One of the most important lessons about Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory is that, in foresight, it was predictable long before election day.

The new president marked his first hours in office with a flurry of executive orders. One of those executive orders fulfilled a campaign promise as Trump pardoned 1,500 January 6th rioters.

Bessent, 62, is a longtime hedge fund manager, Trump donor and adviser. He'll be the point person for Trump on a host of key economic issues.

Senators have had two-and-a-half months to consider Trump’s nominees. Confirmation is part of their constitutional duty.

“President Jimmy Carter loved our country,” Harris wrote in her post. “He lived his faith, served the people, and left the world better than he found it.” The potential snub of Trump drew immediate backlash on social media.

President Donald Trump’s popularity is higher ... The numbers from Reuters/Ipsos poll show 47% of Americans approve of Trump’s presidency as he returned to the White House this week.

Donald Trump returns to Washington, and the people he’s bringing with him don’t offer much assurance that, this time, there will be people around to tell him “no.”

Jan. 20, 2017: Then-incoming President Donald Trump talks with his outgoing predecessor, Barack Obama, on Trump’s inauguration day on Washington. Four years later, Trump would boycott the inauguration of his own successor, Joe Biden.

Some thought Trump might pivot to a message of unity and reconciliation on the occasion of his victory. That did not happen.

Military service has not done much if anything for Democrats—Clinton won the nomination against two primary opponents, Bob Kerrey and Doug Wilder, with heroic war records. And then he won the presidency against George H.W. Bush, who enlisted at 18 and survived two close calls in World War II.

A year ago, a survey of presidential scholars put him in the top third of chief executives while Trump ranked last. But that was before the 2024 election and campaign.

Organizers and attendees at this week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, had to have