That decision, in turn, could hand Miller outsize influence regarding the future of the country. Miller might be tasked with the day-to-day, nitty-gritty responsibilities of supervising the regime change under the office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, a longtime Venezuela hawk, would be the more obvious choice to oversee the regime change—but his […]
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Trump Says He’s Ramping Up Defense Production After Invading Venezuela
That decision, in turn, could hand Miller outsize influence regarding the future of the country. Miller might be tasked with the day-to-day, nitty-gritty responsibilities of supervising the regime change under the office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio, a longtime Venezuela hawk, would be the more obvious choice to oversee the regime change—but his […]
Read MoreMore Musicians Cancel Kennedy Center Performance After Trump Renaming
Source: Anadolu / Getty It’s crazy how President Donald Trump’s ego has led to him inexplicably winning a second term while also seeing him catch so many avoidable L’s. His pathological need to be in the spotlight manifested once more this month, when the board he handpicked voted to place his name on the John […]
Read MoreKennedy Center Forced to Cancel Major Concert Due to Trump
“Jazz was born from struggle and from a relentless insistence on freedom: freedom of thought, of expression, and of the full human voice. Some of us have been making this music for many decades, and that history still shapes us,” the band said in a statement, refusing to name Trump but alluding to their reasoning […]
Read MoreHow Jazz Great Chuck Redd Gave American Culture a Gift This Christmas
More recently, Grenell marked the holy season of Advent by defending Undersecretary of State Sarah Rogers for her meeting with AfD’s Markus Frohnmaier, a member of the German parliament who, according to a 2019 report in Der Spiegel, was named in leaked Russian documents as being under the Russian Federation’s “total control.” In response to […]
Read MoreKennedy Center Honors Ratings Tank Like Never Before Thanks to Trump
“As you know by now, I have taken the ‘short route’ home,” Epstein wrote, appearing to reference his later death by suicide. “Good luck! We shared one thing… our love and caring for young ladies and the hope they’d reach their full potential. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a […]
Read More1st He Adds His Name To The Kennedy Center, Now Trump Is Introducing ‘Trump Class’ Battleships
Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty At this point, it’s becoming more and more clear that President Donald Trump’s go-to strategies for coping with his plummeting popularity are raging on social media, giving word salad speeches nobody asked for, and naming things after himself. Seriously, that has to be the reason for his obsession with slapping […]
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The Immanent Joy of Detrumpification
Take, for example, Trump’s campaign against the Kennedy Center. Congress created the cultural center in Washington, D.C., in 1958 and designated it by law as a “living memorial” for John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963. The famed stages and theaters along the Potomac have hosted some of the greatest artists from the United […]
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Trump Has Already Slapped His Name on the Kennedy Center
“ICE held them, day after day, without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,” Brown stated in his ruling. “The space is unheated or poorly heated at night, while the outside temperature dropped to as low as 21 degrees…. To the extent they could sleep, they did so, crammed on the filthy […]
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Trump Has Delivered on No Promises—But Already Renamed Kennedy Center
“ICE held them, day after day, without access to bunks, bedding, soap, showers, toothbrushes or clean clothes,” Brown stated in his ruling. “The space is unheated or poorly heated at night, while the outside temperature dropped to as low as 21 degrees…. To the extent they could sleep, they did so, crammed on the filthy […]
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Kennedy Center to Be Renamed “Trump-Kennedy Center” Amid MAGA Takeover
“You know we won this thing by 400,000 or 500,000 votes,” Trump told Ralston, making up numbers out of thin air. “Just like we did Alabama and every other state in the South. And, uh, we won, we won, we won your state massively. They took votes away.” Ralston didn’t keep the call to himself, […]
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“Ping!”: Trump Goes on Bizarre Tangent During Kennedy Center Speech
“When can we see that video? When will you release it?” Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson asked Hegseth at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Hegseth was noncommittal. “We’re reviewing it, right now, to make sure, sources, methods—I mean, it’s an ongoing operation—TTPs [tactics, techniques, and procedures]. We’ve got operators out there doing this right now. […]
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White House Insults Local Business, Destroys Decades-Long Tradition
“When can we see that video? When will you release it?” Fox News correspondent Lucas Tomlinson asked Hegseth at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Hegseth was noncommittal. “We’re reviewing it, right now, to make sure, sources, methods—I mean, it’s an ongoing operation—TTPs [tactics, techniques, and procedures]. We’ve got operators out there doing this right now. […]
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Trump’s Unhinged Statement About Bathroom Renovation Reveals a Lot
On Truth Social, the president called Schiff a “Trump hating loser” and questioned the integrity of the Fox News program—of which he is, famously, an avid viewer—for having given him a platform. “Either the show made a mistake, or it is heading in a different direction,” Trump wrote, urging its staff to look into “the […]
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FIFA Gives Trump a Made-Up Peace Prize So He’ll Shut Up About Nobel
“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls […]
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FIFA Gives Trump a Dumb Medal So He’ll Stop Talking About Nobel Prize
“I just think being off for 50 days, there was no continuity. Nobody was here. There was nobody like, ‘Hey, you’re doing great. Keep it up,’” the lawmaker continued. “Everyone being back in their district, there was a loneliness. A lot of members may have felt like we’re on our own.” Johnson shocked the halls […]
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Trump Brags About Hideous Bathroom Renovation in Middle of Shutdown
“My message to America is first, the fact that your government is failing you right now,” Rollins told reporters. “That poverty is not red or blue, it is not a Democrat or Republican issue. Doesn’t matter who you voted for or even if you voted. That if you are in a position where you can’t […]
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Trump’s Takeover of Kennedy Center Leads to Stunning Sales Collapse
“Anyone who thought that there was some sophisticated strategy to try and intimidate Kim didn’t know the truth,” Taylor said. “Which was that, the president was freestyling. It was scaring his team. The secretary of defense walked out of one of those meetings and turned to us at the Department of Homeland Security and said, […]
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Everybody Around Trump Hates the Unhinged Laura Loomer. Except Trump.
Loomer’s audacity and attention seeking were always aspects of her personality. She grew up in Arizona, in what she described, in a memoir, as a climate of fear and violence in her home. “The truth is, at a very young age, I learned that most people can’t relate to the horror show that was my […]
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Trump Official Gave Free Tickets to GOP Group to Heckle Black Artist
“In the wake of this horrible storm, many Americans in this region felt helpless and abandoned, and left behind by their government,” Trump said last October. “And yet in North Carolina’s hour of desperation, the American people answer the call much more so than your federal government.” Trump, still a presidential candidate, managed to raise […]
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Gloria Gaynor Outed As MAGA Donor Following Trump Kennedy Center Honor
Source: Gary Gershoff / Getty Disco icon Gloria Gaynor has been outed as a major MAGA donor following her surprise selection to receive a prestigious Kennedy Center honor by Donald Trump. The revelation comes just two weeks after Gaynor, 81, who is best known for her 1978 anthem “I Will Survive,” was announced as an […]
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GOP Votes To Name Kennedy Center Opera House After Melania Trump
Source: The Washington Post / Getty In a move that would make even the most seasoned political watchers say “IKYFL,” House Republicans just took the Trump Administration’s war on culture to the stage—literally. On Tuesday, House Republicans advanced a proposal to rename the Kennedy Center’s Opera House, one of the center’s major theaters, to the […]
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Trump’s Takeover Wrecks Kennedy Center as Subscriptions Plummet
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is suing New Jersey’s acting Attorney General Alina Habba and a Department of Homeland Security special agent on allegations of false arrest and malicious prosecution, following the dismissal of trespassing charges Habba had levied against him. In the 17-page filing Tuesday, Baraka’s lawyers claimed that the Democratic mayor had been invited […]
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