Donald Trump will meet with Joe Biden at the White House this week to discuss transition plans as the Senate elects a new majority leader on Wednesday to replace the outgoing Mitch McConnell.
The president-elect has meanwhile announced that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will serve in his incoming administration as border czar and take responsibility for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants he promised on the campaign trail.
The president-elect wrote on his Truth Social platform overnight that Homan would be in charge of “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security”.
He added: “I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.
“Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.
“Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
Homan told Fox and Friends on Monday morning that he has already begun receiving death threats from people opposed to his plans.
Trump also looks set to appoint New York Representative Elise Stefanik as his ambassador to the UN.
Key Points
- Donald Trump and Joe Biden to meet at White House this week
- Trump appoints immigration hardliner Tom Homan as border czar to oversee mass deportations
- Homan says he’s already received death threats since appointment announced
- President-elect set to announce Elise Stefanik as his UN ambassador
- Republican ‘told Vladimir Putin not to escalate war in Ukraine’ after securing election win
Homan says he’s already received death threats since border czar unveiling
14:03
Joe Sommerlad
Speaking on Fox and Friends this morning, Tom Homan – Trump’s new border czar – has revealed that his family are “not at home right now” because they’ve already been receiving death threats since his appointment was announced by the president-elect on Truth Social last night.
Homan told the hosts dismissively that such threats are “something we are going to deal with”.
“They are not going to bully me away,” he added.
The official explained that it will be his job to realise Trump's promise to carry out “the largest deportation operation in history” and that he will begin by targetting those that “a federal judge said you must go and they didn’t”.
Addressing migrants, Homan said: “You have the right to claim asylum. You have a right to see a judge. We make that happen... [But if the] judge says you must go home, then we have to take them home.”
Jim Jordan denies Trump will carry out threats to go after rivals
13:50
Joe Sommerlad
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan tamped down on worries that the president-elect will weaponize the federal government against his political enemies on Sunday, even as Trump himself has publicly promised to do so, as the graphic below illustrates.
choose your fighter pic.twitter.com/jyiZRj1lxW
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 10, 2024
Here’s John Bowden on what Jordan had to tell CNN’s State of the Union.
Trump set to announce Elise Stefanik as his UN ambassador
13:30
Joe Sommerlad
The congresswoman now appears to have accepted the position we mentioned earlier, telling The New York Post in a statement:
“I am truly honored to earn President Trump's nomination to serve in his Cabinet as US Ambassador to the United Nations.
“During my conversation with President Trump, I shared how deeply humbled I am to accept his nomination and that I look forward to earning the support of my colleagues in the United States Senate.”
As it stands, she still requires the approval of senators.
James Liddell has more.
Vivek Ramaswamy teases role in Trump’s second administration
13:10
Joe Sommerlad
The biotech CEO appeared on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, where he was asked by Jonathan Karl whether he will be part of a second Trump administration, one which the Trump transition team is thought to be crafting around political appointees who value loyalty to Trump above all else.
Ramaswamy was evasive about what exact role he might play but confirmed he was having “high-impact discussions” about his path forward.
John Bowden has more.
Tucker Carlson accuses Senate Republicans of plotting ‘coup’ against Trump
12:50
Joe Sommerlad
The former Fox News host and Trump ally has claimed that Senate Republicans are staging “a coup” against the president-elect as three Senators vie to replace Mitch McConnell.
Republicans reclaimed control of the Senate on Election Night, leaving the door open for one of their own to replace McConnell, the chamber’s longest-serving party leader, who plans to step down at year’s end.
“What the hell is going on in the US Senate?” Carlson posted on X this weekend.
“Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate.
“Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on.”
Here’s Kelly Rissman on his objections to John Cornyn and John Thune.
The right-wing organization in Trump’s ear replacing the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025
12:30
Joe Sommerlad
Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump.
Ariana Baio breaks it down.
Nikki Haley reacts after Trump says she won’t be in second administration
12:10
Joe Sommerlad
The president-elect’s former UN ambassador turned primary rival is playing nice after being publicly snubbed by Trump in a Truth Social post stating that she and ex-secretary of state Mike Pompeo will both be excluded from his second administration.
Trump pre-fires Nikki Haley pic.twitter.com/7KDx4xn0rA
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 9, 2024
Here’s John Bowden with Haley’s response.
SNL praises ‘hot, jacked’ Trump to avoid his so-called ‘enemies list’
11:50
Joe Sommerlad
Saturday Night Live cast members sarcastically praised Donald Trump’s election victory this weekend and debuted a new version of the former president — “hot, jacked Trump” — to avoid being put on his “enemies list” in its first post-vote episode.
Here’s more from Kelly Rissman.
Democrats urge Biden and Sotomayor to resign to create new roles for Harris
11:30
Joe Sommerlad
There are desperate scenes on Democrat social media just now, where former Kamala Harris aide Jamal Simmons has urged Joe Biden to step down early to allow the Vice President to serve as interim president.
That prompted CNN pundit Bakari Sellers to respond by suggesting that Sonia Sotomayor should retire from the US Supreme Court to allow Harris to serve in her stead, a step the justice, 70, has expressed no interest in taking, according to The Wall Street Journal, despite the risk of her being succeeded by yet another Trump-appointed conservative if she does not.
Other bold ideas, Sotomayor needs to resign. The court is currently 6-3. This would limit Trumps ability to make it 7-2. It’s silly to believe there is no difference.
— Bakari Sellers (@Bakari_Sellers) November 10, 2024
You can confirm in 10 weeks (see ACB). You have very good previously vetted candidates…. Sri Srinivasan,… https://t.co/gsOHe7XAjo
Madison Square Garden comedian trolls media critics after Trump win
11:10
Joe Sommerlad
Tony Hinchcliffe, the stand-up comic who joked that Puerto Rico was “a floating island of garbage” at one of the president-elect’s final rallies, has quietly returned to social media to repost the following two stories on X pointing to Latino support for the Republican on Election Day, seemingly a riposte to liberal commentators who had warned his crack could cost the 45th president a return to the White House.
President-elect Donald Trump was backed by 46% of Latino voters Tuesday, surpassing Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush to win the biggest share of the national Latino vote by a Republican presidential contender in modern times, a new exit poll shows. https://t.co/Eq2rQh8m1B
— Axios (@axios) November 7, 2024
How Trump flipped the U.S. county with the highest percentage of Puerto Rican voters https://t.co/2JIdhBZfp0 pic.twitter.com/pcrTlD68gF
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMail) November 10, 2024
‘There can only be one’: CNN contributor predicts future fallout between Trump and Elon Musk
10:50
Joe Sommerlad
Trump calls on next Senate leader to permit ‘recess appointments’
10:30
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump has called on the Republican senators vying to be the next majority leader of the upper chamber of Congress in place of the outgoing Mitch McConnell to permit him to appoint temporary cabinet members without Senate approval via recess appointments, demanding they reject any judicial nominations until he takes office.
Complaining that Senate approval takes too long in a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump said anyone seeking the leadership position “must agree to Recess Appointments (in the Senate!)”, a tactic that would effectively allow him to place any person in his cabinet without formal approval.
“Sometimes the votes can take two years, or more. This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again. We need positions filled IMMEDIATELY!” the president-elect wrote.
Hours after Trump’s statement, three senators running for the leadership position endorsed Trump’s idea.
Texas Senator John Cornyn agreed Trump has the power to do so and urged his colleagues to get Trump’s cabinet chosen quickly.
South Dakota Senator John Thune said recess appointments were an option “on the table” and Florida Senator Rick Scott said he backed Trump “100 percent”.
Ariana Baio has more.
Trump and Biden to meet at White House this week
10:10
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office this week, according to the White House.
The meeting, in which the two men are expected to discuss the transition of power in January, will be the president-elect’s first return to the White House since 2021 when he left office days after the January 6 Capitol riot and refused to attend Biden’s inauguration.
The awkward meeting is scheduled to take place at 11am on Wednesday, according to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who said Biden extended the invitation to his predecessor and soon-to-be successor.
Despite the acrimony of the 2024 presidential race, Biden has promised a “peaceful transfer of power” on January 20 2025 – the date of Trump’s second inauguration.
Biden has said he will attend that ceremony, even though Trump did not return the favor in 2021.
Mike Bedigan reports.
President-elect ‘told Vladimir Putin not to escalate war in Ukraine’ after securing election win
09:50
Joe Sommerlad
Donald Trump reportedly advised Russian President Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine in a phone call the day after the presidential election, a new report says.
As one of his first orders of unofficial business as the president-elect, Trump spoke with Putin on Thursday in a telephone conversation that he took from his home in Florida, according to The Washington Post.
He allegedly asked the Kremlin leader not to escalate his war and reminded him of America’s military presence in Europe.
It was one of several calls Trump took with other leaders from around the world in the hours after he won the 2024 presidential election.
He also spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Here’s more from Ariana Baio.
Elise Stefanik ‘offered UN ambassador role’ by Trump
09:30
Joe Sommerlad
The New York Congresswoman, one of the president-elect’s most loyal and outspoken supporters on Capitol Hill, has reportedly been offered a role once held by Nikki Haley in the new administration, according to Kaitlan Collins of CNN.
Stefanik is currently the House Republican Conference chair (having replaced the aforementioned Cheney in that role in 2021) and is therefore the fourth highest-ranking member of the GOP.
She was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress when she entered its halls in 2014 and was initially a Trump critic in the Paul Ryan era, only to then make
a name for herself by aggressively challenging witnesses at Trump’s first impeachment hearings in 2019 and then embracing his false 2020 election fraud narrative.
Trump derides Kamala Harris for campaigning with Liz Cheney: ‘BIG mistake'
09:10
Joe Sommerlad
In another post on Truth Social, Trump derided his defeated election rival Kamala Harris for campaigning with disaffected Republican Liz Cheney, calling the tactic “a BIG mistake” that had only served to angere conservatives and left Democrats “just plain scratching their heads in amazement”.
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) November 11, 2024
Donald Trump appoints immigration hardliner Tom Homan as border czar to oversee mass deportations
08:50
Joe Sommerlad
Good morning!
Donald Trump has announced that Tom Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), will serve in his incoming administration as border czar and take responsibility for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants he promised on the campaign trail.
The president-elect wrote on his Truth Social platform overnight that Homan would be in charge of “the Southern Border, the Northern Border, all Maritime, and Aviation Security”.
He added: “I’ve known Tom for a long time, and there is nobody better at policing and controlling our Borders.
“Likewise, Tom Homan will be in charge of all Deportation of Illegal Aliens back to their Country of Origin.
“Congratulations to Tom. I have no doubt he will do a fantastic, and long awaited for, job.”
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) November 11, 2024
If you’re not familiar with Homan, here’s a taster.
Breaking: Trump has announced that he's appointing Tom Homan as his border Czar.
— I Smoked Democracy (@BlackKnight10k) November 11, 2024
For all of you Latinos for Trump that were worried that you'd be separated from your families, fear not. He says you will deported too. pic.twitter.com/32LtnDXqx3
The ex-ICE director was involved in the Heritage Foundation’s notorious Project 2025 proposal for Trump’s second term and told the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July that he had “a message for the millions of illegal aliens who Joe Biden allowed to enter the country in violation of federal law – start packing, because you’re going home.”
At a panel on immigration policy that same month, Homan said: “Trump comes back in January, I’ll be on his heels coming back, and I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen.”
And, last Thursday, he told Fox News he had “not politicked or asked… for a cabinet position” and that no offer had been made but added: “President Trump knows if he needs help securing that border I’m standing by.
“If he needs help running a deportation operation, I am standing by.”
Here’s more from Rhian Lubin and Josh Marcus.
Bernie Sanders doubles down that people are ‘angry’ with Dems
08:00
Mike Bedigan
Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his scathing remarks about the Democratic party having “abandoned” working-class voters, despite criticism from longtime friend and ally Nancy Pelosi.
The veteran Vermont senator reiterated that the US working class is “angry” but rejected the idea that the issue this election cycle had been with party “messaging.”
In a statement after Donald Trump sailed to victory over Kamala Harris, Sanders wrote that “it should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party, which has abandoned working-class people, would find that the working-class has abandoned them.”
The former House speaker and Democratic powerhouse Nancy Pelosi then slammed his remarks, saying she did not agree or “respect” them.
Speaking to MSNBC’s Meet The Press about Pelosi’s remarks, he said: “Nancy is a friend of mine, and we’ve worked together on many issues, but here is the reality, I have to say to Nancy, in the Senate, in the last two years, we have not even brought forth legislation to raise the minimum wage to a living wage, despite the fact that some 20 million people in this country are working for less than $15 an hour.
Jim Jordan denies Trump will carry out threats to go after his political rivals
06:00
John Bowden
House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan tamped down on worries that Donald Trump would weaponize the federal government against his political enemies on Sunday, even as Trump himself has publicly promised to do so.
Jordan was on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday and was presented with a list of Democrats whom Trump has said he would press the Justice Department to prosecute at various points during his campaign. Notably, the president has never had the power to launch such politically motivated criminal investigations or unwarranted prosecutions of their enemies.
But the Ohio congressman brushed away concerns, stating that Trump “didn’t do that in his first term” and pointed out that despite pledging his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, to “lock her up”, did not actually direct the DoJ to do so at any point in his first presidency.
“I know, but I’m talking about Donald Trump’s second term. Going forward,” Bash pressed.
“I don’t think any of that’s going to happen, because we’re the party that’s against political prosecutions,” Jordan replied.
Can Jack Smith save Trump’s election interference case?
02:00
Mike Bedigan
The special counsel is signaling an end of a yearslong investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
He is likely getting away with it, Alex Woodward reports:
Republicans push for criminal probe into judge in Trump hush money case – and the judge’s daughter
01:30
Mike Bedigan
In the wake of Donald Trump’s sweeping victory, Republicans are turning their attention to those in the judicial system who went up against the president-elect in the courts.
Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Florida Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Cory Mills floated the idea that criminal charges could be brought against Judge Juan Merchan – and his daughter Loren Merchan.
Read more here:
Trump sends message to Republican Senators looking for ‘coveted leadership positions’
01:00
Mike Bedigan
Senate GOP leader candidate sides with Trump on recess appointments
00:30
Ariana Baio
Texas Senator John Cornyn, who is vying for the Senate Majority Leader position, agreed with Donald Trump that the next Senate leader should allow the president to make recess appointments to his cabinet.
“It is unacceptable for Senate Ds to blockade President [Trump’s] cabinet appointments. If they do, we will stay in session, including weekends, until they relent. Additionally, the Constitution expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments,” Cornyn said hours after Trump demanded so on Truth Social.
Recess appointments allow the president to appoint people to his cabinet during Senate recess, bypassing the typical confirmation process.
It is unacceptable for Senate Ds to blockade President @realDonaldTrump ‘s cabinet appointments. If they do, we will stay in session, including weekends, until they relent. Additionally, the Constitution expressly confers the power on the President to make recess appointments.…
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) November 10, 2024
Charlamagne Tha God pinpoints Harris’s biggest campaign flaw: inconsistency
00:00
Mike Bedigan
Radio host Charlamagne Tha God reflected on Vice President Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign saying he believes Harris did not effectively communicate a consistent message which ultimately hurt her in the polls.
Ariana Baio has more:
Bernie Sanders doubles down that people are ‘angry’ with Dems after Pelosi said she didn’t ‘respect’ his remarks
Sunday 10 November 2024 23:30
Mike Bedigan
Bernie Sanders has doubled down on his scathing remarks about the Democratic party having “abandoned” working-class voters, despite criticism from longtime friend and ally Nancy Pelosi.
The veteran Vermont senator reiterated that the US working class is “angry” but rejected the idea that the issue this election cycle had been with party “messaging.”
“Bottom line, if you’re an average working person out there, do you really think that the Democratic party is going to the mat… and fighting for you? I think the overwhelming answer is no. And that is what it’s got to change,” he said on Sunday.
It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 6, 2024
While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change.
And they’re right. pic.twitter.com/lM2gSJmQFL
The right-wing organization in Trump’s ear replacing the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025
Sunday 10 November 2024 23:00
Mike Bedigan
Implementing loyalists to executive branch positions, forcing local and state law enforcement agencies to comply with mass deportation and taking a confrontational approach to relations with China are all policies promoted by the America First Policy Institute, a right-wing think tank with influence over Donald Trump.
Ariana Baio breaks it down:
Democrats are trying to work out where it all went wrong. On the left of the party a consensus is forming
Sunday 10 November 2024 22:30
Mike Bedigan
Several elected Democrats sounded off on their party’s failure to present a coherent economic message to voters on Sunday as the post-mortem begins for the left in the wake of Kamala Harris’s stunning defeat.
Though their warning is already meeting some resistance, Democrats including Chris Murphy, Ro Khanna and Bernie Sanders offered stern critiques of their party’s accelerated losses with working-class voters of all races, especially men, as well as other constituencies once considered core parts of the Obama coalition, like Latino voters.
John Bowden takes a closer look:
Watch: SNL mocks ‘hot, jacked’ Trump in first post-election episode
Sunday 10 November 2024 22:00
Mike Bedigan
CNN host Dana Bash confronts Jim Jordan with claim MAGA only cries election fraud when Trump loses
Sunday 10 November 2024 21:30
Mike Bedigan
MAGA Rep Jim Jordan stumbled over his words as he was confronted live on-air with a claim that Donald Trump and his supporters only cry election fraud when they lose.
The Ohio congressman appeared on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday where he was asked multiple times by host Dana Bash whether he thought that 2024 had been a “free and fair election.”
Read more here:
Nikki Haley responds to Trump’s announcement that she’s not welcome back in his second administration
Sunday 10 November 2024 21:00
Mike Bedigan
Nikki Haley is playing it nice after being publicly snubbed by Donald Trump in a post which stated that she and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo will both be excluded from his second administration.
Haley was Trump’s last remaining rival in the Republican primary election earlier this year.
Check out her response here:
‘There can only be one’: CNN contributor predicts future fallout between Trump and Musk
Sunday 10 November 2024 20:30
Mike Bedigan
A fallout between Elon Musk and Donald Trump is all but inevitable, according to a political commentator, who warned that the attention-seeking personalities of two of the world’s most powerful men means they will struggle to “co-exist.”
Speaking on CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show on Saturday, Kara Swisher predicted that the president-elect, despite waxing lyrical about Musk throughout his 2024 campaign, will ultimately not be willing to share the spotlight with the entrepreneur.
Read more:
Watch: Vivek Ramaswamy teases potential role in Trump administration
Sunday 10 November 2024 20:00
Mike Bedigan
When asked if he will be joining the new Trump administration, Vivek Ramaswamy tells @JonKarl, “There's a couple great options on the table. I want to have the biggest possible impact on this country … We’re having some high-impact discussions.” https://t.co/mxWLVeoZBW pic.twitter.com/sLAC3eAewg
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) November 10, 2024
49ers star Nick Bosa fined $11,000 for sporting MAGA hat during post-game interview
Sunday 10 November 2024 19:30
Mike Bedigan
San Francisco 49ers star defensive end Nick Bosa has been fined by the NFL for wearing a hat with a pro-Donald Trump message during a postgame television interview, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Bosa was fined $11,255 for violating the NFL uniform and equipment rules for wearing a hat that contained a personal message, according to the person who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the fine wasn't announced by the NFL.
Read more here:
‘Gary Barlow’s massive son’ has saved us from Trump misery
Sunday 10 November 2024 19:00
Mike Bedigan
Meanwhile, in the UK...
Yale psychiatrist urges LGBTQ+ community to shun Trump-voting family members over the holidays
Sunday 10 November 2024 18:30
Mike Bedigan
Watch: SNL post-election cold-open
Sunday 10 November 2024 18:00
Mike Bedigan
Watch the full cold-open from this week’s Saturday Night Live, in which cast members share a post-election message...
SNL cast members share a post-election message pic.twitter.com/jTXqJCxpIL
— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) November 10, 2024
ICYMI: Trump to meet with Biden at the White House this week
Sunday 10 November 2024 17:30
Mike Bedigan
Donald Trump will meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office this week, according to the White House.
The meeting, in which the two men are expected to discuss the transition of power in January, will be the president-elect’s first return to the White House since 2021 when he left office days after the January 6 Capitol riots and refused to attend Biden’s inauguration.
Trump was invited to the meeting, which is scheduled to take place at 11am on Wednesday, by Biden, according to press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. More details will be made available in due course, the White House said.
Biden has said he will attend Trump’s second inauguration ceremony on January 20th, even though Trump did not return the favor in 2021.
Watch: Bill Maher tells Democrats to 'look in the mirror' after Kamala Harris lost election
Sunday 10 November 2024 17:00
Mike Bedigan
ICYMI: SNL praises ‘hot, jacked’ Trump and Elon ‘I run the country now’ Musk to avoid ‘enemies list’ in cold open
Sunday 10 November 2024 16:30
Mike Bedigan
Popular US sketch show SNL wasted no time in taking jabs at the election results.
Kelly Rissman was watching:
The f-word is having a heyday around the US election. This lexicographer has researched it for decades
Sunday 10 November 2024 16:00
Mike Bedigan
Long-time favorite four-letter-word ‘f***’ has crept more steadily in recent decades into media, society, slang and even politics.
As many Americans (and global citizens) exclaimed it around the US presidential race and results, a new edition of lexicographer Jesse Sheidlower’s The F-Word has been published. He shares some ‘f****ing’ factoids with Sheila Flynn:
Read more here:
‘No one cares’: Trump accusers feel his election win will prevent assault victims from coming forward
Sunday 10 November 2024 15:30
Mike Bedigan
In 2016, one day after the emergence of the infamous Access Hollywood tape, Donald Trump declared: “Nobody has more respect for women than I do. Nobody.”
The shock revelation followed a string of more than a dozen women accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Such things didn’t deter voters then. And they didn’t deter them again in 2024. Kelly Rissman has more:
Watch: Labour ‘unlikely’ to accept Farage’s ‘interlocutor’ Trump offer, says treasury secretary
Sunday 10 November 2024 15:00
Mike Bedigan
