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The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, wasted no time trolling President-elect Donald Trump, posting a vintage map showing that a large portion of what is now the United States of America used to be called "Mexican America." President Sheinbaum delivered her remarks in response to Trump's claim that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of America."

President Sheinbaum "used her Wednesday morning news conference to show a world map dating from 1607. The map labeled North America as Mexican America and already identified the Gulf of Mexico as such, 169 years before the United States was founded," The New York Times reports.

The Santa Ana winds continue to make fighting fires in the Pacific Palisades more difficult. The strong winds on Tuesday forced fast evacuations that led to area panic.

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Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Wednesday grilled Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) about President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to wrest control of Greenland from Denmark.

During the segment, Varney pressed Scott on whether Trump's desire to purchase the large icy territory was realistic given that Denmark has repeatedly insisted that it is not for sale under any circumstances.

Rep. Kevin Hurn (R-OK) revealed that he was traveling to Mar-a-Lago to determine if the next government funding bill would include provisions for a U.S. takeover of Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

During a Wednesday interview on CNBC, host Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Hurn about what President-elect Donald Trump called "one big, beautiful bill" that would fund the government and mass deportations through a unique process that could prevent Democrats from stopping it.

Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bail him out of sentencing in his New York hush money case, and CNN's Elie Honig tried to predict whether they would even take up the appeal.

The president-elect's attorneys asked the court to halt Friday's scheduled sentencing on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to shield payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, saying that moving forward with the case while he appeals the conviction would do harm to the presidency and the federal government. Prosecutors were expected to file a response by Thursday morning.

During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday morning, author and co-founder of Spy magazine, Kurt Anderson, pointed to a moment during Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago press conference when he boasted about still cashing in on Saudi money.

Speaking with the hosts, he claimed the incoming administration has all the hallmarks of becoming rife with what he called "brazen corruption."

"What we're seeing, what Donald Trump wants to do -- we certainly saw it at this incredible press conference yesterday -- is his embrace of the kind of robber baron gilded-age corruption that was endemic in that period," he explained. "We had the Teapot Dome scandal back then."

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"We had just brazen corruption that led to –– in addition to the great depression and reform in the New Deal –– just incredible inequality. We have the highest inequality of course since the 1920's as well," he added. "He put it on parade during that press conference saying, 'Oh, here's my Emirati billionaire golf course developer partner. We're going to give him some government deals to build data centers all over the United States.'"

Continuing paraphrasing Trump he added, "'My son Eric is off in the Middle East building some Trump Towers right now. Oh, by the way, the Saudi golf tour is doing great business, they just announced they're going to bring their tour to my hotel, the Doral in Miami,' and on and on."

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Donald Trump's talk about U.S. territorial expansion has infuriated foreign allies, according to national security experts.

The president-elect has been musing about retaking control of the Panama Canal, purchasing Greenland and merging with Canada, and CNN's John Berman said leaders in other countries don't appreciate his apparent threats.

A new book written by Politico's Alex Isenstadt claims that President-elect Donald Trump gave serious consideration to making Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo his vice-presidential nominee.

As CNN reports, Isenstadt claims that Bartiromo was a "Trump favorite" at the network given her penchant for conducting "numerous softball interviews with him over the years."

Following a long interview with NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," the camera quickly cut to co-host Mika Brzezinski who issued a disclaimer on one comment her guest had just made.

While discussing the influence of billionaires are having on Donald Trump, and vice-versa, Galloway mentioned in passing, "And the reason we put an insurrectionist and a rapist in office is because for the first time in our nation’s history, a 30-year-old man or woman isn’t doing as well as his or his or her parents were at thirty."

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No sooner had Galloway finished speaking with Joe Scarborough than Brzezinski appeared on-screen and read a statement.

"Great conversation," she began. "I want to make a comment about a word that was used in this interview. Donald Trump was tried civilly and was found libel of sexual abuse, not rape. But the judge in the case likened his actions to rape, but the liability was officially called sexual abuse."

Brzezinski's disclaimer comes on the heels of a highly controversial $15 million settlement made by ABC after being sued by the president-elect for similar comments made by host George Stephanopoulos.

Donald Trump's latest claims about the Jan. 6 rioters were subjected to a thorough fact check by CNN's Daniel Dale.

The president-elect has pledged to pardon at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol four years ago, and he told reporters Tuesday during a rambling news conference at Mar-a-Lago that none of the insurrectionists carried a firearm – which Dale said was demonstrably false.

According to Professor Scott Galloway of NYU's Stern School of Business, the growing disparity between the haves and the have-nots is leading to a "series of small revolutions" where billionaires and CEO's may have pushed the envelope too far and put their own lives at risk.

After lashing out at Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg earlier for dismantling Facebook's fact-checking and moderation safety division to make Donald Trump happy –– and put more money in his own pocket at the same time –– Galloway had a warning.

During an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday morning, Professor Scott Galloway of NYU's Stern School of Business ripped into Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's decision to pull the plug on fact-checking and moderation on Facebook. He then included Donald Trump and Elon Musk as he raised red flags over the country's direction.

Speaking with the co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Galloway described in detail how much billionaire Zuckerberg will personally profit from shutting down the vital Facebook department, before pointing out billionaires are rushing to jump on the Trump train which is barreling towards turning the U.S. into a kleptocracy much like Russia.

"With this decision, the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg gets kind of a two-fer," he began. "He gets to placate, at least temporarily, the president who threatened to put him in jail the rest of his life, and he gets to save maybe upwards of $5 billion, which is how much they spend on their [Facebook's] safety and security department –– and a price/earnings ratio of 30, that's potentially $150 billion increase in market capitalization."

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"Mark Zuckerberg owns 15 percent of the company, so you have what is effectively a get-out-of jail-card potentially from someone who appears to be an oligarch threatening to put people in jail, and add $15 to $20 billion to his net worth," he added.

"The greatest trade of 2024 –– it wasn't Bitcoin, it wasn't Nvidia -- it was Elon Musk investing a quarter of a billion dollars directly into the Trump campaign," he explained. "And when Trump won, since the election, Elon Musk's worth has gone up $140 billion. So that's effectively, I believe, about a 56,000 percent return on investment."

"So we've gone full kleptocracy," he bluntly stated. 'We can never, in my opinion, wave our finger at Russia again when the president, the elected president is taking public trust and public authority and weaponizing government and doling out capital and market share and contracts and threatening to use regulatory action against the competitors who don't give money to his inaugural committee or don't kind of bend the knee; we are effectively in a kleptocracy."

"This is –– Russia is the role model. We are becoming more like Russia every day, that's where we are," he added to the stunned hosts.

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Several major wildfires burned out of control in California's Los Angeles County on Wednesday as roaring winds fueled the rapid spread of the blazes, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate as state, local, and federal officials mobilized resources to confront the emergency.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass wrote on social media late Tuesday that the city is "working aggressively" to stem the wildfires, which scientists and government officials characterized as uniquely devastating.