More on the White House visit ...

Here's more on Trump's visit to the White House this morning (wonder if Obama will bring along his birth certificate ...).

Trump heading to the White House

Today's biggest news will be president-elect Donald Trump visiting President Barack Obama in the White House.

The meeting is scheduled to take place at 11am in Washington (3am AEDT).

First Lady Michelle Obama will also meet privately with Trump's wife, Melania.

Mexicans 'crying eyes out building the wall'

Mexican Formula One driver Sergio Perez has canned a sponsorship contract with the Hawkers sunglasses company after a tweet on their Spanish account suggested Mexicans might want to use their eyewear to hide their "crying eyes tomorrow when you are building the wall."

The remark – in reference to Trump's plans to make Mexico pay for a border wall – received a swift reply from Perez, who terminated the sponsorship.

"Very bad comment," the Force India driver tweeted. "Today I am breaking my relationship with HawkersMX. I will never let anyone make fun of my country!"

Hawkers apologised for the tweet, calling it "a grave mistake". 

Reuters

Farage jokes about Trump 'touching' British PM May

Nigel Farage with Donald Trump at an election rally in Jackson, Mississippi. Photo: AP

Nigel Farage – the man who spearheaded the Brexit campaign in the UK – has joked about Donald Trump "groping" British Prime Minister Theresa May. 

Farage also used the radio interview to described President Barack Obama as a "loathsome" when talking about a potential UK-US trade deal.

"That Obama creature – a loathsome individual who couldn't stand our country. He said he'd be at the back of the queue, didn't he?" Farage said.

He went on to praise Trump for saying that the UK would be at the front of the queue for a trade deal.

Farage – who has no formal role in government in the UK – went on to invite Trump to visit the UK. 

"I'm now going to become a diplomat. Come and schmooze Theresa – don't touch her, for goodness sake," he said, joking about the sexual assault allegations made against Trump during the campaign.

"I could be there as the responsible adult to make sure everything is OK."

Making America Great

President-elect Donald Trump has his new website – greatagain.gov – live and kicking (though the first post was optimistically uploaded on November 2 – a good six days before the election).

The website has various policy overviews – yes, he's building the wall but no detail on *how* he'll build it or how much it'll cost. It's bye, bye Obamacare, there's a full section on regulatory reform, and a big emphasis on coal, gas and oil in the energy sector.

"We will end the war on coal, and rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration," it reads.

"We will ... scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth's climate."

Eek.

There's a bio of Trump (no mention of lawsuits, bankruptcies, or groping allegations), plus a section on the future first lady. She has apparently "focused her platform on the problem of cyber bullying".

I'll leave that last one right here.

Trump's first post-election trip to court

Donald Trump at a Trump University conference. Photo: AP

Less than one week after his US presidential victory, Donald Trump will be in court defending his integrity in the latest lawsuit related to one of his failed business ventures.  

His lawyers will be taking on a group of students who say they were defrauded by the now-defunct Trump University venture.

Mr Trump's attorneys will try to convince San Diego federal judge Gonzalo Curiel (the American-born judge of Mexican origin who Trump said was biased against him becaus of his wall) that jurors should not hear about statements from the campaign trail, including the groping allegations, comments about the case and the judge, speeches, tweets, tax issues, the Donald J. Trump Foundation controversies, beauty pageants or  bankruptcies.

Not sure that leaves the court much to cover, but anyway ... full story here.

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If you need a recap on where we're at, you can check out yesterday's blog here.