In January 2017, the day after Donald Trump signed what he called a “Muslim ban,” limiting travel from some Middle Eastern countries to the United States, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sent a signal, without mentioning Trump, that Canada was different.
“To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith,” he tweeted. “Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada”
I think Trump will simply ignore Junior.
It’s a traditional thing: during the transition from one presidential administration to another the outgoing first lady hosts the incoming one for tea and shows her around the White House. This is one of the more genteel accouterments of the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S., but it has become more fiery this time around, as Melania Trump has just declined an invitation from Jill Biden to sit down for a happy transition chat. Ungracious? Bad manners? Hateful? We will be hearing all of that and more from the left’s propaganda organs, but as is always the case, reality is different.
When tackling the deep state, the administration needs to reward those who respond positively, find ways to marginalize those who don’t, and get rid of those who actively resist.
Many news stories that once seemed important have been drowned out by the Trump election tsunami. Looming large among these is the story of the Federal Emergency Management Agency supervisor who directed her personnel to bypass the homes of hurricane victims that displayed “Trump for President” yard signs. The FEMA staffer in question has been fired — good riddance — and the FEMA director has been called on the carpet by congressional Republicans. But a story that might have had legs in a tight election no longer seems to matter.
The most tedious refrain to emerge from the verbal vomit spewed by the Never Trump grift nonces was the idea that the Republican Party needed to be “saved” from Donald Trump. Throughout the 2024 election cycle, the professional concern trolls at The New York Times and The Washington Post repeated variations of the idea as if they were being paid by the mention.
A few days before the 2019 federal election, I received calls from the embassies of G20 countries. I was a senior adviser to Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer at the time. Their request was simple: if the Conservatives won, how could we arrange congratulatory calls from their leaders to Scheer in the hours following the election results?
They wanted to ensure they were at the top of the call list. We set up a protocol between myself and my chief of staff at the time, Marc-André Leclerc, who was in Regina for election night, while I was at the Conservative Party’s HQ in Ottawa.
A Fox News ally for defense secretary. A former Democrat-turned-Trump-World-celebrity to oversee 18 spy agencies. A right-wing provocateur for the nation’s top law enforcement job.
President-elect Donald J. Trump’s appointments for top government jobs continued to roll in fast and furiously on Wednesday, and his promise to build a presidential administration fueled by retribution quickly came into view.
Those plans were perhaps best summarized by Representative Matt Gaetz, who wrote of his enthusiasm for the wholesale elimination of federal law enforcement agencies just hours before Mr. Trump announced he’d chosen the Florida Republican to lead the Justice Department:
Republicans have secured a majority in the US House of Representatives, extending their hold on the lower chamber and delivering a governing trifecta in Washington that could give Donald Trump sweeping power to enact his legislative agenda.
The Associated Press determined on Wednesday evening that Republicans had won at least 218 seats in the 435-member House after a victory in Arizona, a call that came more than a week after polls closed across the US and as Trump made cabinet announcements that sent shockwaves through Washington.
The call ensures Republicans will continue to have a large say in key matters such as government funding, debt ceiling negotiations and foreign aid, and it spells an end to Democrats’ hopes that the lower chamber could serve as a blockade against Trump’s agenda.
I can’t wait for the inauguration. The Guardian will implode.
All the consternation over what Donald Trump might do to our fair land after his jolting re-election triumph is not misplaced. But it isn’t the response strategy of Justin Trudeau and his Liberals that should be drawing all the attention.
There’s less than a year to go until our next election. There’s about an 80- to 90-per-cent chance Mr. Trudeau will be gone by then.
WE KNEW the mainstream media in this country hate Donald Trump and have vilified him ever since he began campaigning for office nine years or so ago. But their reaction to his victory last week shows not only that they are unhinged, but childishly naïve as well.
Take one example. The day after the result, Harriet Harman appeared on ITV’s This Morning. Quite why her views on the electors’ choice in the US should have any relevance to anybody is a mystery. Nor could her political opinions be regarded as balanced or representative, but the presenters nevertheless accepted everything she said without challenge. Harman’s disgust for Trump was evident, and she concluded that he would take away women’s reproductive rights, with her hosts nodding in agreement like a pair of donkeys.
Following Donald Trump’s impressive victory over Kamala Harris, Americans are preparing for the 45th president to become the 47th. World leaders will be doing the same, not least Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau. His instinct will be to use the return of Trump as a springboard to save his flailing career. This time, however, it’s not going to work.
More … Conservatives poised to push Trudeau Liberals out of 2nd place in Quebec: poll
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), where they will “slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” according to an official release from the Trump-Vance transition team, which called this “potentially, the “Manhattan Project” of our time.”
h/t DS
Donald Trump’s left-field Secretary of Defense pick Pete Hegseth is covered in tattoos – and many of them have already proved controversial for the Fox News host.
The veteran who served tours in both Afghanistan and Iraq and is double Bronze Star holder and is a TV top presenter having fronted Fox and Friends since 2017.
Hegseth, who is 44, started adorning his body with tattoos only recently after his father dissuaded him from getting tattoos at a young age.
We’re going to be fine, just fine. That’s the message coming from the Trudeau government in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive comeback.
Just so there’s no doubt, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland put it like this last week: “I want to say with utter sincerity and conviction to Canadians that Canada will be absolutely fine.”
Maybe it’s just me, but when people tell me they’re speaking with utter sincerity and conviction it leaves me with the nagging feeling that maybe there’s a bit of a question mark over both their sincerity and their conviction. As in: aren’t you trying a bit too hard here?
Billionaire Elon Musk has been tasked with leading incoming President Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
In a statement on social media, the US president-elect said Musk – along with former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy – would “dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies”.
It is a role that the tech entrepreneur has arguably prepared for through his business leadership, and one he has spent months arguing for.
While Donald Trump’s most eye-catching appointment may be Marco Rubio, who is strongly tipped to become the next secretary of state, some of his other hires are just as revealing about the direction his presidency will take. Reports that Stephen Miller will serve as deputy chief of staff for policy in the next administration, and the announcement that Tom Homan will be the new “border czar”, reveal two things about a second Trump White House. Firstly, that the incoming president is recruiting from a deeper populist bench this time around; and secondly, that he is placing immigration policy at the centre of his political vision.
