The president-elect is reported to be annoyed by delays to the new Air Force One, which means he likely won’t be able to fly on a new jet during his second term.

Boeing has reportedly said told the US Air Force that the new planes won’t be ready until after Trump leaves the White House, The Wall Street Journal reports.

It was previously reported that the two new planes were due to be delivered in 2026 and 2027.

But the jets won’t be ready until 2029 or possibly even later, according to the Journal.

Rhian Lubin reports.

The former speaker of the House of Representatives suffered an injury on a trip to Luxembourg and has been admitted to a hospital for evaluation, her office said in a statement on Friday.

Pelosi, 84, is the first woman to serve as speaker of the House and had also been a longtime leader of the House Democratic Caucus.

The veteran San Francisco congresswoman stepped down from her role as speaker in 2023 but has continued to serve in the House.

She was re-elected in November to another two-year term beginning on January 3.

Pelosi played a key role in passing President Joe Biden’s sweeping $1 trillion infrastructure bill in 2022 and famously feuded with Republican Donald Trump during his first four years in office, culminating with the moment when she tore up his State of the Union speech on national television in 2020.

More than half of Americans are not confident in Trump’s abilities to appoint well-qualified people to his cabinet or manage government spending effectively, despite recently electing him to lead the United States, according to a new poll.

Just 44 percent of US adults reported feeling “very” or even “moderately” confident that Trump will appoint well-qualified individuals for cabinet or high-level government positions.

The new results from the Associated Press and NORC arrive as the president-elect has selected a group of controversial individuals to serve in his cabinet and other high-level positions including former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, ex-congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and erstwhile presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr, among others.

Those three nominations are particularly expected to face an uphill battle during Senate confirmations.

And the American electorate aren’t fans either.

Hegseth, Gabbard and Kennedy all face low approval ratings from those surveyed.

Ariana Baio has more on the survey’s findings.

What a charming Christmas setting for this brutal threat against an elected official.

Hillary Clinton says the president-elect’s interest in abolishing financial regulators will bring back bank runs of the sort seen in Frank Capra’s film It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) while Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren says RFK Jr’s confirmation as health secretary would mean saying “hello to polio”.

Trump himself is certainly nostalgic for an older America, relishing comparisons between himself and Al Capone and threatening a new Wall Street Crash whenever things aren’t going his way.

Maybe we’ll at least get a Charleston revival out of all of this.

The Vice President-elect will be accompanied by the Marine Corps veteran acquitted earlier this week over the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely on the New York City subway in May 2023.

Penny’s case became something of a conservative cause celebre last year and his invitation to join Trump and Vance in their suite for the traditonal college football encounter in Maryland might well be interpreted as a provocation by liberals.

China’s president has snubbed the president-elect’s invitate to his inauguration, according to reports.

Xi was invited to Trump’s second inauguration on January 20 but sources confirmed the leader would not be attending, CNN reports.

The offer was an unorthodox move from Trump, who said he had been “thinking about inviting certain people to the inauguration” during his appearance at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.

“And some people said, ‘Wow, that’s a little risky, isn’t it?’” the Republican said.

“And I said, ‘Maybe it is. We’ll see. We’ll see what happens.’ But we like to take little chances.”

Here’s more from Rhian Lubin.

Having dropped out of the running for attorney general and taken a job with the right-wing cable channel One America News, the controverisal Republican has reportedly been talking with John Morgan, the founder of law firm Morgan & Morgan about a potential second new job.

"Matt has some big ideas that he believes he could work in collaboration with our firm," Morgan told The Daily Business Review on Thursday.

He added that Gaetz’s connections in Washington could be helpful for cases involving the “insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies and the processed food and sugar crowd”.

Ariana Baio has the details.

If Joe Biden is going to do anything to define the last weeks of his presidency and to cement his overall legacy, it will now have to take place through Executive Branch action as the capital locks into preparing the ground for his successor, writes John Bowden.

The grandson of John F Kennedy has claimed his cousin, Robert F Kennedy Jr, who recently became intertwined with Trump, is a “Russian spy”.

Schlossberg, a 31-year-old Democrat, has for months mocked Kennedy, a 70-year-old Democrat-turned-independent, for his political involvement with Trump and insinuated he has ties to Moscow.

But on Wednesday, Schlossberg claimed Kennedy is “so obviously a Russian spy” in response to an Axios article that alleged Kennedy wants his daughter-in-law to be part of the CIA to uncover the truth behind JFK’s assassination.

“You all think I’m joking,” Schlossberg wrote in his post before adding four “ha”s.

Here’s more from Ariana Baio.