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Last week Amazon announced plans to release a “behind the scenes” documentary about Melania Trump, produced by the incoming US first lady herself. The tech giant reportedly paid $40mn for the exclusive deal just weeks after it donated $1mn to her husband Donald Trump’s inauguration committee and committed to livestreaming the ceremony on its Prime service. Before November’s presidential election, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos also cancelled plans for The Washington Post, which he owns, to endorse Trump’s Democratic rival. Shortly after the election, he spoke favourably about Trump’s “energy around reducing regulation” and made a personal pilgrimage to have dinner...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson Holy Smokes 🔥 The New Trump Cabinet just Assembled for their first group photo and it literally looks like team America 🇺🇸 Will you get tired of winning? 7:20 PM · Jan 18, 2025

A federal appeals court has dealt a critical blow to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, a controversial Obama-era policy that has shielded over half a million illegal immigrants from deportation. As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, this ruling signals a potential turning point in America’s battle against illegal immigration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld a lower court ruling that found the Biden administration’s attempt to codify DACA violated U.S. immigration law. The decision affirms that the 2012 Obama-era memo, which unilaterally created DACA without congressional approval, was both unconstitutional and...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🚨BREAKING: Governor Landry announces plans to raise the “Make America Great Again” flag at the Louisiana Governor’s Mansion on Jan. 20 to commemorate President Trump’s inauguration. 12:11 PM · Jan 17, 2025

The Idaho House Education Committee advanced a bill last week that bans ideological flags from public schools. While supporters framed the legislation as a way to remove LGBTQ+ pride flags from classrooms, the law’s broad language extends to all ideological pride flags, including ones cherished by Trump supporters, patriot movements, and Christian nationalists.

Donald Trump never revealed what he and former president Barack Obama discussed in the viral footage from Jimmy Carter's funeral though he happily shared the parody video of their discussion. Trump shared the parody video on X showcasing the version where Obama praised Trump and said, "Yeah. I bet. I knew you'd win." "I can't talk, we have to find a quiet place sometime. This is a matter of importance and we need to do this outside so that we can deal with it, certainly, today." "I've pulled out of that. It's the conditions. Can you believe it?" Trump said,...

Michelle Obama is done with President-elect Trump, if her decision to skip next week’s inauguration means anything. The former first lady, who once called on Democrats to go high when Trump’s Republican Party goes low, will not be going to the Capitol to watch Trump take the presidential oath for a second time, leaving her husband, former President Obama, to go it alone. Longtime allies of the former first lady say she is sending a powerful statement by skipping the event. They say she wants nothing to do with a man undeserving of the presidency and is making no effort...

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans, and people of the world: thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done. Every four years, we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power, and we are grateful to...

Oy veh — it’s gonna get mashugana out there. In the waning days of the Biden administration (which also coincides with the waning days of Joe Biden), a few uncomfortable truths have emerged. First, Biden is destined to be remembered as one of the least consequential presidents in American history. His tenure was a speed bump -- a thin slice of bologna that’s sandwiched between the two Trump terms. For a guy like Biden, who so clearly covets adulation, recognition, and public praise, that’s gotta sting. Two, it’s now apparent that Biden’s presidency coincided with a national realignment. The public...

Title says it all. One favorite is the Latina girl's celebration dance at 3:20 for "Papi Trump", right after the woke dude who said he was "Leaving America and moving to Hawaii." (lol)Some great comments under the video, btw. Spot The Difference? (video: Trump voters vs. Kamala voters, i.e. smart pretty girls vs. woke fuglies) [humor - language]

The 20th can't get here soon enough.

Incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Breitbart News exclusively that every intelligence official from the various departments and agencies across the federal government currently detailed to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House under outgoing President Joe Biden will be expected to vacate the premises by 12:01 p.m. Eastern on Inauguration Day when President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated again. Waltz, in a phone interview earlier this week, told Breitbart News that he is making sure everyone understands that it’s “crystal clear what the agenda is.” “Everybody is going to resign at 12:01 on January 20,” Waltz said....

President-elect Donald Trump met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday and previewed 100 executive orders he plans to issue once he steps into the Oval Office on January 20, two sources told Axios. Many voters are eagerly anticipating Trump’s first decisions after President Joe Biden’s managed decline of the United States. Under Biden’s leadership, America suffered the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, soaring inflation, the weaponization of justice, and the prosecution of political opponents. Russia also invaded Ukraine, and millions of migrants poured over the United States’ southern border. Homelessness grew 18 percent in 2024 alone, fueled by rising prices and a surge...

I would have written about this one yesterday, but I was enjoying the experience of getting a colonoscopy. But the story is still timely and, more importantly, a perfect example of how the Democrats and the Pravda Media create a nasty hoax out of an innocent event. I am speaking of the Great Handshake Controversy of January 6th. It was, according to the left, a very dark day in American history. Scott Jennings snarkily called it the High Holy Day of January 6th. This time the horror that must be expressed was not the storming of the Capitol building but...

Donald Trump Jr. is flying to Greenland on Tuesday as his president-elect father refuses to back off his threats to try to acquire the strategically located land, a source familiar with the trip confirmed to The Post. Don Jr. will not be meeting with any government officials but instead be scoping out the island to “shoot some fun video content for podcasting,” the source said. President-elect Donald Trump has been making waves in recent weeks by claiming he wants the US to attain “ownership” of Greenland, harking back to his original pitch he made in his first term about trying...

PANAMA CANAL'S LESSON: U.S. MUST BUILD BRIDGES, NOT FENCES --- LA LECCION DEL CANAL DE PANAMA Last weekend's decision by Panama to embark on a $5.2 billion expansion of the Panama Canal should teach a lesson to the new crowd of U.S. Latin America bashers -- often disguised as immigration control advocates on cable television networks -- about how wrong their predecessors were in one of Washington's biggest debates over Latin America ever. I'm talking about the 1977 Panama Canal treaties, which turned over full control of the canal to Panama in 2000. Read the full column here, and...

Meghan McCain, the daughter of former Sen. John McCain, R- Ariz., on Sunday backed President-elect Donald Trump’s call for the United States to retake full control of the Panama Canal. Trump wrote via Truth Social Saturday the Central American waterway is crucial for U.S. commerce, adding it is in America's interest to regain control of it. He urged Panamanian officials to cooperate upon his return to the Oval Office. “When President Jimmy Carter foolishly gave it away, for One Dollar, during his term in Office, it was solely for Panama to manage, not China, or anyone else,” Trump wrote of...

Just because it is a season for peace on earth and goodwill towards men doesn't mean you can't mercilessly troll the vulnerable. Or, at least, that seems to be the philosophy of the Trump transition team. After taking a poke at Panama while announcing a new ambassador to that country (see Trump Doubles Down on Panama 'Ripping Off' America With New Ambassador Pick), Trump went for the trifecta. "Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always...

Forgive us if we missed it, but we don’t recall Donald Trump campaigning to invade Panama and retake its famous canal. But there was the President-elect on the weekend, threatening our Central American ally with punishment if it doesn’t meet his demands. “Our Navy and commerce have been treated in a very unfair and injudicious way. The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, highly unfair, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama—I say, very foolishly, by the United States,” Mr. Trump told a crowd in Phoenix. “This complete ripoff of our country will immediately stop.”...

Trump made an economic argument along with his geopolitical one: “We’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else,” he told the audience as he denounced the increased fees billed to American shippers by the canal’s operators. ... The first treaty obliged Panama to operate the canal neutrally, with nondiscriminatory pricing, and allowed the United States to defend it from any threat that might interfere with its neutrality. The second treaty transferred full control to Panama effective on Dec. 31, 1999, without superseding the first treaty’s broad provision allowing for US defense of this...