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As the new occupant of the Oval Office continues to implement his agenda at an extremely fast pace, two of the nation’s foremost business idols are softening their formerly hostile attitudes towards him.   

According to Reuters reporters Jonathan Stempel and Jennifer Ablan @yahoo.com via Drudge, yesterday Bill Gates and Warren Buffett spoke to students at Columbia University, expressing optimism that the U.S. “will move ahead as a nation, even as it works through political differences and gets used to the new Trump administration.”

As President Trump unwinds the work of his predecessor via executive orders, and critics raise concern over what the actions mean for Americans and their place in the world, Buffett said: “I am confident that America will move ahead." 

Along the same lines, Gates said the desire for innovation and support for research are "strong" and "largely bipartisan," despite differences on how to accomplish and fund both. 

And that: “This administration is new enough; we don't know how its budget priorities are going to come out," but there is much intensity to ensure that the executive branch and Congress encourage "amazing things."  

While the newly gained support from the two may be due to a genuine change of heart is certainly possible, there may be another, far more important, stimulant to their optimism.

Noah Kirsch reported @forbes.com: During Donald Trump’s first week as President “Warren Buffett enjoyed the biggest gain of any person in the country; his net worth climbed by more than $2.5 billion to $74 billion. He is currently the planet’s second-richest person, according to FORBES' real-time rankings of the world's billionaires, trailing only Bill Gates ($85 billion).” 

During the meeting at Columbia, Buffett said: "It's very hard to have politicians think of something that's wonderful for the country 20 years from now" if the short-term impact might cost them reelection, with their decisions often tainted by too much money, which he called "bad news." After which he stressed the importance of immigration, a central issue for Trump. 

To that, reader Plain Truth responded: “Again when will people get it. The immigration issue is for Illegals NOT Legal immigrants and its an issue for illegals who commit CRIMES in the US. Stop the Generalization of immigration as a whole. Someone brings up immigration and all of a sudden you think the everyone is blocked from coming in the US regardless of ethnicity or origin.” 

While Plain Truth is certainly correct in noting how the MSM distorts reporting in its effort to promote its anti-Trump agenda, another reader, notjustanotherdroid, made a far more valid point, commenting: “Why anyone cares what Buffett and Gates think about world problems, or even politics, is a complete mystery to me. Both of these men are, essentially idiot savants - brilliant at what they do, and completely without wider vision or even common sense understanding.” 

Thus, once again its readers who’ve filtered the facts and reached valid, perfunctory and well-earned conclusions regarding both Buffet and Gates. 

Despite the efforts of traditionally left-leaning idealists such as Buffett and Gates to promote their causes, the general public seems to be increasingly availing itself of information readily found from alternative sources other than the MSM.  

In that regard, Orit Coty posted the SimilarWeb Ranking for U.S. Media Publications @similarweb.com. 

The leader in number of viewers is espn.com with 2,205,261,000. Next came msn.com’s 2,079,402,000 followed by drudgereport.com at 1,732,988,000. Which means that after establishing itself as extremely helpful to Trump and Republicans in general in the past election, Drudge continues to draw almost 2 billion hits a month.  

As far as the most widely used News and Magazines app’s are concerned, Fox News scored 22.12% of active app users.

cnn.com came in at just over half of Fox at 12.41% while nytimes.com produced a dismal 7.13%. 

All of which serves to underline the self-inflicted harm of the Democrats decision to refute and obstruct the new POTUS every chance they get. Because the viewership trends clearly indicate that the voting public’s interest in whatever leftist causes are means less and less to them as time goes on.   

And then, following up on yesterday’s mention of Britain’s Theresa May’s visit to the White House, Francesca Chambers, White House Correspondent for Dailymail.com and James Tapsfield, Political Editor for Mailonline write that Trump reminded a reporter that he was in Scotland at his Turnberry golf course at a ribbon-cutting ceremony the day after the historic Brexit vote.   

Trump said: “I said Brexit is going to happen and I was scorned in the press for making that prediction. I was scorned. And I said I believe it's going to happen because people want to know who is coming into their country and they want to control their own trade and various other things, and low and behold, the following day it happened and the odds weren't looking good for me when I made that statement because, as you know, everybody thought it was not going to happen.” 

He went on: “I think Brexit's going to be a wonderful thing for your country. I think when it irons out, you're gonna have your own identity and you're going to have the people that you want in your country and you're going to be able to make free trade deals without having somebody watching you and what you're doing.” 

While the Brexit “Leave” vote reflected the majority opinion of a majority of British citizens, it also illustrates that the aims and desires of the left are no longer inevitable, regardless of how hard the MSM helps push that agenda. And, what’s more, leftist manipulation in the media is further vulnerable because leaders such as Trump and May make their cases directly with the public. 

In that sense, Trump got some help regarding the attempts to tie him to Vladimir Putin during the past election. Because: “In her speech to the Republican Retreat convention, Mrs May added: “There is nothing inevitable about conflict between Russia and the West. And nothing unavoidable about retreating to the days of the Cold War. But we should engage with Russia from a position of strength. 

“And we should build the relationships, systems and processes that make cooperation more likely than conflict – and that, particularly after the illegal annexation of Crimea, give assurance to Russia's neighbouring states that their security is not in question.” 

Warning Trump to 'beware' of Russian president Vladimir Putin , she evoked “the memory of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher during the Cold War,” saying 'When it comes to Russia, as so often it is wise to turn to the example of President Reagan who - during negotiations with his opposite number Mikhail Gorbachev - used to abide by the adage 'trust but verify'. With President Putin, my advice is to 'engage but beware'.  

Which, again, is much like President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy strategy and advice that it’s wise to "speak softly, and carry a big stick." And that looks like what Trump and May are going to be doing a lot of together in the very near future. 

That's it for today folks. 

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