Donald Trump has been on a nominating spree in the week since he took the win in the 2024 US presidential election.

From one of the most controversial selections for Secretary of State to an anti vaxer in charge of health, the stories of the men and women lining up to run government in 2025 has been met with raised eyebrows and a little bit of comedy.

Mamamia's US correspondent, Deputy editor of Foreign Policy Magazine Amelia Lester fills us in on the collection of people who will be Trump's cabinet when he returns to the Oval Office. 

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So then. It's been quite the week. Trump won and... well, HOW? Because after the initial shock and disbelief comes the need for the cold, hard facts of exactly what happened. 

Grab a cup of tea, a wine, your dog or whatever will help you get through and listen to the calm, soothing tones of Deputy Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and Mamamia's US correspondent Amelia Lester, as she joins Mia Freedman to digest the events that led up to yesterday's US election results. 

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The polls have closed and Donald Trump has claimed victory in the 2024 US Presidential election.

The Republican candidate might be moving back into the White House as the 47th President of the United States, but how did we get here?

What factors went into this win for Trump, and what let Kamala Harris' campaign down? 

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Come sit in on our emergency meeting about the US election. Recorded as late as we could manage on Wednesday afternoon, join Holly, Mia, Jessie and Amelia Lester in quietly panicking, comforting and dissecting where the world's at with Harris Vs Trump.

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Welcome to the Cancelled courtroom Donald John Trump, reality star, businessman, former president and current presidential candidate. 

Donald is no stranger to a real courtroom but today is all about his petty crimes like drinking 12 diet cokes a day, claiming bodies are like batteries and not thinking through the logistics of a particular wall. 

Now, if you genuinely tried to do a Cancelled episode about Mr Donald, you’d be going for a decade so instead the episode covers SOME of the bizarre you may have forgotten about.

Plus, more of your lazy gewl stories.

Listen to Donald Trump Part Two: Yelling At A Child & The Most Embarrassing Tantrum In History, here. 

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The United States election is less than two weeks away and it's still anybody's game... or is it?

We're taking a look at the polls, what they actually mean, and if they can predict the election ahead of time with any certainty. 

Amelia Lester joins Claire Murphy to walk us through the polls and the potential outcomes on November 5. 

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We're having déjà vu. It's 2024, and the US presidential election is fast approaching.

On 5 November, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are headed for the polls, and more than ever, we need Amelia Lester and Mia Freedman to come back and tell us... it's going to be OK.

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A former First Lady putting her story to publication may not be unusual, but Melania Trump's memoir feels hotly anticipated. 

With very little shared ahead of its release, except of course her pro-abortion revelation, we've all been left wondering... what is she saying with this book? 

And is the timing of this memoir release suspicious? Were on the case.

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Australians woke up on Saturday morning to the news that the US Supreme Court had voted to overturn the constitutional right for American women to access abortion. Amelia Lester is an Australian journalist living in Washington D.C, she joins us to help unpack what’s happening on the ground over in the U.S.

Plus, a few weeks ago, we had a vibrator dilemma that broke the Internet. Now, there’s another one…

And we’ve got our Jessie back at last. So, what DID she do on her holidays, how much do cocktails cost after inflation? And what does she want you to know about what it's really like traveling in a post-Covid world?

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What's a soft voter? Are there any election policies centered around women? If I care about the environment, who should I vote for? How many of us are early voting, and how will that impact getting a result on election day? As we crawl slowly towards the end of a grueling six-week campaign, Mamamia Out Loud's Holly and Mia spoke to The Guardian Australia's political reporter, Amy Remeikis, to answer all your burning questions ahead of Saturday. 

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Yes, we're back!

With Biden now President-Elect, Mia and Amelia are back with a special episode of Tell Me It’s Going To Be OK.

While we may have stopped the show in December of 2018 because our mental health couldn’t take it any more, we’re bringing it back for you today, because it seems like it maybe…just maybe is going to be OK….

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