Trump's statements and actions have been unsettling." President Donald Trump: "Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person," they wrote. One of the biggest reasons for the move, wrote BAS scientists in an op-ed in The New York Times, was the ascent of U.S. Since the clock was launched in 1947, this is the closest we've come to the brink since 1953, when the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ( BAS) moved the hand 2 minutes to midnight following the first testing of a hydrogen bomb. That pushes the planet from 3 minutes to destruction to a mere 2.5. “I think it was a win for them,” he said.Citing a rise in global nationalism and humanity's failure to confront nuclear weapons and climate change, scientists today pushed the infamous Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to midnight-the symbolic moment humankind is supposed to annihilate itself. He also attacked Hillary Clinton and bragged that he had predicted the result of the British referendum on whether to leave the European Union. It looks like they are resolving the difficulty but we wish them well, a lot of anguish last night but hopefully it will all work out.” He weighed in on the coup attempt in Turkey, saying: “As far as Turkey is concerned, so many friends in Turkey, great people, amazing people, we wish them well. Trump talked extensively about himself, bragging that “no one in the history of this country has known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump” and even insisting that “school choice is where it’s at, folks”. The billionaire took the stage just after 11am and delivered a nearly half-hour-long, stream-of-consciousness monologue. Apparently.īut on Saturday morning at a midtown Manhattan hotel, Trump still delivered a strikingly unorthodox rollout.
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Pence was the safe pick, but instead of a strategic leak the night before an announcement then safely confirmed by the campaign, there began a dramatic “he said, she said” news story, full of twists and turns.Įventually, just before 11am on Friday, Trump tweeted that he had chosen Pence. This all added immense drama to what otherwise would have been a relatively dull process. Most strikingly, Gingrich went on Fox News to say: “We should, frankly, test every person here who is of a Muslim background and if they believe in sharia, they should be deported.” Sensing this, his rivals for VP tossed out fiery rhetoric, in an attempt to convince Trump to change his mind. Pence had until noon on Friday to withdraw from his re-election campaign in Indiana, or else be ineligible to run for vice-president under state law. Through it all, and a round trip on a private jet from Indiana to New York on Thursday, Pence remained silent.
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He prevaricated in TV interviews and canceled his scheduled VP announcement in order to pay tribute to the victims of the truck attack in Nice. Then, with an existential crisis more worthy of a candidate for prince of Denmark than president of the United States, Trump changed all that.Īfter news of Pence’s choice leaked on Thursday afternoon, first to Roll Call and then confirmed to at least a dozen other outlets including the Guardian, Trump suddenly insisted that it wasn’t a “final, final decision”. Next to the other finalists, the former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the New Jersey governor, Chris Christie, he lacked star power. In recent weeks, as the Trump veepstakes dragged on, he stayed relentlessly scripted, perpetually on-message. The governor of Indiana, a social conservative, looks like a politician from central casting, a well-coiffed Hoosier who might sit silently behind any president through any State of the Union speech.
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