SLR: Cautiously hopeful as the chickens come home to roost
Simon Lincoln Reader takes an incisive look at the chaotic politics and social unrest which has kicked off the new year with a bewildering bang. A brief global survey of recent events indicates that this year will see many more ego-driven battles in the upper echelons of society. The man on the street will continue to riot while the rich and powerful try to back pedal on promises of freedom and liberation, as those particular chickens have come home to roost. – Melani Nathan
Letter from America
By Simon Lincoln Reader
atlantic with the united states. and this time with president trump will certainly be key, an important question to see how it plays out. but do people there across the uk see her having stood up to president trump or being passive with him? we ll have to see of course. dominic thomas, thank you for your time and we ll stay in touch with you. let s talk about what happened on the streets of london. tens of thousands of people marched in protest of president trump s visit. most notably there was a giant orange balloon of mr. trump as a baby that floated above the crowd outside parliament. as erin mclaughlin shows us. reporter: anti-trump protests handing across london. here you can see they stopped just outside of downing street, a mini version of the trump baby balloon. we re asking people here one simple question. why are you protesting? because it is our opportunity to make our voices heard that we disapprove of pretty much everything that donald trump is
following his slick torrey, saying he wanted to be the leader for all-americans. but when you suggest that people are acting irrationally who very much have strong opinions about the positive proposals you put forward, it does suggest what josh mentioned, that you don t understand a significant percentage of the american voters that voted against you. paris, the tweet that donald trump tweeted about the protests, is that presidential? should he at least maybe in part said, we are a divided nation, i want to bring everybody together, i m a president for everybody? you know, could that line maybe have softened it a bit? you only have 140 characters, but i think it is important for viewers to understand and remember a lot of the things said about the tweet are inaccurate. he did not talk about the protesters didn t have a right to protest. he didn t invalidate any of the protesters. what he said is he felt they were professional protesters incited by the media, and he called that unfa
portland. you can see that there s a lot of deep feelings about this election that are going to last for a long time around the country. this is happening as the trump team, the team for president-elect trump is putting the transition in motion right now. he holds his first official meeting with that team dahir in new york. let s talk about some of the rumors about names being floated and some of the things donald trump has said over the last few hours. paris denard, cnn commentator. he has been supportive of donald trump throughout the election process. who knows what job paris will have in the near future. also joined by cnn political analyst josh rogue an, a columnist for the washington post. i don t expect him to have another job in the near future. eugene scott is with us now. we will get to pictures of some of the protests in a bit. josh, first to you, because i think the news that steve bannon is being seriously considered as chief of staff will be something that is disturbi