“The meeting may not be the strangest thing that has come out of the Trump transition process. (That honor has to go to the Naked Cowboy’s appearance in a Trump Tower elevator last week.) It is, however, an unusual development.” Al Gore was the latest leader to meet with President-elect Trump, in what the former veep called “extremely interesting conversation.” Gore also met with Ivanka Trump who reportedly wants to make climate change one of her “signature issues.”

+ “We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the world today. If we fail to act now, it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.” That was part of a 2009 letter sent to President Obama. Its signatories included Donald Trump and his three children. Since then, things have changed.

+ From WaPo: Trump’s Taiwan phone call was long planned. It’s unclear whether the same is true for Trump’s China-related tweets that followed.

+ In a much-anticipated move, Trump has nominated Ben Carson to run HUD.