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    Trump Takes the World Stage. Embrace the Chaos.

    Embrace the chaos—that’s my formula for dealing with Trump 2.0, especially on the world stage. If you thought that the second time around President-elect Donald Trump was going to be more congenial toward our allies in the international community, Tuesday you got your wake-up call. During a Mar-a-Lago press conference, Trump explained how he plans…
    Debra Saunders
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    TRUMP EFFECT: Meta Announces End to DEI Programs

    The Trump Effect is in full swing before the new president even takes office.  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Friday that the company would end its major diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Meta put out a memo to employees explaining the move, which was published by Axios. “The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Faces Starting Term Without a Cabinet

    With less than 10 days until President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, Republicans worry that government bureaucracy will prevent the new president from starting his term with a fully confirmed Cabinet. Cabinet and Cabinet-level nominees traditionally face extensive paperwork obligations, including FBI background checks and financial disclosures, but Republicans are now suggesting that this bureaucratic process has…
    Jacob Adams
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    How Trump Responded to the New York Sentencing

    Just 10 days before his second inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump’s designation as a convicted felon became official Friday in a New York court.  New York Justice Juan Merchan sentenced Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” meaning no jail time, fine, or other penalty. Such a sentence means it will not likely interfere with Trump’s duties as…
    Fred Lucas
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    Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah

    President-elect Donald Trump’s second tour in the White House can be a glorious last hurrah or the last flicker of a dying comet. The choice is his. Trump will enter the White House on Jan. 20 free from customary political obligations or ambitions. He has no political debts to pay. He defeated Democratic nominee Kamala…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Americans Are More Optimistic About the Economy After Trump’s Reelection, Survey Shows

    Americans are more optimistic about the economy than they were before Donald Trump’s reelection, a newly released survey from pollster Scott Rasmussen’s Napolitan News Service shows. A survey of 1,000 Americans conducted in early January reports 24% of Americans say their financial situation is improving and 33% say it’s getting worse. The Napolitan Institute press…
    George Caldwell
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    5-4: Two Republican-Appointed Supreme Court Justices Agree With Democrat Appointees in Allowing Trump Sentencing to Proceed

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined to block a New York court from sentencing President-elect Donald Trump in the "hush money" case involving porn star Stormy Daniels. A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on 34 counts of fraud in relation to the case last spring in a prosecution led by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. New York…
    Fred Lucas
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    Selective Force, Strategic Restraint: Unpacking Trump’s Jacksonian Foreign Policy

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Have you noticed recently that Donald Trump has both issued threats to our existential enemies abroad and that he’s called for peace as well? In other…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    What Merrick Garland Wants to Release on Trump Before the Inauguration

    Attorney General Merrick Garland intends to release the volume of special counsel Jack Smith’s report alleging President-elect Donald Trump committed crimes in challenging the 2020 election—but he’s withholding the volume on Trump’s handling of classified documents after he left the presidency in 2021.  This comes one day after U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon temporarily…
    Fred Lucas
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    Left Launches Multi-Front ‘Trump-Proofing’ Effort at Federal, State Levels

    Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.  Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump Is Bringing Back the Monroe Doctrine

    Donald Trump hasn’t even retaken the office of the presidency yet, and he’s already drastically reshaping American foreign policy. At a Tuesday press conference, which covered a wide range of topics, President-elect Trump announced that his administration would be renaming the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America.” The once and future president also doubled…
    Jarrett Stepman
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    Trump Doesn’t Rule Out Coercion as He Eyes Panama Canal, Greenland

    President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using economic and military coercion to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland during a press conference Tuesday after devoting much of his impromptu speech to outlining his strategic goals in the Western Hemisphere. In the first question of his post-speech press conference at Trump’s West Palm…
    George Caldwell
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    Donald Trump’s Worldwide Election

    Winning the 2024 election was only the beginning—the Trump effect is now sweeping the globe. From Canada to the U.K. and continental Europe, left-liberal governments are tottering while right-leaning voters, especially young men, gravitate toward populist politics and take inspiration from Donald Trump’s success in America. It’s almost as if Trump himself were on the…
    Daniel McCarthy
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    Why 2024 Was the Year of Donald Trump

    The year 2024 will be remembered for three marvels: Donald Trump, Donald Trump, and Donald Trump. He is Time magazine's Person of the Year. Even Harry Houdini would be jealous. The facts speak for themselves: President-elect Trump outfoxed and steamrollered four felony prosecutions in New York City; Georgia; Washington, D.C.; and Florida. The New York…
    Armstrong Williams
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    Why Do Conservative Black Voters Not Support Donald Trump?

    Leftist pundits have spent the weeks since November’s election claiming that “whiteness” and racial grievance explain why Donald Trump is headed back to the White House—a hard sell when the president-elect assembled the most multiracial coalition in Republican history, but it doesn’t stop committed partisans from trying. Trump’s victory does offer valuable lessons about the role race played in the…
    Delano Squires
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    Trump Unveils Strategy to Pass Huge Parts of His Agenda

    The American people delivered President-elect Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda a mandate in November’s presidential election, and with Republicans in control of the House, Senate, and the White House, Trump is looking to deliver. Over the weekend, Trump announced his support for passing large swaths of his agenda in a single budget reconciliation bill. Trump’s support…
    Jacob Adams
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    TRUMP EFFECT? Canadian Prime Minister to Resign After Tariff Threat

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that he will resign as leader of the Liberal Party and as prime minister in the coming days. He has faced criticism over the economy and his response to a tariff threat from President-elect Donald Trump. “I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    After Speaker Election, Johnson’s Right Flank Demands Action on Trump Agenda

    Shortly after the reelection of Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as speaker of the House on Friday, 11 Republican congressmen who were previously reluctant to vote for him signed a statement explaining their decision to save the GOP from a dysfunctional Congress. “We did this despite our sincere reservations regarding the speaker’s track record over the…
    George Caldwell
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    The Economic Mess the Biden-Harris Admin Is Leaving for Trump

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from professor Peter St. Onge. Just what kind of economy are they handing to President-elect Donald Trump? Now that the election’s over, President Joe Biden’s minions are letting the terrifying economic data out of Biden’s statistical gimp box. Last week, the Philadelphia Fed…
    Peter St. Onge
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    3 Reforms Trump Needs Congress to Pass to Root Out the Deep State

    The administrative state will not take President-elect Donald Trump’s reforms lying down, and although his actions as president can severely hamper the deep state, he will need legislative help to fully address the bureaucratic rot in the federal government. Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., recently confirmed reports that the Senate would consider two tracks for two…
    Tyler O’Neil
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