President Trump

When Donald Trump first visited Paris when President in 2017, he appeared as something of a passing curiosity; the apparent manifestation of America’s inexorable decline, captured in all its spray-tanned vulgarity. Seven years later he has returned to Paris as emperor, crowned by his client kings in none other than the spiritual home of modern Christendom: Notre-Dame. “It was a coronation,” as one European diplomat put it to me, laughing with incredulity at the spectacle.

What is so striking about this second coming of Trump is not just that the world appears to have accepted his victory this time, but to have actively embraced him as the harbinger of a new age, no longer seeking to protect the old one that has been discredited. The visual proof of this diplomatic embrace was captured in the image of Europe’s leaders in Paris, one after the other, moving to submit themselves at the feet of the new imperator.

The next few years promise a great deal of fun.

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday sat down for his first network television interview since being elected on November 5. He outlined several sweeping policy changes — both domestic and international — during the course of the discussion.

Trump said he intends to enact many of the changes he has in mind for the economy, immigration, foreign and defense policy and more, as soon as he is sworn in on January 20, 2025.

Full interview from today between President Trump and Kristen Welker of Meet The Press.

Topics discussed include:

* Day One objectives

* Tariffs

* Fed Chair Jerome Powell

* Immigration and the border

* Dreamers

* Birthright citizenship

* Health care

* Aborti0n

* Defense… pic.twitter.com/zGLoFDUEdb

— Paul Villarreal (AKA Vince Manfeld) (@AureliusStoic1) December 8, 2024

In his first sit-down news interview since winning a second presidency in November’s election, Donald Trump renewed promises to pardon his supporters involved in the attack on the US Capitol in early 2021.

He also doubled down on promises of mass deportations and tariffs in the conversation with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker – the latter of which he acknowledged could cause Americans to pay more after riding voters’ complaints about higher prices back to the White House at the expense of Vice-President Kamala Harris.

“I’m going to be acting very quickly. First day,” Trump said in the interview, claiming convicted Capitol attackers had been put through a “very nasty system”.

Kamala Harris’s losing campaign for president was infamous for its focus on vibe, a kind of inchoate feeling of joy that supposedly swept the nation and was supposed to sweep her into office. We all saw how that turned out. But now, there’s a new vibe in town, and you can feel it. The victory of Donald Trump and the astonishing popularity of his transition is only part of it. There’s more going on here. We may have just turned a corner on the road to civilization’s collapse into woke commie ruin.

h/t DS

Mark Zuckerberg and Donald Trump, who have previously engaged in bitter public feuds, are now warming to each other as Zuckerberg seeks to influence tech policy in the incoming administration.

The Meta CEO dined at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida last week, talking technology and demonstrating the company’s camera-equipped sunglasses, Fox News reported.

“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America,” Stephen Miller, a top Trump deputy, told Fox.

Zuckerberg should be in jail.

While the White House attempts to lock in policy priorities with international partners, Mar-a-Lago is becoming a magnet for foreign leaders eager to win Trump’s good graces.

President-elect Donald Trump’s threat Monday to impose a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico — one of a barrage of shots fired daily from Mar-a-Lago since his election victory — landed like a bombshell in Ottawa.

On Friday, after days of angst and an emergency “Team Canada” meeting with all 10 provincial premiers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau jumped on a plane and flew to Palm Beach, Florida. He spent three hours at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence and golf club, one of 11 others crowded around Trump at a table in the middle of the busy members dining room.