Thursday Afternoon News Updates on New Year's Day - 1/1/26
Watch now Thursday Afternoon News Updates on New Year's Day - 1/1/26 Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Jan 1 Hi everyone. I hope the first day of the New Year is off to a good start for you. I wanted to check in with a midday update because a lot happened over the past 24 hours. Let’s start with New Year’s Eve at Mar-a-Lago. Footage from the event shows a president who looked unwell and unsteady. While Americans across the country were worrying about rent, food prices, and health insurance premiums that rose sharply as of January 1, the scene at Mar-a-Lago was a parade of tacky excess and bad taste. Vanilla Ice performed “Ice Ice Baby.” Cabinet members and senior Trump loyalists like Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem danced along. It was surreal, almost dystopian, watching officials tied to mass deportations and federal crackdowns partying amidst what appeared to be a sad, pathetic nostalgia tour. Against that backdrop, The Wall Street Journal publ...
