Thursday, April 17, 2025
Trump Escalates Harvard Attacks by Telling IRS to Revoke Tax Exempt Status
Donald Trump significantly escalated his war on higher education generally and on Harvard University specifically on Wednesday, telling the IRS to revoke the school’s tax exempt status. According to CNN, which first reported the news, the IRS is now making plans to do just that, with a final decision expected in the next couple of days. As the New York Times noted Wednesday night, Trump’s order to revoke Harvard’s tax exemption is in fact illegal. Federal law forbids the president from directing the agency to audit or investigate specific targets. The move comes two days after the administration froze Harvard’s…
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Thomas Friedman Slams Trump Tariffs as ‘Right Wing Woke Bulls–‘: ‘Hire Clowns, Expect a Circus’ | Video
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman lost his cool a little while discussing Donald Trump’s economic policies on his NYT colleague Ezra Klein’s podcast, denouncing the president’s tariffs against China, specifically related to electric vehicles, as “right wing woke bulls—.” “Hire clowns, expect a circus,” the three-time Pulitzer Prize winner said. The comment came in the latest episode of “The Ezra Klein Show,” when Klein brought up the baffling, sky high tariffs against China and said to Friedman, “What Trump and his team are trying to do is take manufacturing back from China. Do you think their theory makes sense?”…
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Paramount Suitor David Ellison Spotted Ringside With Trump at UFC Fight – President Torches CBS Hours Later
David Ellison, the billionaire Skydance founder now actively trying to acquire CBS parent company Paramount, was spotted sitting in the company of Donald Trump ringside at the UFC fight in Miami this weekend, TheWrap has confirmed. And hours later, Trump was ratcheting up his battle against CBS News and its parent company in a Truth Social post over the latest episode of “60 Minutes,” this time due to their Sunday stories about Ukraine and Greenland. Last year, Trump sparked off a $20 billion legal battle with CBS and “60 Minutes” for editing Kamala Harris’ answers to interview questions. Trump wrote…
Sunday, April 13, 2025
‘SNL’ Turns ‘The White Lotus’ Into ‘The White POTUS’ With Surprise Appearances From Scarlett Johansson and Beck Bennett
Season three of “The White Lotus” has come and gone, but “Saturday Night Live” opted to create its own episode of the show this week. Now, the show is “The White POTUS.” In the sketch, we open on James Austin Johnson’s Trump, filling Jason Isaacs’s role as Timothy Ratliff, and clearly having an existential crisis. As his wife Melania calls out to him — complete with Parker Posey’s viral North Carolina accent — he opts to numb the pain. But, where Timothy Ratliff chose lorazepam, Trump chooses a chicken nugget. Don’t worry, the rest of the family is there too….
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Bill Maher Says Trump Was ‘Gracious and Measured’ During White House Dinner, Swears ‘I Wasn’t High’ | Video
Bill Maher revealed he likes it when people are nice to him on Friday’s episode of “Real Time,” when he gave viewers a roughly 14-minute-long account of his dinner with Donald Trump at the White House — which in large part consisted of him explaining how nice Trump was to him in private. In fact, Maher went so far as to call the president, whose administration is currently refusing to comply with a Supreme Court order to recover an innocent man it illegally deported to a brutal prison in El Salvador, “gracious and measured.” “And I wasn’t high,” Maher insisted….
Friday, April 11, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Asks ‘Why Does Donald Trump Even Need a Shower’ After Weird Water Pressure Order | Video
Jimmy Kimmel, per usual, spent a lot of time discussing Donald Trump during his monologue on Thursday night, and he was particularly perplexed by the weird executive order Trump issued regarding shower water pressure. “What is he focused on?” Kimmel asked after having discussed a lot of the other chaotic events of the day. “I’ll tell you what he’s focused on. Shower heads. Yeah. ‘It comes out drip, drip, drip.’ “I believe that’s how Stormy described it too. Right?” “Trump… this adult man felt it necessary to issue an executive order to ‘make water pressure great again,” Kimmel continued. “He still only…
Thursday, April 10, 2025
‘Black Mirror’ Season 7 Review: Excellent Cast and Dazzling Sequels Fuel Rich New Batch of Episodes
“You’re so pretty when you’re alive.” In an era of appointment television where series like “The White Lotus” and “Reacher” seem to occupy space to the tune of millions of viewers each week, Netflix is sticking with its bingeable model with the drop of another must-see title. “Black Mirror,” the British television series famous for its convoluted anthology episode premises akin to the modern version of “The Twilight Zone,” returns for Season 7 with a new concept that feels familiar. An A-list cast in almost every episode, the series presents sequels to a couple of its highest-rated plots to date….
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Susan Senk, Publicist and Executive Known for ‘Dirty Dancing,’ Dies at 75
Susan Senk, a publicist and marketing executive who worked on more than 400 films during her decades-long career, died April 5th in New York City. She was 75. A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a former member of the Recording Academy, Senk began her career in the music industry before transitioning into film, where among other things she was part of the original Vestron Video startup team. She went on to serve as Vice President of Creative Services for Vestron International, based out of London, and ultimately became VP of Publicity and Promotion for…
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Jimmy Kimmel Jokes the Tariff Mess Means Trump Suggestions Like Injecting Bleach ‘Were the Good Ideas’ | Video
Jimmy Kimmel was bummed out by the Dodgers visiting Donald Trump on Monday, but for him there was a silver lining to it — it “was a nice distraction for Trump from the fact that he is busy destroying the world economy,” Kimmel said during his monologue on Monday night. “It was another ‘tarrifying’ day on Wall Street. The Dow was down, the S&P was down. Cocaine was up,” Kimmel continued. “The S&P 500 has lost more than 10% of its total value since Thursday, costing Americans billions of dollars from their stock portfolios and retirement funds.” “But here’s the…
Friday, April 4, 2025
Stephen Colbert Asks, ‘Has Anyone Thought About Injecting Our Money With Bleach’ After Trump Tariffs | Video
Stephen Colbert reacted, as a lot of people did, to the economic news on Thursday, with some anxiety during his monologue. And because of the role President Trump’s tariff’s played in the anxiety, Colbert had a throwback joke connected to some of what Trump said and did during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Today was the first day of trading on Wall Street since Trump slathered our economy in honey and staked it down next to a fire ant hill, and the Dow Jones nosedived 1700 points, joining the s&p and NASDAQ in having their biggest drop since…
