Don Jr tests positive, as his father dodges media questions

Ooof. The actor who has played the president on Saturday Night Live for the last four years is not messing around.

Graig Graziosi has this report.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is urging House Democrats to squash their beef - at least publicly - and “work as a team” to project unity before the “crucial” runoff elections in Georgia that will determine whether Democrats or Republicans control the Senate.

“There is a great deal at stake in the next two months. The differences between the Democrats and the Republicans are great, especially in how we respect the health and well-being of America’s working families. In this fight, we must work as a team,” Pelosi said in a Dear Colleague letter to her House Democratic caucus, including newly elected members who will be sworn in on 3 January.

The speaker’s letter comes as progressives and moderates in the Democratic party have been running to their preferred media outlets to point fingers at each other over election night losses many did not expect.

Here’s more from Griffin Connolly.

Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg could face a hostile reception after being summoned to Washington to defend their handling of election disinformation.

The Silicon Valley chiefs were threatened with subpoenas by the GOP majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee if they did not agree to appear on Tuesday.

The virtual hearing was organised last month after the social media giants reportedly slowed the sharing of a controversial New York Post article on Hunter Biden in the weeks before the election, a move that angered Republicans who accused the companies of siding with Joe Biden’s campaign.

Graeme Massie has the latest.

For Independent Premium, John T Bennett looks at what lies ahead for a president who seems to have run out of road in DC but still inspired more than 73m Americans to vote for him a second time.

The president will not like this from Robert O’Brien one bit.

Speaking to the Soufan Center’s Global Security Forum, John Bolton’s replacement gave the most definite acknowledgement heard from the Trump camp so far that their man lost when he said: ”Look, if the Biden-Harris ticket is determined to be the winner, and obviously things look that way now, we'll have a v professional transition."

Gino Spocchia has this one.

NBC News reports this morning that the president-elect is reluctant for his time in the Oval Office to become consumed by probes into the actions of his predecessor, quoting one adviser who said he "just wants to move on."

Another aide said, "He's going to be more oriented toward fixing the problems and moving forward than prosecuting them."

"His overarching view is that we need to move the country forward," says a third. "But the most important thing on this is that he will not interfere with his Justice Department and not politicise his Justice Department."

Even if the US government decides against pursuing Trump, his cronies or their actions in office, that need not stop state officials going after him like Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr, who has fought to obtain the president’s withheld tax returns.

In a fairly scathing Instagram post, the former first lady has reflected on having to welcome The Donald’s wife into the White House four years ago despite her entirely justified loathing of the couple over the 45th president’s smears against her husband on the campaign trail.

“Donald Trump had spread racist lies about my husband that had put my family in danger,” she wrote. “That wasn’t something I was ready to forgive.”

“But I knew that, for the sake of our country, I had to find the strength and maturity to put my anger aside.”

Louise Hall has the latest on the president’s overlooked middle child who, I regret to inform you, has once again said something stupid.

For Indy Voices, Hannah Selinger joins the chorus calling on the boss of the General Services Administration to call this thing already, taking the president’s weekend Twitter gaffe as the concession we’ve all been waiting for.

Also for Voices, Alabama psychologist Alan D Blotcky gives his professional opinion on what precisely is rotten in the state of Trumpland and how it might be treated.