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Fox News broadcast a joint interview with Donald Trump and his “first buddy,” Elon Musk, on Tuesday evening in which Sean Hannity mused it was like “interviewing two brothers.”
Musk discussed “Trump Derangement Syndrome” among the left and claimed friends behaved like they had “rabies” when the president’s name was mentioned.
Trump conceded that Congress should have to codify “a lot of” his DOGE executive orders, adding, “The beauty is, we have four years — that’s why I like doing it right at the beginning.” The president also said, “Inflation is back,” and claimed it had nothing to do with him.
This comes after the White House revealed in a court filing that Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency and has no decision-making authority. The tech billionaire’s role is limited to that of an employee and senior adviser to the president.
As American and Russian officials held talks in Saudi Arabia about ending the war in Ukraine, Trump dismissed Ukrainian concerns about not being at the negotiating table, saying they had three years to end the conflict. He then blamed Ukraine for being invaded by Russia.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 04:14
Reuters reports, citing a source familiar with the plan, that President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Aaron Lukas, a career government official, as deputy to the newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
Gabbard, the former Democratic U.S. representative for Hawaii, with little intelligence experience, was confirmed as the top U.S. spy last week in a 52-to-48 vote, mostly along party lines.
Lukas, who served as an intelligence aide to then-acting Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell in 2020 during Trump’s first term, would bring years of national security experience to the position of principal deputy director of national intelligence, a role that requires Senate conf
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 04:00
The SpaceX founder used the primetime slot to try to justify the sweeping cuts his so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” has attempted to make over Trump’s first month in office as a needed corrective to a recalcitrant civil service that is resisting the president’s demands.
Musk, who appeared alongside the 47th president during a joint interview taped last week for Hannity’s eponymous program, described his role in the Trump administration as “tech support” and as a sort of enforcer for Trump’s will against non-compliant government workers.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 03:50
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 03:45
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has signed with CAA for representation, with a focus on speaking engagements and publishing, Variety reports.
CAA will collaborate closely with Harris on her post-White House initiatives, creating strategic opportunities to expand her platform in support of the issues she has championed throughout her long career in public service.
This marks Harris’s return to the agency. She was previously represented by them before she was sworn in as the 49th Vice President of the United States — the first woman, the first Black American, and the first South Asian American elected to the position. She made history again as the first Black woman and the first South Asian woman nominated for president by a major political party.
Harris’ CAA signing comes just two weeks after former President Joe Biden also signed with the agency, which previously represented him from 2017 to 2020.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 03:35
A Republican state lawmaker in Missouri has introduced legislation that would create a “central registry” of pregnant people who are “at risk for seeking an abortion,” what the bill’s author called the makings of an “e-Harmony for babies” to match with adoptive families.
The legislation would also allow the state to share information from that database with law enforcement agencies, “including those outside of this state,” the bill states.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 03:30
President Donald Trump told Sean Hannity that he has empowered Elon Musk to police his own conflicts of interest.
Musk says he has never asked Trump for anything and he will recuse himself where necessary.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 03:06
Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico plummeted 39% in January from a month earlier, authorities said Tuesday, an early gauge of President Donald Trump‘s immigration crackdown.
The Border Patrol made 21,593 arrests during the month, down from 47,316 in December and the lowest mark since May 2020 near the peak of the COVID-19 epidemic, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
“Call it the Trump Effect,” the White House said in a statement.
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 02:52
“The struggle against Trump, the struggle against oligarchy, which is led by Elon Musk … that’s not gonna be won here in Capitol Hill,” Senator Bernie Sanders tells Kaitlan Collins on CNN.
“It’s gonna be won by millions of people all over this country standing up and saying, ‘We fought and died for democracy, we’re not gonna move toward authoritarianism.’”
Oliver O’Connell19 February 2025 02:45