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A former Harvard classmate ridiculed one of Donald Trump's allies for getting himself banished from the newly elected president's orbit before Inauguration Day.

Vivek Ramaswamy is parting ways with the quasi-governmental Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to launch a campaign for Ohio governor, and former Harvard classmate Pablo Torre told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that the venture capitalist had alienated the MAGA movement with a brash social media post.

President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to enact an executive order declaring the end of birthright citizenship, saying the federal government will not recognize the citizenship of anyone born in the United States to at least one citizen or lawful permanent resident parent — an order that could theoretically even deny citizenship to some people whose parents are in the country legally.

This action is considered flagrantly unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment by an overwhelming majority of legal scholars, and is all but certain to be both challenged in court and ignored by many states for the purpose of their own laws based on federal citizenship. But beyond that, CNN data analyst Harry Enten told anchor Sara Sidner it's wildly unpopular and almost tailor-made to wipe out the modicum of goodwill and benefit of the doubt voters have given him during the presidential transition.

A reporter who has written extensively about the Jan. 6 insurrection condemned Donald Trump's blanket pardon of more than 1,500 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol to overturn the 2020 election results.

NBC News correspondent Ryan Reilly, whose work has been cited by the FBI and by the Jan. 6 committee, appeared Tuesday on "Morning Joe" to discuss the newly inaugurated president's sweeping pardons of his supporters who violently attacked police officers, vandalized the Capitol building and interrupted the congressional certification of Joe Biden's election win.

President Donald Trump went as scorched-earth as he possibly could in the January 6 pardons, former federal prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN's Sara Sidner on Tuesday morning — a clemency for violent assaults on police so total that even many conservatives are unable to defend it.

"Let's start with this," said Sidner. "The scope of these pardons is enormous. Was this a surprise to you? Because it certainly seemed like a surprise to J.D. Vance, who had said that he didn't agree with the January 6th pardons for violent offenders."

CNN business reporter Matt Egan on Tuesday expressed incredulity that President Donald Trump launched his own cryptocurrency just days before taking office.

During an interview with CNN's Kate Bolduan, Egan emphasized the unprecedented nature of Trump's decision to launch his own digital meme coin, which in theory allows foreign governments to put money directly into his pockets.

Donald Trump's post-inaugural rally was intended to project "royal" authority to keep Republican lawmakers in line, according to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.

Bitterly cold temperatures forced his swearing-in ceremony indoors at the Capitol rotunda, and he held a celebration afterward at the Capital One Arena, where thousands gathered to hear the new president speak and sign executive orders while surrounded by law enforcement groups and marching bands.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough predicted that Donald Trump's pardon of his violent Jan. 6 supporters could endanger the chances of at least one of his nominees to be confirmed.

The newly inaugurated president issued blanket pardons to U.S. Capitol riot defendants, including those convicted of attacking law enforcement officers, within hours of being sworn in to a second term in office, and the "Morning Joe" host wondered how that brazen move would impact Senate confirmation hearings for his nominees.

Conservative Jonah Goldberg on Tuesday had a warning for Republicans who believe that President Donald Trump's mass pardon of violent January 6th rioters will fade away from the news.

During a panel segment on the pardons, Goldberg slammed both former President Joe Biden and Trump for enacting what he described as "flatly indefensible" pardons on Monday.

President Joe Biden’s last day in office – which saw President Donald Trump sweep back into power – was anything but normal in the legal world as pardons flew from the outgoing president with more expected to come from the new commander-in-chief.

That’s according to CNN’s senior legal analyst Elie Honig, who said Monday that Biden ushered in “a new moment in U.S history” with his flurry of pardons in his remaining minutes as president. They are likely to be followed be Trump’s long-held promise to pardon Jan. 6 rioters.

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace noted during the first hour of her show Monday afternoon that ultra-wealthy tech titans appeared to take precedence during President Donald Trump's inauguration, as they sat in front of possible Cabinet officials.

"If you widen out where it used to be a liability for any Democratic elected official or Republican elected official to be seen as on the take on the grift, and now you've got Trump enriching and selling everything," said Wallace. "And the people closest to him at this event were not members of the military, not members of Congress, not members of his Cabinet, not even all the family or grandkids. It was the billionaires."

During his presidential swearing-in inaugural ceremony, Donald Trump several times invoked God, while inexplicably not placing his hand on either of the two Bibles Melania Trump held at his side.

“I was saved by God to make America great again,” Trump told the former presidents, lawmakers, and billionaires in attendance at the Capitol Rotunda. “We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God,” Trump also declared, adding, “We will not forget our God.”