Alex Swoyer

Hillary Clinton is reportedly being pressured to run for mayor of New York City, according to several recent news reports.

President-elect Donald Trump’s spokesman Sean Spicer says the fact that the incoming administration is going through the appropriations process with respect to funding the construction of a wall along the southern border should not be news.

Sean Spicer explained that he does not get a memo when Donald Trump is tweeting, but that the President-elect is a strategic thinker, adding, “He thinks about where things are going to end up.”

Seventy-three percent of all voters want Trump’s presidency to be successful, while 57 percent of Democrats want his presidency to be a success, according to Rasmussen Reports.

“I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall,” Bristol County, Massachusetts Sheriff Thomas Hodgson tells the Boston Globe.

“We have scheduled that meeting for Friday in New York this week and I can confirm that CIA Director Brennan, FBI Director Comey and Director of National Intelligence Clapper intend to be present,” Spicer told reporters during a conference call on Wednesday morning.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence declared that the first order of business for the new Trump administration will be repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

Donald Trump’s tweeting comes after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer blasted Republicans for planning to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

According to a new Morning Consult/POLITICO poll, voters slightly prefer Trump in the White House over Obama, 45 percent to 44 percent.

“The President-elect would do anything, would be willing to listen to anything that can be done to make sure Americans are kept safe. If the FBI has ideas about how to do that, he would definitely be all ears to hear that,” Spicer told reporters on Tuesday.

“He says that their focus should be on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things that are greater and far more important,” Spicer told reporters as he explained the President-elect’s tweet that criticized House Republicans for having the wrong priorities.

“Once the final report on the current situation in Russia is made final by the intelligence community, they have asked for a briefing from senior members of the intelligence community,” Spicer explained to reporters on Tuesday.

Clyde Wayne Crews of CEI, a free-market, public policy organization in Washington, D.C., predicts that the incoming Congress will likely roll back many of those rules and regulations issued during President Obama’s final year in office.

President-elect Donald Trump told reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday evening that he’s “very, very strong on Israel.”

President-elect Donald Trump spoke about his transition with the Obama administration to reporters on Wednesday, saying that his staff and President Obama’s staff are “getting along very well.”

The President-elect’s other meetings on Wednesday include: David Rubenstein, Ike Perlmutter, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson, who will meet with Trump about reforming Obamacare, and Ronald Lauder, the President of World Jewish Congress.

“Doing my best to disregard the many inflammatory President O statements and roadblocks.Thought it was going to be a smooth transition – NOT!” Donald Trump posted on Twitter on Wednesday morning.

Carl Paladino’s apology comes after a New York publication revealed his response to four questions, where Paladino said he hoped President Obama died and Michelle Obama would “return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”

President-elect Donald Trump is defending his charitable foundation on Twitter, just days after he announced he would dissolve the foundation due to possible conflicts of interest once he enters the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump is using Twitter to praise his victory, saying the world was gloomy before he won the election.

President-elect Donald Trump is using Twitter to respond to President Obama, who suggested he would have won the election if he had run against Trump on his 2008 message of hope and change.

Stephen Miller, who worked for Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) prior to joining Trump’s campaign, wrote speeches for Trump for his campaign rallies as well as his address at the Republican National Convention.

“[Tillerson’s] position on social issues I don’t believe are relevant in the position of secretary of state,” Jerry Falwell, Jr. stated during an appearance on Fox News. “I don’t think he’ll ever have to weigh in on any of those issues. I think he’s going to be out cutting deals like he did as the CEO of a global enterprise with Exxon.”

Madison Square Garden Company released a statement on Friday, responding to backlash after one of the dancers for the Radio City Rockettes posted on social media that she was embarrassed to perform at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in January.

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team responded to Carl Paladino’s racist remarks that he allegedly made about President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama to ArtVoice, a New York publication, saying that in 2017 he would like President Obama to die, and Michelle Obama to “return to being a male and let loose in the outback of Zimbabwe where she lives comfortably in a cave with Maxie, the gorilla.”

There are various events open to the public. Tickets are available through the Presidential Inaugural Committee’s website.

“This is something the President-elect has discussed both on the ‘Thank You’ rally tour that he has had and other occasions,” spokesman Jason Miller says about Donald Trump’s tweets. “So there’s nothing new here.”

Democrats are more likely than Republicans and Independents to block or unfriend someone on social media over politics, according to a nonpartisan survey published Monday from the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI).

President-elect Donald Trump is meeting on Tuesday with Jovita Carranza, the founder and CEO of the JCR Group and former deputy administrator for the U.S. Small Business Administration, as he focuses on who will be his administration’s trade representative.

Vice President-elect Mike Pence is spending Tuesday in Washington, D.C., holding several transition meetings throughout the day.