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Overnight, President-elect Donald Trump continued his verbal assaults on Canada, America's largest trading partner and a top defense partner, by calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the "Governor" of the "Great State of Canada." Some Canadians are striking back.

After the November election, Trump announced that one of his first actions would be to impose massive tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. The President of Mexico fought Trump in the press, explaining that his border demands were nonsensical since Mexico was already doing what he was calling for.

Donald Trump's newly built department that aims to slash federal funding is set for implosion as the president-elect throws together a pair of 'ticking time bombs," a reporter predicted Tuesday.

With Elon Musk and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) working side-by-side, the Department of Government Efficiency will devolve into "crazy town," said The New Republic's Greg Sargent in his Wednesday New Republic "Daily Blast" rundown.

Incoming White House adviser Alina Habba falsely claimed that President-elect Donald Trump did not separate migrant families during his first term.

On Tuesday, Fox News host Bill Hemmer asked Habba about future border czar Tom Homan's admission that family separations "may happen" under the new administration.

President-elect Donald Trump managed a narrow electoral victory in a sharply divided country — and it's unclear exactly what voters brought him in to do. Many voters have cited inflation as their driving factor. But not all of them have.

In conversation with a New York Times focus group released on Tuesday, many voters who backed Trump specifically said he has a mandate to remove immigrants from the country.

MSNBC's "Morning Joe," co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire agreed Tuesday that Donald Trump often makes decisions that are detrimental to himself personally and to his agenda because he fears criticism from his base.

With Scarborough pointing out that the president-elect might be able to get together with Democratic leaders and reach a compromise on some policies that would forestall delaying tactics and battles, he suggested the blustery Trump is fond of floating trial balloons before retreating back due to fears of MAGA outrage.

President-elect Donald Trump has been trying to strike a more moderate and conciliatory tone — but he couldn't even make it through an interview before that "softer" mask slipped, wrote The Washington Post's editorial board in a scathing analysis Tuesday.

Speaking on "Meet the Press" Sunday, Trump said many things to cement a message that he'd treat those who voted for him “every bit as well” as “the greatest MAGA supporters” and that he wants “unity.”

On Tuesday morning's "Morning Joe," co-host Joe Scarborough and MSNBC regular John Heilemann went at each other over a disagreement over the nomination of Pete Hegseth to become the next secretary of defense and whether Donald Trump should drop the embattled former Fox News host.

According to Scarborough, the president-elect would not be serving America or himself well by letting Hegseth be grilled by Democrats in nationally televised hearings about allegations of sexual assault and public drunkenness by those who have worked with him.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has long voiced concerns about corn syrup and vegetable oils, saying they lead to obesity and chronic illness, and he would have the authority over the Food and Drug Administration to potentially place limits on those products' use — and disrupt American agriculture, reported the New York Times.

Donald Trump was given a stern warning on MSNBC on Tuesday morning that nothing good will come of allowing his pick for secretary of defense to be grilled in a nationally televised Senate hearing.

Now that it looks like ex-Fox News personality Pete Hegseth may have avoided being forced to step aside by appealing to the president-elect's fondness for public defiance, the next step would be his confirmation hearing — where he can expect Democrats to make a show of grilling him on allegations of sexual assault and former Fox News colleagues' accusations of being drunk on the job.

Failed ultra-MAGA GOP nominee for Arizona governor and U.S. Senator, Kari Lake, is being mocked after a report detailed that she has emerged as a "leading contender" to be President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Mexico.

Semafor published the "scoop" late Monday afternoon, noting also that "Lake has echoed Trump in backing strict limits on immigration. On the campaign trail, Lake described the influx of migrants entering the US as an 'invasion.'”

Former Fox News personality Pete Hegseth may have saved his chances to have a Senate hearing to be the next secretary of defense by impressing Donald Trump with his determination to battle for the job.

According to a report from Politico, Hegseth's decision to go on the offense when confronted with allegations of public drunkenness and an accusation of sexual assault seems to have kept the former president from replacing him as the nominee.

Seventy-seven Nobel prize winners on Monday sent an open letter to the US Senate opposing the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), citing his "lack of credentials" and anti-vaccine beliefs.

"In view of his record, placing Mr. Kennedy in charge of DHHS would put the public's health in jeopardy," concludes the letter signed by 77 Nobel recipients in medicine, chemistry, physics and economics.

Donald Trump again joked about making Canada an American state in a late-night post needling its Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he cautioned against tariffs.

Trudeau traveled to Mar-a-Lago late last month for a dinner meeting with the president-elect to discuss the proposed charges on international imports. Trump revived a joke early Tuesday on Truth Social that sources claimed had "caused the prime minister and others to laugh nervously" after the meeting.