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“President-elect Trump floated taking ownership of Greenland as he named PayPal co-founder Ken Howery as his pick for U. S. ambassador to Denmark on Sunday,” Axios reports. “Trump said during his first administration that he was looking into the U. S. buying Greenland and canceled a state trip to Denmark after Danish officials said the autonomous territory that’s part of its kingdom was not for sale.”

President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that he intended to nominate Callista Gingrich, who served as his ambassador to the Vatican during his first term, as ambassador to Switzerland, the New York Times reports.

President-elect Donald Trump delivered a sprawling address on Sunday that he called a “small preview of the common-sense revolution” his administration will bring, pledging to slam shut the nation’s borders, end federal regulations, lower taxes, prosecute his rivals, “stop woke” and “end the transgender lunacy,” the New York Times reports. Said Trump: “We will end the occupation, and Jan.

Republican members of Congress took to the Sunday shows to praise Trump lieutenant Elon Musk’s involvement in last week’s government funding saga, with one likening him to “our prime minister,” Axios reports.

“The Federal Reserve is starting to contend with how President-elect Donald Trump and his ambitious policies could reignite inflation in 2025,” the Washington Post reports. “The central bank’s leaders strive to protect their independence from the White House and avoid commenting on politics or policy proposals. Fed Chair Jerome H. Powell had said for weeks that it was premature to discuss the degree to which the president-elect’s proposals — including higher tariffs, lower taxes and deportation of immigrants — would factor into its decisions on interest rates.”

President-elect Donald Trump said the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to Elon Musk is a fiction and that even if Musk wanted the job, he couldn’t get it because of the Constitution’s requirement that the U. S. president be a natural-born citizen, NBC News reports. Said Trump: “No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you.