Trump set to be named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ with 40 days to inauguration: Live
Trump was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2016 after winning his first presidential election
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Your support makes all the difference.President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” after winning the presidential election for the second time, according to Politico.
The annual cover, which highlights an individual who has greatly influenced the year, is set to be unveiled on Thursday morning. But sources familiar with the matter say the president-elect is expected to grace the cover.
This will mark the second time Trump has been named Time’s “Person of the Year,” and to celebrate, he will reportedly ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.
The honor comes as Trump continues to fill out his administration before he takes office January 20.
So far, the president-elect has announced nominations for most key roles – many of which are filled by his close allies, longtime friends or members of his family.
Earlier this week, Trump announced he would appoint his son’s fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to serve as ambassador to Greece.
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Matt Gaetz is heading to OAN. Will anybody even watch him there?
The self-described MAGA “firebrand”, who dropped out last month as Trump’s choice for attorney general amid ongoing sexual misconduct allegations, has finally secured another full-time job now that he’s no longer in Congress.
After news leaked on Monday night that he had agreed to host a primetime show for the little-watched right-wing conspiracy channel One America News (OAN), the network made it official on Tuesday with a press release and promotional video.
Gaetz taking the plunge and becoming a conservative talking head is hardly a surprise but will anybody be watching?
Justin Baragona considers the question.
Matt Gaetz is now officially heading to OAN. Will anybody even watch him there?
It appears that Gaetz chose One America News over its much-larger rival Newsmax
John Fetterman joins Truth Social
The Pennsylvania Democratic Senator has not only joined Trump’s social media platform but opens with a very MAGA-friendly dismissal of the hush money case against the president-elect as “bulls***”, perhaps thinking ahead about his own electoral future.
‘Freeloaders’: Guilfoyle’s past criticism of Greece emerges after she is nominated as new US ambassador
Will be fun watching her explain this one in Athens.
Republican senator warns Hegseth his confirmation hearing will be ‘unpleasant’
How’s it all looking for Trump’s pick for defense secretary?
Not good, according to Texas Republican John Cornyn, who had this to say after meeting with him on Capitol Hill.
“I just told him and his wife, I said this is going to be a very difficult process on all of you,” Cornyn told reporters this week, according to The Hill.
“I’ve been through a lot of Supreme Court nomination fights, including Brett Kavanaugh, and that may pale in comparison to what may be thrown at Pete.”
Hegseth is likely to receive a brutal grilling from Democrats over allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2017, has a drinking problem and has mismanaged not one but two veterans’ associations, all of which the nominee denies.
Cornyn, who said he intends to back Hegseth despite it all, has since repeated his warnings to Rob Schmitt on Newsmax, declaring that the candidate is in for “a very unpleasant process for him and his family.”
The Texan continued: “It’s important for all of these nominees to come around and answer questions. I told Pete this is gonna be a very unpleasant process for him and his family, having been involved in the Kavanaugh hearings.
“I know there will be unnamed accusations and some things that are going to be hurtful, not only to him and his family, but he’s ready for that, his wife is ready for that, and I’m confident he will be confirmed.”
The power broker North Carolina senator caught in the middle of Trump’s confirmations fight
A Republican trifecta in Washington should be a good sign for a bipartisan dealmaker like Thom Tillis.
Instead, Eric Garcia reports, he’s getting squeezed by all sides as he faces re-election.
The Republican Senator stuck in the middle of Trump’s confirmations fight
A Republican trifecta in Washington should be a good sign for a bipartisan dealmaker like Thom Tillis. Instead, Eric Garcia reports, he’s getting squeezed by all sides as he faces re-election
Fox pundit pitches herself as next US ambassador to Italy in light of Guilfoyle appointment
Can you blame her?
Jan 6 ‘fighter’ asks for court’s permission to attend Trump inauguration
Russell Taylor is just the latest Capitol rioter to start making demands in anticipation of receiving the promised pardon from the president-elect after he is inaugurated next month (although Trump has specified he will not be issuing a blanket clemency order and, instead, reviewing cases one-by-one).
Report on attempts to kill Trump urges Secret Service to limit protection of foreign leaders
A congressional task force investigating the attempts to kill Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service, including protecting fewer foreign leaders during the height of election season and considering moving the agency out of the Homeland Security Department.
The 180-page report by the bipartisan task force released on Tuesday is one of the most detailed looks so far into the July assassination attempt against Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania and a second attempt in Florida two months later.
Like the series of other investigations and reports, the task force railed at the agency tasked with protecting the top echelon of America‘s democratic leaders.
Here’s more.
Report on attempts to kill Trump urges Secret Service to limit protection of foreign leaders
A congressional task force looking into the assassination attempts against Donald Trump during his presidential campaign is recommending changes to the Secret Service
Schiff warns Trump against threatening his political enemies
The California Democrat, particularly loathed for his “pencil-neck” by the president-elect, has been pointing out that calling for the jailing of your rivals is a pretty dictatorial look, advice that Trump is pretty unlikely to heed.
DOGE about ‘dismantling the deep state’, says House speaker
Mike Johnson managed to sound pretty paranoid talking to Bret Baier on Fox News last night about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), insisting it is necessary to root out supposed operational bias within the workings of the federal government, a conservative obsession that may or may not be a real problem.
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