Jimmy Kimmel reveals Trump’s ‘dumb’ tariffs plan could hit MAGA fans where it hurts Jimmy Kimmel joked that Trump followers should buy their MAGA merchandise ‘immediately’ to avoid extra costs trickling down from his tariffs ... 11/26/2024 - 10:53 pm | View Link
Feeling betrayed by increased minority support for Trump, Black women say they’re stepping back As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington. 11/26/2024 - 9:17 am | View Link
Trump Is Promising Mass Deportations. Can He Do It? In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election to a second term as president, attention has turned to his highest-profile campaign promise: the massdeportation of millions of undocumented immigrants ... 11/23/2024 - 12:15 am | View Link
Donald Trump Joins Elon Musk for SpaceX Launch President-elect Donald Trump joined Elon Musk in south Texas on Tuesday to watch SpaceX launch a Starship rocket. 11/19/2024 - 9:04 am | View Link
[Opinion] These Loyal Black Conservatives Just Got Left in the Dust By Trump's Post-Election Picks As President-elect Donald Trump continues to handpick members of his Cabinet, it appears as though the Black conservatives who backed him at mind-boggling levels are nowhere to be found. Here are the ... 11/19/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
“Elon and I disagree on some things, but Elon deserves his place at the table. He stroked a $150 million check for the ground game, which is not sexy, at the exact moment we needed it. He came in with the money and the professionals. To be brutally frank, it’s the reason we won.”
— Steve Bannon, in an interview with Puck.
“Democrats suffered a knockout punch in this month’s elections. New Jersey’s and Virginia’s off-year gubernatorial elections in 2025 offer them their first chances to get off the mat,” ABC News reports.
“Both states have become reliably blue in federal races, but President-elect Donald Trump narrowed his margins in each state, and Democrats are unable to take anything for granted as they undergo a postelection reckoning over their national brand.
ProPublica: “If Trump were to assert a power to kill congressionally approved programs, it would almost certainly tee up a fight in the federal courts and Congress and, experts say, could fundamentally alter Congress’ bedrock power.”
“North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Tuesday vetoed a Hurricane Helene relief bill that also included sweeping changes to the power and authority structures for several state leaders and agencies,” the Raleigh News & Observer reports.
Playbook: “Republicans can still override Cooper’s veto, but they have no wiggle room, and the outcome looks uncertain.”
“President-elect Donald Trump’s team is discussing pursuing direct talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, hoping a fresh diplomatic push can lower the risks of armed conflict,“ Reuters reports.
“Several in Trump’s team now see a direct approach from Trump, to build on a relationship that already exists, as most likely to break the ice with Kim, years after the two traded insults and what Trump called ‘beautiful’ letters in an unprecedented diplomatic effort during his first term in office.”
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: “New research suggests that the Democrats’ struggles in communities battling fentanyl addiction had little to do with economic theory or messaging — it was, more simply, a failure of political attention.”