Trump shares bad taste LA wildfires meme as Elon Musk branded ‘truly evil’ by Steve Bannon: Live

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13 Jan 2025 • 9:19 PM MYT
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Donald Trump has reposted a bad taste meme on his Truth Social platform making light of the Los Angeles wildfires.

The image circulated by the president-elect replaces the city’s famous Hollywood sign with the phrase “Trump Was Right” as the hills around it burn, his latest criticism of California’s Democratic leadership as the blazes continue to rage, having already torched more than 40,000 acres and claimed at least 24 lives.

Prior to that, Trump blamed “California pols” for failing to control the wildfires, reviving his long-standing feud with state governor Gavin Newsom.

“The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out,” the president-elect wrote on Sunday.

“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

Meanwhile, Trump ally Steve Bannon has escalated his feud with billionaire Elon Musk, calling the latter “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, also pledging to “take this guy down” and remove him from the MAGA movement.

Key Points

  • Donald Trump shares bad taste LA wildfires meme on Truth Social
  • Trump and JD Vance blame ‘incompetent’ California leadership over wildfires
  • Steve Bannon brands Elon Musk ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’ as MAGA civil war looms
  • Trump’s Ukraine envoy sets 100 days timeframe for ending war
  • Justin Trudeau shuts down Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats: ‘Not going to happen’

Republican senator insists US not going to invade Greenland

13:10

Joe Sommerlad

Oklahoma’s James Lankford was pretty confident during his appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday that Trump’s big talk on sending in the troops to conquer the Arctic island was just that and nothing more.

Ariana Baio meanwhile has this on Denmark’s attempts to resolve the matter diplomatically.

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Denmark spoke with Trump team about increasing security on Greenland, says report

Everything you need to know about Trump’s inauguration

12:50

Joe Sommerlad

According to The New York Times, the president-elect is planning to make his swearing-in to the presidency a three-day bonanza.

The festivities will get underway on Saturday with a party for 500 donors at his golf club in Sterling, Virginia, complete with an Elvis impersonator and fireworks and followed on Sunday by a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, a rally event at Washington DC’s Capital One Arena and a candlelit dinner before the main event gets underway the following morning.

Here’s the low-down on the presidential inauguration from Katie Hawkinson.

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When is Trump’s inauguration and how do you get tickets?

Senate confirmation hearings for Trump cabinet nominees to begin this week

12:30

Joe Sommerlad

Several of the president-elect’s nominees to top posts within his new administration will face questioning from the upper chamber of Congress this week as they undergo potentially gruelling confirmation hearings.

Things kick off on Tuesday with what is likely to be one of the most controversial, Pete Hegseth for secretary of defence, while Doug Collins and Doug Burgum will also be under the spotlight.

On Wednesday, Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem and Marco Rubio will be among the top names grilled, followed by the likes of John Ratcliffe, Sean Duffy and Russell Vought.

The hearings inevitably came up on the Sunday shows, with CNN’s Jake Tapper putting the killer question to Alabama’s Katie Britt.

Less crucially but still worth including, her South Carolina counterpart Tim Scott very nearly referred to “President Chump” while discussing the same subject, perhaps revealing his own concealed resentment after being overlooked for a job, despite his huge efforts on the campaign trail stumping on Trump’s behalf.

Trump holds ‘51st state’ party for Canadians at Mar-a-Lago

12:10

Joe Sommerlad

Speaking of the United States’s northern neighbor, the president-elect hosted a gathering of conservative Canadians at his Florida estate over the weekend, attended by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, Jordan Peterson and Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary, among others, to support his ludicrous ambition of incorporating their country.

In a post on X, Smith nevertheless placed an emphasis on Canadian “independence” and the importance of her homeland’s energy exports as she wrote: “The United States and Canada are both proud and independent nations with one of the most important security alliances on earth and the largest economic partnership in history.

“We need to preserve our independence while we grow this critical partnership for the benefit of Canadians and Americans for generations to come.”

Which does not sound like an emphatic “yes please” to me.

Justin Trudeau shuts down Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats: ‘Not going to happen’

11:50

Joe Sommerlad

Canada’s outgoing prime minister reiterated on Sunday that his country would not give up sovereignty and join the United States, the latest surreal example of a world leader being forced to respond seriously to the unserious stated aspirations of the incoming president and his allies.

“That’s not going to happen. It’s just a non-starter,” he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.

“Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.”

John Bowden reports.

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Justin Trudeau shuts down Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats: ‘Not going to happen’

California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim

11:20

Joe Sommerlad

One more line on Newsom, who is having to battle the spread of misinformation as well as the fires.

In his latest post on X, Elon Musk’s own platform, he accuses the tech boss of “encouraging looting” after the billionaire shared posts that claimed the politician had “decriminalized” it.

“Stop encouraging looting by lying and telling people it’s decriminalized. It’s not,” Newsom wrote in reply to one of the billionaire’s retweets.

“It’s illegal – as it always has been. Bad actors will be arrested and prosecuted.”

Tom Watling has more.

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California governor accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading claims

Will Trump visit Los Angeles?

10:50

Joe Sommerlad

The city’s mayor Karen Bass said over the weekend she had had “a positive response” from the president-elect’s camp about him paying a visit to the disaster zone to comfort the afflicted, rather than simply berating the official response from a safe distance, although no date has yet been announced.

Governor Newsom has meanwhile been continuing to push back against Trump’s false claims about his state’s reservoirs, a taste of what the next four years are likely to be like for the entire world, if his first term in the Oval Office was anything to go by.

Here’s some further response from the governor to the “delusional” commander-in-chief.

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Governor Gavin Newsom hits out at 'delusional' Donald Trump over wildfire criticism

Trump’s Ukraine envoy sets 100 days timeframe for ending war

10:30

Joe Sommerlad

Also speaking to Fox News yesterday, Keith Kellogg, the president-elect’s nominee as envoy to Ukraine rowed back on his boss’s repeated promises on the campaign trail to end the war in the region “on day one”, giving himself a much more generous timeframe.

Here’s a handy montage of all the times Trump promised an instant resolution on the conflict.

Vance says Biden left Trump a ‘dumpster fire’ and talks J6 pardons

10:10

Joe Sommerlad

The incoming VP also had some unkind words for Joe Biden during the same interview.

He also suggested that those convicted of violent crimes during the Capitol riot might be excluded from Trump’s mass pardoning effort once he enters the White House.

Here’s more from John Bowden.

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JD Vance says Biden left Trump a ‘dumpster fire’ and lays out Jan 6 pardon strategy

Trump and JD Vance blame ‘incompetent’ California leadership over wildfires

09:50

Joe Sommerlad

The president-elect himself blamed “California pols” for failing to control the wildfires on Truth Social yesterday, reviving his long-standing feud with the state’s governor Gavin Newsom at the worst possible time.

“The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out,” Trump wrote on Sunday.

“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

His vice president-elect was also at it, claiming a “serious lack of competent governance” was behind it in conversation with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday.

Here’s John Bowden with more.

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JD Vance slams ‘incompetent’ California as Newsom battles fire conspiracy theories

Steve Bannon brands Elon Musk ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’ as MAGA civil war looms

09:30

Joe Sommerlad

Trump’s former White House chief strategist turned War Room podcaster Steve Bannon has escalated his feud with billionaire Elon Musk, calling the latter “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, also pledging to “take this guy down” and remove him from the MAGA movement.

Speaking to Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, the former Breitbart editor said of Musk: “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down.

“Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it – I’m not prepared to tolerate it any more.”

He added: “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by inauguration day.

“He will not have full access to the White House. He will be like any other person.”

Here’s more from James Liddell.

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Steve Bannon vows to boot Elon Musk from Trump’s inner-circle before his inauguration

Donald Trump shares bad taste LA wildfires meme on Truth Social

09:10

Joe Sommerlad

Good morning!

Here’s how the incoming Leader of the Free World, 78, spent his Sunday evening – sharing some incredibly unpresidential and morbidly self-glorifying memes on social media as the residents of one of America’s most celebrated cities remain trapped in a state of waking nightmare.

The below are perhaps more run-of-the-mill for Trump but provide an equally telling insight into his current mindset.

The Trumps are ‘in talks’ to buy back their beloved D.C. hotel

07:00

Gustaf Kilander

The Trump family is in talks to reacquire their Washington D.C. hotel, which could reveal how the president-elect is set to handle issues related to possible conflicts of interest.

This week, Eric Trump met at Mar-a-Lago with a bank executive from BDT & MSD, which is in control of the lease on the building, people familiar with the meeting told The Wall Street Journal.

Eric Trump is an executive vice president at the president-elect’s real estate company, and he discussed possibly buying the lease. What was the Trump International Hotel at the Old Post Office building is now the Waldorf Astoria. The building is owned by the federal government and was leased to the Trump family.

The family company is now looking to operate a hotel in the nation’s capital as Trump once again prepares to enter the White House. The family is still interested in the Old Post Office Building, according to The Journal.

Getting the rights to the hotel back could cost more than $300 million, the paper noted.

Catch up with the Jack Smith report: Trump lawyers scramble to block ‘imminent’ release

05:00

Ariana Baio

A federal appeals court ruled last week that the Justice Department can release a report on Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

But an order from a Trump-appointed temporarily blocks Jack Smith report. Trump and his co-defendants in the Mar-a-Lago case are asking the judge to continue to block the report.

Alex Woodward reports:

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Appeals court rules Jack Smith report can be released

Justin Trudeau shuts down Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats: ‘Not going to happen’

03:00

John Bowden

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated on Sunday that his country would not give up sovereignty and join the United States, the latest surreal example of a world leader being forced to respond seriously to the unserious stated aspirations of the incoming president and his allies.

“That’s not going to happen. It’s just a non-starter,” he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki on Sunday. “Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.”

John Bowden reports:

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Justin Trudeau shuts down Trump’s ‘51st state’ threats: ‘Not going to happen’

Trump is trying to seal the border while his czar ‘tempers’ expectations for mass deportations

01:00

Ariana Baio

With a little more than a week until his inauguration, Donald Trump and his team are trying to plan the executive orders that will fulfill his campaign promise of closing the U.S.–Mexico border and implementing mass deportation “on day one” — a task that comes with complications.

For months, Trump and his team have been looking for ways to bypass the traditional immigration legislative process to close the border and deport millions of undocumented immigrants. But as January 20 draws closer, it’s unclear if they can succeed.

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Trump wants to seal the border as his czar ‘tempers’ expectations

Trump misrepresents information about Jack Smith in rant

00:00

Ariana Baio

Trump remains furious that special counsel Jack Smith, who resigned from the DoJ on Friday, is “allowed” to release his reports on the classified documents case and federal election interference case.

In a rant posted to Truth Social on Sunday, Trump said Smith should not be permitted to issue a report because he was “thrown off the case” and “ultimately dismissed” by the DoJ.

Smith resigned from the DoJ ahead of Trump taking office. He was not “thrown off” either case, though Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon ruled that Smith was unconstitutionally appointed to investigate Trump in the classified documents case – something the government disputed.

“Why would Deranged Jack Smith be allowed to issue a “report” on a complete and total Witch Hunt against me, strictly for political purposes, when he was thrown off the case and ultimately dismissed by the DOJ.,” Trump wrote.

“Therefore, to put it nicely, he was illegitimately involved in this political persecution, and all of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by our hapless government were, simply put, wasted! He has already filled thousands of rejected statements and documents against me, which were a “joke,” and the public just voted for me, in a landslide, to be their President!”

Trump has been trying to prevent Smiths reports from being released.

Trump Treasury nominee says he will divest assets

Sunday 12 January 2025 23:00

Ariana Baio

Scott Bessent, the investor Trump selected to serve as Treasury secretary, said he will divest his assets to ensure he has no conflicts of interest, CNBC reported.

In a letter to the Treasury Department ethics office, Bessent said he would resign from his position at the Bessent–Freeman Family Foundation and divest his assets from Key Square Capital Management – the investment firm he founded.

Bessent outlined the steps he would take to “avoid any actual or apparent conflict of interest in the event that I am confirmed for the position of Secretary of the Department of Treasury,” according to the letter.

Watch: California governor Gavin Newsom hits out at ‘delusional’ Donald Trump

Sunday 12 January 2025 22:30

Ariana Baio

Dozens of Congress members outperformed the stock market in 2024. Here’s who gained the most - and why

Sunday 12 January 2025 22:00

Ariana Baio

More than 20 members made almost double the S&P500 average gain of 24.9 percent last year.

The top five performers — Rep. David Rouzer (R-NC), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Roger Williams (R-TX), Morgan McGarvey (D-KY) — increased the value of their portfolio value by more than 100 percent, according to a new report

Richard Hall and Eric Garcia report:

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These members of Congress saw the biggest rise in their stock portfolios in 2024

Vance lowers expectations about incoming administration changes

Sunday 12 January 2025 21:30

Ariana Baio

Incoming vice president JD Vance said people should take a step back before expecting the incoming administration to implement sweeping change as soon as Donald Trump is sworn in, lowering expectations for the speed at which they can change things.

“If you step back a little bit, I do think it’s important to reiterate that not just on the border, but on a whole host of issues, President Biden has left us an absolute dumpster fire,” Vance told Fox News on Sunday after he was asked about Trump’s planned executive actions.

“We’re excited to get to work but we need to be open and honest about the fact that President Biden has not left the next administration in a good place,” Vance said before rattling off a list of problems that he expects Trump to tackle.

For months, Trump has promised supporters sweeping change to the economy, immigration, domestic policy and more “on day one” of being in office. However, big changes with tangible impact can take a long time to notice when it comes to the government.

JD Vance slams ‘incompetent’ California government as Gavin Newsom battles wildfire conspiracy theories

Sunday 12 January 2025 21:00

John Bowden

JD Vance led the Republican assault against California’s state and local governments on Sunday as conservatives eagerly pile on Democratic leaders for insufficient water supplies and emergency efforts as firefighters continue to battle wildfires around Los Angeles.

On Sunday, the incoming vice president told Fox News Sunday’s Shannon Bream that California’s leaders were incompetent.

“We need to do a better job. We need competent, good governance,” Vance said. “There was a serious lack of competent governance in California, and I think it’s part of the reason why these fires have gotten so bad.”

Newsom, in his own interview airing this weekend, said the fires would amount to one of the worst natural disasters in the nation’s history. He also stressed that water shortages in the immediate few days after the fire began were localized and did not reflect regional preparation efforts, taking aim at Vance’s boss Donald Trump over the latter’s own comments about California’s wildfire preparedness.

Republican Senator says there will ‘shock and awe’ on day one of Trump presidency

Sunday 12 January 2025 20:30

Ariana Baio

Republican Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming touted there would be “shock and awe” when Donald Trump enters office on January 20 – a sentiment he believes in after meeting with the incoming president this past week.

“When President Trump takes office next Monday, there is going to be shock and awe with executive orders. A blizzard of executive orders on the economy as well as on the border,” Barrasso told Face The Nation on Sunday.

Trump implores others to ‘save Rudy’

Sunday 12 January 2025 20:00

Ariana Baio

Trump offered some support to his longtime friend and former lawyer Rudy Giuliani after he was held in contempt of court twice in one week.

”SAVE RUDY!!!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday.

Steve Bannon says he will do ‘anything’ to keep Musk from White House

Sunday 12 January 2025 19:30

Ariana Baio

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon is determined to prevent current Trump adviser Elon Musk from becoming engrossed in the White House because he is “a truly evil guy.”

“I will have Elon Musk run out of here by Inauguration Day,” Bannon told the Italian news outlet Corriere della Sera this week. “He will not have a blue pass to the White House, he will not have full access to the White House, he will be like any other person.”

“He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down,” Bannon said. “Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it; I’m not prepared to tolerate it anymore.”

Bannon strongly disagrees with Musk’s position on H-1B visas, which are visas given to skilled workers. Bannon believes this, and other positions, are a sign Musk is only interested in elevating his own businesses.

“He will do anything to make sure that any one of his companies is protected or has a better deal or he makes more money. His aggregation of wealth, and then — through wealth — power: that’s what he’s focused on,” Bannon said.

JD Vance says Biden left Trump a ‘dumpster fire’ and lays out Jan 6 pardon strategy

Sunday 12 January 2025 19:00

John Bowden

Vice President-elect JD Vance drew a line in the sand for the incoming Trump administration’s pardon strategy during an interview with Fox News on Sunday.

Vance was asked how Donald Trump would handle his promise to pardon some of those Americans convicted or charged with crimes resulting from the siege of the Capitol on January 6, 2021. During his bid for the White House, Trump pledged to grant clemency to his supporters who caused lawmakers and Capitol staff to hide in fear for their lives while a violent mob battled with police inside and outside the main building for hours.

John Bowden reports:

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JD Vance says Biden left Trump a ‘dumpster fire’ and lays out Jan 6 pardon strategy

Some Jan 6 defendants can expect pardons

Sunday 12 January 2025 18:45

Ariana Baio

Some January 6 rioters who were prosecuted for storming the U.S. Capitol and unlawfully entering to interrupt Congress’s certification of the 2020 election can expect pardons, incoming vice president JD Vance said.

“Look, if you protested peacefully on January the sixth and you’ve had Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice treat you like a gang member, you should be pardoned,” Vance told Fox News on Sunday.

“If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned. And there’s a little bit of grey area there,” he added.

It is unclear how many of the more than 700 people convicted of crimes on January 6 will receive a pardon. But Donald Trump is expected to uphold his promise to pardon many of them.

Trudeau brushes off Trump’s ‘51st state’ comments

Sunday 12 January 2025 18:22

Ariana Baio

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brushed off Trump’s comments about making Canada the “51st state” and downplayed them as nothing more than something that “will not ever happen”.

On Sunday, Trudeau told Jenn Pskai he was not paying attention to Trump’s taunts because they’re not part of reality.

“This isn’t out of the blue, that he’s doing this,” Trudeau said. But my focus has to be – not on something he’s talking about that will not ever happen – but more on something that might well happen, that if he does choose to go forward with tariffs.”

The incoming president’s very real threat to impose a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods has created political chaos in Canada. With an already struggling economy, Canada could face economic hardships if Trump imposes the tariffs.

Disagreements over how to handle the possible tariffs pushed Trudeau to resign from his position as prime minister.

JD Vance says family separation plan at the border is a ‘ euphemism’

Sunday 12 January 2025 17:45

Ariana Baio

Incoming vice president JD Vance claimed family separation policies at the border were only a “euphemism” despite admitting some families will likely be separated at the border.

“This term is something you’re gonna hear a lot in the next couple of months, the next couple of years, Shannon – family separation,” Vance told Fox News host Shannon Bream on Sunday.

“That’s a euphemism, that’s a dishonest term to hide behind the fact that Joe Biden has not done border enforcement,” Vance continued.

The vice president-elect said if an undocumented immigrant commits a crime they will be sent back to their country of origin and separated from their families.

Trump’s controversial family separation policy is expected to return in his new administration. He and his border czar, Tom Homan, have said that children of non-citizen parents will be detained and deported alongside their families but that it’s up to each family if they are deported together or separately.

Trump blames California politics for not putting out raging wildfires

Sunday 12 January 2025 17:24

Ariana Baio

In a Truth Social post early Sunday morning, President-elect Donald Trump blamed California politicians for failing to put out the wildfires that have burned more than 35,000 acres.

“The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out. Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

Several out-of-control factors have made the wildfires incredibly difficult to put out – like strong, dry winds, bone-dry vegetation and dwindling water supply.

Jack Smith has resigned. What happens now?

Sunday 12 January 2025 13:00

Alex Woodward

Special counsel Jack Smith has completed his reports on his criminal investigations into Donald Trump and resigned from the Department of Justice.

Smith — a chief prosecutor at The Hague who was appointed to handle investigations into the president-elect for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and withhold classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago compound — delivered his final reports to Attorney General Merrick Garland on January 7.

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Jack Smith resigns from Justice Department after completing Trump reports

After New Orleans and Vegas attacks by veterans, what will Trump do about extremism in the military?

Sunday 12 January 2025 12:00

Josh Marcus

A study from the National Consortium for The Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism found that between 1990 and 2022, 170 people with U.S. military backgrounds plotted 144 mass casualty terror attacks, representing about 25 percent of all individuals planning such crimes during this period. That proportion is more than three times the share of military veterans in the overall population.

The study also found nearly three-quarters of these offenders were motivated by far-right extremist groups and movements.

“It is not that there are more extremists among the military,” Wendy Via, CEO and co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said.

However, the problem is what this small group of individuals does once they cross over into extremism.

Josh Marcus reports:

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After New Orleans and Vegas attacks by vets, will Trump tackle military extremism?

What’s next for Joe and Jill Biden?

Sunday 12 January 2025 09:00

Ariana Baio

President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden are leaving the White House on January 20, marking the end of the president’s 50 years in politics.

But Biden, 82, insists he’s not quite ready to retreat into a slow retirement just yet. In interviews, the president has indicated he’s still got work to do to improve Americans’ lives. Jill Biden, 73, has similarly dedicated her life to others through education, but she has kept quiet about her next chapter after the White House.

Read more here

When is Trump’s inauguration and how do you get tickets?

Sunday 12 January 2025 07:30

Ariana Baio

On Inauguration Day, the new US president and vice president are sworn in during a ceremony that marks the end of one presidency and the beginning of the next.

Inauguration Day falls on Monday, January 20.

Trump will take the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The ceremony begins at 12 p.m. ET.

Every four years, the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies ensures a chunk of inauguration tickets are made available to the public.

These tickets are free of charge — but they’re limited, and you’ll have to contact your local congressperson to get one.

To find your representative and senators, use Congress.gov.

Biden still believes he would have won election if he stood against Trump

Sunday 12 January 2025 05:00

Lucy Leeson

President Joe Biden said he still believes he would have won the US election if he stood against Donald Trump.

The outgoing president was asked if he regretted his decision not to run for reelection during a press conference on Friday (10 January).

Biden said: “I think I would have beaten Trump, I could have beaten Trump.

“And I think that Kamala could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump. It wasn’t about that. I thought it was important to unify the party.”

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Biden still believes he would have won election if he stood against Trump

Senator Adam Schiff praises Jack Smith and demands release of his report

Sunday 12 January 2025 03:00

Ariana Baio