Cabbage News Network Week # -6

[kmusser]

Stickied until the inauguration: Status of cabinet picks: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/politics/donald-trump-administration.html - updates from last week include Defense, HUD, EPA, Labor and the theme of choosing people opposed to the basic mission of the agencies they are to lead continues. (WP noticed that too). Dems concerned about how many are military (source). What a Trump cabinet interview is like.

Saturday 12/3

• DJT has made a series of flippant phone calls to world leaders, NYT round up, Chinese protest call from Taiwan (source)

Sunday 12/2

• DJT tweet support for 35% tariff, GOP and Pence not exactly on board (source1, source 2)

Monday 12/5

• DJT tweets more insults at China in case they didn't get the message.
  
• Obama leaves Trump a book entitled "Using Military Force for Dummies" (source).
  
• Trump team forming a pro-Trump lobbying group (source).

Wednesday 12/6

• Union boss factchecks DJT on Carrier deal, gets threats in response (source).

Thursday 12/8

• GOP to investigate Russian tampering with elections (source)

Maps of the week:
CIA released a batch of declassified maps from over the decades
NYT summary about a new app mapping global water change