President-elect Donald Trump announced he will bring back Mount McKinley after the mountain was changed in favor of the native population.

Said Trump: “We’re going to bring back the name of Mount McKinley. He deserves it.”

Semafor: “Trump is inheriting a particularly strong post-pandemic economy, meaning he enters office with considerable leverage in trade negotiations, The Wall Street Journal reported. Already, the president-elect has floated a blanket 10% tariff on all imported goods, a 25% tariff on Canadian and Mexican products, and levies of up to 60% on Chinese goods.”

“But the Republican’s notorious unpredictability means many world leaders are unclear exactly how to prepare for Trump 2.0, with many hoping to score a meeting with him and begin negotiations even before he takes office.”

“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. 20 will truly be liberation day in America.”

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.

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. And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”

Playbook: “From floor speeches to hallway chats to post-vote statements, Democrats have spent the past few days portraying Musk as a shadow president — a man perhaps more influential than Trump himself. Musk, you may recall, used his social media platform to start whipping Republicans into tanking the initial, bipartisan funding deal before Trump publicly nuked it.”

“Yes, it’s a transparent play to prey on the incoming president’s insecurities — Trump despises when people outshine him, and one of the most notable elements of his second-term team so far is that it’s filled with people who are unlikely to steal his spotlight. MAGA world is warning not to take the bait, but, nevertheless, Dems are persisting.”

Donald Trump has appointed television producer Mark Burnett as his special envoy to the United Kingdom, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

Playbook: “The whole saga is a reminder, especially for Republican leadership, of what things will be like with Trump back in office. For the last few years, Congress has gotten used to a fairly hands-off approach from the president in their negotiations.”

“It’s clear that’s all over…”

“At the same time, the spectacle raises new doubts about all the talk of complete GOP unity after the election, as intraparty squabbles burst directly into view. Dozens of GOP lawmakers defied the incoming president, and roughly three dozen House Republicans voted against the bill, which was backed by more Democrats than members of the GOP.”

New York Times:  “The episode demonstrated a well-established pattern by Mr. Trump. He often purposely blew up congressional negotiations during his first term, often with a tweet, only to be forced to retreat or give up his position in the face of an angry reaction from both allies and adversaries.”

“Former U.S. Rep. Billy Long of Missouri, whom President-elect Donald Trump has named his nominee to head the IRS, touts his expertise in tax matters,” ProPublica reports.

“He advertises his credential as a certified tax and business advisor, and he adds CTBA to his name on his X profile. That profile encourages people to message him to ‘save 40% on your taxes.'”

“But tax experts told ProPublica that they have never heard of CTBA as a credential in the tax profession.”

“The MAGA-verse, with President-elect Trump and Elon Musk at the helm, continues to wield unprecedented power over Congress — but it has also found its limits,” Axios reports.

“Three times now, the influential voices surrounding Trump — often organizing on X — have failed to get exactly what they want.”

“President-elect Donald Trump’s last-minute demands for a congressional funding package were rejected by dozens of Republicans this week, foreshadowing the legislative challenges he could face next year — even with unified GOP control,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump’s role in sinking a bipartisan deal to fund the government — and his public insistence that any spending bill lift the debt ceiling — led to a failed vote on the House floor Thursday evening. More than three dozen members of his own party voted against the deal he’d endorsed hours earlier. The Senate passed a new bill to avert a government shutdown early Saturday; the bill did not include Trump’s debt limit demand.”

“The drama highlighted the limits Trump faces in bending his entire party to his will, as Republicans hold a narrow margin in the House and remain ideologically split over government spending.”

Wall Street Journal: How a routine spending bill turned Washington upside down.

Politico: Trump’s wake-up call: Republicans are willing to defy him.

“Elon Musk has never been elected to office. President-elect Donald Trump has not tapped him to serve in any role inside the government. Until the July assassination attempt, he never even publicly supported Trump,” the Washington Post reports.

“But this week, critics of the world’s richest man say he attained a new title: ‘shadow president’ of the United States.”

“President-elect Donald Trump transferred all of his shares in the social media company that bears his name to a trust controlled by his eldest son, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday night,” the Washington Post reports.

“Mr. Trump is the largest shareholder of Trump Media & Technology Group, and his nearly 53% stake is worth about $4 billion. Trump Media, which is losing money, has taken in just a few million dollars in revenue.”

“A group of Republican House members is calling on US President-elect Donald Trump and attorney general nominee Pam Bondi to fire all 93 US attorneys and immediately appoint interim replacements,” Semafor reports.

“The move would ensure any Biden-era federal prosecutors don’t automatically rise in the ranks to fill the slots of outgoing US attorneys while new ones are considered by the Senate.”

New York Times: “It was a remarkable moment for Mr. Musk, who has never been elected to public office but now appears to be the largest megaphone for the man about to retake the Oval Office. Larger, in fact, than Mr. Trump himself, whose own vaunted social media presence is dwarfed by that of Mr. Musk. The president-elect has 96.2 million followers on X, while Mr. Musk has 207.9 million. (Mr. Musk is also far richer than Mr. Trump. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he is worth $458 billion, while the president-elect is worth a mere $6.61 billion.)”

This week also marked the first time Mr. Musk has been able to use his website as a digital whip, driving lawmakers to support his desired outcome.”

“His actions had prompted a backlash from some lawmakers who recoiled at his interference in the legislative process. Some even accused him of acting more like the president or vice president than a billionaire executive.”

Washington Post: “Co-president” Elon Musk? Trump ally tests influence in spending fight.