On day one:Trump will start his presidency with a very loyal GOP Senate and House, a vastly empowered MAGA-friendly media and information ecosystem, businesses scrambling to make amends or further improve cozy relationships, and money flowing fast into his family's business endeavors.
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In two short months …
Major tech CEOs traveled to meet Trump in person and cut $1 million checks to his inauguration.
Meta shifted top personnel and its social media policing policies to match Trump's interests.
With the news media more fractured and less trusted than ever, outlets that once covered Trump with skepticism — and even disdain — have made surprise overtures to the president-elect.
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Trump-aligned nationalist movements are disrupting long-liberal foreign allies — from Canada to Britain to Germany — in part because of aggressive information wars waged by Elon Musk and his supporters.
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Trump has raised a record $170 million for his inauguration — with so much still coming in that VIP events are over-capacity and "some donors have taken the unusual step of offering donations as high as $1 million without receiving anything in return."
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Trump is already accepting funds for a future presidential library. The Times found Trump's allies have raised more than $250 million since Election Day for his political projects.
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Two billionaire CEOs announced big U.S. investments to kick off Trump press conferences at Mar-a-Lago: Before Christmas, SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son announced plans by the Japanese company to invest $100 billion in U.S. projects over the next four years. This week, the UAEW's Hussain Sajwani, a close business partner of the Trump family, made a $20 billion commitment to build data centers in the U.S.
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Trump is by far the most popular politician in Israel, giving him enormous leverage over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose coalition is weak and polls are bad. Trump said at his press conference this week that if the hostages in Gaza aren't "back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East." With Trump's prodding, Bibi sent his negotiators back to Doha, Qatar, three weeks ago to resume indirect talks with Hamas in an effort to reach a deal by Jan. 20.
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This is raw, transactional power — based in many cases on efforts to curry favor, as opposed to clear-cut inspiration or ideological embrace.
Axios
Good luck to us all. Or at least to the disempowered fascist/oligarch resistance.
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