2024 Elections

According to one columnist, Democrats have nothing to fear in the future with Donald Trump unable to run again in 2028 and, therefore, they should bedevil him at every turn and make the next four years unbearable for him.

In a column with the none-too-subtle headline of "Shove the Presidency Down Trump’s Throat," Jason Linkins of The New Republic suggests heaping problems on the president-elect to the point where they "Wake him up early and keep him up late."

A decision by Donald Trump and his team to move his inaugural festivities indoors due to expected cold weather on Monday both infuriated and disappointed some of his visiting MAGA fans who voiced their complaints on MSNBC.

With the official proceedings being moved to the Capitol with its limited seating, four of the president's supporters got the bad news on the street with one man bluntly complaining, "I don't like it."

According to MSNBC's Chris Jansing, the expected weather on Monday will actually be warmer than MAGA fans have experienced at some of his rallies.

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Four men who are already in town to watch Trump's swearing in made their feelings about the change known on national TV.

'Well, I don't like it," stated one man wearing a black MAGA hat. "I mean, we came all the way to Washington from Oklahoma and, you know, now we're not going to get to see it?"

Speaking for himself and his friend wearing a knit Trump beanie he added, "We're like, we might as well have stayed at home and watched it on TV."

Another man complained, "It's actually something that we've been looking forward to for historical purposes and being a part of it that's once in a lifetime" as his companion agreed and added, "Absolutely."

"We made all the plans, all the arrangements to come up and be a part of this event and all of a sudden to hear that it's being moved indoors," he added as his friend chimed in with, "We're prepared for the weather –– it's not a problem."

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Educators and families in areas where Donald Trump's "America First" seemed to resonate the most could be hit with "catastrophic" cuts.

Tom Gambrel, the superintendent of Bell County, Kentucky, schools, joined most of his neighbors and cast his vote for Trump with his students in mind, but he told CNN that he hopes the president-elect doesn't carry through with his plan to cut federal education funding.

With a reported $250 million expected to flow into Donald Trump's inauguration coffers, with tech billionaires and business execs providing a substantial amount of the cash, Politico is reporting that much of it will end up being excess that the president-elect can do with as he pleases.

As Politico's Alice Miranda Ollstein, Caitlin Oprysko and Irie Sentner are reporting, the U.S. government already funds much of the inaugural activities so, with a record haul, Trump may find himself with millions he can divert elsewhere and that has raised questions.

President-elect is reportedly urging Vivek Ramaswamy, co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), to vie for the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance.

The Washington Post first reported that Trump wanted Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) to appoint Ramaswamy to complete Vance's term in the Senate.

Gov. Jim Pillen (R-NE) ordered flags at the Nebraska Capitol to be flown at full staff on Inauguration Day even though they were supposed to be at half staff until the end of January due to the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

Pillen issued the order after a complaint from President-elect Donald Trump.

Business leaders are knuckling under Donald Trump's demands for cash, and the president-elect's team expects him to build up a $500 million war chest to exert his dominance over the Republican Party.

The former and impending president doesn't want to be seen as a lame duck after returning for a non-consecutive second term, even though he's constitutionally prohibited from running again, so he's stockpiling cash to help his GOP allies and punish anyone who steps out of line, reported Axios.

A jab from White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre caused Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy to blush during what was expected to be their final press conference together in the White House briefing room.

"If I don't see you again in the briefing, thank you for always ... You could have stopped taking the hard questions years ago, and you didn't, so we appreciate that," Doocy said at the beginning of his questions on Monday.

Donald Trump has forged close ties with the world's richest man in the world, Elon Musk, but the President-elect's fan base is lashing out at Musk's social network.

The apparent origin of the controversy is the blow-up between Musk himself, who advocated for legal immigration policies that benefit his companies, and many in the MAGA base, who hope to curtail all types of incoming immigrants.

Donald Trump's own supporters on Saturday lashed out as the President-elect announced the nomination of a contributor to Project 2025.

Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign distanced himself from Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation's blueprint for a Republican presidential administration. The project was found by polls to be devastating for Republicans, and Trump did what he could to disassociate from those who headed it.

A Donald Trump ally said he told the President-elect to his face that he and other GOP lawmakers "do not want" an idea Trump has floated in several interviews.

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) was floated by Trump as a potential vice presidential candidate before J.D. Vance was ultimately selected, and Donalds frequently defends the former and incoming president in interviews on TV.

At a time when the always newsworthy Donald Trump is headed back to the White House, the venerable Washington Post should be gearing up to cover his second term but instead is being subjected to an exodus of top reporters and internal strife, reports the Wall Street Journal's Alexandra Bruell.

In her report for the Journal, Bruell notes that Amazon founder and billionaire Jeff Bezos, who bought the Post in 2013 for $250 million, just watched his investment lose around $100 million last year as new management has failed to stop the bleeding.