Trump set to add anti-immigration hardliner Stephen Miller to White House team: Live

The Last Week Tonight host has ridiculed Donald Trump’s potential cabinet picks as “a deep bench of idiots, freaks and wannabe tough guys”.

Addressing a CNN chart outlining possible picks, the HBO host said: “It looks like a ‘choose your fighter’ screen where the only thing they’re fighting is the arc of the moral universe.

“It looks like an advent calendar where every circle opens up to a tiny piece of literal s***.

“It looks like a game board for Guess Who? Oops! All a**holes.”

And he wasn’t done there…

Gustaf Kilander has more.

A deep sense of unease has set in at the Department of Justice (DOJ) as lawyers consider fleeing the agency before Donald Trump loyalists take over and execute his vision, according to reports.

Trump’s scorn for the department has only grown over the last four years as he became the subject of two criminal prosecutions and he has previously talked of transforming the agency.

“Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” one DOJ attorney told Politico.

“The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”

During the election campaign, Trump made it clear the prosecutions against him set “a terrible precedent” and hinted that he would use the law on Democrats if he was re-elected.

Kaitlan Collins paints a vivid picture here of the courtiers gathering at King Don’s Florida home to kiss the ring in exchange for a top administration job, with his influential houseguest very much making his preferences known.

Here’s Trump and Musk joining the president-elect’s granddaughter Kai on the golf course in West Palm Beach yesterday afternoon.

Trump’s former senior adviser, an inexplicable favorite on right-wing cable news, is set to join Susie Wiles, Tom Homan and company in his next administration as White House deputy chief of staff for policy, CNN is reporting.

The man recently described by Jesse Watters of Fox News as a “sexual matador” was the face of many of the 45th president’s nastiest immigration policies last time around.

The Republican’s win has rather killed the buzz at Cop29 as the all-important environmental gathering gets underway today in Baku, Azerbaijan, particularly given Trump’s history of dismissing global warming as a “hoax”, withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement and recent rhetoric raving about “liquid gold” and taking a “drill baby drill” approach to fossil fuels.

Here’s more from Stuti Mishra.

Florida Representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Cory Mills have floated the idea that criminal charges could be brought against Judge Juan Merchan – who oversaw the president-elect’s New York business fraud trial this spring and could yet sentence him to jail – as well as his daughter Loren Merchan and Special Counsel Jack Smith, despite Jordan’s assurance this administration is not about vengeance.

Here’s more from the Republican Representative, who was put to the sword by Dana Bash yesterday about just why it is that his party alleges election fraud only when their candidate is defeated – a good question he comprehensively failed to answer.

Mike Bedigan has the details.

Veteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz has accused Kamala Harris’s campaign advisers of committing “political malpractice” for fixating on Trump’s flaws rather than telling the electorate “about her”.

Luntz sat down with ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on This Week and argued that the vice president’s campaign aides set her up for failure due to a lack of focus on creating her own political identity and policies.

Here’s more from James Liddell.