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🇨🇳TRADE WAR: China Cutting Mineral, Harsher Than Tariffs
🆙 STOCKS: Higher On Trump (False?) Optimism On China
🚨YOUR 401K: NOT OK
🏠MORTGAGES: Surge Above 7%
🔥ARSON : Jewish PA Governor Attacked on Passover ’
👊TRUMP: Takes On CBS, Harvard, More
🇨🇳TRADE WAR: China Cutting Mineral, Harsher Than Tariffs
China has raised tariffs on U.S. goods to 125% after President Trump raised China levies to 145%.
But worse, Exiger President Carrie Wibben Kaupp, former Pentagon official, tells NewsNation Beijing is stopping exports of critical minerals needed desperately by the U.S..
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Exiger’s Kit Conklin, Former Sr Advisor to the House Select Committee on China on NewsNation — is there an off-ramp?:
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Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels, on a NewsNation panel says some products could be subject to up to 30 different tariffs. And that’s going to cost YOU money.
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💸TRADE WAR: Trump Tariffs Hit YOUR POCKETBOOK
From furniture makers to toy shops, companies are starting to tack tariff surcharges onto invoices as a separate line item. Some are a $5 flat fee, while others represent as much as 40% of the subtotal. It’s a way to pass on at least some tariff costs to consumers..
But, cellphones, laptops, computer chips and other electronics will now be exempt from Trump’s sweeping 145% tariff on China,. Those products will still be subject to other levies including a 20% fee Trump added to Chinese goods in response to the country’s role in the fentanyl trade. Treasury Secretary Howard Lutnick says the move is only temporary.
Last year, three-quarters of all toys and sporting goods, and 40% of shoes imported into the U.S. came from China.
🚨YOUR 401K: NOT OK
There are calls to investigate the President for market manipulation after he tipped people on social media that he would pause tariffs.
Trump is defiant on his social-media sight Truth Social where he writes: “MY POLICIES WILL NEVER CHANGE.” (Of course they have just changed.)
Americans still piling into cash and money market funds that have swelled to a record.
In Congress, the number of Republican senators backing a bipartisan bill to place limits on Trump’s tariff authority is rising.
The financial geniuses who backed Trump are now dealing with the fallout from his tariffs and his self-inflicted market selloff.
Trump supporter, Billionaire Bill Ackman warns the President is losing business leaders
BY THE NUMBERS:
Dow up 300 points
S&P 500 higher by 0.80%
Nasdaq gaining 0.65%
Bitcoin up to $83k
Gold soares to $3246, all-time high
Many Americans have had enough, and are selling stocks from their retirement accounts.
In the real economic world, a tariff is a tax. If you raise $600 billion more a year in revenue for the federal government, as Trump claims he will, you are taking that amount away from individuals and businesses in the private economy.
📺 GisermanGroup Client Brandon Daniels Featured on CNBC:
🚘What a Cadillac Escalade reveals about supply-chain cost challenges
The complexity of supply chains and the multitude of components in a single product add numerous layers of cost. Supply-chain AI Company Exiger used the 2025 Cadillac Escalade OLED infotainment system as an example.
The OLED display panels are produced by LG in South Korea, while the specialty curved cover glass is formed in Japan, and the touch-sensitive film sensors and semiconductor driver electronics are made by companies LX Semicon and MagnaChip, based in South Korea. Meanwhile, the connectors and wiring harnesses are made by TE Connectivity, with some assembled or partially integrated in Mexico.
“The challenge is tracing each of these carefully manufactured components across multiple borders, through various stages of assembly and integration, to clearly understand where exemptions exist and where tariffs might bite,” said Brandon Daniels, Exiger CEO.
🥃Whiskey Tariffs: A Shot At USA
➡️GisermanGroup.com Client Brandon Daniels, CEO of Exiger, tells CNBC the retaliatory EU tariffs place American whiskey producers at a substantial competitive disadvantage:
➡️How the world is reacting to tariffs: Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels earlier from Davos on BloombergTV
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🏠MORTGAGES: Surge Above 7%
The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage surged 13 basis points Friday to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That’s the highest rate since mid-February.
➡️Housing Expert Rick Sharga says the American Dream is turning into the American Nightmare
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🔥ARSON : Jewish PA Governor Attacked on Passover
Police say a suspected arsonists has been arrested and will be charged with terrorism after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated from their home after a fire broke out.
Shapiro, a Democrat and a Jew, said on Facebook that the Pennsylvania State Police woke his family by banging on the door around 2 a.m. to warn them of the fire which significantly damaged the Governor’s residence. He said no one was injured.
Hours before the fire, Gov. Shapiro wrote on social media that he and his family were marking Passover, which began at sunset on Saturday.
🚁6 Dead: Helicopter Crashes Into Hudson River
Six people are dead After a Helicopter Crashed Into the Hudson River Near Manhattan. The pilot and a family believed to be from Spain, —two adults and three children — were all killed in the crash, according to officials briefed on the rescue efforts.
🚘MUSK: Navarro is ‘Dumber Than Sack of Bricks ’
Elon Musk escalated his attacks against White House trade adviser Peter Navarro calling him a “moron” who’s “dumber than a sack of bricks.”
Musk responded to the trade adviser’s suggestion that the Tesla boss was “not a car manufacturer” but “a car assembler,” pointing to the electric vehicle company’s importing of batteries and other key components to manufacture its cars.
“Navarro is truly a moron. What he says here is demonstrably false,” Musk wrote on X, adding “Tesla has the most American-made cars. Navarro is dumber than a sack of bricks.”
Trump has told his inner circle, including members of his Cabinet, that Elon Musk will be stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role in government.
Per federal regulations, SGEs can only work in government for 130 consecutive days – pegging May 30 as the Tesla, SpaceX and Starlink CEO’s last day as DOGE chief.
Musk and DOGE have been barred from accessing YOUR personal Social Security data.
A federal judge's ruling will keep over 65 million Americans' personal data out of the hands of the Musk-led group, which wanted access to root out what Musk says is billions of dollars in fraud and waste.
Musk: called ‘entitlement spending’ — including Social Security and Medicare — a key target for cuts, arguing the federal programs are plagued by fraud.
Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander accused DOGE of launching a “fishing expedition” at the Social Security agency and failing to provide any reason why it needed to access vast swaths of Americans’ personal and private data.
☢️U.S./Iran: To Open ‘Direct’ Nuclear Talks
President Trump says the U.S. will hold “direct” talks with Iran on Saturday to discuss a new nuclear deal.
Negotiators from the two nations have not met face-to-face in a decade. Trump, who announced the plans after meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, said Iran would be “in great danger” if the talks did not succeed.
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👨💻UNEMPLOYMENT: Layoffs Surge
U.S. payrolls rose by 228,000 in March, but the unemployment rate increased to 4.2%.
Furloughs in the federal government totaled 216,215 for the month, part of a total 275,240 reductions overall in the labor force, but probably won’t be included in figures till next month.
Some 280,253 layoffs across 27 agencies in the past two months have been linked to the Elon Musk-led so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its efforts to pare down the federal workforce.
📱TikTok: Sale Scuttled By Trump Tariff
President Trump extended the deadline to sell TikTok for another 75 days.The White House and TikTok’s Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, had agreed to a proposed deal by Wednesday and were preparing to announce it Thursday when the company told administration officials that China insisted on tariff negotiations first, according to the Washington Post.
Amazon has put in a bid to acquire TikTok, as it approaches a deadline to be separated from its Chinese owner or face a ban in the United States. AppLovin, the mobile technology company that provides a platform for app developers to grow their businesses, also jumped into the race, as has Oracle which hosts TikTok in the U.S.
GisermanGroup client, Exiger’s JC Herz says TikTok as it stands now is dangerous.
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👩⚖️LIBERAL JUDGE: Wins Wisconsin Election, Defeating Musk’s Money
Susan Crawford, who was endorsed by the Democratic Party, won the closely-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in what was the most expensive judicial election in American history.
What would have normally been a sleepy nonpartisan judicial race turned into an expensive battle between Crawford, a Dane County judge, and Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel, who was endorsed by the Republican Party. The campaigns and their supporters have spent more than $81 million, attracting endorsements and campaign appearances from Elon Musk, who poured money into the race, Sen. Bernie Sanders and other national political figures.
An organization funded by Musk spent $7.7 million on television advertising. Musk also offered Wisconsinites $100 each to sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges.”
In Florida, two Trump-backed Republicans won special congressional elections, shoring up the party’s slim House majority. In both races, however, Democrats cut into Republican victory margins from November.
‼️TEXT-GATE: Excuses, Lies & Coverups
Democrats are calling for heads to roll. President Trump says he’s not upset with national security advisor Michael Waltz after he reportedly added a journalist to a now-infamous highly classified text leak., saying Waltz has learned a lesson! Walz is falsely blaming the journalist.
As some of President Trump’s national security officials came under heavy political fire at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing where lawmakers grilled them over the affair, the Trump strategy of blaming the media again comes out. Some Democrats going as far as questioning whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was drunk on the chat.
Trump and his aides insist that none of the war plans texts seen by Jeffrey Goldberg contained classified information. And Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says "nobody's texting war plans" at all.
So Goldberg reconsidered his original decision to hold back. And The Atlantic now has published those exchanges. Check it out here.
According to the texts, Defense Secretary Hegseth posted the time that American fighter jets would take off for strikes on Yemen in the Signal chat, which inadvertently included the journalist. Several Democrats are calling for resignations of some Trump officials involved.
Trump has indicated to advisers that he wanted to watch how the story played out in the media in the days ahead but instructed them to defend those involved. A familiar playbook was then enacted by those in the administration: Attack the source.
Trump administration national-security officials held detailed discussions of highly classified U.S. plans to launch airstrikes against the Houthis on the SIGNAL APP, a commercial messaging service and mistakenly included a journalist in the conversation.
Officials including Vice President JD Vance and Hegseth — discussed plans for military strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen in a group chat on a commercial messaging app that inadvertently included top editor of The Atlantic. Jeffrey Goldberg.
Not only was the journalist inadvertently included in the group, but the conversation also took place outside of secure government channels that would normally be used, now they’re attacking the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg for this mess.
Stay tuned!
💉VACCINES: FDA Official Quits Over RFK’s Lies
The FDA’s top vaccine official has resigned under pressure saying Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines posed a danger to the public.
Dr. Peter Marks, says “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies. This man doesn’t care about the truth. He cares about what is making him followers.”
Dr. Marks resigned after he was summoned to the Department of Health and Human Services Friday afternoon and told that he could either quit or be fired, according to the New York Times.
⚾️PLAY BALL: Baseball’s Back
The world is in turmoil but time to take a day away from it. Baseball season begins in earnest this weekend.
Technically, the regular season began overseas last week when the Dodgers and Cubs played a two-game set at the Tokyo Dome in Japan on Tuesday, March 18 and Wednesday, March 19.
The Dodgers, reigning World Series champions, were victorious in both games, including their two-way superstar and 2024 National League MVP Shohei Ohtani hitting a solo homer in his return to his home country.
We celebrate with our favorite baseball song:
💸TAXES: More Cheats As Trump Cuts IRS
Ever think of cheating on your 1040, or not paying taxes ?
The IRS is bracing for a sharp drop in revenue collected, as an increasing number of individuals and businesses spurn filing their taxes due to President Trump cutting tax agents. Many Americans are wagering that auditors will not examine their accounts amid plans to downsize the IRS by nearly 20% .
Treasury Department and IRS officials are predicting a decrease of more than 10% in tax revenue according to the Washington Post, with fewer agents there to audit tax returns.
That would amount to more than $500 billion in lost federal revenue;.
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👙HOOTERS BANKRUPT: Inflation or Deflation?
Hooters, the restaurant chain known for its all-female serving staff in revealing outfits has filed for bankruptcy in a Texas court, the company announced on Monday.
Under the bankruptcy agreement, a group that includes the company’s founders — who independently run about a third of the franchised locations in the United States — will buy the company-owned restaurants in the United States from the private equity firm that owns the chain.
The complicated bankruptcy filing is a way to keep many of the restaurants open.
📺YOUTUBE: Tops TV Viewing
YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider in February, and its top ranking was thanks in part to viewers over the age of 50.
The service accounted for 11.6 percent of all TV use in the country in Nielsen‘s rankings of media distributors for the February period (which ran from Jan. 27-Feb. 23). That’s an all-time high for YouTube and the second time it has placed atop the distributor rankings; it previously did so in July 2024.
YouTube improved from 10.8 percent of TV use in January and passed Disney (10 percent) for the overall spot among TV content distributors. Nielsen notes that the rise for YouTube was fueled partly by a somewhat surprising source: people over 50, who accounted for about 36 percent of all time spent watching YouTube on TV screens — more than the combined 28 percent for teenagers and adults 18-34. The media distributor rankings don’t include viewing on computers or mobile devices, which means the demographics Nielsen cited might not be fully representative of YouTube’s total usage across all devices.
🧪23andMe: Files Bankruptcy-Your DNA Safe?
23andMe filed for bankruptcy late Sunday night and announced the resignation of its chief executive, capping a precipitous fall for the DNA-testing company.
So, is that DNA you gave them, and information garnered from it safe?
More than 15 million people provided the company with their DNA samples, a virtually unprecedented repository of human genetic information that could be sold in bankruptcy proceedings.
California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta issued an alert to consumers in his state, reminding them of their right to delete their information, a step some may scramble to take due to concerns over who may ultimately own their personal genetic data.
📓Trump Orders Education Dept Shut
President Trump signs an executive order calling for the shutdown of the Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to eliminate an agency that’s been a longtime target of conservatives.
Trump has derided the Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. However, finalizing its dismantling is likely impossible without an act of Congress, which created the department in 1979.
Critics argue it will mean increased class sizes, reduce funding and allow states to enact programs that discriminate. Education programs or activities that receive "any remaining Department of Education funds" will not be allowed to advance diversity, equity and inclusion or gender ideology, according to the White House summary.
🏛️Dems Poll: Party Favorability Sinks
The Democratic Party’s favorability rating among Americans stands at a record low, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
Democrats and Democratic-aligned independents say, 57% to 42%, that Democrats should mainly work to stop the Republican agenda, rather than working with the GOP majority to get some Democratic ideas into legislation.
It comes after the Senate narrowly averted a government shutdown, passing a G.O.P.-written stopgap spending measure after Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the minority leader, and a small group of Democrats joined Republicans in allowing it to advance.
The Republican measure needed at least seven Democrats to back it in order to clear the chamber's 60-vote threshold and reach the President’s desk for a signature.
🇮🇱ISRAEL: Breaks Ceasefire, Attacks Gaza
The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is over as Israeli fighter jets began striking the Gaza Strip after Hamas refused repeated hostage deal offers, officials said.
At least 400 Palestinians, were killed in the airstrikes, according to hospital officials.
The Israel Defense Forces began striking Hamas terrorist targets across Gaza "in order to achieve the war objectives set by the political leadership, including the release of all our hostages—both the living and the fallen," the office of Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a letter.
"This decision comes after Hamas repeatedly refused to release our hostages and rejected all proposals presented by President’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, as well as the mediators," the letter states.
🇺🇦UKRAINE: Trump Fails To Get Putin To Agree To Ceasefire
President Trump spoke with Russian President Putin on a plan to halt fighting in Ukraine for 30 days.
Putin agreed to a limited cease-fire against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, but remained defiant to a full ceasefire.
It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his Oval Office blowup with President Donald Trump was “regrettable,” adding that he stands ready to work under Trump’s “strong leadership” to get a lasting peace.
The shouting match blew up plans to sign a minerals deal.
Exiger’s Kit Conklin tell’s NewsNation the US really needs those minerals.
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💻AI Chips Made In The USA
The world’s most sophisticated computer-chip maker invests in the US.
Exiger’s Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation it’s just part of a changing global supply chain.
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📡VOA Silenced
Mike Abramowitz, Voice of America director, said he and virtually his entire staff of 1,300 people had been put on paid leave.
President Trump has signed an order to strip back federal fundeing for the news organization accusing it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical".
VOA, still primarily a radio service, was set up during World War Two to counter Nazi propaganda. It says it currently reaches hundreds of millions of people globally each week.
A White House statement said the order would "ensure taxpayers are no longer on the hook for radical propaganda", and included quotes from politicians and right-wing media criticising the broadcaster.
🚘Anger At Musk Turns Violent
Since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, more than a dozen violent or destructive acts have been directed at Tesla facilities. The incidents come as Elon Musk has rocketed to prominence as Trump’s best-known backer and as a conservative provocateur in his own right.
Musk claimed Monday that X suffered a "massive cyberattack," which caused the site and app to crash throughout the day.
Several Tesla superchargers at a shopping center in Littleton, Massachusetts, were set ablaze. Vandals in Maryland spray-painted “No Musk” onto a Tesla building, alongside a swastika-like symbol. Hundreds of New Yorkers shutdown the Tesla showroom in Manhattan. Six were arrested.
A federal judge has at least temporarily barred the Office of Personnel Management from ordering federal agencies to terminate probationary workers, adding that the firings were “illegal, should be stopped and rescinded.”
More than 20 employees have resigned from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
Millions of federal employees are caught between differing factions of the Trump administration, with Elon Musk originally giving them a Monday night deadline to explain their productivity or risk losing their jobs while some senior officials told workers to ignore the directive. It came after the Office of Personnel Management says responses to the Email are voluntary.
Federal Workers were told numerous times to respond with email to HR@OPM.Gov. Americans have flooded that email account with complaints.
All this as Musk’s DOGE proposes a $5000 check for every American household.
Some DOGE staffers are said to make six-figure paychecks. Members of the Elon Musk-led group, including Silicon Valley coders, are drawing high government salaries, according to Wired. One worker the magazine identified makes as much as $195,200; Musk previously said no one would be paid.
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🚨Vance Blasted For Supporting Pro-Nazi Party
Vice President JD Vance told Germans to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right, Nazi-denying, AfD party into their federal government.
German chancellor Scholz accused the Vice President of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust.
Scholz said the AfD had trivialized Nazi atrocities like the concentration camp at Dachau.
Elon Musk has endorsed the AfD as well, telling party members that Germans have “too much of a focus on past guilt.”
The chancellor said Germany “would not accept” directives from outsiders about how to run its democracy — and certainly not to work with such a party.
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📈Trump Inc: Hotels, Bibles, NOW STOCK SALES!
Donald Trump, who has put his brand on everything from real estate, to TV shows, to bibles to cryptocurrencies, now wants to sell you investment funds.
The President’s media company has applied for trademarks on a series of exchange-traded funds even as Trump is in the White House with control over monetary policy.
BTW: The price of the $Trump cryptocurrency hovered around $17 this week, less than a quarter of its $75 peak value. Trump promoted the coin on his own social media platform, as well as Elon Musk’s X, saying: “Join my very special Trump Community. GET YOUR $TRUMP NOW.”
Trump’s company’s stock plans have already raised eyebrows. Typically, money managers don’t promote their new funds until they have sought approval from securities regulators to launch them. And, perhaps needless to say, no sitting president has ever asked a federal agency in his administration to sign off on investment products sold by a company he controls.
And in case you missed it: President Trump says he will make himself chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, as well.
💻U.S. Government Prohibited From Using Chinese AI
Congressional and other government offices have been warned not to use the Chinese AI app DeepSeek, due to worries about security.
Lawmakers plan to introduce a bil that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices, over new security concerns that the app could provide user information to the Chinese government.
Meta and Microsoft are talking up their AI strategies and saying they are sticking with ambitious investments despite the investor panic this week over the rise of the cheaper to develop Chinese AI model.
SupplyChain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels and a panel of experts with the DeepSeek fallout on NewsNation
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🛫Airplane Safety Worries For Your Next Trip
Two people were found dead in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane from New York City after it landed at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, the airline said Tuesday. It’s the latest in a string of incidents that have raised concerns over airline security.
A Jeju Airlines plane burst into a deadly fireball during a failed belly landing in South Korea, killing 179 people.
If your fear of flying has ramped up in recent months you’re not alone. More than half of travelers say recent news of aircraft and airline incidents has affected the way they book travel.
The latest problem: turns out new Boeing and Airbus jets have parts made from titanium, sold using fake documentation.
Exiger President Carrie Wibben tells NewsNation it raises concerns about the structural integrity of those planes.
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💻Hackers Take Advantage Of Airline Computer Glitch
It keeps getting worse!
Regulators are investigating how Delta Air Lines is treating passengers affected by canceled flights after the airline’s global tech outage, which forced Delta to cancel more than 5000 flights.
CrowdStrike now warning its customers: hackers are trying to exploit the computer outage.
➡️Exiger’s Katie Arrington with the fallout:
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🚌Childcare Economic Crisis
The Cost of Childcare Is Out Of Control. What Will President Trump Do?
Debbie Bermudezof IMAGINE EARLY LEARNING with the problems on NewsNation
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🎯 Chinese Slave Labor Making Your iPhone
Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance says that shiny-new iPhone you want to buy may be made by Chinese slave labor. Vance named China the biggest threat to the U.S. & Democratic VP Candidate Tim Walz agrees.
While Apple denies it uses slave labor, China and Supply Chain expert, Exiger CEO Brandon Daniels tells NewsNation many US companies unknowingly use Chinese slave labor, and that needs to stop now.
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💰Wall St Kisses Trump’s Ring
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai all dining with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Meta. Amazon, OpenAI each donating $1 million to Trump's inaugural fund.
“In the first term, everyone was fighting me,” Trump said at a news conference, ‘In this term, everyone wants to be my friend.”
Trump basked in Wall Street applause and money as he rang the bell to open the New York Stock Exchange.
Trump and Bezos, have clashed in recent years. Trump has criticized the Amazon founder over reporting in The Washington Post, which is owned by Bezos. But more recently, Bezos has praised Trump on social media and says he is “very optimistic” about the incoming administration.
Trump has long been critical of Meta’s social media platforms, saying they censor conservative viewpoints. But in recent weeks, its chief executive, Zuckerberg, cozied up to Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
Gathered at the NYSE watching Trump ring the opening bell were senior executives at Visa, Meta, Goldman Sachs, Charles Schwab and more...
…All kissing his ring while hoping the Trump administration is favorable to them.
🏈Streaming Owns Holiday Football
NFL's Christmas Day double-header games were the most-streamed NFL games in .history, according to preliminary Nielsen figures that don't include international viewership. Once international figures and additional U.S. data is calculated, the league expects both games will have averaged around 30 million viewers each, representing a massive win for Netflix's live sports ambitions.
Last year's Christmas Day match on traditional television between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Las Vegas Raiders drew 29 million viewers, the second-highest Christmas Day game since 1989.
The first Christmas Day game between the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Pittsburgh Steelers, had an average minute audience of 24.1 million, per Nielsen figures provided by the NFL.
Nearly one-third of Netflix's global concurrent viewers on Christmas Day were watching the game at one point, making it the most-watched concurrent stream of any Christmas Day for Netflix in the past four years.
The second Christmas Day game between the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens had an average minute audience of 24.3 million.
It was the most-watched Christmas Day game on record among 18-34 year-olds, per the NFL, with 5.1 million U.S. viewers. (That figure is based on Nielsen records dating back to 2001).
U.S. viewership for Ravens-Texans game peaked at Beyonce's halftime performance, with over 27 million viewers tuning in.
Leaving traditional TV out in the cold.
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🚨Gaetz Paid 17 YearOld for Sex—Ethics Report
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl — for sex, also purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office. The House Ethics Committee concluded the former Florida Republican congressman, who Donald Trump originally picked to be his Attorney General, violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.
Gaetz is joining Conservative, One America News as a talk show anchor after withdrawing his nomination for AG.
"The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress," the 37-page report concludes.
Gaetz filed a lawsuit in federal court to block release of the report, saying that he is now a private citizen and not subject to the jurisdiction of the House committee.
💊Trump Administration Push To Ban TV Drug Ads
The TV Drug advertising business could soon need a shot in the arm.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for health secretary, is a longtime critic of pharmaceutical advertising on TV, arguing that it leads broadcasters to more favorable coverage of the industry and does not improve Americans’ health. He has repeatedly called for a ban on such ads.
Elon Musk, who is spearheading a government cost-cutting effort, last month wrote on X, his social-media site, “No advertising for pharma.”
And Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick to lead the FCC said that his agency could enforce any ban that is enacted. “I think we’re way, way too overmedicated as a country,” he said.
The push against TV drug ads threatens to dent the revenues of pharmaceutical companies and broadcasters.
🤖AI—Latest Battleground For US & China
Artificial Intelligence—the latest battleground for the U.S. and China.
Exiger’s JC Herz tells NewsNation China already knows how to hack American Water Systems and Electrical Grids.
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