Trump’s cabinet live update: The House ethics panel did not agree to the release of the Matt Gaetz report

If the latest dance to sweep the sports world is any indication, Donald Trump and the NFL may be doing better in his second term in the White House than his first.

Some NFL players have taken cues from the college ranks and even the football field and mixed martial arts octagon and are celebrating big moments by hitting the “Trump dance.”

Donald Trump says he “doesn’t know” who’s behind it. The president’s transition chair and the person chosen to be commerce secretary said they would not touch it. “They made themselves nuclear,” he said.

Trump will reportedly nominate Russell Vought as director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, a key role that oversees spending in the administration. Vought was also one of the architects of the Heritage Foundation plan and wrote the chapter on reforming the executive branch.

He was one of the authors of the blueprint playbook for the administration’s first 180 days, and the Center for Renewing America is on the advisory board of Project 2025.

Donald Trump is reportedly considering right-wing radio host Dan Bongino to lead the Secret Service, as the embattled security outfit seeks to rebuild credibility after several near-miss assassination attempts on Trump during the 2024 presidential campaign.

Trump is also reportedly considering Sean Curran, the current head of the president-elect’s security detail, and Robert Engel, the former head of the detail, for the position, which does not require Senate confirmation.

“President Trump is making decisions about who will be in his second Administration. Those decisions will continue to be announced by him as they are made,” said Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for the Trump-Vance Transition. The Independent.

A decade ago, Dr. Mehmet Oz was hauled in front of a Senate subcommittee where he faced grilling over false claims he had been peddling about diet and weight loss on TV.

“The scientific community is almost monolithically against you,” Senator Claire McCaskill said, referring to a product she touted as a “miracle” weight-loss drug.

He later became the host of his own program, The Dr. Oz Show, where he spouted other dangerous and misleading claims ranging from “magic” coffee beans to spur weight loss and selenium supplements to prevent cancer.

A 2017 paper published by the American Medical Association Journal of Ethics calling him a “dangerous rogue unfit for an American physician’s office.”

Here are some medical claims that make no sense:

In a letter, sent to Trump on Tuesday, commissioner Dawn Buckingham offered a plot of land she recently purchased in Starr County to build a facility that would help law enforcement coordinate, process and detain undocumented immigrants.

President-elect Donald Trump has approved a line of guitars, follow up on the Bible, sneakers, watches, photo books and cryptocurrency ventures launched during the third White House campaign.

Trump on Wednesday posted to Truth Social a photo of himself holding what he said was a “Limited Edition ’45’ guitar,” an electric model emblazoned with the American flag and eagle on the body, and Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan on Wednesday. to the neck. Acoustic and electric styles are available, for $1,250 and $1,500 respectively, as well as the “Presidential” and “God Bless USA” models and the “Signature Edition” guitar, which – with a price tag of $10,000 – also includes Trump’s signature.

What is unclear is the financial relationship between Trump and the proceeds from guitar sales.

Alex Woodward have details.

Leave it to Matt Gaetz to start a fight in the House even if he’s gone.

First, members of both parties filed to leave the committee with their mouths shut, as is usual in such scenarios. But as Committee Chairman Michael Guest of Mississippi emerged from the building surrounded by reporters, he said, “There is no agreement on the release of the report.”

A day after New York prosecutors said they would fight efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s money conviction, the president’s lawyers voted for a judge to ignore and throw out the case before he takes office in January.

Echoing the arguments that have since won Trump, lawyers said in a letter Wednesday to Judge Juan M. Merchan that continuing with the case will interfere with Trump’s plans to return to the White House and impede his ability to run the country.