Trump’s incoming FCC chair already putting TV networks on notice they’ll be punished for coverage Trump doesn’t like.

Elon Musk, DOGE, net worth $315.7b
Linda McMahon, Education, $3.2b
Howard Lutnick, Commerce, $2b
Doug Burgum, Interior, $1.1b
Scott Bessent , Treasury, $1b
Vivek Ramaswamy, DOGE, $960m
Kelly Loeffler, Agriculture, $800m
Chris Wright, Energy, $171m

This feels like the Boris Yeltsin era, when Russia’s oligarchs took advantage of an aging & somewhat incapacitated leader to privatize the state for their own interests.

Losing the White House, Senate, House sounds bad because it is, BUT this was NOT a landslide blowout.

It was one of the smallest popular vote margins of victory in history (& under 50%). Harris got nearly half the vote in a 100-day campaign despite the administration’s record unpopularity. Shifting just 237K votes across 3 states would have changed the outcome. GOP lost 4 of 5 battleground Senate races, no big House gain.

So this was NOT shameful! And certainly not permanent.

I was in the traveling press corps for Michael Dukakis 1988. Similarities abound (he was 17 points up in July, until Willie Horton landed). There was lots of post-defeat despair among Dems then too — but just four years later Bill Clinton showed up.

There’s always another election! And this dictator wannabe is already outrunning his mandate.

Trump Draft Executive Order Would Create Board to Purge Generals

Panel could upend military review process and raise concerns about politicization of military

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Taking no chances on professional guard rails at the Pentagon, Trump appoints a FOX TV host who worships him as Secretary of Defense — Peter Hegseth.

Trump: “Pete has spent his entire life as a Warrior for the Troops, and for the Country. Pete is tough, smart and a true believer in America First. With Pete at the helm, America’s enemies are on notice – Our Military will be Great Again, and America will Never Back Down.”

Hegseth 5 days ago: “I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.”.. VIDEO

Trump himself weighed in yesterday on a first step toward stripping the Senate and House of power. Neutralizing the legislative branch is at the top of every autocrat’s to-do list.

Read the details here from Politico, but this “recess appointment ” process is a way for Trump to populate his Cabinet and other posts with officials who might not win Senate confirmation. For example, it would avoid a pesky fight over putting conspiracy nut Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of health care. Recess appointments can last up to two years unless senators later come back and confirm the nominee.

All three of the Republicans vying for Senate Majority Leader, to be voted on Wednesday, quickly agreed to Trump’s demand. Next, expect him to demand abolishing the filibuster, depriving the Senate’s Democratic minority of any influence on outcomes.

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And there is a market for concerns about Trump’s ambitions. Although some voted for him anyway, a majority of the voters on Tuesday said they were “very or somewhat concerned that electing Trump would bring the U.S. closer to being an authoritarian country”, where a single leader has unchecked power, according to the AP VoteCast survey.