Trump set to be named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ with 40 days to inauguration: Live
Trump was named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ in 2016 after winning his first presidential election
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Your support makes all the difference.President-elect Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” after winning the presidential election for the second time, according to Politico.
The annual cover, which highlights an individual who has greatly influenced the year, is set to be unveiled on Thursday morning. But sources familiar with the matter say the president-elect is expected to grace the cover.
This will mark the second time Trump has been named Time’s “Person of the Year,” and to celebrate, he will reportedly ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning.
The honor comes as Trump continues to fill out his administration before he takes office January 20.
So far, the president-elect has announced nominations for most key roles – many of which are filled by his close allies, longtime friends or members of his family.
Earlier this week, Trump announced he would appoint his son’s fiance, Kimberly Guilfoyle, to serve as ambassador to Greece.
A brief history of Kari Lake: A ‘proud election-denying deplorable’
Unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake gave a ranting speech in 2022 in which she labeled herself a “proud election-denying deplorable” before urging young supporters to procreate and calling Anthony Fauci an “evil elf.”
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Lake, who was defeated in last month’s election by Democrat Katie Hobbs, spoke at a Turning Point USA event
Republican Senator signals he is unsure about Todd Hegseth
Republican Senator Todd Young of Indiana did not give a definitive answer on whether or not he will support Trump’s defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
“I haven’t decided yet, as I’ve shared with him and happy to share with others,” Young told CNN on Wednesday. “We had a good meeting. It was an extensive conversation, and he answered the questions I asked.”
“I appreciated his candor as we discussed our readiness challenges, the China threat, auditing the Pentagon, his vision for DoD, and other important national security issues,” Young said in an X post.
WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Trump sending Don Jr's fiancee to Greece
I asked Republicans about Tulsi Gabbard’s remarks on Syria. This is what they said
The fall of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad immediately triggered conversation about Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congressman and President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be Director of National Intelligence — and not just among everyday citizens. Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican congressman, joked on X/Twitter as news broke that Gabbard could offer the deposed Syrian president “safe harbor” in her home.
Gabbard met with the Syrian dictator in 2017, and she did so in her capacity as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. In one particularly shocking moment, The Independent reported last month that when she met with young girls from Syria who had survived airstrikes from Assad’s military, she allegedly asked them how they knew it was Assad who bombed them. It was a question so insulting that the translator present said he refused to translate it.
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Their remarks show a changed attitude among the GOP toward Trump’s cabinet picks, writes Eric Garcia
Trump announces more nominations
Leandro Rizzuto, billionaire co-founder and chairman of Conair, as Ambassador to the Organization of American States (OAS).
Dr. Peter Lamelas, a physician who practices in Palm Beach, Florida, as United States Ambassador to Argentina
Daniel J. Newlin, a personal injury attorney who funded much of Trump’s campaign advertising, as Ambassador to Colombia
Michael J. Rigas, who served as Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management and Acting Deputy Director of Management, is to be Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources.
Kari Lake, a former news anchor who espoused election fraud theories in 2020, as Director of the Voice of America
Trump taps Kari Lake for Director of the Voice of America.
Kari Lake, the failed Arizona gubernatorial and Senate candidate who disputed election results, was chosen to direct the Voice of America by Trump on Wednesday evening.
“She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media,” Trump wrote. “Kari was a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years,” he added.
Voice of America is a government-funded news agency that primarily serves non-American audiences outside of the U.S.
Trump’s border czar reveals which city is first for mass deportations
Donald Trump’s incoming “border czar” wants officials in America’s third-largest city to “get the hell out of the way” of his plans for mass deportations or risk prosecution.
In remarks to a group of Chicago Republicans on Monday night, Tom Homan said the city and the state of Illinois are “in trouble” because “your mayor sucks and your governor sucks.”
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Ex-FBI Director James Comey issues warning to former colleagues ahead of Trump second term
Former FBI Director James Comey has tried to reassure his former colleagues at the Bureau ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second term.
In a statement posted to Instagram a day before FBI Director Christopher Wray announced he’d be stepping down, Comey wrote: “I realize there is a great deal of anxiety in the Bureau now — produced by the rhetoric of those who have reason to fear honest investigators.”
“But please know you will be ok in the long run.”
“The special burden of being in the FBI is that you lack friends in high places — by design,” Comey’s statement continued. “America has wanted you to be lonely since the searing lessons of Watergate. Once upon a time, the FBI director was a pal of presidents, sharing late-night drinks and using the Bureau to do favors for the powerful.
“But the country learned 50 years ago that it is not in the national interest for the FBI to be loyal to anything except the constitution and the law.”
The former FBI director’s tenure at the department abruptly ended in 2017 when then-President Trump fired him.
Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, once called Greeks ‘freeloaders’ who should be punished
While late-night comics joke about the actual motive behind President-elect Donald Trump selecting his son’s (ex-?) fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle as the U.S. ambassador to Greece, Greek citizens may not find her previous remarks about them very funny.
In a 2015 segment of Fox News’ The Five unearthed by Media Matters senior fellow Matt Gertz, Guilfoyle once described the Greeks as “freeloaders” who should be punished after rejecting a bailout offer from the European Union.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, once called Greeks ‘freeloaders’
Co-hosting the Fox News panel show ‘The Five’ in July 2015, Kimberly Guilfoyle suggested that Greek citizens were too dependent on the government, calling on them to work harder and ‘suck it up’
Trump may revoke policy shielding migrants from deportation arrests in churches and schools
As soon as its first day in office, the incoming Trump administration is reportedly planning on rescinding a 2011 immigration policy limiting deportation arrests in sensitive locations like schools, churches, and hospitals.
Instead, the administration plans to let Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents make arrests in these locations if they’re related to national security concerns, the arrest of a dangerous felon, or risks of imminent danger or the compromising of a criminal investigation, according to NBC News, which first reported on the alleged plan, citing three anonymous sources familiar with the new administration.
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