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A magazine reporter assigned to cover Donald Trump's pre-inauguration "victory rally" had an intrusive thought that plagued him throughout the event.

Asawin Suebsaeng, a senior political reporter for Rolling Stone, attended the twice-impeached convicted felon president's rally Sunday at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., and he found that he kept involuntarily scribbling “this is hell, we live in hell, I’m in Hell” over and over.

President Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to extended family members moments before President-elect Donald Trump's swearing-in.

While Biden was at Trump's inaugural ceremony, the Justice Department announced pardons for James Biden, Sarah Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden.

President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA supporters booed former Vice President Mike Pence as he arrived at the inauguration for the 47th president of the United States.

"I will say there is a jumbotron of sorts or a big screen in this room, and that's where they're seeing all the activity," MSNBC Ana Cabrera reported from Capital One Arena. "They booed when they saw Mike Pence show up there."

The Washington Post announced that President Donald Trump will approve nearly 100 executive orders, but according to legal analysts, that doesn't mean that they will become law.

New York City business lawyer Ray Beckerman responded to reports that Trump will no longer recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants by writing, "Uh, that would be unconstitutional."

A woman went on trial in France on Monday accused of starving to death her daughter who died of a heart attack aged 13 in 2020.

Sandrine Pissarra, 54, is charged with torture and barbarity against her daughter at her trial in the southern city of Montpellier.

MAGA activist Steve Bannon argued that Donald Trump's indoor inaugural ceremony was a plot to nullify his second presidency.

"Right there, you see an empty west side of the Capitol, where normally, in about 90 minutes, President Trump will be walking out to start the ceremony," Bannon complained during his Monday War Room broadcast. "I mean, why are they doing it in the Capitol today?"

On the eve of Donald Trump's second presidency, longtime women's rights activist Cecile Richards passed away after a fight with brain cancer.

Richards was the daughter of with former Texas governor Ann Richards, a powerhouse in Democratic politics who ended her time as governor mocking the intellect of George W. Bush. She and Cecile Richards then became a kind of double threat in the fight for women's rights. Richards took over Planned Parenthood in 2006 and battled the "war on women."

Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban had some harsh words for the cryptocurrency industry in the midst of multiple Donald Trump-themed coin launches that have been accused of being pump-and-dump schemes.

Over the weekend, a Trump meme coin appeared to create a $25 billion infusion of value for the president-elect. This morning, it was followed up by a coin from incoming First Lady Melania Trump that caused the original Trump coin to crash in value.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough dared House Republicans to subpoena the individuals whom president Joe Biden pardoned on Monday.

The outgoing president issued preemptive pardons to 51 government officials and other Donald Trump critics, whom many believed would be targeted for prosecution or other persecution as retribution for the former president's own legal troubles, and the "Morning Joe" host questioned the wisdom of holding congressional hearings on their actions.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he was "totally supportive" of purchasing Greenland after MAGA economist Stephen Moore suggested renaming the autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark to "Trumpland."

During a Sunday "Inaugural 2025" discussion of Trumpenomics 2.0 sponsored by Moore's Unleash Prosperity think tank, the economist presented a map with "Trumpland" in place of Greenland. The map also featured the "Gulf of America" for the Gulf of Mexico and named Canada the 51st state. Mexico was called "The Other Side of the Wall."

President-elect Donald Trump based much of his candidacy and policy platform on expelling unauthorized immigrants from the United States — something that voters broadly support, even if they also tell pollsters they don't quite agree with the ways Trump wants to do it, and even if sectors of the economy dependent on immigrant labor are in panic.

But nothing about his agenda is going to play out the way he promised voters it would, wrote David J. Bier of the libertarian Cato Institute in a lengthy thread posted to X.

On. Monday morning President Joe Biden offered a wide array of preemptive pardons to enemies of Donald Trump which led two GOP lawmakers to issue statements that they have no intention of backing off holding investigations.

That, in turn, led to a denunciation by MSNBC's Joe Scarbrough that they will be making a huge mistake that will come back to haunt them one day.

Addressing comments made by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) that those who received pardons, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and retired United States Army General Mark Milley, still face GOP-led congressional hearings, the Morning Joe host launched into a scathing response.

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"I can't sit here and listen to statements like that from these members of Congress," he began. "And it's as if, like me, of course when I first got to Washington, they just fell off a turnip truck. And they don't realize, like old people like me who have seen this happen time and time and time again, that what goes around comes around."

"Oh, you want to do that to these people who have been pardoned?" he suggested. "Let's wait for the Democrats two years from now, and let's wait and see what those hearings are going to be like for every single January 6th convicted felon or someone convicted of misdemeanors that will be hauled before the Democratic committee two years from now."

"I hear these statements and I'm like, seriously? Do you not think what you dish out, you're going to get?" he asked.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) had vowed to raise flags at the United States Capitol building to full staff for Donald Trump's inauguration.

However, the Wall Street Journal's Olivia Beavers brings word that this plan has hit a bit of a snag as "the cords are frozen" on the flagpoles due to cold temperatures, thus making raising the flags more difficult than initially expected.