BIG THREAT: Still nearly two months from taking office, Trump yesterday on social media said he plans on his first day in office to impose steep tariffs on goods imported from China, Mexico, and Canada.    Trump said tariffs would be 25 percent …

IN TRANSITION:  President-elect Donald Trump is spurning the formal transition process allowing him to keep secret the names of the wealthy people and companies paying for his transition into a second term.   Trump has yet to enter an agreement with the General Services …

CONFIRMATION BIAS: Vice President-elect JD Vance spent yesterday squiring former Rep. Matt Gaetz around Capitol Hill, lobbying senators to approve Gaetz’s appointment as Attorney General despite testimony against him about drug use, paid sex, and sex with a 17-year-old.    The NY Times …

REGIME CHANGE: Donald Trump with a casual re-posting of someone else’s social media message confirmed that he plans to declare a national emergency and use the military to execute his plan for mass deportations of illegal immigrants.   About 4 am yesterday …

THE LOYALISTS: Bring the vapors. Donald Trump has named anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be  his Secretary of Health and Human Services.   Trump said last night at a black tie event at Mar-a-Lago that Kennedy will do “unbelievable …

WATERGAETZ: In the most shocking of his appointments so far, Donald Trump announced that Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, a man who’s been under a Justice Department sex trafficking investigation and a continuing House ethics query, is his nominee for attorney general …

BY APPOINTMENT: Donald Trump named Fox News host Pete Hegseth, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, to be his next defense secretary, appointing an ideological loyalist to command 1.3 million active-duty members of the military.   Trump is putting together a team whose …

BY APPOINTMENT:  President-elect Donald Trump is rapidly revealing appointments to major positions in his new administration including people to handle immigration, the environment, and the State Department.   Trump is expected to name Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, the man he used to …

THE WAR ROOM: As many as 50,000 Russian and North Korean troops are reported to be massing in the country’s Kursk region in preparation for an attempt to take back hundreds of square miles of territory occupied by Ukrainian troops.   In …

IN TRANSITION: Speculation has begun on how much Donald Trump will pay off on campaign promises from tax cuts to deporting millions of immigrants.   The Washington Post reports possible upheaval at the Pentagon if Trump follows through on threats to use …