President-elect Donald Trump shared late-night victory posts on Truth Social on Thursday — his first posts since winning the 2024 election days earlier.
The wave of posts included an Electoral College map, newspaper front pages announcing his victory, and a photo of a MAGA cap-clad Trump with the text: “Get ready for the Golden Age.”
”We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it is now clear that we’ve achieved the most incredible political thing,” Trump said early Wednesday in a victory speech after it became likely he would prevail over Democrat Kamala Harris.
Hours earlier, Trump started his transition to the White House, naming Susie Wiles chief of staff. She spearheaded his 2024 presidential campaign. It’s the first of many appointees to help him push his agenda that includes mass deportation, more tariffs and extending tax cuts.
On Thursday, President Joe Biden assured Americans there will be a “peaceful and orderly” transition: “Yesterday, I spoke with President-elect Trump to congratulate him on his victory, and I assured him, I will direct my entire administration work with his team to ensure a peaceful and orderly transition.”
Trump’s win teaches Joe Rogan that voting works
Joe Rogan elevated an election integrity conspiracy theory while celebrating Donald Trump’s presidential win, suggesting if the former president had not won the election, it may have been “rigged”.
“So, turns out voting works. It’s real,” Rogan said with delight on Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
Ariana Baio reports.
Major abortion rights victories on Election Day still under threat from Trump and his allies
Alex Woodward and Bel Trew write:
Two years after the Supreme Court revoked a constitutional right to abortion, millions of voters across the country directly weighed in on the future of reproductive healthcare access in their states.
Voters in seven of 10 states with abortion rights measures on their ballots have agreed to expand protections or enshrine a right to abortion in their own state’s constitutions, effectively redrawing the map for abortion access.
But those victories — from Arizona to Colorado, Missouri, Montana and elsewhere — were followed by warnings from abortion rights advocates that president-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration, and an emboldened Republican-dominated Congress, could soon upend hard-fought, newly enshrined protections.
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Who is on Trump’s enemies list?
For years, Donald Trump has threatened to go after countless political rivals who he claims have wronged him.
In speeches to supporters and rants on his Truth Social platform, he has on multiple occasions vowed to seek “retribution” and called his political opponents the “enemies from within.”
Here’s Rhian Lubin with a brief rundown of who might make the cut…
Democrats cling to false hopes of huge gap between Biden and Harris
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States, social media users began pushing two conflicting narratives to suggest election fraud.
One revived false claims by Trump that the 2020 vote was stolen from him and the other questioned how Vice President Kamala Harris could have received so many fewer votes in 2024 than President Joe Biden in 2020.
Both narratives hinge on a supposed 20 million vote gap between Harris and Biden.
Here’s a closer look at the facts.
Online misogyny spikes after Trump victory with shocking ‘your body, my choice’ posts
Women are facing a barrage of deeply misogynistic comments online following Donald Trump’s US presidential election victory.
In the wake of the former president’s shocking political comeback, women have reported men are writing “your body, my choice” on their social media posts, among other troubling reproductive rights remarks.
Lydia Spencer-Elliott reports.
ANALYSIS: Conservatives hate Mitch McConnell. But he’s the architect of the Trump comeback
Eric Garcia explains that while MAGA may hate Mitch McConnell, a decision he made in February 2021 sowed the seeds that allowed the movement to grow and thrive and return Trump to the Oval Office.
‘Nostradamus’ pollster bashes rival after both election predictions flopped
With Donald Trump heading back to the White House, it’s not just the Democrats who face a reckoning, but pollsters as well.
Multiple high-profile polling gurus failed to accurately predict what ended up being a decisive victory for the former president on Tuesday, and now some of the experts are taking pot-shots at each other.
Ariana Baio has the story.
Trump AG hopeful says he wants to drag Democrats’ ‘political dead bodies through the streets and burn them’
A Republican lawyer thought to be in the running to be Donald Trump’s Attorney General has said he wants to drag Democrats’ “dead political bodies” through the streets and “burn” them in a graphic social media post.
Sounds like just the kind of well-balanced person you want as attorney general.
Rhian Lubin reports.
Why Trump will likely never see the inside of a prison cell — or be sentenced at all
But following his election win this week it is looking increasingly likely that won’t happen and Donald Trump will once again evade repercussions for his actions.
Ariana Baio reports.
Joe Rogan now realizes voting works
Joe Rogan elevated an election integrity conspiracy theory while celebrating Donald Trump’s presidential win, suggesting if the former president had not won the election, it may have been “rigged”.
“So, turns out voting works. It’s real,” Rogan said with delight on Thursday’s episode of The Joe Rogan Experience.
Ariana Baio reports.
Source: independent.co.uk