President Trump

A parade of foreign leaders is desperately angling to receive a coveted invite to President-elect Trump’s inauguration later this month.

By custom, foreign leaders don’t attend inaugurations of U.S. presidents, but Trump has thrown that precedent out the window, setting off the scramble after inviting Chinese president Xi Jinping to the Jan. 20 ceremony. Xi has already turned the offer down, with a top emissary expected to attend instead.

I doubt we’ll see an LPC member there.

So, what are you doing on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 at 12 noon?

I, for one, will be watching the most significant and historic presidential inauguration that has occurred in my half-century (or so) on this planet: the re-installment of Donald J. Trump as the now-47th President of the United States, and the mesmerizing Melania Knauss Trump as our First Lady. (I can’t wait to see what she wears! So sue me.)

Donald Trump’s recent refusal to rule out military intervention in his outspoken quest to acquire Greenland left the EU in panic and disarray.

While some leaders, such as France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz jumped at the opportunity to act tough and stay relevant on the international stage, the European Commission adopted the opposite strategy and tried its best to bury its head in the sand.

Trump’s powerplay unmasked Europe as a headless chicken prone to panic whenever faced with unseen challenges, which leaves the U.S.—or rather, Trump—as the one calling the shots.

Goodbye EU, hello AU? It’s been evident for a few months now that Donald Trump’s second administration will be more geostrategically ambitious than his first. Yesterday, in another extraordinary press conference in Mar-a-Lago, we got a glimpse of what Trump and his advisors are thinking for the planet in 2025 and beyond.

Trump reiterated his desire to annex Canada and Greenland. He declared that the Gulf of Mexico should be called the Gulf of America and told Hamas “all hell will break loose” if its Israeli hostages are not returned before his inauguration.

Harold Grant spent his career as a federal probation and parole officer and criminal justice instructor. He begged his son not to attend President Donald Trump’s rally over what he falsely claimed was a stolen election. And after, when the elder Grant asked James whether he’d marched to the Capitol and gone inside, James lied and said he hadn’t.

James Grant was eventually convicted of assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon, rioting and other charges. His law school plans evaporated. He spent three years behind bars, then knocked on doors for Trump this fall after his release. He said he still believes the 2020 election might have been stolen. And he knows Trump has promised to pardon Jan. 6 defendants, which he wants more than anything.

In a consummation devoutly to be wished, the 2024 election and Donald Trump’s historic win have been certified by none other than Trump’s defeated presidential opponent and current vice president Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump is working with top Republicans in Congress to devise a single “big, beautiful bill” that will contain all of his major policy ambitions – including a clampdown on immigration, tax cuts, and increased military spending in an attempt to supercharge his radical agenda as he embarks on a second presidency.

The plan to pile all of Trump’s main policy goals into one mega-bill, against the wishes of some top congressional Republicans, raises the prospect of months of potentially bruising political in-fighting needed to secure its passage. Though the Republicans hold both chambers of Congress, their margin in the House is the slimmest in almost a century.

Radical for the Guardian apparently does not include running cover for Muslim rape gangs.

President-elect Donald Trump will begin his second term stronger and more dominant as a player on the world stage than when he was sworn in eight years ago. The world that awaits him, however, is far different — and more threatening — than when he left the presidency four years ago.

Trump’s “America First” second-term focus purports to be principally on the home front. The deportation of millions of undocumented immigrants was one of his leading campaign pledges, and his initial appointments suggest he is serious about this priority. The proposal is fraught with practical and political questions.

The “peaceful transition of power” between an outgoing administration and a democratically elected incoming government is considered the hallmark of the American Republic. But is the “Shining Beacon on the Hill” not shining so brightly of late?

Four years to the day after the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump is set to be officially certified as the 47th President of the United States in the 2024 election. This marks a pivotal moment in the wake of what Democrats have labeled an “insurrection.” The certification comes after years of legal battles and political efforts aimed at keeping Trump out of the White House. Despite continued attempts by the left to use January 6th as a dark stain on his legacy, Trump has emerged as one of the most consequential presidents in modern history—despite the left’s efforts to rewrite history and reshape the narrative in their favor.

What self-respecting strongman does not have territorial expansion on his wish list?

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has mused repeatedly in recent weeks about taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland, and even making Canada the 51st American state. And while most analysts have rejected his comments as unserious, there is more to Mr. Trump’s expansionist mutterings than merely a bad joke by a low-information leader who remains a Manhattan real estate developer at heart.

Donald Trump’s comeback in 2024 was extraordinary. The US president-elect survived his political opponents’ attempts to convict and jail him, as well as a sniper’s fire by a mere inch. His victory in November represented one of the most significant political realignments in US history, with him continuing to win over, most notably, black and Latino voters, whom many assumed were permanently attached to the Democrats.