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HuffPostCoca-Cola’s Donald Trump Honor Leaves Critics Bubbling With Outrage
Anger fizzed over the corporation's tribute to the president-elect.
- Evening Standard
Nato jets scrambled as Russia launches massive aerial strike on Ukraine
Putin’s air force pounded critical infrastructure facilities close to the Polish border
- HuffPost
Paul Krugman Issues Dire Warning On How ‘A Lot’ Of Trump Voters Will Be ‘Brutally Scammed’
The economist also slammed one of the president-elect’s policies as “terrible.”
- The Daily Beast
Trump Makes Mike Johnson Fire Republican ‘Deep-Stater’: Sources
Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Turner (R-OH) told his colleagues Donald Trump ordered Speaker Mike Johnson to remove the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from his powerful role in an act of personal revenge, sources told the Daily Beast Wednesday. Mike Turner, whose committee oversees the CIA and the FBI, told his colleagues that the speaker said the order came from President-elect Trump, a senior GOP lawmaker told the Daily Beast. His departure was first reported
- CNN
Jill Biden expresses disappointment with Pelosi: ‘We were friends for 50 years’
First lady Jill Biden expressed her disappointment with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a new interview with The Washington Post, providing rare public comments about the fractured relationship between her husband, Joe Biden, and Pelosi following the president’s departure from the 2024 race.
- The Daily Beast
Lying Trump Took His Own Supporters for Fools: Jack Smith
Special Counsel Jack Smith found that Donald Trump’s team took his own MAGA faithful for easily manipulated fools when he and several co-conspirators carried out an “unprecedented criminal effort” to overturn the 2020 election. Smith detailed his conclusion in a report released Tuesday, which explains his decision to indict Trump on four counts for plotting to obstruct the certification of the presidential race he lost to Joe Biden. Smith wrote that Trump’s team “deceived” a group of MAGA hardli
- HuffPost
'Well, Gee, That Didn't Happen': Maddow Lays Out Trump's Already-Broken Promises
MSNBC's Rachel Madow slammed the president-elect's transition as "incompetent" and "incoherent."
- The Daily Beast
RFK Jr. Admits He Didn’t Come Clean on Anti-Vax Fortune
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars he made from his anti-vax crusade, Donald Trump’s transition team has admitted to the Daily Beast. Trump’s pick for health secretary previously said his career as the founder, chairman, and general counsel of the nonprofit Children’s Health Defense was “unpaid” and “the opposite of a profit motive.” In personal financial disclosure forms required for all presidential candidates, Kennedy initially reported that he had earne
- HuffPost
Trump Has Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown In Wild Rant Aimed At ‘Moron’ TV Host
The president-elect said he had an “obligation” to attack one specific late night host.
- NY Daily News
Michelle Obama doesn’t want to ‘pretend’ at Trump inauguration: report
After Michelle Obama’s office confirmed that the former First Lady will not be present at Donald Trump’s inauguration, many people have speculated about the reason for her absence. A source close to the “Becoming” author says she simply does not want to be “pretend” with someone she feels is a threat to American democracy. “There’s no overstating her feelings about Trump. She’s not one to ...
- HuffPost
Stephen Colbert Gives ‘Jerk’ Trump An Awkward Reality Check On His Latest Obsession
The “Late Show” host said one of the president-elect’s big plans has a glaring flaw.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Family and Friends Don’t Like Don Jr.’s New Girlfriend
President-elect Donald Trump isn’t convinced Florida socialite Bettina Anderson is a good fit for Donald Trump Jr. following his split from MAGA “mamacita” Kimberly Guilfoyle. Sources told Mediaite that the president-elect and his advisers worry Anderson’s partying ways could hurt Don Jr. “Individuals close to the president have expressed growing concerns about the potential liability posed by his son’s new relationship,” a Trump family friend told Mediaite on Monday.
- BuzzFeed
These Jokes About A Republican Senator's Misspelled Sign Are Very Funny
"People so concerned about DEIs they forget about their ABCs."
- HuffPost
Ivanka Trump Reveals Her Role For Dad During His Second Term
Donald Trump's daughter talked about politics being a "very dark, negative business."
- The Daily Beast
‘11th Hour Conversion’: Female Senators Line Up to Savage Hegseth’s ‘Brutal’ Take on Women in Combat
Pete Hegseth was grilled during his Senate confirmation hearing over his comments about women not belonging in certain battlefield roles. New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sarcastically thanked the defense secretary hopeful for his “11th-hour conversion” after he told the Democrat he would be “honored” to serve alongside her and other women in the military. Shaheen said Hegseth’s previous comments against women serving were “surprising” from someone who hopes to lead the U.S. Military and the hu
- The Hill
Puerto Rico asks Trump for help after Venezuela’s Maduro threatens invasion
Puerto Rico’s new Republican governor is drawing attention to Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro’s military threats against the U.S. island in the wake of President-elect Trump’s calls for U.S. territorial expansion. In a letter to Trump dated Monday, Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón said Maduro’s plea for Latin American troops to invade Puerto Rico “is an open threat to…
- The Daily Beast
Joe Biden Torches Trump’s Tech Bros ‘Oligarchy’ in Farewell Address
President Joe Biden, in his farewell address Wednesday night from the Oval Office, pointed the finger at a “very few, ultra-wealthy people” as he warned about the spread of misinformation and disinformation on social media and the abuse of artificial intelligence—each consequences of a “tech-industrial complex” that could grow even more powerful in the next Trump administration. Though he didn’t say his name, Biden alluded to his successor’s self-identified “first buddy,” Elon Musk, the billiona
- BuzzFeed
Michelle Obama Will Not Attend Trump's Inauguration, And The Internet Is Here For It
"Michelle Obama is all of us."
- The Daily Beast
Biden and Trump Battle Over Credit for Middle East Deal
Joe Biden was battling with Donald Trump over who gets the credit for the Middle East hostage release and ceasefire deal after the president’s Hail Mary pass to save his legacy was snatched at the end line. “Is that a joke?” Biden snapped at a reporter after being asked if his successor was partly responsible for the breakthrough. The veil of civility between the White House rivals in recent days was stripped to reveal a frantic race to take all the plaudits for the historic agreement.
- NY Daily News
Editorial: Playing politics with Justice: Trump DOJ broke the rules on leaks about COVID nursing homes probes
Donald Trump has endlessly complained about the Department of Justice abusing its wide-reaching powers to make improper political attacks on him. But it was the DOJ under Trump himself that did exactly that to the Democratic governors of New York and New Jersey in late October 2020, violating department policy. So says the DOJ’s own independent inspector general. And next week the DOJ will be ...