Gore meets with Trump, Ivanka
Former Vice President Al Gore met with President-elect Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, at Trump Tower in New York Monday morning.
Gore arrived at 10:25 a.m. and entered an elevator while being escorted by a female aide, according to pool reports. The former U.S. Senator from Tennessee Gore did not answer any questions.
Although a spokesman for the president-elect’s transition team confirmed the meeting was scheduled to be between Gore and Ivanka Trump, the former Democratic presidential candidate said the majority of the meeting was spent with Donald Trump.
At noon, Gore emerged from the elevator and briefly spoke to the media. “I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground. I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the president-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I’m just going to leave it at that,” Gore said, according to pool reports.
Gore did not say what was discussed at the meeting.
A senior aide to Gore confirmed to The Tennessean the meeting was about climate change.
Despite endorsing Hillary Clinton, Gore said the day after the election that he would work with Trump on climate change.
“Last night President-elect Trump said he wanted to be a president for all Americans. In that spirit, I hope that he will work with the overwhelming majority of us who believe that the climate crisis is the greatest threat we face as a nation,” Gore said in a post written for The Climate Reality Project, an organization that he founded. A spokeswoman for Gore did not immediately respond to a request for comment.