, under which presidents don't get to decide by themselves whom to prosecute, let alone throw in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the ongoing debate about Trump's constant stream of statements that have no basis in fact. 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"content": "\u003cp>President-elect Donald Trump doesn't seem to like suggestions that his victory over Hillary Clinton was anything but HUGE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump made \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2016/11/27/503506026/trump-makes-unfounded-claim-that-millions-voted-illegally-for-clinton\">false claims\u003c/a> that Clinton's lead in the popular vote was due to illegal voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has chafed at recount efforts in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — even though such recounts pose no risk to Trump's victory since he won those states by tens of thousands of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, with a CIA assessment that Russian hacking during the campaign was part of an effort to swing the election Trump's way, he's hitting back hard at the intelligence agency — and renewing claims that his win was of historic proportions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Claim\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College. I guess the final numbers are now at 306,\" Trump said in\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/11/trump-claims-russian-interference-in-2016-race-ridiculous-dems-making-excuses.html%20\"> an interview on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement from his transition team on Friday in response to reports of the CIA assessment said, \"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also said in his Fox interview, \"I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Short Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump contends that the size of his victory was historic, which is not borne out by the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump won 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232. That comfortably puts him above the required 270 electoral votes. But it's hard to argue this represents a landslide of historic proportions, given that out of 58 presidential elections, the winner has received more electoral votes in 37 contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Long Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's win is historic, but mainly because it was so unexpected. He was outpaced by Hillary Clinton on nearly every conventional metric applied to how a successful campaign is run. Trump was counted out by nearly every political professional, and most of the media. Even his own campaign allies were expecting a loss. So the voters delivered a truly historic upset on Election Day. By that measure, Trump's statement about \"one of the greatest defeats\" holds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/elections16graphics/map-election-results-standalone/child.html?initialWidth=636&childId=responsive-embed-map-election-results-standalone-2slwr&parentTitle=President-elect%20Donald%20Trump%20Claims%20A%20'Massive%20Landslide%20Victory'%20That%20Doesn't%20Stack%20Up%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F12%2F11%2F505182622%2Ffact-check-trump-claims-a-massive-landslide-victory-but-history-differs\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"666px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing Trump's 306 electoral votes to recent history, he falls between the 2000 and 2004 razor-thin margins of George W. Bush, and Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>2000 — Bush 271, Gore 266\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2004 — Bush 286, Kerry 251\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2008 — Obama 365, McCain 173\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2012 — Obama 332, Romney 206\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>2016 — Trump 306, Clinton 232\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>So on the historic score, Trump's margin is pretty average for recent elections, and way down the list if you go all the way back to the beginning of the nation. Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.epicjourney2008.com/2016/11/trumps-victory-ranks-46-of-58-in.html\">calculated the Electoral College margins\u003c/a> in all 58 U.S. presidential elections, and showed Trump coming in 46th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, there's the question of whether Trump's victory is a \"landslide.\" President Obama is sometimes said to have achieved \"electoral landslides,\" but that is even stretching historical standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11216153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11216153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png\" alt=\"Trump currently trails Hillary Clinton by about 2.8 million votes. There have been five presidents who lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College.\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw-240x154.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump currently trails Hillary Clinton by about 2.8 million votes. There have been five presidents who lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clear landslides came most recently in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan won 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49 in the 1980 election. Four years later, Reagan won 49 states, delivering him a 525-to-13 victory of Walter Mondale. In 1988, George H.W. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We had a massive landslide victory, as you know, in the Electoral College. I guess the final numbers are now at 306,\" Trump said in\u003ca href=\"http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/12/11/trump-claims-russian-interference-in-2016-race-ridiculous-dems-making-excuses.html%20\"> an interview on \u003cem>Fox News Sunday\u003c/em>.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A statement from his transition team on Friday in response to reports of the CIA assessment said, \"The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump also said in his Fox interview, \"I think the Democrats are putting it out because they suffered one of the greatest defeats in the history of politics in this country.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Short Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump contends that the size of his victory was historic, which is not borne out by the results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump won 306 electoral votes to Clinton's 232. That comfortably puts him above the required 270 electoral votes. But it's hard to argue this represents a landslide of historic proportions, given that out of 58 presidential elections, the winner has received more electoral votes in 37 contests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Long Answer\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump's win is historic, but mainly because it was so unexpected. He was outpaced by Hillary Clinton on nearly every conventional metric applied to how a successful campaign is run. Trump was counted out by nearly every political professional, and most of the media. Even his own campaign allies were expecting a loss. So the voters delivered a truly historic upset on Election Day. By that measure, Trump's statement about \"one of the greatest defeats\" holds up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://apps.npr.org/elections16graphics/map-election-results-standalone/child.html?initialWidth=636&childId=responsive-embed-map-election-results-standalone-2slwr&parentTitle=President-elect%20Donald%20Trump%20Claims%20A%20'Massive%20Landslide%20Victory'%20That%20Doesn't%20Stack%20Up%20%3A%20NPR&parentUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2016%2F12%2F11%2F505182622%2Ffact-check-trump-claims-a-massive-landslide-victory-but-history-differs\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"666px\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Comparing Trump's 306 electoral votes to recent history, he falls between the 2000 and 2004 razor-thin margins of George W. 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Jack Pitney, a professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College, recently \u003ca href=\"http://www.epicjourney2008.com/2016/11/trumps-victory-ranks-46-of-58-in.html\">calculated the Electoral College margins\u003c/a> in all 58 U.S. presidential elections, and showed Trump coming in 46th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Separately, there's the question of whether Trump's victory is a \"landslide.\" President Obama is sometimes said to have achieved \"electoral landslides,\" but that is even stretching historical standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11216153\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11216153\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png\" alt=\"Trump currently trails Hillary Clinton by about 2.8 million votes. There have been five presidents who lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College.\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw.png 300w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/popcorw-240x154.png 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trump currently trails Hillary Clinton by about 2.8 million votes. There have been five presidents who lost the popular vote, but won the Electoral College. \u003ccite>(NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clear landslides came most recently in the 1980s. Ronald Reagan won 489 electoral votes to Jimmy Carter's 49 in the 1980 election. Four years later, Reagan won 49 states, delivering him a 525-to-13 victory of Walter Mondale. In 1988, George H.W. 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It's a sketch of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, both candidates feverishly tracking election night results on their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump in his little secret underground lair and Hillary Clinton on a frozen wasteland just updating their feeds and getting results from states,” says Weissman with a chuckle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201822\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201822\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Weissman’s final comic strip of the election cycle is still sitting on the drafting board of his home studio \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comix-draft-table-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Weissman’s final comic strip of the election cycle is still sitting on the drafting board of his home studio \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weissman broke into the world of alternative comics about 20 years ago with a DIY comic book series called “Yikes!” It revolved around a cast of Charlie Brown-like characters modeled after famous Hollywood Monsters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman’s first foray into political cartooning began around the end of President Obama’s first term. He was recruited by publisher \u003ca href=\"http://www.fantagraphics.com/artists/steven-weissman/\">Fantagraphics\u003c/a> to craft a weekly online strip revolving around Obama, his family and his closest advisers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201908\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201908\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from Steven Weissman's 2012 book ‘Barak Hussein Obama’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-BHO-ex2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Steven Weissman's 2012 book ‘Barack Hussein Obama’ \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That eventually led to the 2012 book, \"Barack Hussein Obama.\" His politically minded work also appears at the edgy, alternative comics and humor website \u003ca href=\"http://stevenweissman.tumblr.com/post/145661126199/superdeluxe-the-trump-boyzz-are-in-a-whole-heap\">Super Deluxe\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his new collection, \"Looking for America’s Dog,\" the action hinges on first daughters Sasha and Malia, first dog Bo and a vast supporting cast that includes a shape-shifting Hillary Clinton, a hapless Joe Biden and an unsettlingly severe John Kerry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201835\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201835\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-800x800.gif\" alt=\"Image of Hillary Clinton from GIF animation created by Steven Weissman\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-800x800.gif 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-160x160.gif 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-1020x1020.gif 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-1920x1920.gif 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-1180x1180.gif 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-960x960.gif 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-240x240.gif 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-375x375.gif 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-520x520.gif 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-32x32.gif 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-50x50.gif 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-64x64.gif 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-96x96.gif 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-128x128.gif 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/obama-comic-gif-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image of Hillary Clinton from GIF animation created by Steven Weissman \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Obama and his staffers are depicted as well-meaning but petulant and sometimes clueless teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the beginning (of the book) Vice President Biden is having a meeting at the White House and actually leaves the gate open and Bo Obama, the president's first dog, runs out,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201827\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201827\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from Steven Weissman's 'Looking for America's Dog'\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-Comix-snow-bo-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Steven Weissman's 'Looking for America's Dog' \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And so begins an around-the-world odyssey that includes stops in North Africa and a harrowing and darkly humorous encounter with the murderous Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, and a stop in North Korea where Bo Obama encounters \"Supreme Leader\" Kim Jong-un hanging out with former cross-dressing NBA star and reality TV fixture Dennis Rodman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The dog engages in hot points all over the world where news is happening, whether it was in Africa, the Korean peninsula, wherever there was something happening that seemed really interesting,” says Weissman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, first daughters Sasha and Malia desperately track Bo’s movements. Sasha has developed a mysterious clairvoyance. But it’s hit and miss, like trying to tune in a distant radio station in a sea of static.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Malia is always asking her to check up on celebrities like, well what’s happening with Chris Brown? And she’s like: No, I don’t want to look at those guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11201832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Wiessman at his home in L.A.’s Little Armenia. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Weissman at his home in L.A.’s Little Armenia. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weissman plumbs some dark areas throughout the story. Bo turns up in the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo the day it’s shot up by terrorists. Sasha and Malia forge a sweet but frightening connection with a group of African schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't like a lot of the mean things that are happening in this world. but for good comics I think you can really explore them. And yes, it gets really bloody and it gets ugly and I'm sorry about that,” Weissman laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with the U.S. at a political crossroads, Weissman is at a creative crossroads. He often depicted Hillary Clinton as a thin-skinned bureaucrat capable of erupting with Hulk-like fury. But he voted for her, not for Donald Trump. And he’s struggled to develop a convincing comic portrayal of the president-elect. Trump remains an elusive character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's more like a professional wrestler character,” explains Weissman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201833\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201833\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some rough sketches for one of Weissman's Donald Trump comic strips.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some rough sketches for one of Weissman's Donald Trump comic strips. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I drew comics about President Obama or Hillary, they seem like real grown-ups with real grown-up problems,” he says. “You can relate to someone who seems to have some real (inner) conflict. I don’t see conflict in Donald Trump. You just sort of see this ego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, after chronicling a presidency and a brutal presidential election, Weissman’s online political strip may draw to a close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know if I want to stay in this world right now. It seems a little mean-spirited and ugly,” says Weissman, reflecting on what’s to come under a Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think the world’s going to end,” laughs Weissman. “I just think it's gonna be kind of a meaner place for the next few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the start of \"Looking for America’s Dog,\" there’s a single-page black-and-white comic that breaks up the action. It’s inspired by \"Little House on the Prairie\" author Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s a pastoral scene in a cabin by a warm hearth, an oasis of calm in the middle of a political world spinning off its axis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman says he’d like to devote more time to that kind of work, to stories that focus on simple but often elusive qualities like faith and kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201837\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from Steven Weissman's ‘Looking for America’s Dog’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Steven Weissman's ‘Looking for America’s Dog’ \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n",
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Sasha has developed a mysterious clairvoyance. But it’s hit and miss, like trying to tune in a distant radio station in a sea of static.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Malia is always asking her to check up on celebrities like, well what’s happening with Chris Brown? And she’s like: No, I don’t want to look at those guys!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201832\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11201832 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Steven Wiessman at his home in L.A.’s Little Armenia. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COMIX-SW-table-art-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steven Weissman at his home in L.A.’s Little Armenia. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Weissman plumbs some dark areas throughout the story. Bo turns up in the offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo the day it’s shot up by terrorists. Sasha and Malia forge a sweet but frightening connection with a group of African schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't like a lot of the mean things that are happening in this world. but for good comics I think you can really explore them. And yes, it gets really bloody and it gets ugly and I'm sorry about that,” Weissman laughs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now with the U.S. at a political crossroads, Weissman is at a creative crossroads. He often depicted Hillary Clinton as a thin-skinned bureaucrat capable of erupting with Hulk-like fury. But he voted for her, not for Donald Trump. And he’s struggled to develop a convincing comic portrayal of the president-elect. Trump remains an elusive character.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He's more like a professional wrestler character,” explains Weissman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201833\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201833\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Some rough sketches for one of Weissman's Donald Trump comic strips.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/ObamaComix-Trump-tests-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some rough sketches for one of Weissman's Donald Trump comic strips. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I drew comics about President Obama or Hillary, they seem like real grown-ups with real grown-up problems,” he says. “You can relate to someone who seems to have some real (inner) conflict. I don’t see conflict in Donald Trump. You just sort of see this ego.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so, after chronicling a presidency and a brutal presidential election, Weissman’s online political strip may draw to a close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't know if I want to stay in this world right now. It seems a little mean-spirited and ugly,” says Weissman, reflecting on what’s to come under a Trump presidency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don't think the world’s going to end,” laughs Weissman. “I just think it's gonna be kind of a meaner place for the next few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near the start of \"Looking for America’s Dog,\" there’s a single-page black-and-white comic that breaks up the action. It’s inspired by \"Little House on the Prairie\" author Laura Ingalls Wilder. It’s a pastoral scene in a cabin by a warm hearth, an oasis of calm in the middle of a political world spinning off its axis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman says he’d like to devote more time to that kind of work, to stories that focus on simple but often elusive qualities like faith and kindness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11201837\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11201837\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Excerpt from Steven Weissman's ‘Looking for America’s Dog’\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/OBAMA-COM-LittleHouse-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Steven Weissman's ‘Looking for America’s Dog’ \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas / KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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