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Q: On the question of whether the U.S. military should use waterboarding and other forms of torture to break suspected terrorists — a position he advocated frequently during the campaign to great applause — Trump bluntly stated that he had changed his mind after talking with James N. Mattis, the retired Marine Corps general, who headed the United States Central Command. 
  
 Trump said Mattis told him of torture: “I’ve never found it to be useful.” (Many in the military and the C.I.A. have long held this view.) 
  
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 He quoted Mattis as saying, “Give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers and I always do better” than anyone using torture. Concluded Trump, “I was very impressed by that answer.” 
  
 Speaking of the Middle East, Trump said unprompted: “I would love to be able to be the one that made peace with Israel and the Palestinians,” adding, “I have reason to believe I can do that.” And he hinted that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, could be his special envoy and “he’d be very good at it. … He knows the region.” (Wow, watching Trump try to forge a deal between Bibi Netanyahu and the Palestinians would be pay-per-view!) 
  
 The one area where I think Trump is going to have the hardest time delivering on his campaign promises is to create “millions” of good-paying jobs by incentivizing and pressuring American companies to manufacture more in the U.S. He still talks about America as a manufacturing wasteland when, in fact, manufacturing remains the largest sector of the U.S. economy but employs far fewer workers. 
  
 As the management consultant Warren Bennis famously observed: “The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” 
  
 Bottom line: The campaign is over, but the struggle for Donald Trump’s soul has just begun. Trump clearly learns by talking to people, not reading. Because so few thought he would win, many of those who gathered around him and had his ear were extreme characters. 
  
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 But now that he has been elected president he is exposing himself to, and hearing from, a much wider net of people. He mentioned that he had had telephone conversations with Bill Gates and with Apple C.E.O. Tim Cook. And he stressed repeatedly that he wants to succeed: “I am doing this to do a good job.” 
  
 To do that he needs to moderate many views and learn from a much wider network of people. For those of us who opposed Trump’s election, it is not time to let down our guard and stop drawing redlines where necessary. But for moderate Republicans and Democratic business leaders, like a Bill Gates, who can gain his ear and respect, and who have made big investments in clean energy, Trump may be — may be — persuadable on some key issues. They need to dive in now and try to pull him toward the center. 
  
 For a meeting between the newsmaker and this news organization that has covered him without fear or favor, the lunch was fairly relaxed, but not without some jousting. Asked if he read The New York Times, Trump said: “I do read it. Unfortunately. I would live about 20 years longer if I didn’t.” ||||| Politicians lie; Donald Trump dissembles more frequently than most. So no matter how clever or tough or eloquent your questions, there are limits to what an hour or so in a room with him can actually establish. 
  
 But this newspaper’s lunch with the next president of the United States was still, I think, a possibly revelatory experience. Given the palpable tension between the president-elect and my employer (or “failing nytimes,” as his Twitter self would have it), it was interesting to observe the ways in which Trump did and didn’t try to ease that tension, the places where he was conciliatory and the places where he dug in his heels and refused to give an inch. 
  
 The conciliation was most striking on public policy. Without getting into details, Trump professed to have an open mind about climate change, made a passing reference to making an immigration deal that we (meaning my more-liberal-on-immigration-than-myself colleagues) would find surprisingly congenial, and was more eager, as usual, to talk about repairing roads and persuading Apple to build products stateside than about fiscal discipline or any other more Paul Ryan-ish Republican priority. 
  
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 He also professed to have an open mind on torture, an issue where his campaign rhetoric was particularly reckless; he had been impressed, he said, when James Mattis, a former Marine Corps general and a leading candidate to be secretary of defense, dismissed waterboarding as less effective than the art of subtler persuasion. (A possible lesson: If you want President Trump to cool off, make sure it’s the guy nicknamed “Mad Dog” urging restraint.) He hewed to his campaign trail promise to aim for détente with Russia, but he also revived a past promise to try to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He was personally conciliatory toward Hillary Clinton (more so than toward Republicans who had crossed him), positively glowing in his descriptions of President Obama, and amply complimentary toward this newspaper’s storied past. 
  
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 And he was quick enough to disavow his white-supremacist supporters, albeit in a way that took no responsibility for the ways that both he and his strategist, Steve Bannon, had played footsie with birthers and online alt-right trolls. |||||
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Donald Trump visited the New York Times on Tuesday, and some of the people present say that while they were pleasantly surprised by his apparent policy shifts on issues like prosecuting Hillary Clinton, dealing with climate change, and bringing back waterboarding, it was also a jolt to realize that he doesn't seem to know what he's talking about on some key issues. "It was alarming to confront how thinly thought through many of the president-elect's stances actually are," a Times editorial states, noting that he said he "valued clean air and water, but that he hadn't decided if combating climate change was worth the expense." The "apparent flexibility, combined with his lack of depth on policy, might be grounds to hope he will steer a wiser course than the one plotted by his campaign," the Times writes, but so far, he has surrounded himself with people who support "extreme positions," and "his flexibility would be their springboard." How some other Times writers felt about the meeting: It was a possibly "revelatory experience," writes Ross Douthat. Trump came across as a free-spending, dealmaking "Nixon-Rockefeller Republican," he writes, and if this "posture was a pander to my colleagues' pro-government sensibilities, it was also a plausible one—consistent with Trump's New York background, his past (and in his heart, probably present) social liberalism, and many of his pre-2016 pronouncements." Click for his full column. Trump spent the first eight minutes or so of the interview talking about how great his election victory was, which led Frank Bruni to conclude: "Winning the most powerful office in the world did nothing to diminish his epic ache for adoration or outsize need to tell everyone how much he deserves it." Click for his full column. Thomas L. Friedman considers the apparent policy shifts a very encouraging sign. "Trump clearly learns by talking to people, not reading. Because so few thought he would win, many of those who gathered around him and had his ear were extreme characters," he writes. But now he is talking to people like Bill Gates and Tim Cook, signaling that he may be "persuadable on some key issues," especially climate change, Friedman writes. Moderate Republicans and Democratic business leaders like Gates "need to dive in now and and try to pull him toward the center." Click for his full column.