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Donald Trump has met with Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser to plan for his inauguration on January 20.
Mayor Bowser wrote on X that she had a “great meeting” with the president-elect and hoped they would find “common ground” after clashing in the past over the policing of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in D.C. in response to the killing of George Floyd in summer 2020 and then the Capitol riot six months later.
Trump is meanwhile continuing to circulate articles from right-wing media on his Truth Social feed hinting at the prospect of the United States entering merger talks with Canada about it becoming America’s 51st state, capitalizing on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s rocky end to the year.
The idea was also entertained on Fox News on Monday when Canadian businessman Kevin O’Leary expressed his enthusiasm for the idea in conversation with Trump’s former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.
The president-elect has also sought to revive talk about his acquiring Greenland from Denmark in recent days.
Congress will reconvene on Friday after the New Year’s celebrations, when House Speaker Mike Johnson is up for re-election — and appears to be short of support.
New Hampshire Representative Annie Kuster has told The Boston Globe that she hopes some of her colleagues will be inspired to leave Congress when their time is up, adding that she wishes President Joe Biden had stepped aside to make way for the much younger Kamala Harris much earlier than he did.
Gustaf Kilander has more.
‘I think there are colleagues — some of whom are still very successful and very productive — but others who just stay forever,’ noted New Hampshire Representative Annie Kuster
Ivanka Trump and Matt Gaetz are among the Trump World favorites bidding goodbye to 2024 on social media.
But for tireless anti-Biden grandstander James Comer, New Year’s Eve is just another day at the office…
Donald Trump bleeding on stage, Joe Biden dropping out of the race and MAGA moving back into DC were just some of the top political moments that 2024 had to offer.
But those were hardly the only ones.
Lil Jon bringing the Democrats to their feet in Chicago, politicians showing up on Saturday Night Live and talking trash (both literally and metaphorically) filled the headlines.
Here’s Ariana Baio with a look back at the top political moments of the last year and some of the memorable scenes you may have forgotten.
One presidential election, two assassination attempts and hundreds of rallies filled the 2024 political headlines. But it didnt’ stop there
As the nation gears up for a second Donald Trump presidency, the battle for 2028 has already begun.
The president-elect, who has jested numerous times about serving a third term, will not be on the ballot in 2028.
“I suspect I won’t be running again, unless you do something,” Trump reportedly told his GOP House colleagues as they met ahead of congressional leadership elections shortly after his election win.
“Unless you say, ‘He’s so good, we have to just figure it out.’”
Unfortunately for Trump, it’s a highly unlikely scenario, and so Republicans and Democrats are already looking to their next candidates – and the competition is wide open.
Here’s Rhian Lubin with a look at some of the top contenders for the 2028 presidency.
The president-elect, who has jested numerous times about serving a third term, will not be on the ballot in 2028
Trump will not like this at all, having already been annoyed by the Texans’ objections during the congressional spending bill scrap before Christmas.
Johnson’s candidacy will be voted upon on Friday and he can only afford one GOP rebellion, given his party’s narrow majority of 219 to 215.
But, as it stands, Thomas Massie has already indicated that he is a “no” while Andy Harris, Victoria Spartz, Andy Biggs and Tim Burchett have all said they are currently undecided.
Here’s a ticking off for Roy and his ilk from another ex-speaker, Newt Gingrich.
The president’s suggestion that Trump could learn “decency” from Carter led to outrage and a meltdown on Fox News’s Outnumbered on Monday.
“It’s a shame and it’s embarrassing for Joe Biden,” contributor Tammy Bruce said during the segment.
“Joe Biden will be known for just being a failed president and an indecent man,” the networks political analyst Lisa Boothe added.
“I think he’s just going to continue to go out looking like a bitter old man,” Dr Nicole Saphier chimed in.
Ariana Baio has more on their outrage.
‘Outnumbered’ co-hosts spent nearly seven minutes criticizing Biden for suggesting Trump is indecent
The honeymoon period between the president-elect and his Big Tech pal may be coming to an end as Trump is reportedly increasingly “annoyed” by the world’s richest person and his antics..
As a public rift deepens between Musk and Trump’s MAGA allies in what Laura Loomer has characterized as a “civil war” over H1B visas, sources told Mediaite that the Republican is getting tired of both the Space X owner’s ubiquitousness and the media firestorm that follows him.
“100 percent Trump is annoyed,” a source who worked on the incoming president’s re-election campaign told the outlet.
“There’s a Chinese saying: ‘two tigers cannot live on one mountaintop.’”
Another person told the site: “There was likely an allure to it in the beginning but it seemed like it could go ugly…Trump is Trump. I think it’s just the way Trump is.
“Someone that is around that much and having influence would be a bother.”
They continued: “I mean the guy came in, gave a boatload of money, and wants to take over the place.”
The insider didn’t think the tech billionaire had “bad intentions” but added: “You also can’t just inject a shadow president somewhere.”
Kelly Rissman reports.
Trump’s alleged frustration with the world’s richest person arrives as Musk publicly feuds with MAGA allies over H1B visas
Here’s the latest from the president-elect on Truth Social, once more ordering the GOP to fall in line or else:
“We just won a Historic Landslide and Mandate from the American People, but Senate Democrats are organizing to improperly stall and delay the confirmation process of many of our Great Nominees. They will try all sorts of tricks starting very soon. Republicans must not allow them to do that. We have a Country to run, and many big problems to solve, mostly created by Democrats. REPUBLICANS, BE SMART AND TOUGH!!!”
Contributor Bill McGurn challenged the public perception that the late president Jimmy Carter was a “decent” man during an interview on the conservative news network on Monday, pointing out that Carter “essentially” labeled Ronald Reagan a “racist” and “warmonger” during the 1980 presidential election.
McGurn – a Wall Street Journal editorial board member and former speechwriter for President George W Bush – took the swipe at Carter, who died Sunday at the age of 100, when he was asked on The Story by anchor Jonathan Hunt to weigh in on the late president’s legacy.
Here’s Justin Baragona with more on McGurn’s oddly-timed takedown of the man from Plains, Georgia.
’I think we have to remember … when everyone says he’s decent? Remember the campaign he ran against Reagan, essentially calling him a racist and a warmonger,’ Bill McGurn said on Fox News
The contrast between the peanut farmer and the mogul could not be more different as the US marks the passing of its most humble president – and braces for the return of its most divisive.
Editorial: The contrast between the peanut farmer and the mogul could not be more different as the US marks the passing of its most humble president – and braces for the return of its most divisive
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