Posts on Tuesday, January 21, 2025
When reports surfaced over the weekend that mass deportations could potentially begin in the Chicago area Tuesday, Martin Ramos informed his boss that he was taking time off from work, stocked up on groceries and decided his kids would skip soccer practice this week. Ramos — who emigrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, without the necessary work permits — spent the first full day of Donald Trump’s second presidency hunkered down with his family and trying to avoid being picked up by ICE agents. An arrest, he knows, would destroy everything he and his wife worked for and force their two boys into an uncertain future.
Donald Trump quickly made good on his pledge to sever diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the federal government as he is set to fire all DEI hires by tomorrow.
The new Trump administration sent a letter to all heads and acting heads of government agencies on Tuesday, informing them all federal employees in DEI roles must be placed on paid leave by 5pm Wednesday.
All DEI offices in federal agencies are also being shuttered in the move, which comes after Trump signed an anti-DEI executive order in front of a cheering crowd at his inauguration on Monday.
COVENTRY, Vt. —
The FBI is releasing new information in their investgation in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S Border Patrol agent.
A spokesperson with U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed to NBC5 that a Border Patrol agent and another person were killed Monday afternoon during a traffic stop in Coventry, Vermont. During the traffic stop, federal investigators say Agent David “Chris” Maland exchanged gunfire with one of the subjects. Maland was fatally shot. A third person was injured and is now in custody. They are being treated at an area hospital for their injuries.
The FBI said that the deceased person is a German national
MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton called on all Americans to boycott companies eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, claiming they are trying to send Black people to the “back of the bus.”
Sharpton made the announcement at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C., during a rally in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. He said this call to action would be done in the spirit of King’s legacy as a civil rights activist.
“Why do we have DEI? We have DEI because you denied us diversity, you denied us equity, you denied us inclusion.
Lefty Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was dragged on X for “jewsplaining” to the Anti-Defamation League after the group defended Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture” that progressives insisted was a Nazi salute.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) accused the antisemitism watchdog group of “defending a Heil Hitler salute” before arguing that the ADL “works for” President Trump and his allies.
“Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to the ADL on X.
“People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Joe Biden's shocking response to his demands that the White House do something about the migrant crisis was to 'be a good Democrat, Eric.'
The embattled mayor claimed Biden's reaction to the crisis wreaking havoc on his city was just one of many reasons the Democrat Party 'left me and it left working class people' in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
[SNIP] 'We have Venezuelan gang leaders that were coming to the city creating crimes,' Adams said, which led to his asking Biden for help the condescending answer he received.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Monday used the “Gulf of America” in an Executive Order following President Donald Trump’s swearing in and subsequent speech, in which he reiterated his intention to rename the Gulf of Mexico.
DeSantis issued the executive order on Monday, EO number 25-13 on the weather system coming into the state. In the first sentence, DeSantis’s executive order uses the name “Gulf of America.”
“WHEREAS, an area of low pressure moving across the Gulf of America, interacting with Arctic air, will bring widespread impactful winter weather to North Florida beginning Tuesday, January 21, 2025…” it begins.
Indian officials are preparing to repatriate roughly 18,000 Indian migrants who have been living in the United States illegally, according to a recent report.
“People familiar with the matter” informed Bloomberg that the Indian government is prepared to work with President Donald Trump and his administration to “identify and take back all its citizens” who have been in the U.S. illegally.
“As part of India-US cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration,” Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg. “This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the US.”
Newly inaugurated President Donald Trump told his deputies on Monday to draft rules to deny taxpayer funds to so-called “sanctuary” cities and NGOs — Non-Governmental Organizations — that support illegal migrants.
Among his long list of executive orders (EOs) was one entitled “Protecting the American People Against Invasion,” aimed squarely at sanctuary jurisdictions.
In section 17 of this EO, for instance, Trump sent a shot over the bow of “sanctuary jurisdictions” to warn them that they had better not interfere with legal federal law enforcement actions or risk losing federal dollars.
“The Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, to the maximum extent possible under law,
As CNN Panel Complains About Trump’s
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Republican strategist Scott Jennings told a CNN panel Monday that many Black Lives Matter rioters avoided punishment in 2020 after liberal commentators complained about pardons President Donald Trump issued to participants of the riot at the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump issued a blanket pardon Monday to more than 1,500 people convicted of crimes surrounding the storming of the Capitol building during the certification of the electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021. Jennings reminded former Obama administration officials David Axelrod and Van Jones, who claimed the Jan. 6 rioters received insufficient punishment, that many of the participants in the Capitol riot had their lives “ruined,” but
The man who was previously photographed with would-be assassin Ryan Routh and later honored by Joe Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom has released a statement following his firing by former President Donald Trump.
As Cullen Linebarger reported earlier, former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Tuesday morning to announce the termination of the first four individuals from his predecessor’s administration upon taking office.
The firings, executed in signature “Apprentice-style” fashion, come as no surprise to conservatives, particularly one certain infamous general.
Democrats Proclaim the Only 'Good Billionaires'
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By any measure, 2024 was not a good year to be a Democrat. You had Joe Biden's dementia that you had tried so hard to cover up exposed during a presidential debate. Then, Nancy Pelosi tried to help you and shivved Joe Biden out the door. Then your replacement candidate, who would have been so many "firsts," turned out to be a word salad aficionado, often making Joe Biden look coherent. Finally, when you tried gaslighting the American people on a scale never before seen and insisted that they go along with your crazy ideas, they rejected you wholeheartedly. Yep, it was not a good year.
Texas teen who ratted out his own father to the FBI is reeling from Donald Trump’s decision to pardon January 6th protesters.
Jackson Reffitt, whose father Guy Reffitt was sentenced to over seven years in prison for his role in the protests against the 2020 presidential election, spoke to CNN after Donald Trump announced that he would be pardoning all of those involved.
“I’ve taken as many precautions as I could recently,” Jackson said.
“I’ve picked up a gun, I’ve moved, and I’ve gotten myself away from what I thought would be a dangerous situation and staying where I thought my dad could find me or other people.”
‘Tis the season to be…..coffee badging? The new year traditionally marks the time a fresh crop of U.S. corporations requires employees to return to the office after many businesses allowed their staffs to work remotely at the start of the COVID-10 pandemic five years ago. And that means it’s also the season for workers to try to beat the system. What does the term coffee badging mean?
Many are “coffee badging,” or swiping their ID badges at the office to record their arrival, staying 30 minutes or so - long enough to greet colleagues and grab a cup of coffee
Trump Revokes John Bolton's Security Clearance
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In a bold move signaling his commitment to holding the intelligence community accountable, President Donald Trump revoked the security clearances of 51 former intelligence officials who signed a controversial letter dismissing the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation. The letter surfaced weeks before the 2020 election and was widely criticized after evidence from the laptop was verified, raising questions about the intelligence officials' credibility. Trump’s decision to strip their security clearances comes amid growing concerns over political bias within the intelligence agencies and his determination to ensure integrity and transparency within national security operations.
President Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci may protect the former National Institutes of Health official from immediate criminal prosecution, but some critics say he is not completely out of legal jeopardy and that public sentiment might still condemn the man who became known during the COVID-19 pandemic as “Mr. Science.”
In the days before Biden offered the pardon to Fauci, along with other critics of Donald Trump, some experts who have followed Fauci’s career and handling of the pandemic, as well as members of the Trump transition team, reiterated their assertion that Fauci perjured himself on several occasions during the pandemic
Users of the leftist social media platform Bluesky went into meltdown after Donald Trump pardoned those involved in the January 6th protests.
On Monday evening, hours after taking office, Trump confirmed that he would pardon and/or commute the sentences of the 1,600 individuals involved in the protests against the fraud that tainted the 2020 presidential election.
Trump acknowledged that while most of those involved were peaceful and did not warrant any form of prosecution, even those convicted of acts of violence were persecuted and punish excessively by the Biden regime as an act of political revenge.
The news did not go down well over on Bluesky,
FEMA Director Deanne Criswell departed the agency on Monday as President Trump’s new administration began.
Criswell has faced strong criticism in response to how the agency has handled recent hurricanes. Criswell oversaw the government’s response to numerous major hurricanes, the Maui fires and the recent Los Angeles County fires.
“It has been an honor serving as [FEMA] Administrator for nearly four years. The FEMA family takes immense pride in our mission of helping people before, during and after disasters. I know the agency will continue to serve the nation as we support this peaceful transition of power,” Criswell wrote on X.
President Donald Trump briefly reacted to the woke Episcopal priestess who delivered remarks at the National Prayer Service, using the opportunity to assert that many LGBTQ people — including children — “fear for their lives.”
Reporters caught up with Trump as he returned to the White House, asking the president what he thought of the service. “What did you think?” Trump asked back. “Did you like it? Did you find it exciting? Not too exciting, was it?” (X Video) The question came after an anti-Trump Episcopal bishop of Washington, DC, — Mariann Budde — used her platform at the National Prayer Service to go on a woke rant,
People have asked why we focus so much sunlight and attention toward the network silos that operate the Intelligence Community (IC) and as an outcome the national security focus of government. The answer is simple, as Mary McCord herself admitted publicly, the IC are the background approver for every weaponized approach of government, including the DOJ.
With that in mind, CTH has painstakingly made the case –with details and receipts– for a process of removing the IC silos from influence over the Office of The President. The Chief Executive must control all elements of national security policy and implementation.Thankfully, the Supreme Court recently affirmed the plenary power
Decorated Marine Chris Kuehne Shares Emotional
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Chris Kuehne, a January 6 political prisoner, Marine veteran, and American patriot who sacrificed years of his life for his country, was released from prison in November 2024.
Chris called The Gateway Pundit upon his release to share his relief to be free.
You may recall that the FBI raided Chris’s home in the dead of winter and forced his wife to stand outside in the bitter cold while they raided the family’s home. His wife, Annette lost the baby following the trauma of the incident. She suffered a miscarriage the next day following the trauma and abuse by US government agents.
Following the news that Chris, along with other J6 political prisoners,
There’s no proof that Sigmund Freud ever acknowledged that “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” but whoever coined the phrase was certainly onto something. Not everything is chockfull of hidden meanings.
Including a hat.
With its ratings in freefall, MSNBC returned to its old-school journalistic roots, publishing today an introspective, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred psychoanalysis of the incoming first lady’s headwear: “The Message Behind Melania Trump’s Hat.”
(Well! If that doesn’t jumpstart its ratings, nothing will.)
Hannah Holland, an MSNBC producer and writer, penned this Pulitzer-worthy article. In her opinion:
Good afternoon. This is the first of my twice-weekly columns under a new format. The “Morning Note” lasted more than a decade, so it was time for a change. For starters, this newsletter will appear on Tuesday and Friday afternoons.
I previously focused on meaningful dates in U.S. history (and got a book out of it), and also used the format for a “quote of the week,” which was also usually a blast from the past. “Cannon Fodder” will be timelier. I will still highlight stories and columns from RealClearPolitics and our sister sites, but the list will be more selective. So here we go
Jake Sullivan, former National Security Advisor under Joe Biden, told NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump White House to spy on and sabotage Trump just like they did in early 2017.
According to investigative reporter Paul Sperry, Jake Sullivan wants NSC underlings like Trump impeachment ‘whistleblower’ Eric Ciaramella to sabotage Trump 2.0. with leaks to the media.
Per investigative reporter Paul Sperry: Biden’s National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has been encouraging NSC staffers to “hold over” to the Trump WH in a redux of Obama holdovers who spied & leaked on and sabotaged Trump in early 2017, inclg CIA detailees Ciaramella & Misko as well as Vindman & Fiona Hill
Topline Oracle stock was the most notable winner from the stock market’s first day of trading during President Donald Trump’s second term as Trump unveiled a $500 billion artificial intelligence infrastructure partnership between the cloud computing and data storage giant and other AI heavyweights including OpenAI and Nvidia. Key Facts
The AI infrastructure deal, dubbed “Stargate,” involves Oracle, OpenAI (the Microsoft-backed parent of the generative AI ChatGPT program), top AI tech designer Nvidia and Tokyo-headquartered conglomerate SoftBank, matching reports earlier Tuesday.
Trump announced the project at a White House press conference flanked by Oracle’s billionaire chairman Larry Ellison, OpenAI’s billionaire CEO Sam Altman and SoftBank’s billionaire CEO Masayoshi Son.
Here we go.
Senators received an 11th hour affidavit with spousal abuse allegations against Trump’s Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth ahead of his confirmation vote.
On Monday, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted to advance Pete Hegseth’s nomination to a full senate floor vote.
Senators can vote as early as Thursday to confirm Hegseth.
However, an affidavit from Hegseth’s former sister-in-law, Danielle Hegseth, alleging “instances of abuse” and “mistreatment of a former spouse” involving Hegseth’s second wife, Samantha Hegseth, was submitted to senators.
Samantha Hegseth responded to the allegations via email, according to NBC News:
Three major business leaders — SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Oracle Corp. Chairman Larry Ellison — joined President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon at the White House to announce the creation of a new company called Stargate.
Texas-based Stargate would invest up to $500 billion over the next four years in AI infrastructure. The initial investment is expected to be $100 billion and could reach five times that sum, according to The Associated Press.
Son, a billionaire based in Japan, had already pledged in December to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years. The head of SoftBank had previously committed to $50 billion
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), President Donald Trump's pick to act as his America First enforcer at the United Nations, brought the heat to her Senate confirmation hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee. Based on what Stefanik told senators Tuesday morning, Turtle Bay better brace for the fired-up New York congresswoman, if she is confirmed.
As the U.S. ambassador, Stefanik said she would significantly reform the UN from within.
Among the much-needed changes she'll implement, Stefanik promises to conduct a comprehensive budgetary assessment of certain UN subagencies and ensure that "every dollar goes to supporting our American interests." She stressed that "every U.S. taxpayer dollar"
Shortly after taking the oath of office, Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable to every U.S. diplomatic and consular post worldwide. The stark message from the new diplomat: Sweeping changes are coming to a department that had mistakenly emphasized “ideology over common sense” and “misread the world.”
The lengthy cable was sent shortly after Rubio arrived at his new post in Foggy Bottom and was obtained exclusively by RealClearPolitics. It signals a fundamental shift in foreign policy and a realignment of all diplomatic efforts toward putting American needs first.
Toward this end, President Trump’s new diplomat promised to focus on mass migration, terminate DEI policies within the department, end the
Kamala Harris is officially out of public office, known as the former vice president now. As she left Washington on Monday, she headed to California to speak to firefighters, with her home state having been ravaged by fires for weeks. On the way, she was supported by an all-female U.S. Air Force crew, because Democrats for some reason insist on such priorities. [Tweets]
While her husband, Doug Emhoff, nodded along behind her, Harris gave her comments to firefighters.
"These are folks who understand the strength and value of community, which is everyone coming together with a shared sense of purpose and identity as a community of people," she shared,
After more than half a century of brandishing the Biden family moniker to trade access to the federal government in exchange for cash, the Biden Crime Family has finally cashed out.
As a parting gift to his grifting kinsmen, Joe Biden exited his historical disgrace of a presidency by granting an eleventh-hour categorical pardon to his siblings, Jim Biden, Frank Biden, and Val Biden Owens, and their spouses for any and all nonviolent crimes “they may have committed or taken part in” during the decade-plus since January 1, 2014. Only the “full and unconditional” pardons the former president issued to his son Hunter and then to former National Institute
Last week, shortly before he and President Donald Trump took office, now Vice President JD Vance appeared on "Fox News Sunday" where he spoke about pardoning January 6 defendants. Trump ultimately issued a pardon for such defendants on Monday, as he said he would. Vance has also long been in favor of pardons. That hasn't stopped the liberal mainstream media from trying to portray the Trump-Vance administration as already being in disarray, though.
"Trump's Mass Pardon For Jan. 6 Rioters Went Farther Than Republicans Had Wanted," read one headline from HuffPost.
"Even Vance had recently said such a broad pardon would 'obviously' not be appropriate," the piece mentioned,
Gone but Not Forgotten: Judge Cannon Issues
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Despite the dismissal of the classified documents case against President Donald Trump and his co-defendants, Walt Nauta and Carlos DeOiveira, in July on grounds that Special Counsel Jack Smith was appointed (and funds for his work were appropriated) in violation of the Constitution, and the subsequent dismissal of the case altogether by the Biden Justice Department as to Trump, the case remains pending on appeal as to Nauta and DeOliveira. And in the waning days of the Biden administration, there was a mad scramble over whether or not Smith's "Final Report" could (and should) be released.
We've covered the back and forth on these legal battles fairly closely,
DAVOS, Switzerland - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday he does not support freedom of speech when it is used for extreme-right views, a day after a hand gesture by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk caused uproar during Donald Trump's inauguration festivities.
"We have the freedom of speech in Europe and in Germany. Everyone can say what he wants, even if he is a billionaire. And what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme-right positions," Scholz said in Davos when asked about the incident.
Musk's hand gesture during a celebration of President Trump's inauguration drew online comparisons to a Nazi salute.
Musk dismissed the criticism as a "tired" attack.
Judge Aileen Cannon Blocks Last Minute
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Last week Florida Judge Aileen Cannon outlined her skepticism about the motive and timing of the Biden-Garland DOJ seeking approval to send congressional representatives a volume II report outlining the Jack Smith investigation of President Trump in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. Today in a 14-page ruling [SEE HERE] Judge Cannon blocked the DOJ effort. While Jack Smith and the DOJ dropped the case against President Trump, there are still two defendants in the defunct case, Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira. Judge Cannon saw through the political Lawfare motive behind the report and noted there were numerous references to grand jury evidence and other materials
As Republicans and Trump supporters recover from the massive adrenalin rush that was Inauguration Day, Democrats are in for a four-year-long, rough road of facing the consequences of losing the 2024 presidential election. They are now living with the fact that the American people soundly rejected their policies for a man they repeatedly smeared as "Hitler" and a fascist during the last few weeks of the campaign. As Donald Trump's cabinet picks wind their way through the Senate confirmation process, Democrats just can't quit their childish, petty behavior and are now engaging in new tactics.
How stupid are Democrats? Better yet, how stupid do they think you are?
As I type this, various left-wing politicians and their press allies are trying to create a narrative that Elon Musk gave a "fascist salute" while speaking at President Donald Trump's victory rally on Monday. Did that happen? Of course, it didn't happen, but that didn't stop everyone from PBS News journalists or Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) from spreading the lie. (X) So what's the real story? Musk, who has publicly spoken about having autism, was awkwardly gesturing toward the crowd while saying, "My heart goes out to you." He wasn't giving a "nazi salute."
The inaugural festivities continued for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday, with both men finding themselves sitting in the National Cathedral for an "interfaith" prayer service. But while most of the speakers acquitted themselves well, a female Episcopalian "bishop" decided to fulfill the far-left's wildest dreams by directing a woke tangent at the president. During Mariann Budde's "sermon," she ranted about "transgender children" and asked Trump to have "mercy" on those who are "scared" of his administration, including those who "pick our crops." Here's the final few minutes of what she said. BUDDE: Let me make one
One of Donald Trump’s first acts as president was to commute the sentences of or pardon nearly every single Jan. 6 prisoner, setting them all free. But multiple prisons and halfway houses have resisted complying, with the D.C. gulag holding multiple prisoners hostage and refusing to release them.
Trump’s historic order commuted the sentences of about a dozen individuals and pardoned “all individuals convicted of offenses related to event that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.” It ordered that those “currently held in prison are released immediately.” But the thugs who have so abused and trampled the rights of the J6ers
The Lava Ridge Wind project in Idaho has been a thorn in Idaho's sides locally for quite some time. Last June, I told you all about how the Bureau of Land Management had, once the developer's plans were approved, closed the required 90-day public comment period with a 'thank you all for your input.' The BLM pinkie swore to seriously consider every single one of the 11,000 or so comments submitted.
...As these things go, there were quite a few reasonable objections to Lava Ridge's construction besides its being big, ugly, and a waste.
For one thing, the proposal snugged behemoth wind turbines damn near right up against
Lip reader suggests Obama asked Bush how
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Barack Obama asked George W. Bush how they could “stop what’s happening” during President Trump’s inauguration on Monday, according to a lip reader.
Jackie Gonzalez, a deaf woman who shares her interpretations of celebrities’ and politicians’ private conversations on social media, made a now-viral video revealing what she believed the two former presidents were discussing during a candid moment at Trump’s inauguration.
Footage of Obama and Bush sharing a laugh during Trump’s swearing-in ceremony took off online Monday, with many internet sleuths wondering what the 43rd and 44th presidents were joking about.
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With less than 20 minutes before his term in office expired, the head of the Biden crime family preemptively pardoned his three siblings: James Biden, Francis Biden, and Valerie Biden Owens. He also pardoned his in-laws, John Owens and Sara Jones Biden. This was in addition to the pardon that the family boss had previously conferred on his son, Hunter Biden. I’m referring, of course, to “President Biden.”
“Biden” also preemptively pardoned General Milley, Dr. Fauci, and the members of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 House Committee.
Among the January 6 Committee members pardoned by “Biden” is Rep. Jamie Raskin. As House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer cruelly recalled, “Raskin once claimed
The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington gave an insultingly political speech that excoriated President Trump for...being President Trump, basically.
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde took the opportunity to slam President Trump at the National Prayer Service, where he sat among many of the nation's leaders. The idea of the Prayer Service is to unify the attendees and remind them that we are all one nation under God.
It was appalling in every way, no doubt coming from a leftist who speaks endlessly about love, compassion, and unity. She implied that Trump was an enemy of gay and lesbian people, criticized him for wanting to deport
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is well aware that the state he represents voted for President Donald Trump in 2024, and he even accepted an invitation to Trump's Mar-a-Lago. The commonwealth is a moderate, purple state, and Fetterman is something of a moderate senator, especially on certain issues. Does that mean he'll join the Republican Party, though? Don't count on it. On Monday night, there was chatter that a Democratic senator might be switching his or her party affiliation to Republican "by next week." (X)
President Donald Trump wasted no time on his first day back in office, signing a series of executive actions aimed at restoring national sovereignty, economic prosperity, and public safety.
These bold initiatives mark a stark departure from the Biden regime’s globalist policies and signal a return to the principles that put the American people first.
Here is the list of presidential actions Trump signed on Monday following his inauguration:
Withdrawing The United States From The World Health Organization,
Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok,
Former President Joe Biden said he was “concerned” about Donald Trump giving preemptive pardons to family members, according to a resurfaced interview from 2020 — before he went on to pardon his own son and siblings while doling out the highest number of presidential pardons and commutations in US history.
In a December 2020 interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, Biden warned against then-outgoing President Trump issuing preemptive pardons to his adult children, his attorney Rudy Giuliani and possibly even one for himself before the Democrat’s Department of Justice took over.
“It concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks (at) us
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn into office as the president, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy asked him to review federal approval of New York’s congestion pricing program, which costs New Jersey drivers an additional $9 to enter midtown Manhattan. In a letter sent to Trump on Monday, Murphy said, “I welcome any opportunity to work with you and your Administration where we can find common ground.” Murphy then reminded the president that he called congestion pricing “a disaster for NYC” during his campaign. Murphy referred to the new toll as “a disaster for working- and middle-class New Jersey commuters
President Donald Trump was left in disbelief as he was forced to listen to a woke bishop deliver a stunningly negative sermon calling for him to show 'mercy' to illegal immigrants and transgender children. On the first full day of Trump's presidency Marianne Budde, the left-wing Episcopal Bishop of Washington, unleashed a wild lecture claiming trans kids were 'fearing for their lives' due to him being in the Oval Office.
Trump sat stony-faced in the front row, next to First Lady Melania Trump, as the prelate told him illegal immigrants were not criminals and he shouldn't deport those with children.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) had some pointed comments for Democrats complaining about President Donald Trump’s decision to pardon almost 1,500 individuals convicted on charges related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.The president rankled more than a few feathers when he issued the pardons, with high-profile Democrats criticizing the move. Yet, as Thune pointed out, perhaps Democrats should be more upset with former President Joe Biden for paving the way for this move.
While answering questions from reporters on Capitol Hill, Thune addressed the issue directly.
Barron Trump, 18, appears to be following in his father’s footsteps — as he’s preparing to launch a luxury real estate venture with two young business partners.
The youngest son of President Donald Trump briefly incorporated his business, Trump, Fulcher & Roxburgh Capital Inc., last July in Wyoming, but the company was dissolved just four months later after Donald’s election win, according to a report in Newsweek.
The venture, which had listed Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach as its principal address, according to records obtained by The Post, is reportedly set to relaunch in spring 2025.
Eighteen Democratic states, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., are suing President Donald Trump and his administration over the newly signed executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
The coalition of attorneys general allege the order violates the 14th Amendment, which guarantees that anyone born in the U.S. is considered a legal citizen regardless of their parents’ immigration status.
“The President has no authority to rewrite or nullify a constitutional amendment or duly enacted statute. Nor is he empowered
Hello, "revolution of common sense." Goodbye, "America's decline."
I have never liked President Donald Trump's manner of speaking, which is usually a stream-of-consciousness sea of platitudes, promises and partisan smears. He's often boastful and incoherent, but not Monday.
On Monday, he was bold and subdued, ambitious and contemplative. In Trump's inaugural speech, his first as the 47th president of the United States, he painted a picture of America on the rise, one where working-class Americans prosper again, the nation's borders are secure and the woke agenda of the past four years is erased.
"Our top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free," the new president said.
It isn't as if he hasn't already had an extraordinarily eventful day, but after church services, tea, a swearing-in, an inaugural address, another speech to supporters, a review of the troops, a luncheon, another speech, and a trek to Capital One Arena to address 20,000 supporters there and sign several executive orders, President Donald Trump headed to the Oval Office to sign even more executive orders. (After that, he's set to attend inaugural balls.)
And it wasn't just that he signed a whole slew of executive orders; it's that he did so while simultaneously shooting the breeze with reporters, discussing a wide variety of issues. It was something to behold.
Adm. Linda L. Fagan, the first female commandant of the Coast Guard, has been terminated, with sources suggesting her failure to address border security while simultaneously focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies was a significant reason for the firing.
U.S. Naval Institute News reviewed a message from the acting secretary of Homeland Security explaining that Fagan had been removed from her position.
“Under my statutory authority as the Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security I have relieved Admiral Linda L. Fagan of her duties as Commandant of the United States Coast Guard
As you likely heard already, on Monday, Trump withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), citing the organization’s “mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states.”
Trump also cited the fact that the United States contributes a disproportionate amount of money to the WHO: “In addition, the WHO continues to demand unfairly onerous payments from the United States, far out of proportion with other countries’ assessed payments. China, with a population of 1.4 billion, has 300
Shock: WaPo Reporter Shuts Down Dem Influencer
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Donald Trump had only been the 47th President of the United States for a few hours before he got right down to business, signing a stack of executive orders to undo the damage Joe Biden has done, with some signed at the Capital One Arena during an inauguration-related rally and others being signed in the Oval Office.
Among the orders, as we reported, were ones designed to help secure the southern border, end birthright citizenship, pause the TikTok ban for a short time, and withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization. During his time behind the Resolute Desk, Trump casually engaged
Joe Biden was handing out preemptive pardons to some of the Swamp’s creepiest and slimiest characters. From Fauci to Milley, Cheney to Kinzinger, and plenty of ghouls in between including the one we’re focusing on today: Adam Schiff.Schiff happily accepted the blanket pardon—but why? If he did nothing wrong, why would he need one?
That’s the question that is coming back to haunt Schiff, even as we speak.
After all, it was Schiff who showed up on Joy Reid’s low-rated show to discuss these preemptive pardons, and how innocent people don’t need them.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) flew into a rage over President Donald Trump pardoning and commuting some 1,500 Americans who were ensnared by the FBI’s overreach concerning the January 6 riots. It was an action long foreseen, though liberals need something to whine about, as it’s their only crutch regarding the 2024 elections. The California liberal took to social media to voice her outrage:
Tonight, the President announced pardons and commutations of sentences for those who violently attacked the Capitol and law enforcement officers on January 6th.
Well … Isn’t this a sight to see …When it comes to left-wing ESPN, I’m not a fan and neither are a lot of other conservatives. Hell, I literally wrote an anti-ESPN blog just one day before writing this piece. And it’s because of the political nonsense that they’ve thrown at us for years now. But it’s more than just spewing propaganda to our face — you also have the fact that they’ve treated their employees like crap in the past.
Former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who's famous for predicting that President Trump would bring global recession in 2017, can't stop talking.
Now he's now got another forecast for us.
Nobel economist Paul Krugman says Trump's policies will leave his blue-collar base feeling 'brutally scammed'
The Nobel-winning economist says tariffs and deportations will hurt instead of help the poor.
The economist, who won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2008, criticized the president-elect's plans to raise tariffs and cut taxes during Tuesday's episode of "The Daily Blast with Greg Sargent" podcast.
He told The New Republic show that those and other policies would lead to the working class paying higher prices
Even the Most Ethics Free Man in Congress
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Is Disturbed by Biden's Craven J6 Committee Pardons replies
I’m guessing it would take quite a lot to cross California Democrat Sen. Adam Schiff’s ethical line because in Donald Trump’s first term and in the subsequent corrupt J6 Committee, the long-necked Democrat proved that he was willing to do just about anything to “get Trump.” As fierce and nasty a partisan as you could find in The Swamp, Schiff was a leader of both impeachment trials against the 45th president—now the 47th president—and for years promised evidence of Russia collusion that he never produced.
We're still waiting, Adam.
He is so dishonest that the House censured him in 2023
Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) wasted no time beginning its purge of reckless government spending by shutting the Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council, the world’s richest man revealed.
Musk shared a screenshot hours after President Trump’s inauguration Monday showing the website for the office responsible for diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA was no longer working). (Snip) “It begins,” Musk wrote, while his DOGE’s official account added: “Progress.”
“YOU’RE FIRED!”
President Donald Trump started purging more than 1,000 appointees from former President Joe Biden’s administration overnight – starting with celebrity chef Jose Andres and embattled retired General Mark Milley.
The new commander-in-chief fired off the “official notice of dismissal” to four Biden appointees in a midnight social media post, bluntly warning that his team were hunting down even more to throw out of office. (Photo)
“Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,”
There's a new sheriff in town, ladies and gents, one who doesn't take well to international bullies — and one of those bullies has already changed his tune. Or at least, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin wants the world (and President Donald Trump) to think he has.
Speaking of peace with Ukraine, Putin said in the hours immediately following Trump's swearing-in: "The goal should not be a temporary ceasefire, a short-term pause for regrouping forces and rearming to continue the conflict later, but a lasting peace based on respect for the legitimate interests of all people and nations living in the region."
If some of the liberals who claim they're going to leave the country when Donald Trump takes office intend to stick to their plans, they may need new passports, especially if they don't identify as men or women.
Trump said and did a lot of things today, but one of his statements that received the loudest cheers and a standing ovation was that the federal government will only recognize two genders going forward. "As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders: male and female," he said during his speech in the Capitol Rotunda,
In two earlier pieces for Townhall (here and here), I’ve sounded warnings for the Biden administration: Unless something changes, President Biden will be ranked as among America’s worst chief executives. And this is not only according to the Constitution’s job description, a measure conservatives might use to assess presidents. It also is true according to indicators left-of-center academics employ to raise the rankings of presidents whose policies they like and suppress the rankings of presidents they don’t like.
Like nearly all deficient presidents, Biden served only one term. He is now mercifully gone. But his actions during his final days will cement his low rating.
The Gateway Pundit reported earlier that 1500 J6 hostages have been granted a “full, complete and unconditional pardon” this evening. The release of the political prisoners has already begun, including Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to over 20 years and but was never in Washington DC on January 6th.
(X) Other J6er families have begun to share their joy with fellow patriots via X as they prepare to welcome home their persecuted loved ones. (X's)
I for one have not yet grown tired of all the winning. And I suspect our readers have a second wind for more, too. Especially when this win means we all get to stay in the game rather than have the federal government shut us down.
The win this time came at the Department of Homeland Security, which is days away from getting newly appointed Secretary Kristi Noem installed. Word has reached DHS that the new sheriff is in town anyway, and this one plans to put an end to government censorship via politicized "fact checks." The acting DHS head has put an end
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring most federal employees to return to work in person full time, a move that is likely to spark backlash and legal challenges from unions.
WHAT DOES TRUMP'S ORDER DO?
Trump directed the heads of all federal agencies to "take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements" and require employees to report to "their respective duty stations" full time. The two-sentence order says the directive "shall be implemented consistent with applicable law."
CAN TRUMP PROHIBIT FEDERAL EMPLOYEES FROM WORKING REMOTELY?
It depends. The president has broad authority over the federal workforce, including the power to tell agencies to stop allowing remote work for employees
Forty years ago on the day of this writing, your correspondent endured a minor disappointment. As a staffer for Ronald Reagan’s second inaugural committee, it was to be his honor to escort the Supreme Court of the United States onto the platform.
But then a smart, common-sense decision was made: move the oath-taking indoors, out of a bitter and dangerous January chill. [snip] History did not just repeat or rhyme today – it echoed, resoundingly. The 45th and now 47th president had dodged his own bullet and outlasted not just unprecedented attacks on his policies and character, but also threats to his personal finances and freedom,
Donald Trump, now the 45th and 47th president of the United States, promised his “top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free,” during his second inaugural speech Monday. At the same time roughly half way around the globe, a group met with the intention of dividing the world into two parts – an inner circle of masters and the rest of the 8 billion on Earth who would be ruled by them.
Trump is far from being the fascist that his most rabid opponents claim he is. Chapman University professor Joel Kotkin captures well the baseless
All of Joe Biden's preemptive pardons for the worst political malefactors in recent years are an insult to the rule of law, but one in particular sticks in my craw: Mark Milley.
Why?
I expect bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci to be ass-covering snakes with a lust for power and disdain for accountability, and I am confident that he will burn in hell and be remembered as the mass murderer that he is.
I expect politicians like Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, and the sc*mbags of the January 6th Committee to be liars who would sacrifice their souls for an extra minute on TV and an additional campaign dollar.
7 Highlights From Trump’s Inauguration
Address: ‘The Golden Age Of America
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Address: ‘The Golden Age Of America
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President Donald Trump became the second commander-in-chief ever to serve two non-consecutive terms on Monday. He was sworn in for a second time following two failed assassination attempts and an unprecedented campaign to imprison him.
“The golden age of America begins right now,” Trump said. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.” The president vowed to transform the nation into the “envy of every nation” beginning with a series of executive orders and efforts intended to unleash the economy, dismantle the leviathan of the administrative state, restore American patriotism, and embark on a new era of exploration in space.
Trump signed executive orders to withdraw from the China-dominated World Health Organization and trash federal DEI programs. The Trump transition team released a lengthy statement and compilation of today's orders: Today, after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, President Donald J. Trump began taking aggressive and decisive action to make good on the promises he made to the American people during the campaign.
GAME ON: Trump Takes a Hammer to Birthright
Citizenship, Says 'People Have Wanted
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Citizenship, Says 'People Have Wanted
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Even before the Inauguration festivities kicked off Monday, incoming White House officials confirmed that President Trump would be taking a hammer to the disastrous immigration policies of the Biden administration that have resulted in unprecedented protections for illegals. And, here he is Monday evening, sitting behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, signing order after order to protect American citizens from the onslaught of the past four years. One Executive Order that is sure to raise the ire of the left—likely resulting in a plethora of lawsuits—is the one that obliterates the current definition of "birthright citizenship."
There’s no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address.
Trump is back, with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose.
Voters saved his political life and legacy by reelecting him in the face of every accusation and criminal charge against him. Trump has been given a second chance — by God and the country alike — and his address left no doubt he intends to use it to transform America.
“The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun,” he promised.
The old Washington advice that Americans should watch what a president does and not what he says needs an urgent update.
Donald Trump intends to say and do the very same things.
That was the message and meaning of his unorthodox inauguration speech.
He sat in the Oval Office before and the four years he spent trying to get back there have given him plenty of time to decide what he wants to do. The result is that his 30-minute address wasn’t one of those that is chock full of soaring rhetoric that reaches for the sky but-
Let them eat word salad!
Newly unemployed Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff are slinking back to Los Angeles Monday — where they will pass out food to wildfire victims after all but ignoring their plight for two weeks.
The former vice president has formally left the White House and is returning to her mansion in the wildfire ravaged city after losing the election to President Trump in the November.
Harris is expected to fly to her home state with an all-female US Air Force crew, the first of which to ever operate a C-33, MSNBC reported.
Two brothers convicted in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack became the first of the rioters to be freed late Monday after President Trump issued Day 1 pardons to hundreds of the participants.
Andrew and Matthew Valentin, from Stroudsburg, Pa., were released from the Central Detention Facility in Washington, DC just before midnight, Trump administration officials announced outside the jail — adding that Elon Musk was “the mastermind” behind their sudden freedom.
“The first two January 6 defendants have been released. This is a few hours after President Trump signed his historic pardon,” the White House liaison to the Justice Department Paul Ingrassia told reporters,
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Breathtaking: There's no other word for the sheer ambition and scope of Donald Trump's second inaugural address.
President Trump is back with all the confidence of a man delivered from death for a purpose.
Voters save his political life and legacy, too, by reelecting him in the face of every accusation and criminal charge against him.
Trump has been given a second chance -- by God and the country alike -- and his address left no doubt he intends to use it to transform America.
"The future is ours, and our golden age has just begun," he promised.
Other presidents have struck optimistic notes,
Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) slammed freshly sworn-in President Donald Trump’s remarks from his inauguration ceremony, calling him a “liar” for calling out the House Select Committee on January 6 and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D), right after she received a preemptive pardon from outgoing President Joe Biden.
During his speech in front of dignitaries and family members in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, Trump lamented how he offered Pelosi “10,000 soldiers” to mitigate the risk of unrest on January 6, 2021, “but she rebuffed them”:
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I’ve never really been in favor of the idea of endless investigations into people just because they are your political opponent. I didn’t like it when Democrats did it to Donald Trump, and I wasn’t keen on the idea of Republicans doing it to Democrats. But notice how that sentence is in the past tense. Screw those people, unleash the hounds.
I have known Joe Biden was a vindictive, corrupt little man. On his last day in office he showed just how far down the toilet he now lives.
My former boss, the late Montana Senator Conrad Burns,
President Donald Trump slammed former President Joe Biden for pardoning members of the Biden family business during his inaugural address.
Joe Biden pardoned James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden just before noon Monday. Breitbart News has previously reported on their participation in the family business.“Did you know that Biden, while I was making my speech, pardoned his whole family?” Trump asked the crowd at Capitol One Arena in Washington, DC.
The crowd replied by booing the family that made millions while Joe Biden was an elected official. Republicans say the family members only made millions due to peddling influence to the elected official.
Former President Joe Biden, just hours before he left office, issued a flurry of preemptive pardons for his political allies — including retired Gen. Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and members of the J6 Committee — but skipped one for Ukraine impeachment hoaxer Alexander Vindman.
Vindman’s wife, Rachel Vindman, took to Bluesky to whine about being left off the pardon list.
“Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel,” she posted.
Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.S. refugee programs, a U.S. official and a leading refugee resettlement advocate said on Monday. [SNIP] Nearly 200,000 Afghans have been brought to the U.S. by former President Joe Biden's administration since the chaotic U.S. troop withdrawal from Kabul.
In a surprising move, just minutes before President Donald Trump was officially sworn in for his second term, FBI Director Paul Abbate announced his retirement. The timing of his departure, coinciding with the beginning of a new administration, raised eyebrows, particularly given the ongoing scrutiny surrounding the FBI’s actions during the last eight years. Abbate, who had served as deputy director before taking the helm, left behind a bureau at the center of political controversy, leaving many to wonder about the potential implications for the agency under the incoming administration.
President Trump entered the Commander-in-Chief ball with first lady Melania Trump to a thunderous ovation as the inaugural events continued late into the night on Monday.
The 54-year-old first lady dazzled the crowd as she walked out in a striking black-and-white strapless gown, white high-heeled shoes and black choker with an elegant broach resembling a floral bouquet affixed to it. (Photo) The dress was reportedly designed by Hervé Pierre, the same couturier behind Melania’s 2017 Inauguration ball dress.
Trump, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, promptly began dancing with his wife at the event aimed at military service members.
The commander of the U.S. Coast Guard was fired, citing border, recruiting concerns and “eroded trust,” a senior Department of Homeland Security official confirmed to Fox News.
Adm. Linda Lee Fagan was fired by Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamin Huffman, officials said.
Mr. Fagan has demonstrated poor leadership, operational failures, and an inability to advance the Coast Guard's strategic objectives. These include failures to address border security threats, poor leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement of key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, and commitments to diversity, equity, and inclusion. These include excessive focus and a “loss of trust” in mismanagement and compensation.
Demonstrators rally outside the Central Detention Facility, also known as the D.C. Jail, after President Donald Trump pardoned and commuted thousands sentences of of participants in the January 6 Capitol riot.
Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of around 1,500 protesters involved in the January 6 riot after referring to them as “hostages” and “political prisoners” at times on Inauguration Day. Former President Joe Biden announced preemptive pardons for Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and members of the January 6 committee on Monday as one of his last acts, as well as blanket pardons for multiple members of his own family.
As the Gateway Pundit reported earlier today, Joe Biden issued a number of questionable preemptive pardons on his way out the door to members of his family as well as Tony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and the entire J6 Select Committee.
The stench of corruption on display here is so obvious that even some major Democrat figures are speaking out.
Mark Penn is a former Clinton pollster and he published a lengthy screed on Twitter/X, absolutely slamming Joe Biden for doing this.
Penn’s tweet reads: The last straw
Last minute pardons for Biden’s political accomplices were the plan all along.
Soon after Trump won the 2024 election, Joe Biden started going on a clemency blitz, granting a full and unconditional pardon for his son Hunter, and then issuing blanket pardons for thousands of other criminals, commuting the death sentences of death row inmates, and then, on his last day in office, issuing preemptive pardons to his political allies and then -- finally, with mere minutes left in his presidency -- members of his family.
Biden issued a “full and unconditional pardon” to his brother, James B. Biden, his sister-in-law, Sara Jones Biden, his sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and her husband, John T. Owens.
What a day it has been, fellow patriots.
Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States. (X) He issued a slew of executive orders to undo the damage done by Joe Biden over the last four years, declaring the southern border situation a national emergency, nuked wasteful federal DEI programs, and withdrew again from the Paris Climate Treaty. (X Video) It’s just the beginning of how this administration will set us back on track, back to greatness and national revival. Yet, after the ceremonies, Trump attended the various balls last evening,
Donald Trump issued two executive orders launching investigations into Joe Biden's White House over institutional censorship and weaponization of law enforcement.
The president signed at least 78 bills on Monday overturning various declarations and orders given out by his predecessor.
Trump ordered that no federal officer, employee or agent may unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen, an early step toward his campaign promise to dismantle what he called government 'censorship' of U.S. citizens.
The president´s executive order, issued just hours after he was sworn in to a second term.
John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, questioned whether Vice President JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, was “hotter” than his grandmother Jackie Kennedy.
“True or false: Usha Vance is way hotter than Jackie O?” the political correspondent asked his followers via X during President Trump’s inauguration ceremony Monday.
One user responded to Schlossberg, arguing that Usha was “a little hotter than Jackie,” writing, “I think we can both agree that they are two *very* foxy ladies, am I right Jack, my man???”
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) late Monday launched a suit challenging an executive order from President Trump seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are not lawfully present.
It’s an order that contradicts the Constitution, which bestows citizenship on anyone born in the United State regardless of the status of their parents. “Denying citizenship to U.S.-born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values. Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is.
It’s often said that you can tell a lot about parents based on how their children act. If that axiom is indeed true, that reflects rather warmly on the former-and-current first family. Viral video caught the athletic Barron Trump — the youngest son of President Donald Trump — demonstrating some maturity beyond his years at his father’s Monday inauguration.[snip] In the short clip, you can see Barron Trump respectfully shaking the hands of outgoing President Joe Biden and outgoing Vice President Kamala Harris.[snip] The response to the young Trump’s classy move received rave reviews.
Hours after President Trump was sworn into office, a Border Patrol agent in Vermont was shot during a traffic stop Monday afternoon. NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley reported the agent was shot and killed by a suspected illegal alien, Fox News also reported the agent was killed.
In his inaugural address, Trump made a priority to secure the border and crack down on illegal immigration. In November after winning the presidential election, Trump threatened Canada and Mexico with tariffs if they did not act on the border and drug trafficking.
Vermont State Police issued a press release that did not provide many details:
President Donald Trump and Melania Trump sent the crowd into a tizzy when they finally showed up at the Commander in Chief inaugural ball Monday night.[Snip]The first lady debuted a white and black leggy dress, which was custom-made by Hervé Pierre, the same designer who crafted her 2017 inaugural gown.[Snip]The 47th president and Melania Trump were played onto the ornate stage at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center by the Marine Band, right before 10:30 p.m., several hours after they were initially expected to arrive.[Snip]The Trumps then headed to the Liberty Ball and then the Starlight Ball before official inauguration programming ends for the day.