You would be hard pressed to find a bar in Washington D.C. where you’d find a group of people as ideologically diverse as Donald Trump’s cabinet. He’s got Tea Party veterans mingling with a Kennedy, a Teamsters ally, George Soros’s “protege”, and the former vice-chair of the Democratic Party.
The billionaire told advisors ahead of the election that his pro-Trump super PAC should aim at “Soros DAs” across the country.
Donald Trump adviser Brooke Rollins had a question for the crowd celebrating his reelection at his Mar-a-Lago estate earlier this month. “Where is the George Soros of the right?” she called from the stage, referring to the billionaire investor and prolific liberal donor.
To loud cheers, a younger billionaire in the audience threw his right hand into the air: Elon Musk.
Donald Trump has not yet taken office as 47th President of the United States, but the Regime Media have already set out to torpedo his agenda. Specifically, by sowing panic among the viewing audience over potential Trump tariffs against China, Canada, and Mexico.
Watch as ABC’s David Muir opens their item on the tariff threat with his hallmark lengthy introduction, before sending it to correspondent Terry Moran…
President-elect Donald J. Trump is gearing up to go nuclear on the FBI and Justice Department, and who can blame him? After years of relentless targeting, capped off with a federal raid on his home in a blatant attempt to torpedo his 2024 campaign, Trump emerged victorious. Now it’s his turn to strike back.
President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers are discussing how to unilaterally strip federal resources from Chicago and other Democratic-run cities if they refuse to participate in deportations of undocumented immigrants next year, according to three people familiar with the conversations.
Advisers to Trump have pushed for using federal pressure — such as withholding federal funds — against municipalities that don’t cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on deportations, the people said. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe efforts not yet made public.
The more Tom Holman talks the more I like him. Honestly, this was an amazing pick. pic.twitter.com/cS6cWPWI8N
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 26, 2024
Among the more childishly enjoyable fruits of Donald Trump’s election victory has been watching the spectacular gymnastic contortions of political leaders in Europe, where I have spent time recently, as they try to reconcile their previously expressed revulsion toward him with the political reality of his renewed status as the most powerful man on the planet.
Gold medal for the back flip with full twist and 180-degree turn goes to David Lammy, the British foreign secretary, who congratulated Mr. Trump and said he looked forward to finding “common ground” with the newly re-elected president. “I felt in my bones that there could be a Trump presidency,” he cheerily told the BBC the day after the election.
Is Donald Trump serious about tariffs? This has been the question hanging over not just world markets but the whole world of economics.
The popular wisdom had become that he wasn’t really that serious, and the key bit of evidence for that was his nomination of hedge fund investor Scott Bessent as his Treasury Secretary, someone seen as a moderate when it came to tariffs compared with others whose names were floated for the role.
The answer overnight, though, was pretty brutal. Yes, he is serious, and in the most unexpected way. By choosing to target Mexico and Canada as well as China, he is confirming threats made on the campaign trail that appeared the most fanciful.
Ukraine wants to convince Trump that it is not a charity case but a cost-effective and geostrategic opportunity that will enrich and secure the United States.
KYIV — As Ukraine prepares for the looming uncertainty of a new U.S. president, officials and business executives here are coming up with ways to sell Donald Trump on the idea that a strong Ukraine is useful to his own political goals — and expressing cautious optimism that he may act faster and more decisively than President Joe Biden.
Too bad Trump can’t be the dictator on Day One that the commies claimed he would be because the Republicans in Congress seem committed to making things much more difficult than they have to be. They need to get on board or get out of the way. We’ve lost one nominee already, and they are showing that familiar wobbliness that they always get about Pete Hegseth and several others. They have announced no clear plans for the first hundred days, and when someone does not tell you the plan, you can assume that there is no plan. Plus, they seem to be going back to their old habits of selecting congressional leadership not based on core attributes like merit, loyalty and lib owning. Trump 2.0 is focused and eager to keep his promises and make America great again. The GOP Congress seems far too focused on business as usual.
h/t DS
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal last Wednesday to outline what they styled “The DOGE Plan to Reform Government.” DOGE is, of course, an acronym for the prospective Department of Government Efficiency whose mission will be to reduce the size of the administrative state and strip its unelected bureaucrats of the enormous power they unlawfully wield over the American people. Musk and Ramaswamy explain that President-elect Trump has asked them to take on this task and why: “The entrenched and ever-growing bureaucracy represents an existential threat to our republic, and politicians have abetted it for too long.”
Incoming border czar Tom Homan had a message Saturday for Democrat mayors and governors who are itching for a fight with him on deportations: “Game on.”
Via HotAir
Withdrawal of approval by President-elect Donald Trump from his choice for Secretary of the Department of Defence (DoD), Pete Hegseth, is apparently becoming a real possibility, because of Hegseth’s failure, now a serious distraction, to disclose a 2017 claim of sexual misconduct to Trump’s transition team.
On the one hand, Hegseth’s removal from contention would be no great loss, since he is widely regarded as lacking the necessary experience and political capital to oversee the mammoth Pentagon’s three million employees and $800 billion budget.
A parting attempt to obstruct the incoming president’s promises of a crackdown on illegal immigration.
WASHINGTON — If you think of Joe Biden as a nice old man who was kicked to the curb, consider his administration’s jaw-dropping efforts to sabotage Donald Trump. The president-elect plans to actually enforce federal immigration law starting Jan. 20, when Trump takes the oath of office. As the New York Post reported Thursday, Team Biden “is quietly rushing to implement new policies that will loosen restrictions on migrants who entered the U.S. illegally — a parting attempt to thwart President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration crackdowns and mass deportations,” according to sources.
Can Donald Trump bring peace to Ukraine in a day, as he asserted during the presidential campaign, even before he enters the White House?
The short answer is: no.
To be sure, his election has helped change the tone of the protagonists. Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky says he is ready to work for peace in 2025.
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016.
The orthodox and the supposed scripted future are now suspect. And they are likely to be dethroned — from the trivial to the existential.
Critics claim Trump has no mandate to stage such a counterrevolution. They argue that he did not win 51 percent of the popular vote or achieve a Reaganesque landslide in the Electoral College.
