Donald Trump has named the producer behind The Apprentice as his special envoy to the UK. The president-elect said Mark Burnett would bring “a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition” to the role. British producer Mr Burnett helped build Mr Trump’s profile, but distanced himself from the tycoon during the 2016 presidential contest. Mark Burnett and wife Roma …
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Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of US President-elect Donald Trump, has withdrawn her name from consideration for a seat in the Senate. She stepped down this month as co-chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), fuelling speculation that she might replace outgoing Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, whom Trump has nominated for secretary of state. But in a post on X, …
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Donald Trump called for Canada to become part of the US as the 51st state this week, but Seth Meyers suspects that’s just because the president-elect wants less diversity in America. During his monologue on Thursday night, Meyers mocked one of Trump’s most recent social media posts, in which Trump complained about subsidizing Canada “to the tune of over $100,000,000 …
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The two leaders have plenty of topics to discuss, according to the Russian president Russian President Vladimir Putin stated during his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday that he has not spoken to Donald Trump in over four years, and thus expects “there will be plenty to discuss” when their next conversation takes place. The comment came in response to …
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It was Donald Trump who won the presidential election in November. But after congressional Republicans bowed to Elon Musk’s demands to effectively force a government shutdown, social media was lit up on Thursday hailing “President Musk,” “President-Elect Elon Musk and – well, you get it. Users on Meta’s Threads and to a lesser extent Bluesky served as counterweights to Twitter/X …
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President-elect Donald Trump announced “success” in coming up with a new plan to fund the US government and lift the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown, urging Congress to swiftly pass it in votes as soon as Thursday evening. Mr Trump’s social media post landed as Republicans said they had narrowed in on a tentative accord after gruelling …
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Everyone step aside, Jimmy Fallon has figured it out. The NBC late night host debuted the couple name for Donald Trump and Elon Musk: Elonald. The joke came as part of one of Fallon’s often used he-said, she-said bits where he imagines silly fake conversations between notable people. At the top of his opening monologue, Fallon noted that Jeff Bezos …
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Play video content TMZ.com Cheryl Hines has thoughts about that pic of her famously health-conscious husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., digging into some McDonald’s with President-elect Donald Trump. We caught up with Cheryl Wednesday in Bev Hills, and asked her about a potential move to Washington, D.C. … now that Trump’s made RFK Jr. his nominee for Secretary of the …
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Taipei, Taiwan – With just weeks left in office, outgoing United States President Joe Biden and his team are scrambling to lock in billions of dollars in funding to re-shore chip manufacturing to the US. Signed into law by Biden in 2022, the CHIPS and Science Act set aside $280bn in funding to boost domestic semiconductor research and manufacturing in …
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Jelly Roll is opening up about meeting Donald Trump about a month ago. The 40-year-old “Run It” singer was seen greeting the President-elect at the UFC 309 event on November 16th at Madison Square Garden. Following that, the singer received some criticism for the meeting. On the latest episode of his wife Bunnie XO‘s podcast Dumb Blonde, he opened up …
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