Trump Summons TV Figures for Private Meeting, and Lets Them Have It The New York Times

According to a transition pool report, the media personalities who got a finger-pointing lecture at Trump Tower today included: NBC News President Deborah Turness; MSNBC President Phil Griffin; CNN President Jeff Zucker and network anchor Wolf Blitzer; Fox News Co-Presidents Bill Shine and Jack Abernethy and Executive Vice Presidents Jay Wallace and Suzanne Scott; and CBS News anchors John Dickerson and Charlie Rose.

About 25 executives and anchors heard President-elect Trump that he wants a "cordial" and "productive" relationship with the media, but he started the meeting with typical Trump commentary on "dishonest media" and specifically singled out CNN and NBC News as "the worst".

Trump also complained that NBC News President Deborah Turness that the network refused to fun a nice picture of him, suggesting that they preferred to showcase his double chin.

Pelosi predicts fierce Trump backlash Politico

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says she's up for another big fight -- with Trump.

In an interview with POLITICO on Monday, the California Democrat who is facing a long-shot leadership challenge from Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, insisted her tenacity, experience and ability to count votes correctly without fail means she’s the only one who can bring Democrats back to the House majority. Pelosi recalled the 2006 election when Republicans were dreaming of a "permanent majority". In the 2008 presidential election, Democrats trounced them, vaulting Pelosi into the speaker's chair.

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Did Celebrity Endorsements Contribute to Hillary Clinton's Presidential Upset? Vanity Fair

The problem is that when everyone from Broadway stars to pop stars to Pretty Little Liars stars do speak out, the noise is deafening—and alienating to voters who don’t want to hear what “Hollywood elites,” whose self-interests differ from their own, think. “In this media environment, I don’t think there’s any one news source or any one influencer or one celebrity that can sway a whole broad swath of people’s points of view,” Ronnie Cho, head of public affairs at MTV and former associate director of public engagement for the White House under Obama said. “A healthy skepticism young people have for people telling them what to do and telling them how to think that makes it harder for even the most followed person on Twitter, like Katy Perry, to turn out people to vote.”