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Trump Picks Elon Musk Pal to Go Get Greenland

January 16, 2025 at 6:29 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Ken Howery is a quiet, unassuming tech investor who prioritizes discretion. And yet, he has ended up in the middle of two of the noisiest story lines of the incoming Trump administration,” the New York Times reports.

“One is the expanding ambition of Elon Musk, Mr. Howery’s close friend and fellow party-scene fixture since the two helped run PayPal 25 years ago.”

“The other is the expansionist ambition of Mr. Musk’s boss, President-elect Donald Trump, who has set his sights on buying Greenland, the world’s largest island.”

“As Mr. Trump’s pick for ambassador to Denmark, Mr. Howery is expected to be central to what Mr. Trump hopes will be a real-estate deal of epic proportions. The only hitch is that Denmark, which counts Greenland as its autonomous territory, says the island is not for sale.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

TikTok to Sponsor Trump Inauguration Party

January 16, 2025 at 6:03 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“TikTok is spending $50,000 on an inauguration party honoring influencers who helped Donald Trump spread his campaign message, according to the party organizer — and it’s scheduled for Sunday, the deadline for the company to spin off from its China-based owner or be banned in the U.S.,” Politico reports.

“CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend.”

Filed Under: Technology, Trump Transition

Elon Musk to Speak at Trump Rally This Weekend

January 16, 2025 at 5:28 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Elon Musk is among the opening speakers who will precede President-elect Donald Trump at his pre-inaugural rally in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, NBC News reports.

Filed Under: Trump Transition


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Stephen Miller Has Built More Power Than Ever

January 16, 2025 at 2:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Mr. Miller was influential in Mr. Trump’s first term but stands to be exponentially more so this time. He holds the positions of deputy chief of staff, with oversight of domestic policy, and homeland security adviser, which gives him range to coordinate among cabinet agencies. He will be a key legislative strategist and is expected to play an important role in crafting Mr. Trump’s speeches, as he has done since he joined the first Trump campaign in 2016.”

“Most significantly, Mr. Miller will be in charge of Mr. Trump’s signature issue and the one that Mr. Miller has been fixated on since childhood: immigration. And he has been working, in secrecy, to oversee the team drafting the dozens of executive orders that Mr. Trump will sign after he takes office on Jan. 20.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

New Trump Portrait Mimics Mug Shot

January 16, 2025 at 1:56 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Trump sported a familiar stone-faced stare in his official portrait revealed just days before he makes his White House return,” Axios reports.

“The nontraditional portrait is starkly different from his first term pose, where he grins under even lighting. Instead, with the up-shot glow, a raised eyebrow and a tight-lipped mouth, it’s reminiscent of another photo: his historic mug shot.”

“The Trump-Vance transition team, in a release sharing their official portraits, said the photos ‘go hard.'”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Trump Sees the Best Ratings of His Political Career

January 16, 2025 at 12:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Donald Trump continues to see some of the most positive ratings of his political career, according to a new CNN poll, which finds the president-elect poised to enter his second term with far more positive sentiment behind him than when he last occupied the White House.”

“The public also broadly sees it as likely that he’ll carry out some of the economic and immigration policy promises central to his campaign and believes that he will follow through on threats to use his executive power to go after rivals and pardon people convicted related to the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Quote of the Day

January 16, 2025 at 12:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“I’m feeling like a kid again with Trump’s invite. I’m fired up. I’m not even taking Viagra anymore.”

— Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonarro, quoted by the New York Times, on being invited to Donald Trump’s inauguration.

However, Bloomberg reports Brazil’s Supreme Court barred Bolsonaro from leaving the country.

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Nancy Pelosi Won’t Attend Trump’s Inauguration

January 16, 2025 at 11:51 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will not be attending President-elect Trump’s inauguration on Monday, The Hill reports.

Filed Under: House of Representatives, Trump Transition

One of the Coldest Inaugurations Ever

January 16, 2025 at 11:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“It will be bitterly cold for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday as temperatures dip well below average for this time of year in the D.C. area,” WTOP reports.

“The weather forecast calls for a chance of snow Sunday followed by gusty winds and high temperatures only around 20 degrees.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

House GOP Asks Trump to Hold Back on Executive Orders

January 16, 2025 at 10:01 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The House Republican leadership has asked the incoming Trump administration to hold off on rolling back several Biden-era policies by executive order so that GOP lawmakers can repeal them in a reconciliation bill instead,” Punchbowl News reports.

“The GOP-run Congress has to find savings as part of any reconciliation package. And if President-elect Donald Trump wipes out big-ticket Biden policies using executive orders, Congress can’t claim them as savings in reconciliation.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

‘Everyone’s Trying to Kiss the Ring’

January 16, 2025 at 9:09 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Donald Trump’s first White House victory caught corporate America flat-footed. This time around, industries that his administration will soon oversee are showering his inaugural committee with record-breaking donations — and making sure both the president-elect and the public notice their largesse,” Politico reports.

“Not only are companies giving far larger amounts than they did to Trump’s first inauguration — when they didn’t have a firm grasp of how to handle misgivings about the mercurial politician — they’re doing so in a far more public fashion, announcing the donations months before they have to be reported to federal regulators.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Trump Unveils His White House Blacklist

January 16, 2025 at 7:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Donald Trump named a handful of former staffers as “people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome,” and asked the public to not recommend job candidates that had previously worked with any of them, the Daily Beast reports.

Filed Under: Trump Legacy, Trump Transition

An Administration of the Uber-Wealthy

January 16, 2025 at 7:48 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

CNN: “Trump is returning to the White House after making appeals to working-class voters in last year’s election, but he has assembled one of the wealthiest administrations in history – turning to nearly a dozen people worth at least $1 billion on their own or combined with their spouses’ assets – to oversee the nation’s policies and represent the US overseas as ambassadors.”

“This class of uber-rich officials has begun the process of detailing their vast wealth for public disclosure and developing plans with government ethics officers to unwind holdings that could pose conflicts of interest.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Trump Plans Quick Swap of U.S. Attorneys

January 16, 2025 at 6:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The Trump transition is attempting to remove US attorneys immediately by replacing them with interim leaders who’d be aligned with the president-elect’s priorities,“ Bloomberg Law reports.

“Transition staffers have been working to identify existing career prosecutors in many of the nation’s 93 law enforcement districts who they’d feel confident would support the president-elect’s law enforcement priorities—including deportations—once elevated as acting US attorneys, said the attorneys.”

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Google CEO to Join Other Tech Moguls at Inauguration

January 16, 2025 at 6:35 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Google CEO Sundar Pichai will join the growing list of tech executives sitting on the dais as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office on Monday,” Politico reports.

The New York Times reports TikTok’s CEO is also likely to be there.

Filed Under: Trump Transition

Microsoft CEO Dined with Trump and Musk

January 16, 2025 at 6:31 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President-elect Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance had lunch with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Wednesday, along with Elon Musk, Semafor reports.

Filed Under: Technology, Trump Transition

Trump Considers Executive Order to ‘Save TikTok’

January 15, 2025 at 4:58 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President-elect Donald Trump is considering issuing an executive order once in office that would suspend enforcement of the TikTok sale-or-ban law for 60 to 90 days, hoping a brief reprieve for the Chinese-owned app will net him an early victory,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump has been mulling ways to save the day for the wildly popular video app, talking through unconventional dealmaking and legal maneuvers; these include the executive order that could unravel the Biden administration’s nationwide ban of the app now scheduled for Sunday.”

Filed Under: Technology, Trump Transition

Tim Cook to Join Tech CEOs at Trump’s Inauguration

January 15, 2025 at 3:36 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Apple CEO Tim Cook is planning to attend the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump next week, the latest in a wave of Silicon Valley leaders traveling to Washington for the ceremony,” Bloomberg reports.

“Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla, who has quickly become one of Trump’s foremost supporters and financial backers, are all also expected to attend.”

It’s an extraordinary show of power by Trump to have them there.

Filed Under: Technology, Trump Transition

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