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When Joe Biden eulogized Jimmy Carter in the majestic surroundings of Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, he said of his predecessor, “Many think he was from a bygone era, but he saw into the future.”

As other speakers noted, Carter was prescient on a host of issues including climate change and women’s rights, but inside the cathedral were reminders that when it comes to politics, the future looks much different than the late president probably could have ever envisioned it.

Carter’s adviser Stuart Eizenstat noted that much of Carter’s agenda passed with bipartisan support in the 1970s; at the cathedral today, in the area reserved for members of Congress, there were only a handful of Republicans. Many seats were empty.

Steve Ford read the eulogy that his father, President Gerald Ford, had written for his one-time rival, whom he called “old friend.” At the service, Donald Trump...

Throughout Netflix's history, the streaming service giant has hired A-list actors to headline films and produced TV shows featuring many celebrities. Despite how much those stars must have been paid, many users care much more about Netflix's reality shows. While there is some debate about which Netflix reality shows are the best, Queer Eye has been celebrated since the revival of the influential original series premiered.

As every Queer Eye fan knows, the show's stars have become so famous that Jonathan Van Ness can charge a fortune for a haircut. However, that doesn't mean that Queer Eye's fans have always been happy with the show's cast. For example, Karamo Brown once suffered a backlash from some fans for one of his political opinions.

Karamo Brown Praising Donald Trump's Press Secretary Caused A Huge Backlash

As anyone who follows politics will likely already know, it almost always feels...

The official White House portrait of former First Lady Melania Trump. (Graphic by The Desk)

Former First Lady Melania Trump has agreed to a sit-down interview with the Fox News Channel’s Ainsley Earhardt, the network said on Monday.

The interview, scheduled to air on Thursday, will mark the former First Lady’s first TV interview in more than two years. She is expected to discuss her upcoming memoir, the Trump campaign’s strategy heading into Election Day in November, the two assassination attempts on her husband and other matters, Fox News said.

Earhardt is the co-host of the highly rated morning news and discussion program “Fox & Friends.” Former President Donald Trump spoke with the program following his participation in the ABC News Presidential Debate earlier this month. He has appeared on the news channel several times since clinching the presidential nomination for the Republican Party this summer.

Earhardt...

The past four years — five and a half, really — have been a long, strange trip for the United States of America. As we mark the end of the Donald Trump presidency and celebrate the beginning of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris administration, here is a look at Inauguration Day 2021 in pictures. Click the image above to launch the gallery.

Amid the sad backdrop of fencing, razor wire and myriad security forces, the former vice president and U.S. senator and the former senator and California attorney general were sworn in as the 46th president and 49th VP, respectively. Biden overcame personal tragedy and two failed runs at the presidency, and Harris becomes the first woman to be sworn in as vice president, among many other firsts.

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Outgoing VP Mike Pence and his wife,...

Donald Trump did not participate in a call with on Covid-19 support to vulnerable seniors shortly after noon Et on Friday, despite prior indications that he would even after announcing that he tested positive for the coronavirus.

The New York Times‘ Maggie Haberman reported that Vice President Mike Pence participated in the call instead. Shortly after Trump announced early Friday that he tested positive, the White House released a revised schedule for the president that still listed the 12:15 Pm Et phone call. Pence and his wife tested negative this morning.

Another source says an email went out to all governors’ offices four hours ago inviting them a call w Potus. Here is email. pic.twitter.com/3yOw8esiGZ

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) October 2, 2020

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said earlier that Trump was experiencing “mild symptoms” but was optimistic “he will have a very quick and speedy recovery.

Vice President Mike Pence tested negative for the coronavirus on Friday, his spokesman said, as attention focused on the health of President Donald Trump after he said that he tested positive.

His spokesman Devin O’Malley wrote on Twitter, “As has been routine for months, Vice President Pence is tested for Covid-19 every day. This morning, Vice President Pence and the Second Lady tested negative for Covid-19. Vice President Pence remains in good health and wishes the Trumps well in their recovery.”

Trump’s announcement early on Friday that he and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive means that they will be in quarantine. The White House physician, Dr. Sean Conley, said that they both were “well at this time” but did not provide additional information.

“Rest assured I expect the president to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering, and I will keep you updated on any future developments,...

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus.

A White House official told the Associated Press that the president was experiencing mild symptoms and is working from the White House residence.

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The couple’s 14-year-old son Barron, who lives at the White House, has tested negative, as had Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, whom Trump debated on Tuesday evening.

The Vice President and Second Lady are among those set to address the nation on Night 3 of the 2020 Republican National Convention.

Mike Pence will deliver closing remarks from Fort McHenry in Baltimore, according to ABC News. The historical landmark, which was the site of a battle during the War of 1812, inspired Francis Scott Key to write the “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

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The highlight of the third night of the Republican National Convention will be speeches by Vice President Mike Pence and the second lady of the United States, Karen Pence, but there is another major news story looming: Hurricane Laura.

Throughout the day on Wednesday, news networks already were doing a split screen tracker of the hurricane, which is posing a threat to the Gulf Coast as a potential category four storm as it makes landfall. That is projected on the Louisiana and Texas coasts sometime late in the evening or Thursday morning.

Convention planners have not yet said how or if the oncoming hurricane will be addressed during the evening’s events, or if any plans are changing.

This actually is not a new thing for political conventions – which often land in August, at the start of hurricane season. In 2008, Republicans canceled most of the events planned for the first...

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day — and took a few easy digs at how President Donald Trump marked the occasion himself — on their late-night shows Wednesday.

Trump hosted a tree-planting ceremony at the White House Wednesday, even shoveling a bit of dirt himself — or as Colbert called it on The Late Show, “getting his exercise for the decade.” Colbert then broke out his Trump impression and quipped, “I’ve gotten a lot of practice at my press conferences; every day I just...

Lady Gaga criticized Vice President Mike Pence during the singer’s Enigma concert Saturday night in Las Vegas.

Earlier in the week, Pence’s wife Karen revealed she would resume teaching at a Christian school that barred Lgbtq students and employees. Following the uproar over Karen Pence’s role at the school, the vice president responded, “To see major news organizations attacking Christian education is deeply offensive to us.”

On Saturday, during her performance of “Million Reasons,” Gaga slammed Pence for thinking “it’s acceptable that his wife work at a school that bans Lgbtq.

When she isn't winning awards for her talent in A Star Is Born, Lady Gaga can be found in Las Vegas speaking her mind. The singer got political during her Enigma show on Saturday night and doubled down on President Donald Trump as well as Vice President Mike Pence. Gaga also made some blatant digs at Pence's wife, Karen Pence, whose new part-time job struck up some major controversy. Karen Pence recently accepted a role to teach art at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia. According to Washington Post, part of the school's employee standards says, "I understand that the term 'marriage' has only one meaning; the uniting of one man and one woman in a single,...

Last week, Rep. Steve King (R-ia) told the New York Times that he doesn’t understand why the terms “white supremacy” and “white nationalism” are offensive. Though King’s racism has been well-established, House Republicans made a show of denouncing the comments and on Monday stripped King of his committee assignments. President Trump has yet to comment. Same goes for Vice President Pence, although on Friday an aide to the vice president authorized to comment on background told Rolling Stone that “Congressman King’s comments were abhorrent and unacceptable and...

The Vice President and his wife are getting a bad rap when it comes to Lgbtq rights, despite their track record ... at least according to Mike Pence's older brother. Indiana Congressman Greg Pence was on Capitol Hill Wednesday when we asked him about the backlash over the VP's wife, Karen Pence, going back to teach at Virginia's Immanuel Christian School ... which has a policy of refusing admission to gay students. Rep. Pence did an...

Karen Pence has accepted a part-time position teaching art at Immanuel Christian School in Virginia, a private institution that does not accept gay students and demands that employees agree to define marriage as “the uniting of one man and one woman,” The New York Times reports.

Those who wish to teach at the Immanuel Christian School must sign their initials next to a number of statements. The eighth statement on the institution’s “Articles of Employment,” according to The Times, reads “I understand that the term ‘marriage’ has only one...

Lee Greenwood delivered a distinguished performance of ‘God Bless The U.S.A.’ last week to over 2,000 esteemed guests at the Washington Hilton’s International Ballroom in Washington, D.C. at the 106th First Lady’s Luncheon, ‘Limitless Horizons’, honoring the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump.

The event was presented by The Congressional Club Museum and Foundation, co-chaired by Congressional spouses Pat O’Halleran (D-il) and Jennifer Messer, (R-in). Greenwood was joined by “The President’s Own” United States Marine Corps Band, featuring Master Sergeant Kevin L. Bennear who performed the National Anthem. Country artist Billy Dean, performed his original song, “Be Best,” as a tribute to Mrs. Trump’s formal platform, a comprehensive children’s program to focus on three main points: well-being, fighting opioid abuse and positivity on social media.

“As a mother and as first lady, it concerns me that in today’s fast-paced and ever-connected world,...

In the battle of the bunny books, John Oliver is the clear winner. The family of Vice President Mike Pence released a children’s book on Monday written from the perspective of the family’s pet rabbit, Marlon Bundo. Unfortunately for the nation’s second family, the HBO personality released his own version on Sunday. Oliver’s features a gay Bundo, by the way, and its sales and reviews are kicking the carrots out of Karen Pence’s publication. The “Last Week Tonight” host’s “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo” is currently No. 1 in audiobooks on Amazon, and it boasts a five-star rating....

“Our Cartoon President,” Showtime’s animated comedy that skewers Donald Trump‘s White House, is hoping to shake up the 2018 Emmys … bigly. Best Animated Program has seen its fair share of repeat winners over the years, with 10-time champ “The Simpsons” being the granddaddy of all. “South Park” is next at three wins, followed by “Bob’s Burgers,” “Futurama” and “Star Wars: Clone Wars” with two apiece. But “Our Cartoon President” has a secret weapon that could help it break through with Emmy voters: co-creator Stephen Colbert.

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Colbert is an Emmy favorite, winning nine trophies over the years for writing and producing both “The Colbert Report” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” As the star of CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” he was tasked with hosting last year’s Emmy ceremony to great fanfare.

Homer Simpson, Peter Griffin… Donald Trump?!

Showtime on Sunday introduced Our Cartoon President, which puts our current Potus at the center of his own workplace comedy. The Trump caricature, spun-off from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, is joined by a supporting “cast” comprised of his most-trusted advisers (sons Eric and Donald Jr.), his closest allies (Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and goblin-esque Attorney General Jeff Sessions) and whatever the heck Ted Cruz is supposed to be. Much of what’s shown in the premiere isn’t too far off from (alleged) reality: Trump begins his day flipping through...

According to Showtime's animated look at the White House, a few of Cartoon President Trump's first orders of business this year are "winning" the State of the Union, teaching NFL star Colin Kaepernick a lesson ... and naming Melania the new national bird. 

Our Cartoon President, which debuted Sunday on Showtime, features President Trump, his First Lady and several members of his administration as animated, over-the-top versions of themselves, including a timid Karen Pence, turtle-like Mitch McConnell, and "three white people on a couch," Fox & Friends. 

"Each and every one of you voted for ...

Melania Trump is far from the most active Flotus to ever take to Twitter. In fact, the first lady has 9.77 million followers on her @Flotus account but follows only five people.

It seems worth noting that one of them is her husband’s predecessor and longtime political target, former President Barack Obama.

British novelist Matt Haig brought this interesting tidbit to Twitter’s (and our) attention on Friday, when he tweeted: “It’s a lovely bit of husband-trolling that Melania Trump only follows five people and one of them is Barack Obama.”

The first lady also follows husband Donald Trump’s personal and presidential accounts,...