Trump immediately snapped in response, "I doubled the size of it, you dumb person! Doubled the size. You are not a smart person." The reporter in question was MS Now's Akayla Gardner, a Black woman, continuing Trump's pattern of insulting Black and female reporters.
Department of Justice Brett Ratner, the Hollywood director and Jeffrey Epstein associate who was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women, accompanied President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One this week as part of the president's delegation to China. Ratner flew to China as part of Trump's delegation, alongside prominent CEOs, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, Apple CEO Tim Cook, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, and Meta President and Vice Chairman Dina Powell McCormick, according to reports.
Munya Chawawa, the British-Zimbabwean comedian, has always been an avid wrestling fan. He still has the big bag full of WWE action figures he collected as a child.
Here's my question: How do we know when Trump's kidding? If a Trump supporter can tell me, at the time Trump speaks the words, that certain words are a joke, then that supporter might have a point. But the supporter can never do that. The supporter has to wait for weeks, or months, or for some unspecified future date to know whether Trump was kidding or not.
At a King’s Trust event held in London on Monday, Rod Stewart lauded King Charles for his recent visit to the United States and summit with Donald Trump, telling him: "You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little ratbag in his place." Charles appeared to laugh at Stewart's remark.
Trump decided shortly after taking office last year that he wanted to play an active role in primaries, says a person familiar with his thinking. He particularly wanted to endorse vulnerable incumbents early on, figuring the longer he waited, the more it would expose them to damaging primary challenges. But there was a risk: By endorsing candidates just months into his term, Trump gave up a key source of leverage over members whose support he needed to pass critical legislation.
The White House branded Mark Hamill sick after he criticized President Trump's rhetoric, comparing him to someone lying on a grave. The president's press team responded with a harsh statement, saying Hamill's comments inspired assassination attempts.
Donald Trump has never been stronger, especially with the Republican base, and you saw it last night in Indiana. He has become more than Donald Trump. He is an icon of the ages, and when he speaks, people listen.
Kash Patel's comments during a press conference about Jim Comey's indictment may provide grounds for Comey to request grand jury transcripts, potentially implicating Patel in legal violations.
I still feel like I'm part of the profession, I still have an obligation to reflect on what I believe our standards should be, and to speak out about freedom of speech.
