Trump blames ‘fake news’ for Hegseth backlash; Melania ‘proud’ of Barron for serving to dad get ‘bro vote’: Live

JD Vance echoes Donald Trump in his support of embattled defense secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.

The vice president-elect wrote on X: “Led by President Trump, we’re fighting for Pete Hegseth. And we’re doing so because Pete Hegseth wil fight for our troops.

“For too long, the Pentagon has been led by people who lose wars. Pete Hegseth is a man who fought in those wars.”

Elon Musk donated more than $250m in helping reelect Donald Trump to the White House, according to federal filings.

The filings with the Federal Election Commission, which were revealed on Thursday and first reviewed by the New York Times, show that the billionaire poured in $20m to a super PAC named after the late Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader, that allegedly sought to soften Trump’s anti-abortion position.

Over the course of this year’s election cycle, Musk pumped in $239 million in cash and in-kind contributions to his primary political action committee, America PAC.

Donald Trump has nominated two new appointments to his incoming administration to tackle his aggressive immigration agenda.

On Thursday, Trump picked Rodney Scott, his former border chief, as commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

Scott served since the early 1990s in the Border Patrol, and as the chief of the agency during the last year of the first Trump administration in 2020 and beginning of the Biden administration in 2021.

Trump also announced he was nominating Caleb Vitello, the current assistant director of the Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs in Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to serve as acting director of ICE.

Melania Trump said she’s “very proud” of her 18-year-old son who played an instrumental role in the selection of the president-elect’s podcast appearances that helped him court young male voters.

“I’m very proud of him about his knowledge even about politics and giving advice to his father,” she said of the political scion. “He has brought in so many young people. Young people don’t sit in front of TV they are in front of phones and on podcast.”

Melania added that Barron is “very vocal” in his advice to his 78-year-old father.

The teenage Trump, who began studying at New York University’s Stern Business School in September, is not in the usual position of most freshmen, his mother admitted.

“I don’t think it’s possible for him to be a normal student,” Melania continued. “He knows that he is in different position than other children.”

Donald Trump’s dance moves to the Village People’s 1978 hitYMCA have garnered global attention, and has since been replicated by athletes and celebrities alike.

Melania, however, admitted she has never busted moves liker her husband.

When asked, “Is this how you dance?,” Melania abruptly responded: “No.”

Melania Trump began talking about Trump’s transition to the White House as she sat down on Fox & Friends this morning.

The incoming first lady said her husband knows the sorts of people that need to be hired for his administration so they can hit the ground running on day one.

“This time it’s very different we already know where we’re going.,” she said. “So we don’t need to go back in.”

She added: “The energy is different. The people around him is different.”

Bernie Sanders branded many of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s views as “extremely dangerous” but noted his one stance that is “exactly correct”.

“I think what he’s saying about the food industry is exactly correct,” the Vermont senator said of Donald Trump’s nominated Health and Human Services secretary on CBS News on Thursday.

“I think you have a food industry concerned about their profits, could care less about the health of the American people. I think they have to be taken on.”

However, he also called some of Kennedy’s suggestions, like removing fluoride from public water and his anti-vaxxer views “extremely dangerous.”