One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.
The new president marked his first hours in office with a flurry of executive orders. One of those executive orders fulfilled a campaign promise as Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th rioters.
Senators have had two-and-a-half months to consider Trump’s nominees. Confirmation is part of their constitutional duty.
Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”
President Donald Trump’s popularity is higher ... The numbers from Reuters/Ipsos poll show 47% of Americans approve of Trump’s presidency as he returned to the White House this week.
Bessent, 62, is a longtime hedge fund manager, Trump donor and adviser. He'll be the point person for Trump on a host of key economic issues.
Jan. 20, 2017: Then-incoming President Donald Trump talks with his outgoing predecessor, Barack Obama, on Trump’s inauguration day on Washington. Four years later, Trump would boycott the inauguration of his own successor, Joe Biden.
Some thought Trump might pivot to a message of unity and reconciliation on the occasion of his victory. That did not happen.
When Joe Biden first became president, some found it hard to believe that he cared very much about climate change.
Former hedge fund manager Scott Bessent was confirmed yesterday in the Senate as the new Treasury Secretary. The 62-year-old Tr*mp nominee becomes the first out-gay man to hold the position. He’s also the highest-ranking LGBTQ+ official in US history. The Treasury Secretary is fifth-in-line to the Presidency.
What’s happening now in Washington, DC, is different from most presidential transitions − in volume, pace, content and breadth of the changes ordered.
President Donald ... Trump when he ran against him for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, calling him a “con artist” and “the most vulgar person to ever aspire to the ...