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Donald Trump says Tuesday morning’s prayer service at National Cathedral was “not too exciting” after the Bishop of Washington urged him to show mercy towards migrants and LGBT+ children. Her sermon has enraged the right, with one lawmaker saying the New Jersey native should be deported.
Relatedly, 22 states are now challenging the president’s executive order to end birthright citizenship as unconstitutional.
After being sworn into office, Trump has already signed a deluge of such orders, promising a new “golden age of America.”
On immigration alone — in addition to undermining birthright citizenship — Trump moved to declare a national emergency at the southern border, designate cartels as terrorist organizations, reinstate his “Remain in Mexico” policy, and end “catch and release” practices.
He also pardoned 1,500 “J6 hostages,” withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Accord, affirmed that the government recognizes only two genders, renamed the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali, froze federal hiring and postponed the implementation of the TikTok ban for 75 days.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk has responded after being accused of performing a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration celebrations on Monday, dismissing the accusations as “tired” and “dirty tricks”.
A pregnant woman living in Massachusetts with temporary protected status is expected to give birth in March. But under the terms of Donald Trump’s executive order that unilaterally redefines the Constitution, upending federal law and decades of established Supreme Court precedent, her baby will not be a citizen.
She is the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against the newly inaugurated president and members of his administration, accused of mounting a “flagrantly illegal” attempt to “strip citizenship from millions of Americans with a stroke of a pen.”
The lawsuit was filed by Boston-based Lawyers for Civil Rights on behalf of Brazilian Worker Center and La Colaborativa, which have “numerous members who are either currently pregnant or planning to grow their families in the future, and whose children will be among the targeted citizens,” according to the complaint.
A lawsuit in Maryland from CASA and the Asylum Seeker Advocacy is seeking to overturn Trump’s order on behalf of five pregnant women who “fear that their children will be denied United States citizenship” based on their immigration status “and that of their children’s fathers.”
Alex Woodward has the story.
Lawsuits filed across the country warn Trump’s actions will have ‘overwhelming and devastating’ impacts to families
Allies of President Donald Trump furiously criticized the bishop who pleaded with the Republican to show “mercy” towards migrants and the LGBT+ community.
Trump and his family attended a National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Tuesday. Hours prior, he signed a slew of executive orders, many of which included hard-line immigration policies — such as ending birthright citizenship — while another denied the existence of transgender, nonbinary and intersex people throughout the government.
At the service, Episocal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde called on Trump to “have mercy” for the “scared” LGBT+ children and immigrant families across the country.
“There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families — some who fear for their lives,” Budde pointedly said directly to Trump.
Katie Hawkinson has the story.
Bishop Mariann Budde implored Trump to ‘have mercy’ on ‘scared’ migrants and LGBTQ+ community
Donald Trump’s former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon has fired a fusillade of heavy blows at the Silicon Valley tech triad arguing that the Trump 2.0 era will “break all these guys eventually.”
Speaking about the three richest men in the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk, and Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, who all attended Trump’s inauguration, Bannon said an era of “techno-feudalism” had arisen but that the tech “oligarchs” would undoubtedly falter in the new Trump era.
Madeline Sherratt reports.
‘They’re not there because they support Trump. They’re there because the Trump movement and President Trump broke them’ Bannon said ahead of Trump’s inauguration
A new poll has revealed how Americans feel about President Donald Trump after his first two days in office — and the results are both good and bad news for the Republican.
Some 47 percent of respondents approved of Trump’s administration, a higher rating than he earned during much of his first term, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the first 24 hours of his presidency.
But Trump’s specific policy actions in the last day have seen lower approval ratings.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans said Trump should not pardon all people convicted of crimes related to their involvement in the January 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection, according to Reuters. But the president has done nearly exactly that, signing pardons Monday for some 1,500 people involved in the riots.
Katie Hawkinson reports.
Trump signed a slew of executive orders Monday night in an effort to swiftly execute his policy agenda
The stock price of Trump Media & Technology Group plummeted during the first full day of President Donald Trump’s second term, dropping more than 11 percent in a single day.
A share of Trump Media, which sells under the ticker “DJT,” was worth just over $35 on Tuesday afternoon.
On Friday, it was worth more than $40, about the same as after the assassination attempt that saw Trump get shot in the ear in July last year. The share price has dropped more than 28 percent over the course of the last year.
Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, isn’t the only Trump-connected entity seeing its price drop. Trump launched a crypto coin just days before taking office, the price of which dropped on Tuesday after initially rallying.
Gustaf Kilander has the details.
Trump launched crypto coin just days before taking office, the price of which also dropped on Tuesday after initially rallying
Courts are beginning to approve Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of his supporters who were convicted of storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Here’s more on how those who lived through January 6 feel about the pardons.
The brother of another Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, who died shortly after the January 6th attack, said he felt his brother ‘died in vain’ defending the Capitol
Donald Trump’s inauguration was one of the lowest-rated in recent TV history, Vulture reports.
The ceremony drew a 14.1 household Nielsen rating, down from Biden’s 21.1 and Trump’s 20.1 rating for his first inauguration.
The festivities drew just 24.6 million TV viewers.
After ascending to the top of the GOP ticket in March 2024, Donald Trump made a promise.
“My first acts as your next President will be to Close the Border, DRILL, BABY, DRILL, and Free January 6 Hostages being wrongfully imprisoned,” he wrote at the time on his Truth Social platform.
On his first day back in office on Monday, Trump stayed true to his word on the rioters and granted clemency to more than 1,500 supporters charged with crimes connected to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building.
James Liddell looks back at the crimes they committed:
President granted clemency to more than 1,500 supporters charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection on his first day in office
Billy Ray Cyrus has issued a statement regarding his “epic disaster” of a performance at Donald Trump’s Liberty Ball.
On Monday (January 20) evening, the 63-year-old country star took the stage to perform his hit tune “Achy Breaky Heart” and his Lil Nax X collaboration “Old Town Road.”
Inga Parkel reports on what happened next.
Country star delivered an ‘epic disaster’ of a performance at Trump’s inaugural ball
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