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Stephen A. Smith has become the latest target of “The Daily Show,” with the late night program releasing a new biofilm mocking the sports television personality for his various on-air takes.

The nearly 7-minute video, titled “Stephen A. Smith: Greatest of All Take-Havers,” starts with a look at his childhood, with Smith saying he was born in the Bronx and raised in Queens with the “greatest mom in the world.”

“That’s right, every other mom in the world is a scrub. I don’t care if your mother, Theresa, or that hot mom from The Brady Bunch,” Craig Kilborn says in a voice narration. “Those moms should be riding the bench behind Janet Smith.”

It proceeds to jump forward Smith’s enrollment at the Fashion Institute of Technology, which Kilborn said “might not have greatest tradition of sports” but “definitely had a playoff.”

“It was primarily a girls school,...

Of all the annoying text chains to be a part of, Seth Meyers is pretty sure that being on one with Elon Musk is probably pretty bad. In fact, on Thursday night, the NBC late night host imagined exactly how it probably goes.

Following Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s messy breakup via social media on Thursday, members of the administration have been forced to take sides. During his “A Closer Look” segment, Meyers offered sympathy for House Speaker Mike Johnson losing a friend in Musk, reminding viewers that as recently as December, Johnson bragged about being in a group text with Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy.

“Can you imagine how much it sucks to be on a text chain with Elon Musk?” Meyers marveled, before making up a possible conversation.

“Johnson: ‘Doge should cut Medicaid.’ Vivek: ‘We should also look at social security.’ Musk: ‘We’re renaming it to Updoge.

President Donald Trump’s second administration is already starting to lose key figures less than six months into the term, but White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is going to stick around for as long as her neck can support the weight of her cross necklace.

Just as Trump’s first White House featured a revolving door of politicians, insiders and favored business associates accepting and then leaving high-level positions on a seemingly weekly basis, so, too, is the President’s second attempt at keeping a stable of obedient cronies showing leaks in the ship. On Sunday night, controversial tech magnate Elon Musk confirmed his departure from the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, which lost its first co-head Vivek Ramaswamy before it even existed. Musk's exit comes just months after calling himself Trump’s “first buddy” as he accompanied the president on the campaign trail.

But while certain high-profile...

Following former president Joe Biden’s diagnosis of an “aggressive form” of prostate cancer, political figures like Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton and more are sharing their well wishes to the veteran politician.

“Doug and I are saddened to learn of President Biden’s prostate cancer diagnosis,” the former vice president shared on X. “We are keeping him, Dr. Biden, and their entire family in our hearts and prayers during this time. Joe is a fighter — and I know he will face this challenge with the same strength, resilience, and optimism that have always defined his life and leadership. We are hopeful for a full and speedy recovery.”

Biden’s predecessor, former Potus Barack Obama, said, “Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge...

They have been virtually inseparable since the closing weeks of the 2024 campaign, but their closeness has precipitated a question that looms over the relationship: when will Donald Trump and Elon Musk part ways?

Two men famed for their egos, temperamental attitudes, spotlight-hogging, and lust for unlimited power surely can’t maintain a lasting political alliance, many observers have argued. And the first Trump administration was remarkable for its rate of turnover, cycling through advisors and officials at such a rate that some are best known for the brevity of their tenure.

Donald Trump is — at least publicly — attempting to reign in Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) amid growing pushback from the public, Congress, and members of the president’s Cabinet.

On Thursday, Trump reportedly told his Cabinet members during a White House meeting that they would be in charge of the hiring and firing decisions within their agencies. The decision is a stark departure from how the administration has operated its first two months in office, giving Musk virtually unchecked authority to cut large swaths of federal departments and agencies.

Octavia Spencer channeled her Oscar-winning role from “The Help” to send a blunt message to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge). In the words of Minny Jackson: Eat my shit.

“Bake sale for Washington to All Doge employees and supporters,” Spencer wrote while sharing a photo from “The Help” of Minny holding up her notorious poop pie. “I need good vanilla from Mexico and some Canadian maple syrup. #limitedEdition pies. Corn and chocolate. Need lots of donations for the special ingredient. Eat looooooooots of corn. One time sale. Fill out the cards below. Who would you send a pie to?”

Spencer ended the post with “#MinnyJacksonCallToAction.” In “The Help,” Spencer’s Minny gets revenge on the manipulative socialite Hilly Holbrook (Bryce Dallas Howard) by baking her a chocolate pie made with Minny’s poop. The scene in the film culminates with Minny triumphantly telling Hilly: “Eat my shit!

The Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense and the U.S. military. (U.S. Air Force photo via Wikimedia Commons)

The headquarters of the U.S. military has responded to a protest by some news organizations over the planned eviction of mainstream media outlets from its shared office space within the Pentagon by expanding the eviction list.

On Friday, Pentagon spokesperson John Ullyot distributed a memo to affected news outlets notifying them of the expanded eviction list, which also named the news organizations and publications that will move into the affected office space.

Initially, four news organizations — NBC News, National Public Radio (NPR), the New York Times and Politico — were affected by a new initiative called the Annual Media Rotation Program (Ampr), which involved the sharing of limited office space in a section of the Pentagon called Correspondents’ Corridor where members of the media have operated for decades.

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The National Transportation Safety Board (Ntsb) on Saturday said it will stop e-mailing news organizations and reporters with updates about two plane crashes that occurred earlier this week.

Moving forward, the federal agency tasked with investigating transportation-related accidents and disasters said news organizations and reporters will have to follow the agency’s official account on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, where “all Ntsb updates about news conferences or other investigative information” will be posted moving forward.

The Ntsb did not say why it was choosing to post information about public safety matters exclusively on X, a private social media platform owned by technology mogul Elon Musk, who has curried favor with President Donald Trump in recent weeks. The Desk has filed a Freedom of Information Act (Foia) request with the government agency to learn more about the Ntsb’s decision-making process in moving updates...

The Pentagon, the headquarters of the Department of Defense and the U.S. military. (U.S. Air Force photo via Wikimedia Commons)

The Department of Defense is evicting a number of traditional news outlets from their long-time offices at the Pentagon and will allow right-of-center TV networks and publications to move into that shared space later this month.

The changes affect the Correspondents’ Corridor, a set of offices loaned to print, television and radio publications over the years with the goal of giving established news outlets greater access to the Pentagon, the headquarters of the U.S. military, and its officials.

Starting February 14, the Pentagon says a number of those organizations — specifically, the New York Times, NBC News, National Public Radio (NPR) and Politico — will no longer occupy offices at the Pentagon. Instead, that office space will be afforded to the New York Post, One America News Network, the radio arm...

Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t mince his words as Green Day performed “American Idiot” in Johannesburg, South Africa over the weekend. While visiting Elon Musk’s home country on Sunday, the band switched the lyrics of their classic song to take aim at the Tesla and X CEO.

“I’m not a part of the Elon agenda,” Armstrong sang, switching the original lyric: “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”

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Billie Joe Armstrong changes the lyrics to call out Elon Musk: ‘I’m not a part of...

The Department of Government Efficiency’s first order of business was itself: It’s now down to one leader.

Vivek Ramaswamy is no longer part of the commission that President Donald Trump championed, officials confirmed hours after the Republican took office Monday, and that leaves billionaire Elon Musk to run the cost-cutting operation alone.

Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who sought the GOP nomination for president in 2024, has signaled plans to run for governor of Ohio next year. A native of Cincinnati, Ramaswamy, 39, had shown interest in Vice President Jd Vance’s recently vacated Senate seat before Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine chose Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as Vance’s successor.

“Vivek Ramaswamy played a critical role in helping us create Doge,” Anna Kelly, a spokesperson for the commission, said in a statement. “He intends to run for elected office soon, which requires him to remain outside of Doge, based on the structure that we announced today.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) passed over entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy for the Ohio Senate vacated by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. DeWine selected Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (R) to fill the seat on Saturday.

In November, Ramaswamy announced he is working alongside X CEO Elon Musk on Donald Trump‘s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).

DeWine met with the entrepreneur last weekend at the Governor’s mansion in Columbus to discuss the Senate vacancy. Trump encouraged Ramaswamy to accept the appointment if the governor offered it.

DeWine told News 5 Cleveland that, in addition to meeting with Ramaswamy, he had “met with a lot of people,” adding that his team has “a lot of good people.”

Vance resigned last week before his swearing-in as vice president on Monday.

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Cameron Diaz’s return to acting after 11 years in Netflix’s “Back in Action” means she’s also on her first movie press tour in more than a decade. Joining co-star Jamie Foxx for a video interview with Complex, the “Charlie’s Angels” favorite threw some shade at president-elect Donald Trump by saying it’s actually Elon Musk who is our new president. Trump and Musk are friends, with the SpaceX founder and X owner donating millions to Trump’s presidential campaign last year.

At one point during their interview, Foxx asked Diaz about online conspiracies. She answered by giving her views on aliens and recounting one theory that claims humans will all be living on Mars in the future.

“If you think about where we’re at currently in technology, we sit in front of a screen – we don’t speak to each other, we don’t have to talk,...

Seth Meyers went on an epic Boy Meets World rant on his show Late Night with Seth Meyers, and didn't hold back that Topanga Lawrence (Danielle Fishel) made a mistake by proposing to Cory Matthews (Ben Savage) during their high school graduation. Boy Meets World originally ran on ABC for seven seasons between 1993 and 2000 and followed Cory growing up. One of the main storylines of the show was his relationship with Topanga, showing them growing closer together and eventually getting married.

During the "A Closer Look" segment on Late Night with Seth Meyers, the host reacted to a social media post from Vivek Ramaswamy, which said, "A culture that venerates Cory from 'Boy Meets World,' or Zack & Slater over Screech in 'Saved by the Bell,' or 'Stefan' over Steve Urkel in 'Family Matters,' will not produce the best engineers." After discussing the other two sitcoms,...

My World Of Flops is Nathan Rabin’s survey of books, television shows, musical releases, or other forms of entertainment that were financial flops, critical failures, or lack a substantial cult following.

Until recently, Zachary Levi had the kind of career actors dream about. He made his name as the titular hero of Chuck,...

Donald Trump’s incoming administration officials have begun interrogating White House national security staff about their potential loyalty — or disloyalty — to the president-elect, according to a Monday report from the Associated Press.

One U.S. official familiar with the questioning said that staff members affiliated with the White House National Security Council (Nsc) have been questioned regarding who they voted for in November’s election, their social media use, and their history of political donations.

The official added that some staff — despite having been assured they would remain in their...

Elon Musk, a key megadonor in the 2024 election, has apparently decided he can’t risk being away from President-elect Donald Trump for more than a few days at a time. To that end, he has since Election Day mainly resided in a cottage at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a report from The New York Times.

The resort cottage, which is named Banyan and sits a mere few hundred feet from the main residence, ordinarily rents for $2,000 a night. It’s not known whether Musk...

The past couple of days have exposed a fissure in Donald Trump’s coalition over H-1B visas, used by major tech firms and some major media congloms to lure highly skilled workers to employment in the United States.

“That pretty much sums it up,” Musk wrote on X on Thursday evening. “This was eye-opening.”

Musk was responding to a post in which an X user wrote, “So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like ‘hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,’ and the right right was like ‘no you need to hire americans,’ and the tech right is like ‘but you guys are retarded,’ and the right right is like ‘well you don’t train us,’ and the tech right is like ‘you can’t outtrain being retarded,’ and while all this was going...

Maga world is fighting, and it’s getting ugly. As Donald Trump supporters raged at Elon Musk for arguing that Big Tech needs to bring in foreign workers, Musk’s X platform apparently removed Trump ally Laura Loomer’s blue checkmark and deactivated her subscriptions.

Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are set to jointly lead President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, have both infuriated conservatives in recent days by asserting that Silicon Valley businesses rely on foreign workers because there aren’t enough Americans to do the jobs.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who will soon head President-elect Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, have repeatedly demonized undocumented immigrants. In recent days, though, Musk and Ramaswamy have both argued Big Tech firms desperately need foreign workers — generating controversy among the Maga base.

Both Musk and Ramaswamy appeared to be expressing support for H-1B visas for high-skilled workers. These visas have often been criticized by the left and right for allowing companies to rely on cheaper foreign labor. Companies also maintain significant control over such...

Earlier this year, the US House of Representatives passed the Ticket Act, a proposed bill with the goal of increasing pricing transparency in the ticket industry and banning speculative ticketing practices. Just a few days ago, it was set to pass in the US Senate as part of a continuing resolution spending bill, but due to recent actions from President-Elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk, the Ticket Act is now in limbo.

Though the bipartisan deal had been endorsed by Republican leadership, Trump demanded it be scrapped on Wednesday with the support of his advisors Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as they pushed for more spending cuts. With GOP leadership scrambling to create a revised spending bill, the Ticket Act appears to have fallen by the wayside.

On Thursday, Republican leadership proposed a new spending bill, excluding the Ticket Act, with backing from Trump. However, the vote failed as 38 Republicans joined...

President-elect Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office, and congressional Republicans are already taking cues from Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and the pair’s new playground, the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge.

GOP lawmakers immediately lined up against the original short-term government funding bill released this week after Musk voiced his opposition. On top of that, a group of extremist Republicans, led by Sen. Rick Scott and Rep. Andy Harris, is fighting to ensure that the fresh round of tax cuts Republicans have planned for Musk when Trump...

Elon Musk has not been elected to any public office, but after tanking Republicans’ most recent attempt at a stopgap funding bill to avoid a shutdown, some right-wing lawmakers are entertaining the idea of installing him as speaker of the House. Democrats, by contrast, are pointing out that if the party — which claims to loathe the unelected bureaucracy — is going to let themselves be controlled by the social media posts of the world’s richest man, they may as well hand him the keys to the White House.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders is ringing the alarm that the United States is “rapidly” becoming an oligarchy run by billionaires out to enrich themselves.

“We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and so much power,” the senator said.

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“Never before has there been so much concentration of ownership, sector after sector, power of Wall Street,” he continued. “And never before in American history — and we better talk...

Donald Trump is rewarding many of his donors with important roles in his upcoming administration. Almost three dozen people tapped to serve in his White House donated to his campaign or to groups that supported his election, according to a CNN analysis of federal campaign records.

A dozen of Biden’s cabinet picks gave to his campaign or pro-Biden super PACs, but donations by Trump’s cabinet picks dwarf their total contributions. In total, Biden’s cabinet nominees gave less than $100,000 while Trump’s picks and their spouses gave a...

“It’s very scary.”

In separate interviews, three veteran nonprofit executives used the same phrase to describe the future of public media in the United States under the next Trump Administration. While agencies are currently funded through 2025, the attacks are fierce.

The GOP Is Out for Blood

In April, president-elect Donald Trump called National Public Radio (NPR) “a liberal disinformation machine” and vowed to never give it a penny while Congressman Scott Perry (R-pa) introduced the “No Propaganda Act,” a bill that aims to prohibit federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (Cpb). Senator Ted Cruz (R-tx) called the Cpb “complicit in perpetuating political bias.”

Three weeks ago, Department of Government Efficiency co-heads Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy joined the fray, calling for an end to federal funding to the Cpb in the Wall Street Journal.

This isn’t new, of course.

Conservative politicians have tried to destroy public...

Updated: At Sunday’s Kennedy Center Honors, George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro each appeared on stage to give special tributes to Francis Ford Coppola, while Al Pacino called him a trailblazer willing to break the first rule of Hollywood: Never put your own money in your movie projects.

Julia Louis Dreyfus said that when honoree Bonnie Raitt “sings and plays, you know instantly that it’s Bonnie Raitt. It’s just all red hair and no bulls—.”

After testimonials for honoree The Grateful Dead from figures like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, David Letterman popped out of a prop Deadhead’s Vw van and declared, “I’m so f—ed up.”

Then, Letterman threw in a quip about the trepidation of what’s ahead for the annual event, D.C. preeminent gathering of Beltway, showbiz and media elite.

“I was talking to people backstage, and they are...

Jimmy Kimmel had a lot to say about Elon Musk‘s meeting with Republican lawmakers on Thursday, December 5, comparing it to when a kid gets to visit the cockpit of a plane. On Thursday, billionaires Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy met with Congress to discuss plans for their Donald Trump-backed Department of Government Efficiency Group (Doge). Later that night, Kimmel shared his thoughts on the meeting in his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, the Lenny and Squiggy of Trump Town, met with Republicans in Washington today to discuss their new Department of Government Efficiency,” Kimmel said. “We don’t know all of what went on in the meeting. We can assume that there were a lot of missed high fives.” The late-night host continued, “But other than that, all we know is that one of the Congress people they met with was Marjorie Taylor Green,...

Donald Trump has to wait another month and a half until he can start issuing executive orders as president. But Doge, his newly announced and nebulously defined Department of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by businessmen Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, is already up and running — at least as a social media account.

On the Musk-owned platform X (formerly Twitter), Doge bears the gray verification checkmark of an official government entity, even though Trump isn’t in the White House and the department itself has not been established in any formal capacity.

Trumpian rich boys Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have become quite chummy since being gifted positions as powerful unelected bureaucrats influencing the finances of the federal government — but things weren’t always this friendly.

According to recordings and social media posts obtained by CNN’s K-File, Ramswamy once described Musk, the Tesla billionaire who is now his co-director at the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), as a puppet of the Chinese government.

“I think Tesla is increasingly beholden to China,” Ramaswamy said in 2023. “I have no reason to think...

They may not agree on much, but when it comes to Pentagon spending, Sen. Bernie Sanders and billionaire Elon Musk are aligned.

Sanders, who usually makes enemies of billionaires like Musk, posted on X Sunday, “Elon Musk is right. The Pentagon, with a budget of $886 billion, just failed its 7th audit in a row. It’s lost track of billions. Last year, only 13 senators voted against the Military Industrial Complex and a defense budget full of waste and fraud. That must change.”

Musk has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump...

Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary took one look at a certain Shark Tank pitch and hit the brakes hard. They were convinced it was a flop in the making. But Lori Greiner? She saw gold where others saw a dud. That “dud” turned into her greatest win in Shark Tank history, raking in an excellent $926M in sales.

Lori Greiner from Shark Tank | Credits: Sony Picture Television

While Cuban and O’Leary were out, Lori was all-in—and the rest is business legend. Funny how one moment of doubt can lead to one of the show’s biggest mic-drop moments!

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Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary completely missed the mark on one of Shark Tank’s most iconic pitches. When Aaron Krause walked into the Tank with Scrub...

Since announcing plans to cease posting on X (formerly Twitter) earlier this month, “The Young and the Restless” star Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) has followed up on his promise by going even further — officially deactivating his account altogether.

With his exit from X, Braeden is now posting exclusively on Instagram (including Facebook and Threads) and Bluesky, the new platform of choice for those defecting from X (formerly Twitter) following the U.S. presidential election and the Elon Musk-infused slant of the platform.

In a post on Instagram on Tuesday, Braeden shared a screenshot of the “Your account is deactivated” message he received from the platform upon completing the task.

“Not going to support this Maga Crap!!” said Braeden in response to questions from followers on why he came to his conclusion.

“Bye Felicia” commented Braeden in a similar post shared on Bluesky.

Braeden, who is leaving behind his more than 190,000 followers at X,...

Elon Musk has taken to posting the identities of relatively unknown government officials and federal workers whose jobs he wants to eliminate, and his followers are taking it upon themselves to harass and threaten those they can find.

Following a series of posts from Musk earlier this week highlighting the names and titles of federal workers whose jobs he called “fake,” the targets of his social media activity are facing a barrage of online abuse, according to a report from CNN on Wednesday. Many of the employees highlighted by Musk do not have public-facing jobs,...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has been tapped to lead a House subcommittee connected to the new Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, has named her targets for investigation and defunding. They include: NPR, “toilets in Africa,” “sex apps in Malaysia,” sanctuary cities, and the Pentagon.

In a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, Greene said America has been “really spoiled for a long time,” calling the federal government “one of the worst abusers of American’s tax dollars and the American people’s trust.

Dana Carvey agrees his Elon Musk impression isn’t great.

While chatting on his “Superfly” podcast with co-host David Space, the pair briefly fell on the topic of Elon Musk. Carvey busted out a quick impression – just weeks after playing the Tesla and X owner on SNL – before admitting his Musk could use some work.

“I can’t do Elon Musk very well but I can do something that sounds not like anything,” Carvey said. “He has an incredible accent.”

Carvey appeared on “SNL” a week after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election and played a “Dark Maga” version of Musk who hopped around the stage and admitted that he ran the government now.

“But seriously, I run the country now. America’s gonna be like one of my rockets. They’re super cool and super fun, but there’s a slight chance they could blow up and everybody dies,...

Jeff Bezos pushed back on Elon Musk’s claim that the Amazon founder predicted a Trump loss in the 2024 election and that shareholders should sell their Tesla and SpaceX stock.

Musk, CEO of those companies, posted early this morning that he “just learned tonight at Mar-a-Lago that Jeff Bezos was telling everyone that Donald Trump would lose for sure, so they should sell all their Tesla and SpaceX stock.”

Bezos, a rival in the space business, responded to the X post, writing, “Nope. 100% not true.”

Nope. 100% not true.

— Jeff Bezos (@JeffBezos) November 21, 2024

Their exchange raised the prospect that two of the world’s richest men would reignite a longtime feud.

Bezos also owns The Washington Post, and blocked the publication’s editorial section from endorsing a candidate in the race. The publication had planned to endorse Kamala Harris. He said that the action was necessary to help restore trust in the media,...

Bluesky has quickly emerged as the social media platform of choice for those defecting from X (formerly Twitter) in the weeks following the U.S. Presidential election which saw former president Donald J. Trump declared President-elect Trump, soon to become the 47th president of the United States, and a change in X’s terms of service that went into effect on Friday, November 15, which allows the service to analyze text and other information provided by users to help in the “training of our machine learning and artificial intelligence models.”

Nancy Lee Grahn was one of the first major soap stars to flock to Bluesky immediately following the election, saying to her followers at the time, “I am here now as I can no longer defend speaking on a site controlled by a dangerous meglamaniacal [sic] oligarch.” She added, “My pg, my rules so trump supporters will be blocked. This is a...

Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show on Monday, taking stock of Donald Trump‘s bizarre series of cabinet picks.

As the comedian discussed the loopholes Trump’s administration could take to bypass the Senate confirmation and install his cabinet, Stewart pointed out the absurdity of his selections, predicting Hulk Hogan could be next.

“For example, Trump’s — let’s be generous — provocative and unorthodox cabinet picks,” said Stewart in his opening monologue. “I don’t think Hulk Hogan’s been nominated yet. I think he’s going to be the secretary of ‘Take Your Vitamins!'”

After speaking at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally last month, Hogan said he hopes to join the president-elect’s Hhs secretary pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“Well you know, brother, in the wrestling business, when you’re getting ready to draw some big money, you got to shoot an angle, put some hot spice on the feud,...

By reshaping the Supreme Court in his first term, President-elect Donald Trump effectively laid the groundwork for a second-term agenda aimed at dismantling the federal government. Now, with his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), we’re speeding toward a constitutional crisis, driven by Trump’s impulsive, tweet-like approach to governance.

Trump declared last week that Doge “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” adding it could be the “‘Manhattan Project’ of our time.” And the...

Saturday Night Live didn’t waste any time on the latest episode, spoofing Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s historic Oval Office meeting at the White House earlier this week.

“Hello everybody. Thank you to the press for joining us to document this very important presidential transition meeting. I’m being serious right now. Even though we disagree, I’m eager to sit down for a respectful conversation,” Dana Carvey’s Biden says.

“Yeah, get a load of me. Instead of being rude and crazy like usual, I’m doing quiet and serene, which in many ways is a lot scarier,” James Austin Johnson’s Trump adds before Biden continues, “I’m gonna sit here and smile while ignoring the giant fire right behind me.”

Trump later complains about how he “forgot how boring [being] president is.”

“I love running, hate being,” he continues. “And I hate the White House, so old,...

There was a lot of love in Madison Square Garden tonight between Donald Trump and Joe Rogan.

Just over two weeks after the 45th and soon-to-be 47th Potus sat down with the ex-Fear Factor host for a three hour interview on Rogan’s blockbuster podcast, the bromance took it up a notch Saturday at UFC 309 with a long hug between the two men and some clearly very kind words.

As expected, Trump showed up at Msg tonight to add some Commander-in-chief razzle dazzle to his old pal Dana White’s latest fight night.

The two-time impeached Trump had an entourage that included new-ish buddy Elon Musk, potential Hhs Secretary Rfk Jr., director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, Kid Rock, Donald Trump Jr. and a clearly uncomfortable Speaker Mike Johnson. Increasingly scandalized Trump cabinet nominees Matt Gaetz and Peter Hegseth were nowhere to be seen.

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Donald Trump, along with several of his controversial cabinet picks, made a surprise appearance at UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.

While attending fights in the octagon is nothing new for Trump, having gone to several in the past, Saturday’s visit marked his first appearance since becoming president-elect.

Just before 10 p.m. Et, Trump walked out into the New York City arena, alongside UFC CEO Dana White, who has been a close ally to the president-elect throughout his 2024 election campaign, which ultimately saw him defeat Kamala Harris earlier this month.

Following behind were Elon Musk, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his son Donald Trump Jr. and singer Kid Rock.

Earlier this week, Trump named Kennedy as his pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services. Musk, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, was also announced to lead Trump’s newly-created Department of Government Efficiency.

Gabrielle Union is the latest Hollywood figure to leave X (formerly known as Twitter).

In a post shared on Friday, Union wrote, “There are pivotal moments in life when we must declare that enough is enough and for me, today is that day. Platforms like X were founded on authentic connections, true engagement and creative expression, all anchored in respect for user privacy and trust. Yet, with the recent and upcoming changes to the terms of service — and the return of volatile figures — I find myself at a crossroads, facing a direction I can no longer fully support. I am committed to engaging in spaces that truly value inclusivity, respect and integrity in the digital world. Sometimes, that means recognizing the last straw and knowing when to step away.”

Union went on to thank those who she “connected with” on the social media platform. “Thank you for the laughs, the insights and the endless support.

Jimmy Fallon wasn’t alone in mocking sitting President Joe Biden’s meeting with incoming President Donald Trump. But he did zero in on the distracting fire that framed the moment more than most.

“That fire was lit to represent how this meeting was hell for the both of them,” Fallon joked on Wednesday night. He then sarcastically called the location a “great idea.”

“When you have a huge open flame, you want to bring in one guy who’s all hairspray and one guy who’s all wax,” he continued. Fallon then asked to see the photo again as his studio audience giggled. “They look like the two guys in the sauna who have no problem rocking an open robe.”

Fallon also took some swings at Trump’s announced picks for his cabinet, zeroing in on “Fox & Friends” host Pete Hegseth, who has been tapped to be Secretary of Defense.

As President-elect Donald Trump continues to announce his picks for his Cabinet — a roster of loyalists from sex crime-investigated Matt Gaetz for U.S. attorney general to puppy-killing South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head Homeland Security — late-night hosts have been weighing in on what’s shaping up to be a vengeance-fueled Trump administration.

On Wednesday’s segment of “Closer Look,” Seth Meyers commented on Wednesday’s brief display of cordiality after President Joe Biden invited his predecessor to the White House, a ceremonial tradition Trump shunned in 2020. After rolling...

During his “Closer Look” segment on Wednesday night, Seth Meyers commented on President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks for several key roles, including Fox News host and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth leading the Department of Defense.

“While Biden’s looking for ways to accommodate Trump, Trump’s looking for ways to tear down everything Biden did. For example, Trump’s been actively putting together his Pandora’s cabinet of goblins and weirdos,” the “Late Night” host said. “Trump’s gonna sic them on the government like a bunch of ferrets on ketamine.”

Trump announced Tuesday that Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter-turned-x, will lead a “Department of Government Efficiency” (Doge) with Vivek Ramaswamy, a former Republican primary candidate. “Together, these two wonderful Americans will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,...

Updated, with Gaetz resigning his congressional seat: Donald Trump has nominated Rep.. Matt Gaetz (R-fl) to serve as attorney general, a surprise pick that will please the president-elect’s Maga allies but may prove to be a flashpoint in the confirmation process.

There already are doubts that Gaetz will have the Senate votes, even with the Republicans set to control the chamber.

The selection of Gaetz, a key ally and partisan flamethrower, also is raising alarm among Democrats over the independence of the Justice Department, as Trump has vowed to enact retribution on political enemies.

More than anything, Gaetz has been in lockstep with Trump over his view of the DOJ.

Trump said in a statement, “Few issues in America are more important than ending the partisan Weaponization of our Justice System. Matt will end Weaponized Government, protect our Borders, dismantle Criminal Organizations and restore Americans’ badly-shattered Faith and Confidence in the Justice Department.

In a historic and embarrassing first, an old Reddit meme may become an actual government agency in Donald Trump’s second term as president, thanks to Elon Musk. Months before Trump’s reelection, the Tesla CEO and Trump megadonor was riffing on X (formerly Twitter) about a possible administration role in something he called the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge. On Tuesday, the president-elect announced he was making that dream a reality, appointing Musk, along with businessman and failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, to lead an agency of that very name,...