One President ,Two Americas
The transformation of Donald Trump begins Thursday.The freewheeling, acerbic, often vulgar and offensive maverick of the campaign trail has 70 days to become a president.Trump will begin the process with a remarkable meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House, an encounter between antagonists who never bothered to hidetheir visceral dislike for one another.After his stunning election victory over Hillary Clinton, Trump also has a dizzying list of tasks to fulfill, and the White House meeting is only the start of his hectic agenda before Inauguration Day.First, the President-elect must make a stab at uniting the country, after a scorched-earth campaign in which he consciously tore at the nation's gender, racial and economic fault lines to build a movement to win power. He's practicing some unusual humility."I pledge to every citizen of our lands that I will be the president for the American people," Trump said in his victory speech Tuesday. "Fo...