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Elon Musk has quickly become one of President Donald Trump’s closest allies.

Beyond Elon Musk’s chaos is a plan being executed with terrifying precision

Republican voters signed up for “The Trump Show: Politics Edition.” Elon Musk is producing and distributing that show, one chaotic bite at a time.

  • Tressie McMillan Cottom

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Trump and Musk are emotional time bombs, lashing out in the crudest and cruellest ways

To elect one emperor of chaos is unfortunate. To let two run the government is simply asking for it.

  • Maureen Dowd
Donald Trump holds a sabre after using it to cut a cake, as Vice President J.D. Vance looks on, at the Commander-in-Chief Ball, part of the 60th Presidential Inauguration.

Trump lines his pockets and leaves his supporters out in the cold

Donald Trump has made a flurry of executive orders hours after taking office that will cause havoc in the US and around the world.

  • Cory Alpert
The four Donalds: Trump takes the oath at the US Capitol, speaks off the cuff outside the ceremony, takes the stage at the Capitol One Arena and returns to the Oval Office.

We saw four Donalds in one day, but there’s a fifth we need to watch

The calm, chatty, discursive and, above all, confident Trump we witnessed in the Oval Office after the day of ceremonies and speeches was different to the Trumps we saw earlier.

  • Michael Koziol
Donald Trump is back in Washington.

Trump back in Washington as late switch causes drama for tens of thousands of supporters

One day after the president-elect’s surprise announcement, many fans who had travelled to see him being sworn in were left wondering what to do.

  • Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone (along with Mel Gibson) cast as Trump’s Hollywood envoys.

Trump casts Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight as his ‘Hollywood envoys’

The US president-elect has selected the three entertainment giants to help “a great but very troubled place”.

  • Farrah Tomazin
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Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Defense secretary, at the completion of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington.

Trump’s pick for Defence Pete Hegseth grilled over sexual allegations, drinking

“You are asking us to lower the standards to make you the secretary of defence simply because you are buddies with our president-elect?”

  • Farrah Tomazin
The report amounts to an extraordinary rebuke of a president-elect.

Trump would have been convicted in election case had he not won in 2024, report says

The report amounted to an extraordinary rebuke of President-elect Donald Trump, capping a legal saga that saw him charged with crimes that struck at democracy.

  • Alan Feuer and Charlie Savage
A statue commemorating Hans Egede, the Danish missionary who founded Nuuk in 1728, stands on a hill overlooking the town in Greenland.

Greenland to Trump: We’re not for sale, but let’s talk

The country’s prime minister said while Greenlanders do not want to become Americans, “the reality is we are going to work with the US”.

  • Jeffrey Gettleman
Carrie Underwood performs during the Times Square New Year’s Eve celebration in New York. She will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration.

Carrie Underwood, Village People to perform at Trump’s inauguration events

Trump’s second inauguration is expected to be a much different affair than the last time America got a new president.

  • Michelle Price

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