* “Keep America Chaotic & Embarrassed.”–Reality slogan for Trump’s early Cabinet nominees.
* It’s hardly surprising or coincidental that Trump’s win has emboldened fringe right-wing influencers, including “Your Body, My Choice” misogynists. BTW, the song that greeted Trump at this summer’s Republican Convention was “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” by James Brown.
* “J-6 Hostages”: How Trump refers to convicted rioters at the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection.
* The nomination of anti-vaxxer activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services underscores that America’s choice is seemingly either “Medical Freedumb” or “Nanny State.”
* “Matt (Gaetz) has a wonderful future, and I look forward to watching all of the great things he will do!”–Donald Trump, who else?
* Trump said he’d put in place 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports. According to Wells Fargo, this would, for example. push up prices for US-assembled cars by an average of $2,100.
* Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently visited with Trump at Mar-A-Lago to make the case for backing away from those threatened tariffs. He underscored that lumping his country in with Mexico over the issue of drugs and migrants was grossly unfair to Canada. The two borders are vastly different. Obviously.
* “History’s greatest comeback.”–How Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu characterized Trump’s presidential win.
* Trump’s White House press secretary will be Karoline Leavitt, 27, who had been press secretary for his campaign. She doesn’t have a tough Trump act to follow. His previous WH press secretaries included Sean Spicer, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kayleigh McEnany.