NPR (Kat Lonsdorf) - A year in, thousands of armed troops have quietly become a fixture of D.C. life
The deployment is expected to cost in the billions after it was quietly extended until Inauguration Day of 2029.
NPR (The Associated Press) - Keiko Fujimori is inaugurated as Peru's president following a narrow election victory
The 51-year-old daughter of the late former President Alberto Fujimori, Peru's new conservative leader has pledged to fight crime with an "iron fist."
REDSTATE (Jennifer Oliver O'Connell) - President Trump to Attend the Inaugural Celebration for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
HUFFPOST - Jill Biden Opens Up About Deeply Awkward Motorcade Moment With Melania Trump
The former first lady said Trump "kept trying to switch the topic" at one point in the ride to her husband's second inauguration.
NPR (John Bartlett) - Chile turns right: Kast inaugurated as nation's most conservative leader since Pinochet
Chile has sworn in its most right-wing president in decades — and his rise, and ideology, are rooted in a small town beneath the Andes.
JUSTTHENEWS (Ben Whedon) - Trump celebrates judge decision to allow completion of White House ballroom
"The Ballroom construction, which is anticipated to also handle future Inaugurations and large State Visits, is ahead of schedule, and under budget. It will stand long into the future as a symbol to the Greatness of America!" he concluded.
HUFFPOST - Trump’s Unbelievably Petty Inauguration Day Complaint Caught On Camera In 'Melania' Doc
Trump suggested that the big event, which typically takes place in early to mid-January, was scheduled to overshadow him.
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - First Lady Melania Trump Donates Inauguration Gown To The SMITHSONIAN | TRENDING
Melania Trump’s 2025 inaugural gown is getting immortalized at the Smithsonian, securing a spot at an exhibition recognizing the country’s first ladies. “This is not a dress. This is more than 50 years of education, experience and wisdom realized with each thread,” she said at a Friday presentation ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington. Read More: https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5747564-melania-trump-inaugural-gown-smithsonian/
YOUTUBE (The Hill) - Happening Now: Melania Trump Speaks As 2025 Inauguration Gown Debuts At Smithsonian
First lady Melania Trump will give remarks at the National Museum of American History in Washington on Friday, as her 2025 Inauguration gown makes its debut at the Smithsonian. The Hervé Pierre-designed white gown that featured a dramatic black stripe that Trump wore at the inauguration balls to celebrate President Trump’s return to the White House will be showcased in the museum’s First Ladies Gallery. The exhibit, according to the Smithsonian Institute, features 26 dresses — including those worn by former first ladies Frances Cleveland, Lou Hoover, Jacqueline Kennedy, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Jill Biden, “as well as more than 160 additional objects of historic significance.” The event is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m.…
NYTIMES (Trish Bendix) - ‘The Daily Show’ Gives President Trump Yet Another Inaugural Award
Jordan Klepper congratulated the president, the sole nominee for “the Inaugural Award for Winning the Most Inaugural Awards.”