Trump says Newsom should resign after California governor calls his fire claims ‘pure fiction’: Live

The president-elect is “talking a bunch of smack and giving us a bunch of superlatives,” Smith said on NewsNation.

“Now that’s normal, we can relate to that, that’s familiar to us,” he continued.

“This kind of language, no matter how frivolous we may think it is, no matter how much we may suspect that it’s much ado about nothing... at least it sounds like a typical politician.”

Katie Hawkinson has more.

Donald Trump will be among the mourners in Washington DC today for the state funeral of the former president following his lying in state at the Capitol.

Here’s what’s happening.

While the United States is no stranger to making land purchases, it has not done so since the 1940s when it purchased a small island that is now part of the US Virgin Islands.

It’s an expensive endeavor that requires justification and approval by the Senate.

From the Louisiana Purchase to the Alaska Purchase and even leasing Guantanamo Bay from Cuba, here’s Ariana Baio on the territories the US has purchased.

Here’s the latest rant from the president-elect on Truth Social just now, stirring the pot but helping no one:

“Fire is spreading rapidly for 3 days — ZERO CONTAINMENT. Nobody has ever seen such failed numbers before! Gross incompetence by Gavin Newscum and Karen Bass….And Biden’s FEMA has no money — all wasted on the Green New Scam! L.A. is a total wipeout!!!”

Claudia Sheinbaum clearly enjoyed herself yesterday excoriating the US president-elect on Wednesday after he suggested that the Gulf of Mexico be renamed the Gulf of America.

“Obviously, the Gulf of Mexico is a name recognized by the United Nations,” Sheinbaum said during her daily press conference.

She then pointed to a historic map of North America, on which parts of what is now the United States, including California and Texas, were identified as “America Mexicana”.

“Why don’t we call it Mexican America?” she said with a heavy tinge of sarcasm.

“It sounds nice, no?”

Gustaf Kilander has more.

David Lammy has also been dismissing the president-elect’s posturing over Greenland.

“Let’s get serious, it’s not going happen,” he told the BBC on Thursday. “No NATO allies have gone to war since the birth of NATO [in 1949].”

Lammy continued: “We know from [Trump’s] first term that the intensity of his rhetoric and unpredictability sometimes of what he says can be destabilising.

“I suspect on Greenland he is targeting his concerns about Russia and China in the Arctic and his concerns about national economic security.

“He recognises, I am sure, that Greenland is a kingdom of Denmark.”

Millie Cooke has more.

“We are not sent to Washington to invade Greenland, rename the Gulf of Mexico or seize the Panama Canal by force,” the incredulous House Minority Leader told a press conference in DC on Wednesday.

“We were sent to Washington to lower the high cost of living in the United States of America.”

The president-elect spoke with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito hours before the former urged the nation’s high court to block his imminent sentencing date in his hush money trial, it emerged yesterday.

The conservative justice told ABC News he agreed to take a call from the incoming president to recommend a law clerk for a position in his administration.

“I agreed to discuss this matter with President-elect Trump, and he called me yesterday afternoon,” Alito confirmed to ABC.

“We did not discuss the emergency application he filed today, and indeed, I was not even aware at the time of our conversation that such an application would be filed,” according to the justice.

“We also did not discuss any other matter that is pending or might in the future come before the Supreme Court or any past Supreme Court decisions involving the president-elect.”

Here’s more from Alex Woodward.

The incoming commander-in-chief’s dreams of using military force to annex Greenland have been rejected by the US embassy in the Danish capital.

“There are no plans to increase the United States’s current military footprint in Greenland,” a spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday.

That hasn’t stopped Trump posting memes about his fantasies of world domination, however.

While his refusal to rule out military action to take the strategically-useful (and mineral-rich) Arctic island earlier this week drew an angry response from Denmark, France and Germany, Republicans on Capitol Hill are backing their Dear Leader.

Here’s more from Eric Garcia.

Good morning!

Donald Trump has lashed out at President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom over the wildfires currently rampaging through Los Angeles, which have already killed five people, destroyed more than 1,000 structures and forced 150,000 residents to evacuate.

“One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground,” the president-elect fumed on Truth Social.

“It’s ashes, and Gavin Newscum should resign. This is all his fault!!!”

In an earlier post on his social media platform, Trump wrote: “The fires in Los Angeles may go down, in dollar amount, as the worst in the History of our Country.

“In many circles, they’re doubting whether insurance companies will even have enough money to pay for this catastrophe.”

Here’s Rhian Lubin on some further unhelpful interventions from Elon Musk and friends.