President Trump

The “peaceful transition of power” between an outgoing administration and a democratically elected incoming government is considered the hallmark of the American Republic. But is the “Shining Beacon on the Hill” not shining so brightly of late?

Four years to the day after the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump is set to be officially certified as the 47th President of the United States in the 2024 election. This marks a pivotal moment in the wake of what Democrats have labeled an “insurrection.” The certification comes after years of legal battles and political efforts aimed at keeping Trump out of the White House. Despite continued attempts by the left to use January 6th as a dark stain on his legacy, Trump has emerged as one of the most consequential presidents in modern history—despite the left’s efforts to rewrite history and reshape the narrative in their favor.

What self-respecting strongman does not have territorial expansion on his wish list?

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has mused repeatedly in recent weeks about taking over the Panama Canal and Greenland, and even making Canada the 51st American state. And while most analysts have rejected his comments as unserious, there is more to Mr. Trump’s expansionist mutterings than merely a bad joke by a low-information leader who remains a Manhattan real estate developer at heart.

Donald Trump’s comeback in 2024 was extraordinary. The US president-elect survived his political opponents’ attempts to convict and jail him, as well as a sniper’s fire by a mere inch. His victory in November represented one of the most significant political realignments in US history, with him continuing to win over, most notably, black and Latino voters, whom many assumed were permanently attached to the Democrats.

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk has shifted his stance on the H-1B visa program, now calling for a “major reform” of the system just days after vowing to “go to war” in a fiery defense of the immigration program.

In the weeks before the 2016 Trump Electoral College victory, Candidate Trump was polling between 35 percent and 40 percent.

He would average only about 41 percent approval over his tumultuous four-year tenure.

Merry Christmas,” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Christmas Day with a photo of himself and his wife, Melania. So far, so traditional. But the US president-elect was just getting started.

In another post, Trump wished merry Christmas to all “including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama canal”. He poked fun at the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, and claimed the US could annex Canada as its 51st state. For good measure, he addressed “the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the US to be there, and we will!”

It was the type of diatribe that, if delivered by a drunk uncle at the Christmas dinner table, might be laughed off or undercut by “Anyone for dessert?” But Trump, 78, is less than a month away from accessing the nuclear codes and commanding the strongest military in the world. No one is quite sure whether to take him literally or seriously – or both.

The Guardian lies ahead.

Throughout the 2024 campaign, Democrats insisted that we simply had to vote for Kamala Harris or else the nation would descend into the fascist rule of Bad Orange Man, the most dangerous enemy of “our democracy” since the reigns of terror of his good friends and role models Adolf Hitler and Genghis Khan. It was all bunkum, of course, and an extended use of the old tactic of accusing the enemy of what they were guilty of doing, as it was the Biden-Harris regime that took actual steps to criminalize opposition to its policies. And now, even after their disastrous electoral defeat, the defenders of democracy are still hatching plans to subvert the will of the people and prevent Donald Trump from returning to the Oval Office.

Elon Musk has said he will “go to war” with Maga Republicans over visas for skilled migrants.

The Tesla billionaire, chosen by Donald Trump to be co-head of his new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has infuriated anti-immigration elements of the Republican Party by defending the H-1B visa, which permits highly educated foreigners to work in the US for up to six years.

Mr Musk responded to the backlash from the Make America Great Again (Maga) faction by vowing to kick out “hateful, unrepentant racists” from the Republican Party.

That was fast.

Donald Trump has used a Christmas message to tell the 37 federal death row prisoners whose sentences were commuted by President Biden to “go to hell” and has vowed to expand capital punishment.

The president-elect, 78, was incensed by Biden’s decision to convert the sentences of nearly all inmates on federal death row to life behind bars.

While Trump approved 13 executions during his first term, Biden introduced a moratorium on federal capital punishment.