• Birthright EO blocked: As expected, a federal judge temporarily blocked Donald Trump’s executive order denying American citizenship to children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens. Calling Trump’s order “blatantly unconstitutional,” U.S. District Judge John Coughenour scoffed, “Where were the lawyers when this decision was being made? … I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order.” While Coughenour may see this as unconstitutional, it is far from clear that it is. To the contrary, the notion that the progeny of those who blatantly broke our nation’s laws would be rewarded with citizenship was not the original intent of the 14th Amendment. From a policy standpoint, granting birthright citizenship to the children of illegal aliens has only exacerbated the problem of illegal immigration. Far from this being an open and shut case, as the judge presumes, this issue will likely wind its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• An upstanding Obama-supporting noncitizen gently rebukes Trump: The beleaguered Democrat Party got a full-throated endorsement yesterday, but it was — how shall we say this? — not exactly the kind of endorsement upon which one rebuilds a badly tarnished brand. “I’m not going back to Haiti!” shouted a newly detained illegal immigrant from Haiti, who ICE says is a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years. He wasn’t done, though: “F*** Trump! You feel me? Yo, Biden forever, bro! Thank Obama, for everything he did for me, bro!” Trump will likely be undeterred. This guy was just one of many miscreants who’ve already been rounded up. In other illegal immigration news, officials in Pima County, Arizona, announced that they’re shutting down two migrant shelters due to the sudden, er, dearth of customers. Asked on Fox News about the pace of Trump’s deportation initiative, newly sworn-in Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno, who this week introduced a bill that cracks down on phony asylum claims, said, “I think we’re going to get to probably a goal of around a million people by the end of this year.”

• Trump gives gun, drug agents deportation power (WSJ)

• Is the Trump love getting ridiculous? It’s perhaps not surprising that Republicans are tripping over themselves to win the favor of Donald Trump, such is his juggernautishness. But are things getting out of hand? Consider freshman Congressman Addison McDowell, who this week introduced a bill to rename DC’s Dulles International Airport the Donald J. Trump International Airport. (Congressman Guy Reschenthaler beat McDowell to the punch, having introduced an identical measure last April.) Meanwhile, Tennessee’s Andy Ogles proposed a constitutional amendment stating that presidents can serve three terms as long as the first two aren’t sequential. This, of course, has zero chance of winning two-thirds of both houses and three-fourths of the states. On the other hand, no less a historian than Newt Gingrich offered this observation last night: “I think, clearly, President Trump now is moving to be one of the most consequential presidents in American history. I think, frankly, just below Washington and Lincoln, but certainly he’ll end up in the same league with Jefferson, Jackson, and Roosevelt.” So perhaps trading “Dulles” for “Trump” isn’t as ridiculous as all that.

• Bishop who lectured Trump launches media tour (Fox News)

• Trump taps Brent Bozell to lead U.S. Agency for Global Media (The Hill)

• Kamala calls Clinton to cope: The only two women in American history to run for the U.S. presidency atop one of the two major political party tickets — and both having lost to the same man, Donald Trump — have been commiserating since the election. After Kamala Harris was thumped by Trump, she reached out to Hillary Clinton seeking advice on how to handle moving forward. While Clinton has not sought political office since her ignominious defeat, Harris is rumored to be considering a run for the California governorship in 2026 or possibly another run at the White House in 2028. But she also is said to be weighing whether she should just hang up her political career entirely. She is, after all, not very good at this.

• Humor: 10 things found by Trump’s team when cleaning out the White House (Babylon Bee)

• Woke ATF plays Whac-a-Mole with DEI: Donald Trump’s denunciation of the Left’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion virus has sent shockwaves through the DC bureaucracy, which is itself thoroughly infected. Responding to Trump’s executive order ending DEI, the editors at National Review write, “It is no mere public relations statement but a long and carefully drafted order that, if upheld and properly executed, will eliminate the blight of racially preferential treatment in the federal government.” Apparently, though, the woke folks at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have other ideas. As The Daily Caller reports, “The ATF changed Chief Diversity Officer Lisa Boykin’s official title to simply ‘senior executive’ under the office of the director as late as Thursday, according to archives of the agency’s official leadership page.” Obviously, DEI won’t die easily. One wonders what these underlings within the executive branch don’t understand about executive orders or about this one’s particular language: “Individual dignity, hard work, and excellence are fundamental to American greatness.”

• Netanyahu defends Musk against “Nazi salute” smear: It seems the only thing that’s been able to blunt Donald Trump’s unequivocally spectacular inauguration week has been a case of friendly fire — that of Elon Musk’s wildly exuberant and oddly Nazi-like salute during one of Monday’s inauguration events. Many of those who’ve watched Musk’s occasionally eccentric behavior over the years immediately sensed that he was baiting the Left. After all, he has a weapons-grade troll game. But even if he was, it was a needless distraction from all of Trump’s momentum. Musk is no Nazi, of course. As he put it, he’s now been accused of being both a Nazi and a Zionist. In any case, he posted a note of contrition, and yesterday, he received support from a deeply credible source. “Elon is a great friend of Israel,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state.”

• Satire: Liberals briefly pause chanting “Death to Israel” to call Elon Musk a Nazi (Babylon Bee)

• Humor: 12 horrifying Nazi symbols from Trump’s inauguration (Babylon Bee)

• Trump accuses Russia of stealing hypersonic missile plans: Donald Trump is ramping up the pressure on Vladimir Putin, accusing Russia of stealing U.S. hypersonic missile plans. During his recent interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity, Trump claimed in reference to supersonic missiles, “Russia stole the design; they got it from us.” He added that “some bad person gave them the design” back during the Obama administration while asserting that the U.S. will soon have super hypersonic missiles, “which is even a step better.” Trump made a similar claim early on the campaign trail in 2023, saying Russia stole “super-duper missile” plans, a charge the Kremlin denied at the time, saying, “We have our own missile, an excellent one.” Trump is clearly setting up a strategy of deterrence with Putin in the early stages of working to end Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine.

• Trump strips Mike Pompeo’s security detail (Newsweek)

• Senate advances Hegseth nomination (The Hill)

• Labor Department fires former Harris aide: A former Joe Biden White House official and member of Kamala Harris’s transition team who attempted to “burrow” herself into the Labor Department’s non-political workforce following the election has been fired. “Elizabeth Peña was terminated," stated an unnamed individual familiar with the situation. "The Administration is actively working to ensure no other political operatives from the Biden-Harris administration were secretly burrowed into the government.” Peña, who has a long record promoting leftist policies, was part of an effort by the Biden administration to plant operatives deep into the Washington bureaucracy with a clear political agenda. Furthermore, she specifically worked within the Biden administration to recruit and position political operatives across the government. Following the election, it appears that Biden’s Labor Department created this three-year “term” position — with a $153,354 annual salary — specifically for Peña. The Daily Wire “found that hers was the only position of its type to use a ‘term’ rather than permanent status.” However, a permanent position for that job existed, which just happened to be eliminated the same month. The Trump administration is working to locate and root out similarly embedded political operatives.

• Trump tells Davos elite to invest in U.S. or face tariffs (Newsweek)

• Trump orders release of JFK, RFK, and MLK assassination records (AP)

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