Sunlight is pouring over the entire world,” the newly sworn-in president told America, as former presidents Bush, Clinton, Obama, and Biden looked on, without clapping.

The Simpsons writer, Dan Greaney, had an eerie admission about the infamous episode that referenced Donald Trump.

President-elect Donald Trump held a massive rally in DC Sunday, mere hours before taking the oath of office as the 47th US president.

The new president’s advisers have become masters of the government bureaucracy they have promised to upend. During his Inaugural Address on Monday, President Trump made a point of telling the country that he had learned “a lot” over the past eight years. The four and a half days since have revealed what he meant.

Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States in one of the most remarkable political comebacks in U.S. history.

Trump’s meme coin may be all fun and games for crypto traders, but legal experts say the unprecedented move could have serious consequences.

“I think we’re going to do things that people would be shocked at,” President Donald Trump declared on his second day in office. It was one of the few true things he said all week.

Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global stage. But he’s advocating a foreign policy where America is dominant in its own hemisphere and engages elsewhere selectively.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.

Research on the role of US presidents has attempted to define how previous presidents rank compared to their peers. There is general agreement that the United States has had three truly great presidents – George Washington (1789-1797),

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “Capitulation Is Contagious.”