Trump rings in 2025 with Melania and Elon Musk at Mar-a-Lago during MAGA ‘civil war’ over visas: Live

Since Donald Trump won the 2024 election, he and his allies have been talking about the mandate behind their governing agenda.

The win marked the first Republican victory in the popular vote since 2004.

Those voters will likely hope that Republicans, who are set to control Congress and the White House, will do more than the previous set of lawmakers did over the last term.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that elected officials should not to disregard the rulings made by the court in a report.

Roberts, who will mark 20 years at the top of the court later this year, released his year-end report where he warned of increasing attacks to the legitimacy of the court.

The court has come under increased scrutiny ever since it moved to a decisive 6-3 conservative majority largely put in place by President-elect Donald Trump during his first tenure in the White House from 2017 to 2021.

“In a democracy—especially in one like ours, with robust First Amendment protections—criticism comes with the territory,” Roberts wrote. But he denounced what he considered four areas that threaten the independence of the judiciary: violence, intimidation, disinformation and threats to defy lawfully entered judgments.

Local police are investigating a vehicle explosion outside the Trump Las Vegas hotel on Wednesday as a possible act of terror, an official told ABC News.

A Tesla Cybertruck pulled into a valet area and exploded, officials said.

House Speaker Mike Johnson is reportedly heading to Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday for a strategy session with Donald Trump.

“I’m going to be with him at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Day,” Johnson told News Radio 710 KEEL. “We’re going to map out some strategy.”

Johnson faces a renewed vote on his position as Speaker ahead of the 119th Congress convening later this week.

Despite a rocky year-end series of government funding negotiations, Trump remains supportive of Johnson.

Donald Trump and his son have in recent hours seized on unverified claims that a migrant was involved in the New Year’s Eve car attack in New Orleans.

Authorities later named a U.S. citizen as suspect.

Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X that the attack was “Biden’s parting gift to America — migrant terrorists.”

He’s echoing a line his father set earlier, blaming the attack on immigrants.

President-elect Donald Trump used the mass-killing event in New Orleans, where a truck driver slammed into a crowd on Bourbon Street and left 10 people dead, to talk about immigration despite officials eventually naming a U.S. citizen as suspect.

The president-elect posted on Truth Social on Wednesday saying that immigrants were more likely to commit worse crimes than U.S. citizens.

“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true. The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before. Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”

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Apparently, an inauguration isn’t enough.

Donald Trump is reportedly planning a rally-type event in Washington ahead of his formal swearing in and inauguration at the Capitol.

The event, reportedly planned for the Capitol One arena, will hopefully be far cry from Trump’s previous pre-inauguration activities in 2021, which culminated in the January 6 attack from his supporters on the Capitol.

With rumors swirling of a potential end to the honeymoon period between Trump and Musk, here is a look back at their often tumultuous relationship:

An upcoming trial in a federal court in Manhattan will determine if Rudy Giuliani can exempt his multi-million dollar Florida condominium from a list of property he must hand over to mother-and-daughter election workers trying to collect on their $150 million defamation judgment against him.

He appeared to try to file under seal a list of witnesses he wants to call to testify, which a judge reprimanded him for.

Trump has responded to an attack in New Orleans, where a driver plowed through a crowd on Bourbon Street in the early morning hours of New Year’s Day, killing at least 10 and injuring more than 30 others.

He suggested that the suspect, who has been killed by police, was not from the U.S., though no information has been released by authorities suggesting otherwise.

“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true,” said Trump, referencing his anti-immigrant rhetoric about immigrants being released from prisons and mental institutions into the United States.

“The crime rate in our country is at a level that nobody has ever seen before,” he added. “Our hearts are with all of the innocent victims and their loved ones, including the brave officers of the New Orleans Police Department. The Trump Administration will fully support the City of New Orleans as they investigate and recover from this act of pure evil!”