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The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that lower federal courts should not have the power to issue nationwide injunctions blocking presidential orders — no matter how obviously unconstitutional such an order may be.

The decision is a monumental gift to Donald Trump’s administration, which is seeking to implement much of its anti-immigration and other policy priorities through executive orders. The ruling was 6-3, with the court’s six conservative justices opting to restrict the power of the lower courts.

The ruling comes in response to the Trump administration’s argument...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) introduced a bill last week to defund “sanctuary cities.” She introduced the bill in response to the anti-immigration protests in Los Angeles.

Since June 6, riots, which started as anti-immigration enforcement protests, included many L.A. rioters who wore face masks, waved foreign flags, set cars on fire, threw bricks at police and federal officers, as well as confronted the authorities, defaced property, obstructed traffic and advocated civil unrest.

The protests were a response to federal raids against illegal migrants in L.A.

In response, Trump deployed 4,000 National Guard troops. He also sent over more than 700 United States Marines despite Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-California) objections.

According to a press release, Mace and Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) introduced the Lawless Cities Accountability Act, a bill designed to “pull every last federal dollar from cities who choose mob rule over law and order.”

“This bill is...

Among the weighty roles and responsibilities placed on the American president’s shoulders, the least controversial is the practice of calling other politicians, in the face of personal or public tragedy, to make sure that they have everything they need. If a president wants to go above and beyond that lowest of bars, they offer condolences, and act like a human instead of a partisan hack.

This week, after a spree shooter killed former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband, and severely injured state Senator John Hoffman and his wife,...

A suspect posing as a police officer shot two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one and wounding the other.

Governor Tim Walz confirmed during a press conference on Saturday (June 14) that State Rep. Melissa Hortman, the former Democratic Speaker of the House, and her husband, Mark, were killed in the early morning hours.

Senator John Hoffman, 60, also a Democrat, and his wife Yvette both survived the shooting and are now receiving medical care at the hospital.

Governor Walz said the the killing of Rep. Hortman appeared to be a “politically motivated assassination.”

Keep reading to find out more…“We’re here today because an unspeakable tragedy has unfolded today in Minnesota,” Walz said. “My good friend and colleague, Speaker Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed earlier this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination.”

Authorities said that the suspect impersonated law enforcement and wore a...

Minnesota Democratic Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed in their home in “what appears to be a politically motivated assassination,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said at a press conference Saturday.

“Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends… She is irreplaceable and will be missed by so many,” Walz said.

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination" pic.twitter.com/BBTAhTmseV

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2025

Walz said that the same person shot Minnesota state Sen.

A lawyer for Donald Trump’s Justice Department recently argued in court that sometimes the president just says stuff — and it doesn’t matter if what Trump says is or isn’t accurate, because his comments aren’t necessarily reflective of the government’s position on a given matter.

During an April 30 court hearing related to the government’s unlawful imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador, Judge Paula Xinis asked attorneys representing the Trump administration why they were saying they had no ability to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return to the U.

Donald J. Trump made his first formal appearance at the Kennedy Center since returning to office, attending the official opening of Les Misérables on Wednesday evening. See video from inside the auditorium below. Trump arrived in full tuxedo alongside First Lady Melania Trump, Vice President Jd Vance and his wife Usha, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and newly installed Kennedy Center board members Maria Bartiromo and Laura Ingraham. Ric Grenell, the president’s handpicked interim head of the Center, was also on site. Audience reactions to Trump’s arrival were mixed, with cheers, boos, and a chant of “USA!” all echoed through the lobby as patrons passed through enhanced security screenings. Meanwhile, several drag performers staged a silent protest by attending in full regalia in a defiant nod...

Donald Trump, walking the red carpet Wednesday for the opening-night performance of Les Misérables at the Kennedy Center, again insisted that were it not for his federalizing of the National Guard, “Los Angeles right now, if we didn’t do what we did, would be burning to the ground.”

“These are radical left lunatics that you’re dealing with, and they’re tough, they’re smart, they probably have paid, many of them as you know. They’re professionals,” Trump told reporters. “… They’re chopping up concrete and using it as a weapon. That’s pretty bad.”

California Governor Gavin Newsom opposed the National Guard order, and in a Tuesday evening speech said that Trump has only inflamed the situation.

The evening was Trump’s first visit to a Kennedy Center performance of this term, and the first since he engineered a takeover the the arts institution just weeks after returning to the White House.

The House reconciliation bill — officially known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — is extraordinary in how much it robs from the poor to boost the rich. Its tax cuts for the wealthy are financed by cuts to health care coverage (both in Medicaid and Obamacare) that will help Republicans swell the ranks of the uninsured by 16 million, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

But the Big Beautiful Bill is not just an ugly tax bill where society’s less fortunate are made to sacrifice for the benefit of the wealthiest.

Elon Musk, who has not been taking so much ketamine that he can’t pee right, had a meltdown about his former bromance partner Donald Trump on his website, X, this week.

Vice President J.D. Vance, caught up in the petty feud, has naturally taken Trump’s side, including when it comes to allegations about Trump’s ties to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

As he railed against Trump, Musk escalated his attacks: “Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real...

In a Bizarro World lawsuit against the federal government, Proud Boys who were pardoned by President Donald Trump for their roles in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are alleging “cruel and unusual” treatment and “politically motivated” prosecutions. They seek a minimum of $100 million in damages for alleged “violations of their constitutional rights.”

The suit is brought by former Proud Boys honcho Enrique Tarrio along with lieutenants Zachary Rehl, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, and Dominic Pezzola. The plaintiffs were all convicted of serious felonies — up to and including...

It’s been nearly two months since the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man whom his administration illegally deported to the notorious prison system in El Salvador.

On Friday, the Trump administration finally complied with this directive, returning Abrego Garcia to the United States. It did so while releasing a grand-jury indictment against him in Tennessee, dated May 21, charging him with “alien smuggling and conspiracy to commit alien smuggling.”

Abrego Garcia was among hundreds of immigrants whom the administration shipped to El...

Joe Rogan and FBI Director Kash Patel were left gobstruck Thursday as Elon Musk offloaded on Donald Trump with claims the one-time playboy real estate developer is in the Jeffrey Epstein files and that’s why they haven’t been released.

“I’m not participating in any of that conversation,” proclaims a clearly shaken Patel, a person who has supposedly seen the files on the very well-connected pedophile billionaire who died mysteriously in police custody in 2019. Up to this point in the nearly two-hour conversation between Rogan and Trump ultra-loyalist Patel, there didn’t seem to be any topic he wouldn’t address.

Watch the nervous exchange here, and see below for the full interview:

“Jesus Christ, that’s a crazy thing to say,” sputtered UFC commentator Rogan as his producer showed the duo the tweet from the SpaceX boss and frequent Joe Rogan Experience guest. Saying that someone should take Musk’s “phone away,...

Pam Bondi seemed a little nervous during Donald Trump’s Cabinet meeting on April 30, the week the administration celebrated his first 100 days in office. Vice President J.D. Vance was seated directly across from the president, and she was seated immediately to Vance’s left — meaning Trump would practically be looking right at her as she delivered her report on the state of the Justice Department.

Bondi, the nation’s attorney general, is one of more than two dozen billionaires, conspiracy theorists, television hosts, and otherwise die-hard Maga personalities that Republicans...

The war of words and tweets between Donald Trump and his top donor Elon Musk just went nuclear.

As the former Doge chief and Potus tossed slings and arrows at each other over the president’s “Big Beautiful Bill’s” effect on the federal deficit and whether the SpaceX owner put the Republican back in power, Musk dropped “the really big bomb.” After almost over a year connected to Trump at the hip, spending hundreds of millions on his 2024 campaign and charging through the federal government’s inner sanctums like a rabid bull in a China shop, Musk truly went full Little Boy and Fat Man.

Less than a week after he was literally tossed out of the White House with praise and a golden key, Musk today claimed Potus “is in the Epstein files.” With zero evidence, Musk added, “That is the real reason they have not been made public.

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Elon Musk just went nuclear in his escalating war of words with President Donald Trump.

In a shocking turn of events, the Tesla CEO has taken to his X social media platform to allege that Trump’s name is mentioned in the infamous “Epstein files.”

That phrase refers to flight logs and other documents pertaining to the investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, who took his own life in 2019.

Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Musk drops shocking allegation against President Trump

“Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public,” Musk tweeted moments ago, further taunting the president by adding, “Have a nice day,...

Update: Even with the devout Catholic that Joe Biden is, the former president isn’t taking Donald Trump’s new Department of Justice investigation into his cognitive state and command of the White House during his term by turning the other cheek.

“Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency,” the 46th Potus said in a statement early Thursday after his predecessor and successor took his deepest dig at the 82-year-old Democrat yet. “I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations. Any suggestion that I didn’t is ridiculous and false.”

For years the currently 78-year-old Trump has thrown shade on the admittedly sometimes addled Biden over the mental capacity of the man who beat him in 2020. Since Biden’s disastrous debate performance last year, the incumbent’s exit from the race and Trump’s return to office after defeating then-vp Kamala Harris,...

As President Donald Trump and his administration continue their systematic attack on trans Americans, both activists and unaffiliated individuals are targeting the FBI’s latest attempt to prosecute doctors giving trans youth gender-affirming care. On Monday, the FBI asked for tips on doctors or hospitals “who mutilate under the guise of gender-affirming care,” which refers to surgical intervention for trans youth. But the “criminals” the Trump administration is hunting may not even exist — every major American health organization is firm that surgical intervention does not happen for children under 12, and...

Federal judges, worried that the president could withdraw the U.S. marshals protecting them in retaliation for ruling against his administration, are considering managing their own security force as threats to the judiciary are rising.

The Wall Street Journal reports that judges discussed the idea of creating their own security detail behind closed doors at the semiannual meeting of the Judicial Conference, national policymaking body for the federal courts, in early March. Security committee members described increased threats in the wake of Trump’s attacks.

The judiciary’s fears of...

Two staff members from the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum. The suspect shouted “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, according to police.

The victims, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were leaving the event when the suspect, identified as 30-year-old Chicago resident Elias Rodriguez, approached and opened fire. The event was hosted by the American Jewish Committee.

“American Jewish Committee (Ajc) can confirm that we hosted an event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington,...

When President Donald Trump hosted the board of the Kennedy Center at the White House on Monday night, the adviser he selected to lead the institution, Ric Grenell, spoke briefly of what he characterized as a “fraud” in the way that the finances of the institution were previously handled.

But the person who Grenell replaced, Deborah Rutter, today called out what she called a “malicious attempt to distort the facts” about her tenure.

“I stand by my assertion that at the time of my departure, the Kennedy Center was fiscally sound, on

track to balance its budget for the year, and positioned to grow its endowment significantly while

serving as a beacon for free artistic expression and a place where everyone could belong,” Rutter said in a statement.

Just weeks into his presidency, Trump removed all the board members who had been appointed by Joe Biden. The Trump-controlled board ousted Rutter,...

The Trump Justice Department, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, is weighing a move that could end the Public Integrity Section’s power to oversee indictments of members of Congress, potentially opening the door to politically motivated prosecutions, The Washington Post reports.

If the proposed changes go through, U.S. attorneys — positions appointed by the president — could indict members of Congress without the sign-off from attorneys in the Public Integrity Section (Pin), reducing the office’s ethical watchdog role. Prosecutors would no longer need to consult Pin at key points during...

President Donald Trump’s administration is ready to accept a $400 million “flying palace” Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s royal family, which Trump will use as Air Force One.

The president will use the aircraft, which is reported to be the most luxurious private jet in the world, as a temporary presidential jet. At the same time, Boeing finishes the next-generation Air Force One fleet after years of delays and cost overruns. The jet would then be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation when Trump leaves office.

In 2022, Trump’s plan to paint Air Force One red, white and blue was scrapped due to its $1.1 billion cost.

Trump, who earned the lowest approval rating of any president in the past eight decades at 100 days in office, could receive delivery of the plane soon.

On Sunday night, Trump confirmed in a Truth Social post that he would accept the plane.

For children being raised in today’s digital age, one of the biggest stars in the world is a New York mom who posts YouTube videos in a bright-pink headband. Her name is Rachel Accurso, though parents and kids alike will most likely recognize her by her shortened stage name: Ms. Rachel. And while they might recognize Accurso’s penchant for creating viral and educational brainworms, they might not be aware that the famed educator has spent months receiving staunch pushback for promoting humanitarian aid to the children of Gaza.

Donald Trump doesn’t see why everyone is so concerned that he accepted a $400 million jet from the Qatari government — one that will serve as the new Air Force Once, and which the president will reportedly retain through his presidential library fund after he leaves office.

“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a Gift, Free Of Charge, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, Top Dollar,...

The Trump administration is getting ready to accept a super luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from the royal family of Qatar to replace Air Force One until Donald Trump’s second term ends, when ownership of the plane will be shifted to his presidential library foundation, ABC News reported, citing sources familiar with the agreement.

Trump is scheduled to visit Qatar next week where the gifted plane — which has been described as “a flying palace” worth $400 million — is anticipated to be announced. If the deal goes through, it would be...

Luigi Mangione is celebrating his birthday behind bars.

The 27-year-old, who is accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, rang in his birthday on Tuesday (May 6) at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, New York City.

He officially entered his not guilty plea in the federal case at the end of April after being indicted on charges of murder, two counts of stalking and a firearms offense.

There is now a report regarding what Luigi had for his birthday while in prison.

Keep reading to find out more…

For breakfast, per a report from TMZ, Luigi had a choice of fruit, cereal, breakfast cake, sugar substitute packets and skim milk.

For lunch, he was offered pasta with meat sauce and chickpea marinara, as well as spinach, whole wheat bread, fruit and a beverage.

And for dinner, Luigi was served a chicken patty sandwich or chickpea burger, steamed rice, pinto beans, lettuce,...

The cameras rolled on Tuesday as President Donald Trump held his first 2026 World Cup task force meeting in a public spectacle that included several Cabinet members, as well as FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

Millions of foreigners from around the world are expected to visit the United States for soccer’s most anticipated international tournament, yet Trump and some of his Cabinet members chilled the usually celebratory mood with ominous warnings to travelers planning to attend next year’s World Cup.

When asked if people who have taken part in pro-Palestinian...

The Tony Award nominations are out, but that isn’t the week’s most exciting theater headline. The big news: The entire run of Luigi: The Musical, a new comedy about Luigi Magione that’s premiering next month in San Francisco, is completely sold out, according to People.

Here’s the official synopsis from the production’s website: “Luigi: the Musical is a comedy that imagines the surreal scenario of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sharing a prison with real-life inmates Sam Bankman-Fried and Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.”

If that set-up sounds like opportunistic playwrights trying to cash in on multiple contemporary scandals, you wouldn’t be wrong. But as the show’s producers point out, the premise is also “rooted in a strange truth”: Mangione, Bankman-Fried and Diddy were all incarcerated in the same prison. Whoa!

“​​These three people represent these big...

Every so often, Donald Trump assembles America’s most powerful grovelers at the White House to take turns telling him how great of a job he’s doing while the cameras are rolling. The president held his latest Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a day after celebrating his first 100 days in office. The grovelers were ready to deliver.

“The biggest reason why we’re here is that this is the 100th day of the most consequential, historic first 100 days in the history of this country,” gushed Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

During Donald Trump’s final weeks of his 2024 reelection campaign, he fantasized about “one really violent day” of policing as an answer to eradicating crime in America. Speaking to supporters gathered at the Bayfront Convention Center in Erie, Pennsylvania, in late September, Trump mused, “One rough hour — and I mean real rough — the word will get out and it will end immediately, you know?”

On Monday, as he prepared to celebrate his 100th day back in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order ramping up his efforts to...

Elon Musk once said he could save taxpayers $2 trillion by slashing away at government agencies with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). Then it was $1 trillion. Most recently, he has revised that estimate significantly downward to $150 billion. And even if he could prove he has reduced the federal budget by that amount (which he hasn’t), it doesn’t account for the nearly equal wasteful expenditure that his rampage has incurred, including legal fees arising from hundreds of lawsuits against Doge.

But it seems that Musk, for all the...

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department removed protections for journalists in investigations into leaks, allowing the government greater power to demand information.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a memo circulated Friday that she will rescind policies established by the Biden administration preventing the Justice Department from seeking records or compelling testimony from journalists in order to investigate leaks. The memo was published by Politico.

Bondi claimed that the Biden administration “abused” media protections put in place by Merrick Garland, President Joe Biden’s attorney general that largely barred federal...

The Scales of Justice. (Stock photo)

The U.S. Attorney General on Friday rescinded a memo issued four years ago that limited the ability of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to target reporters during criminal and civil investigations.

The memo, issued by former Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021, limited the seizure of documents from journalists and news organizations only to extreme cases where a reporter or employee of a news outlet was accused of a specific crime.

The directive followed numerous reports that the DOJ had subpoenaed the phone and e-mail records of reporters and news outlets when investigating the leak and subsequent publishing of classified materials or other records that were not intended for public view.

On Friday, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the leaking and publishing of classified materials “is illegal and wrong, and it must stop.”

“Safeguarding classified, privileged and other sensitive information is essential to effective governance and law enforcement,...

Luigi Mangione went to court on Friday (April 25) to officially enter his plea in the federal case after being accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The 26-year-old reportedly wore a beige prison jumpsuit for his arraignment, according to CNN, where he plead not guilty to all federal charges against him.

Last week, Luigi was indicted on charges of murder, two counts of stalking and a firearms offense.

Keep reading to find out more…

Previously, Donald Trump‘s Attorney General Pam Bondi has “directed federal prosecutors” to seek the death penalty for Luigi.

During Friday’s hearing, Luigi‘s attorney Karen Friedman Agnifilo stated she will ask for the federal trial to start first, “citing the Justice Department’s announcement a day earlier that it intends to seek capital punishment for his top federal charge – murder through use of a firearm.”

His next hearing in the federal case will not be until December 5th,...

Luigi Mangione pleaded not guilty to federal charges of murder, stalking, and firearms offenses on Friday afternoon in New York federal court. The night before, prosecutors filed formal notice to seek the death penalty for Mangione, who has been accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The filing claims Mangione “intentionally killed” Thompson to “amplify an ideological message, maximize the visibility and impact of the victim’s murder, and to provoke broad-based resistance to the victim’s industry.” Federal prosecutors also allege that Mangione “presents a future danger because he...

The FBI has arrested a judge in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, they have accused of obstructing the arrest of an undocumented migrant.

According to a now-deleted X post, FBI Director Kash Patel wrote that the FBI has arrested Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan “after evidence of Judge Dugan obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.”

“We believe Judge Dugan intentionally misdirected federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, Eduardo Flores Ruiz, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest,” Patel wrote, adding that Flores Ruiz had been arrested.

It took time, but President Donald Trump finally gave Josh Shapiro, the Governor of Pennsylvania, a call after his reported arson attack. Just four days ago, Good Morning America reported that he hadn’t yet picked up the phone to check on him. However, that changed over the weekend.

The Call Came Days After Arson Attack

Josh Shapiro’s arson attack happened in Harrisburg, and then the Democrat waited about a week for the president to call him up. Interestingly, when the call came, it was via cell phone and the governor didn’t recognise it. So, he didn’t take it straight away. According to NBC Philadelphia, Josh called the number back and they had an amicable discussion.

Shapiro gives a press conference – Forbes Breaking News – YouTube

The response to the call with Donald Trump came via a press conference on Tuesday. In it, Shapiro said, “I appreciated that...

A federal grand jury in New York has indicted Luigi Mangione on two counts of stalking, a firearms offense, and murder via use of a firearm. The murder charge would make Mangione eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

Attorney General Pam Bondi directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty against Mangione earlier this month after the 26-year-old was charged with murdering United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Mangione’s legal team, led by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, responded in a statement, calling the decision “barbaric.”

“While claiming to protect against murder,...

Pam Bondi, the attorney general of the United States, was asked what should have been a pretty simple question during a Fox News appearance on Monday night.

“Is that legal?” Jesse Watters wondered, referring to Donald Trump musing earlier in the day about sending “homegrown” American citizens to El Salvador. Doing so would be unequivocally illegal, and acknowledging as much is an extremely low bar for the nation’s top law enforcement official to clear.

She didn’t clear it.

“Jesse, these are Americans who he is saying have committed...

CNN anchor Dana Bash interrupted live coverage of Donald Trump to refute his claims that the network’s journalists at CNN “hate our country.”

Trump’s Oval Office appearance on Monday saw him attack CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins during an exchange regarding Kilmer Abrego Garcia – an El Salvadorian man who was wrongfully deported from the US and is still being held in an El Salvadorian prison, despite court orders for him to be returned.

When Collins asked about Garcia’s fate, Trump quipped, “Let’s hear the question from this very low-rated anchor at Cb – at CNN low-rated!”

Collins questioned Trump, “Do you plan to press President Bukele to help return the man who your administration says was mistakenly deported to El Salvador?”

Instead of answering the question, Trump gave the floor to Attorney General Pam Bondi and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. He interrupted the conversation later on to claim,...

Vice President J.D. Vance has publicly come out in favor of disregarding due process rights in the United States.

In a lengthy X post published on Tuesday, Vance wrote: “To say the administration must observe ‘due process’ is to beg the question: what process is due is a function of our resources, the public interest, the status of the accused, the proposed punishment, and so many other factors. To put it in concrete terms, imposing the death penalty on an American citizen requires more legal process than deporting an illegal...

Aimee Lou Wood is getting the last laugh.

After Saturday Night Live spoofed The White Lotus last weekend with a pre-taped sketch called "The White Potus," which reimagined the HBO characters as deranged members of President Donald Trump's inner circle, Wood took to Instagram to publicly call out the show for the way it made fun of her intelligence and her teeth. In the days since, the English actress says she has received an apology from SNL — and she has received an outpouring of support from fans, gaining more than 130,000 Instagram followers. Her Emmy odds have also gotten a boost, jumping from seventh to sixth place in Gold Derby's Best Drama Supporting Actress predictions.

Neither NBC nor SNL has yet commented on Wood's criticism or to confirm that a representative from the show did indeed contact the actress and apologize for the sketch.

In "The White Potus," the week's host,...

President Donald Trump and his administration are acting like they don’t need to listen to the Supreme Court — even going so far as to publicly pretend the high court told them they have no obligation to send back a man they illegally shipped to El Salvador’s infamous torture prison.

Trump suggested last week he would comply with the high court’s unanimous decision ordering him to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who Trump officials previously claimed was deported to El Salvador as the result of an “administrative error.

One of the more controversial moments of the final day (April 13th) of the Coachella festival’s first weekend came during a set by L.A. punk legends Circle Jerks.

Following a rendition of the rebellious political song “Coup d’état,” frontman Keith Morris made a point to clarify some of the song’s lyrics — namely the last line, “kill all” — in the context of the modern day.

Addressing the crowd, Morris said [as transcribed by Sf Gate]: “That song, that last line, ends with ‘kill all.’ That’s a pretty fucking ugly statement. In ugly times. Do not think that we encourage that.”

However, he added, “What we do encourage — what would be totally fucking happening — would be an army of Luigis,” referring to Luigi Mangione, who faces federal and New York state charges for the alleged murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in late 2023.

Morris’ between song banter went...

President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process.

While taking questions from the press in the Oval Office, Bukele said he would not return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a Maryland man the Trump administration admitted it wrongfully deported after accusing him of being a member of Ms-13 — to the United States.

So many of the events and policies of the past three months of Donald Trump’s second presidency can be understood as downstream from one simple, Republican Party-wide organizing principle. That is, Trump aims to severely punish and brutalize his enemies, big and small, even if they didn’t do anything illegal or wrong — and he wants to wield the massive power of the state to do it, no matter how arbitrary or authoritarian his conduct.

In the middle of last week, the president notched yet another significant escalation in...

Seriously, how did it take so long for someone to come up with a spoof called The White Potus? Credit to Saturday Night Live for finally getting the job done, calling in favors from copious celebrities and former cast members to pull off the pitch-perfect pretaped parody.

James Austin Johnson’s Trump is the protagonist, the once-successful financier whose world is crumbling under his feet. In a nice touch, the Duke T-shirt is replaced by one that reads King. “We are so lucky that America will always be a rich and powerful nation,” drawls Melania (Chloe Fineman making a meal out of Parker Posey’s North Carolina accent). “I mean, can you imagine how awful it would be if America lost all its money and no one in the world respected us anymore?”

Alex Moffat makes his SNL return as Eric Trump, thankfully too dimwitted to do anything racy with Mikey Day’s Don Jr.,...

Two years ago, Saturday Night Live reimagined Season 2 of The White Lotus as The Black Lotus ("coming to HBO and Starz"). Now they've parodied Season 3, and it's about time, or even past time, what with the finale airing a week ago. James Austin Johnson gets a chance to do more of his excellent impersonation of Donald Trump in The White Potus, which puts members of the Trump family and administration in the Thai setting of Season 3. He's joined by other members of the cast doing some good impersonations (Chloe Fineman standing out with her send-up of Parker Posey's Victoria Ratliff and her Southern accent), and some surprise guests.

It was actually a very well-thought-out sketch that used the economic crisis of America's isolationist trade war as a substitute for the financial and legal downfall of the Ratliff family in The White Lotus. Instead of popping Lorazepam to block out reality,...

Saturday Night Live took a sharp turn into political satire with a spoof titled “The White Potus,” transforming HBO’s The White Lotus into a surreal retreat for the Trump family and key administration figures. The sketch aired during an episode hosted by Jon Hamm and included appearances from Scarlett Johansson, Alex Moffat, and musical guest Lizzo.

The parody recasts characters from The White Lotus season three as figures from the Trump orbit. James Austin Johnson leads the piece as Donald Trump, styled in the manner of Jason Isaacs’s character from the original show. Chloe Fineman portrays Melania Trump with a Southern accent similar to Parker Posey’s Victoria Ratliff, delivering lines that play on the series’ wealthy detachment and political undertones.

“Donald, are you getting ready? Hello? Earth to Donald, it’s your wife, Melania,” she says, as Johnson’s Trump stares off in silence. At the breakfast table,...