“Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisors are advising their staff to prepare for the elimination of 1,000 jobs this month as part of changes that Kristi Noem, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is overseeing at the agency,” the New York Times reports.

“Stephen Miller has spent the bulk of his White House career furthering hard-right domestic policies that have resulted in mass deportations, family separations and the testing of the constitutional tenets that grant American citizenship,” the New York Times reports.

“Now, Mr. Miller, President Trump’s 40-year-old deputy chief of staff for policy and homeland security adviser, is casting his hard-right gaze further abroad: toward Venezuela and the Danish territory of Greenland, specifically.”

“Mr. Miller is doing so, the president’s advisers say, in service of advancing Mr. Trump’s foreign policy ambitions, which so far resemble imperialistic designs to exploit less powerful, resource-rich countries and territories the world over and use those resources for America’s gain. According to Mr. Miller, using brute force is not only on the table but also the Trump administration’s preferred way to conduct itself on the world stage.”

For members: The Trump Doctrine

“The White House published a website Tuesday with a revised version of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, underscoring President Donald Trump’s years-long effort to reshape the narrative surrounding the day in which a mob of his supporters overran the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college victory,” the Washington Post reports.

“We live in a world, in the real world… that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

— Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, quoted by the New York Times.

Joe Scarborough revealed on Morning Joe that he has spoken with President Trump “probably half a dozen times since he was back in the White House.”

His 20-minute call yesterday was mostly “filled with the president recounting the U.S. military’s flawless execution of the operation.”

Then Trump added: “Joe, the difference between Iraq and this is that Bush didn’t keep the oil. We’re going to keep the oil.”

“The U.S. Mint began circulating new coins to ring in the 250th anniversary of the United States on Monday,” the Washington Examiner reports.

“There will be four new designs of the quarter in circulation, along with one new design for the nickel and dime, each. While it is common for coins to alter their design year to year, dimes have been unchanged in their design for 80 years.”

Playbook notes President Trump is not among those featured on the quarter, as had been previously floated.

“Five years ago today, Donald Trump and a mob of his supporters urged Congress to do what voters and courts would not: Allow him to rule over a country whose people had rejected him,” Politico reports.

“Trump learned in the final days of his first term that the Constitution is riddled with ambiguities, loopholes and untested limits. And in the years since, he learned it’s nearly impossible to punish a president who decides to test them. In fact, he was rewarded with a second term and a powerful, Supreme Court-issued form of immunity from prosecution.”

“Trump 2.0 has been the expression of that lesson.”

Anne Applebaum: “In George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the world is divided into three spheres of influence: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, all perpetually at war. Sometimes two of the states form an alliance against the third. Sometimes they abruptly switch sides. No reasons are given. Instead, the Party tells the proles, ‘We have always been at war with Eastasia.’ Newspapers and history books are quickly rewritten to make that seem true.”

“Orwell’s world is fiction, but some want it to become reality. Since well before President Donald Trump’s second term, the idea that the world should have three spheres of influence—an Asia dominated by China, a Europe dominated by Russia, and a Western Hemisphere dominated by the United States—has been kicking around the internet in a desultory way, mostly promoted by Russians who want to control what they call their ‘near abroad,’ or perhaps just want their country, with its weak economy and faltering army, to be mentioned in the same breath as the United States and China.”

Missy Ryan and Ashley Parker: “World leaders could be forgiven for not understanding the simplicity of the Trump Doctrine, especially those who assume that the world’s dominant superpower still possesses complicated mechanisms for the manufacture of foreign-policy strategies. The country that gave the world the Truman Doctrine and the Reagan Doctrine as well as Trump’s apparent favorite, the Monroe Doctrine, now embraces the plainest and most ostentatiously bellicose of national-security policies: Fuck around and find out.”

“If the Fuck Around and Find Out Doctrine doesn’t sound like a concept for a stable and predictable foreign policy—one purpose of Washington’s doctrine-articulation complex—then maybe you can sympathize with those who Rubio says are still struggling to get it.” 

Vice President JD Vance asked media outlets not to share photos of his Cincinnati home after an attacker allegedly broke some of its windows, saying he wanted to shield his children from “the realities of this life of public service,” The Wrap reports.

President Trump posted on Truth Social 89 times between 12:45 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. ET, “obsessing over election conspiracy theories, attacking Somali immigrants in Minnesota, and threatening his next military target,” the Daily Beast reports.

President Trump and Elon Musk have made up, with the billionaire saying he had a “lovely dinner” with the president and First Lady last night.