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President Donald Trump, on his first full day in office, said he was interested in the idea that the world’s richest man Elon Musk could buy TikTok to stop it going dark in the United States.

Trump is opposed to allowing a law to go into effect banning the popular video sharing app because it is owned by a Chinese company.

On Tuesday, he was asked whether he was open to his close ally Musk purchasing the app.

‘I would be,’ he said at the end of an event launching a AI partnership between three companies, including Larry Ellison’s Oracle.

‘If you wanted to buy it, I’d like Larry to buy it too.’

Trump has already signed an executive order in an effort to delay TikTok being shut down.

Donald Trump quickly made good on his pledge to sever diversity, equity and inclusion policies in the federal government as he is set to lay off all DEI hires within 24 hours.

The new Trump administration sent a letter to all heads and acting heads of government agencies on Tuesday, informing them all federal employees in DEI roles must be placed on paid leave by 5 pm Wednesday.

All DEI offices in federal agencies are also being shuttered in the move, which comes after Trump signed an anti-DEI executive order in front of a cheering crowd at his inauguration on Monday.

In a letter first obtained by CBS News, the agencies were ordered to ‘take prompt actions’ against all departments ‘focusing exclusively on DEI initiatives and programs.’

The letter also demands all public DEI focused webpages be taken offline, and orders employees within the departments to report ‘any efforts to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language.’

Woke bishop Mariann Budde admitted that she used a National Prayer Service to berate President Trump with a political lecture during what she described as a ‘one on one conversation.’

Budde – who went viral after rebuking Trump at Tuesday’s inaugural sermon – said she gave the controversial speech because of how Trump portrayed transgender children and illegal immigrants ‘in the harshest of lights.’

The left-wing Episcopal Bishop of Washington told CNN that she was ‘talking directly’ to Trump in her sermon.

‘(I was) reminding us all that the people that are frightened in our country, the two groups that I mentioned, are our fellow human beings, and that they have been portrayed all throughout the political campaign in the harshest of lights,’ she said.

‘I wanted to counter, as gently as I could, with a reminder of their humanity and their place in our wider community.

Donald Trump issued a scathing rebuke to the woke bishop who berated him at the National Prayer Service, slamming her as ‘not compelling or smart’ and demanding an apology to the public.

The President slammed Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde in a 1am post to his Truth Social platform, hours after she admitted to CNN that she used the religious event to deliver a political lecture.

‘The so-called Bishop who spoke at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday morning was a Radical Left hard line Trump hater,’ he railed.

‘She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart.’

After Budde used her sermon to beg Trump for ‘mercy’ towards transgender children and illegal immigrants, Trump said her argument ignored reality.

‘She failed to mention the large number of illegal migrants that came into our Country and killed people,’ he went on. ‘Many were deposited from jails and mental institutions. It is a giant crime wave that is taking place in the USA.