President Trump

In a few days we’ll experience an abrupt shift, a sharp inflection point, in human civilization’s trajectory. In the past such shifts – caused by events like wars, pandemics, economic depressions and technological breakthroughs – have almost always caught us unawares. What makes this coming shift exceptional is that we all know exactly when it will happen and exactly what will trigger it.

Following his inauguration at noon Eastern Standard Time on Jan. 20, the new President of the United States, Donald Trump, will review military troops from the Capitol’s East Front steps, lead the inaugural parade to the White House, and watch the proceedings from the presidential reviewing stand. He’ll then sign up to a hundred executive orders.

President-elect Donald Trump said he is moving his inauguration indoors Monday due to the freezing weather expected in Washington, D.C.

Trump said he’ll be sworn in and deliver his inauguration address inside the Capitol Rotunda.

“The various Dignitaries and Guests will be brought into the Capitol,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “This will be a very beautiful experience for all, and especially for the large TV audience!”

Dan Bongino has been saying for weeks that the current Secret Service cannot be trusted to secure the inauguration and keep Trump safe if he’s exposed.

The inauguration and parade are now being moved inside.

Butler, PA Secret Service agent chosen as SS Director.

This is a…

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 17, 2025

h/t Mauser

Upon being nominated in 2021 to head Joe Biden’s Justice Department, Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ’s top priorities would be “ensuring racial equity” and “meeting the evolving threat of violent extremism.”

The U.S. had just lived through race riots, mass looting, and the largest annual homicide increase in the country’s history. Americans were getting robbed at gunpoint while eating in restaurants; thieves were smashing trucks and SUVs into storefronts to make off with merchandise, cash registers, and ATMs.

Kneeling in the driving seat of his family’s pickup truck, three-year-old Tap Fenster’s eyes barely reach over the steering wheel as he inches the vehicle slowly forwards through the snow.

TeJay, his father, stands on the back and distributes feed to the cattle following behind.

In the same pickup truck an hour earlier – under a blue sky in the icy cold of Nebraska’s Sandhills – Mr Fenster pulled over, grabbed his rifle and shot a coyote from 200 yards.

Following the announcement that the Village People would be performing at several upcoming inauguration events, what is it about their songs that appeals to the President-elect?

Village People’s YMCA is a high-energy disco hit that encourages young working-class men to meet like-minded individuals at Young Men’s Christian Association hostels. It’s been interpreted as an ode to the delights of picking up sexual partners at them – it appears on an album entitled Cruisin’ – and it was first performed by a group of chiselled dancers sporting moustaches and figure-hugging fancy dress costumes. It’s hardly surprising, then, that the song has been so closely associated with gay culture ever since its release in 1978. What is perhaps surprising is that it is now so closely associated with US President-elect Donald Trump.

The Trump dance never really ages. pic.twitter.com/yjAjpg8g53

— Meme Wars (@_MemeWars) January 9, 2025

The very things that makes the president-elect’s return so scary for many Europeans are what make him attractive to the rest of the world.

We are experiencing the biggest crisis in transatlantic relations since Suez. But it is unfolding in such a bizarre manner that nobody can quite get their head around it.

The richest man in the world, who is about to become a quasi-official in the incoming U.S. administration, has declared he’s trying to overthrow the British government — and probably the German one as well. President-elect Donald Trump himself has already indicated he wants to overturn every single tenet of the U.S.-led order. And his recent comments on the Panama Canal and Greenland show he’s even ready to question principles like territorial sovereignty and the inviolability of borders.

Euroweenies.

h/t DS

The Washington Post on January 15 reported that President-elect Donald Trump is thinking of issuing an executive order suspending the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. The law is often and incorrectly referred to as the “TikTok ban.”

Trump has no power to suspend the law by executive order. In any event, a delay in enforcement, even in accordance with the law’s provisions, would be a grave mistake.

We’re all excited about Trump’s coming inauguration, but in light of the recent attempts on his life, it’s a fair question to ask if all the necessary safety precautions are being taken to ensure his safety.

Some of America’s vilest creatures pile on to a patently decent man.

How bizarre it was to watch Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, being abused at his confirmation hearing by the Democratic members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. Until Trump picked him for his cabinet, I didn’t really know anything about Hegseth and had never watched his show on Fox News. But since his nomination, I’ve looked into him. I’ve heard his former colleagues speaking about him, without exception, in glowing terms. And when he sat there for hours in the committee room on Tuesday, he was not just highly articulate and well-informed on military matters; he exuded sincerity and decency. It was clear that whatever his past peccadillos, this is a man who genuinely loves America, who is dedicated to the idea of a strong military, and who cares about the men and women who wear the uniform of the American armed forces. For heaven’s sake, he comes off like something out of another era — a good, old-fashioned, corny, foursquare patriot of the kind that might have been played in an old movie by Jimmy Stewart or Gary Cooper.

Elon Musk has been given an office in the White House complex for his department of government efficiency (Doge) in the latest sign of his closeness to Donald Trump.

The SpaceX founder has reportedly been assigned space in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is next to the main White House, the New York Times has claimed.

Mr Musk, who is so close to Mr Trump that he has been dubbed the “First Buddy” by Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, is still said to be in discussions about what level of access he will have to the West Wing and how formal his position will be.

During his Tuesday Senate confirmation hearing, Pete Hegseth provided his best case yet on why he’s the perfect man to be President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary.

Speaking before the Armed Services Committee, the Army veteran noted how the “the primary charge” given to him by Trump was to “bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense.” He subsequently detailed how he intends to make the Pentagon into an agency “laser focused on warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, standards, and readiness.”

Question for women: Do you agree with Pete Hegseth that women shouldn't serve in combat roles if they don't qualify under the same standards as men?

Hegseth reiterated that he will review and increase the military's standards if necessary to ensure only the best are on the front… pic.twitter.com/q9NbZYspB2

— George (@BehizyTweets) January 14, 2025

“Tens of thousands of service members who were kicked out because of an experimental vaccine. In President Trump’s Defense Department, they will be apologized to, they will be reinstituted with pay and rank.” – Pete Hegseth pic.twitter.com/EubZbjeTaM

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 14, 2025

The Village People will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration celebrations next week after the band’s disco hits YMCA and Macho Man became unlikely anthems on the campaign trail and spawned a signature dance by the president-elect.

NEW: Trump absolutely goes off on stage, finishing his signature YMCA dance with a huge golf swing.

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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 22, 2024

The famous garbage truck that President Trump rode in Wisconsin to highlight derogatory comments made by President Biden about Trump supporters will travel to the nation’s capital next week to appear in the inaugural parade, an employee for the company confirms to The New York Sun.