Trump shares bad taste LA wildfires meme as Elon Musk branded ‘truly evil’: Live

Canada’s outgoing prime minister reiterated on Sunday that his country would not give up sovereignty and join the United States, the latest surreal example of a world leader being forced to respond seriously to the unserious stated aspirations of the incoming president and his allies.

“That’s not going to happen. It’s just a non-starter,” he told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki.

“Canadians are incredibly proud of being Canadian.”

One more line on Newsom, who is having to battle the spread of misinformation as well as the fires.

In his latest post on X, Elon Musk’s own platform, he accuses the tech boss of “encouraging looting” after the billionaire shared posts that claimed the politician had “decriminalized” it.

“Stop encouraging looting by lying and telling people it’s decriminalized. It’s not,” Newsom wrote in reply to one of the billionaire’s retweets.

“It’s illegal – as it always has been. Bad actors will be arrested and prosecuted.”

The city’s mayor Karen Bass said over the weekend she had had “a positive response” from the president-elect’s camp about him paying a visit to the disaster zone to comfort the afflicted, rather than simply berating the official response from a safe distance, although no date has yet been announced.

Governor Newsom has meanwhile been continuing to push back against Trump’s false claims about his state’s reservoirs, a taste of what the next four years are likely to be like for the entire world, if his first term in the Oval Office was anything to go by.

Here’s some further response from the governor to the “delusional” commander-in-chief.

Also speaking to Fox News yesterday, Keith Kellogg, the president-elect’s nominee as envoy to Ukraine rowed back on his boss’s repeated promises on the campaign trail to end the war in the region “on day one”, giving himself a much more generous timeframe.

Here’s a handy montage of all the times Trump promised an instant resolution on the conflict.

The incoming VP also had some unkind words for Joe Biden during the same interview.

He also suggested that those convicted of violent crimes during the Capitol riot might be excluded from Trump’s mass pardoning effort once he enters the White House.

Here’s more from John Bowden.

The president-elect himself blamed “California pols” for failing to control the wildfires on Truth Social yesterday, reviving his long-standing feud with the state’s governor Gavin Newsom at the worst possible time.

“The fires are still raging in L.A. The incompetent pols have no idea how to put them out,” Trump wrote on Sunday.

“Thousands of magnificent houses are gone, and many more will soon be lost. There is death all over the place. This is one of the worst catastrophes in the history of our Country. They just can’t put out the fires. What’s wrong with them?”

His vice president-elect was also at it, claiming a “serious lack of competent governance” was behind it in conversation with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday.

Here’s John Bowden with more.

Trump’s former White House chief strategist turned War Room podcaster Steve Bannon has escalated his feud with billionaire Elon Musk, calling the latter “racist” and a “truly evil guy”, also pledging to “take this guy down” and remove him from the MAGA movement.

Speaking to Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper, the former Breitbart editor said of Musk: “He is a truly evil guy, a very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to take this guy down.

“Before, because he put money in, I was prepared to tolerate it – I’m not prepared to tolerate it any more.”

He added: “I will have Elon Musk run out of here by inauguration day.

“He will not have full access to the White House. He will be like any other person.”

Here’s how the incoming Leader of the Free World, 78, spent his Sunday evening – sharing some incredibly unpresidential and morbidly self-glorifying memes on social media as the residents of one of America’s most celebrated cities remain trapped in a state of waking nightmare.

The below are perhaps more run-of-the-mill for Trump but provide an equally telling insight into his current mindset.

The family company is now looking to operate a hotel in the nation’s capital as Trump once again prepares to enter the White House. The family is still interested in the Old Post Office Building, according to The Journal.

Getting the rights to the hotel back could cost more than $300 million, the paper noted.