Trump’s newest Mar-a-Lago dinner visitor raises eyebrows as Mexico president clarifies border name: Live

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum appeared to deny Donald Trump’s claims that southern border was “effectively” closed.

Trump took to Truth Social on Wednesday following a “wonderful” conversation with Sheinbaum a day after she published a scathing open letter to him about migration, fentanyl trafficking and tariffs.

“She has agreed to stop Migration through Mexico, and into the United States, effectively closing our Southern Border,” Trump said in the post.

In a second Truth Social post, he added: “Mexico will stop people from going to our Southern Border, effective immediately.”

Sheinbaum took to X about an hour after Trump’s post to share her own recollection of the phone call.

“In our conversation with President Trump, I explained to him the comprehensive strategy that Mexico has followed to address the migration phenomenon, respecting human rights,” according to a Google translation of Sheinbaum from Spanish.

“Thanks to this, migrants and caravans are assisted before they reach the border. We reiterate that Mexico’s position is not to close borders but to build bridges between governments and between peoples.”

Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted at Mar-a-Lago months after President-elect Donald Trump threatened to imprison him.

Stephen Miller confirmed Zuckerberg’s visit to Fox News.

“Yes, that’s correct,” Miller, who has been tapped to serve as Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, told Fox News.

“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of and a participant in this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world, with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading.

Michelle Del Ray has the full story.

Donald Trump wished Americans a “happy Thanksgiving” on social media before his message devolved into a wild rant “radical left lunatics”.

Last month, the then-GOP presidential nominee suggested deploying the National Guard and military on Election Day to control “radical left lunatics”.

Trump has since resurfaced the phrase during his festive well-wishes.

“Happy Thanksgiving to all,” the president-elect wrote on Truth Social early on Thursday morning.

He then made a swift segue: “Including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

“Don’t worry, our Country will soon be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be, more than ever before, proud to be an American!”

Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest man and President-elect Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” took to his social media platform X to ominously accuse the key witness in Trump’s first impeachment of treason while calling for him to “pay the appropriate penalty.”

Musk, who has been tasked by Trump to lead an outside agency on government efficiency named after a meme, took issue on Wednesday with comments made by former National Security Council official Alexander Vindman during an appearance on MSNBC.

Gustaf Kilander has the details.

Donald Trump’s new trade chief has previously called for deals with the UK, it has emerged, as the president-elect’s team seeks to force Keir Starmer to choose between the US and the EU.

Last year, Jamieson Greer voiced support for trade agreements with Britain during evidence to Congress.

The Independent’s Whitehall editor Kate Devlin reports from London.

The man at the center of unhinged January 6 “false flag” conspiracy theories trumpeted by MAGA media, including Tucker Carlson, has had his defamation lawsuit against Fox News thrown out of court.

United States District Judge Jennifer L. Hall granted the right-wing network’s motion to dismiss Ray Epps’s case on Wednesday, agreeing that he had failed to prove that Fox News had committed “actual malice” against him.

Justin Barangoa has the details.

Eric Garcia writes:

Donald Trump’s nominees will now need to be confirmed by the Senate, which Republicans control with a 53-seat majority. Trump got a reality check last week when Matt Gaetz, the embattled former Republican congressman, pulled his nomination for attorney general after it became clear he would face Senate opposition.

During his presidency, Biden had to grapple with Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the conservative Democrats-turned-independents, when he wanted to pass anything. Now Trump may face his own bloc of opposition within his party. Here are the Republican senators who could be a roadblock to Trump’s agenda.

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Ariana Baio looks at the possible outcome for the American shopper.

Harris, who has been lying low since she lost the race for the White House earlier this month, shared a defiant address on Tuesday night where she told her supporters: “Don’t let anyone take your power.”

Rhian Lubin has the story.