The meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine was very interesting, and cordial, but I told him, as I likewise strongly suggested to President Putin, that it is time to stop the killing, and make a DEAL! Enough blood has been shed, with property lines being defined by War and Guts. They should stop where they are. Let both claim Victory, let History decide!
President Donald Trump took a victory lap of sorts on Friday while taking questions from reporters at the White House, boasting that Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is offering everything to him because he knows not to f*ck around with the U.S. Trump was asked if he had authorized CIA operations in Venezuela and replied, Well, I wouldn't say that, but some interesting things are happening around the world, I'll say that.
Organizers say they are expecting more than 100,000 people to attend the largest "No Kings" rally in DC being held Saturday, October 18. It's part of a second nationwide series of No Kings protests against Donald Trump and his administration. If that many people do show up for the DC protest, it could eclipse the estimated 100,000 who attended the April 5 Hands Off! rally convened in DC by the same coalition of progressive groups. (In June, organizers did not plan a No Kings rally in DC itself, where an Army parade was being held on what was also the President's birthday.)
Trump's ability to combine bullying, flattering and exaggerating is truly a sight to behold, and it was on full display Monday in his addresses to the Israeli parliament and then to more than 20 world leaders at a gathering in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. I will give Trump this: No traditional diplomat or foreign policy professor would have advised the president to take such risks to declare that we are on the road to Middle East peace and that he, Donald Trump, will chair the Board of Peace that will deliver it. But Trump went to business school, not the School of Foreign Service, and he clearly believes that he can cajole, muscle and bluster this conflict to a happy ending.
We're in a world where for drama, for control, for pushing the boundaries ongoing threats are issued to individuals and communities who refuse to back down and comply or be obedient to a hateful agenda. We are going to continue to be who we are and that means, unfortunately, we are going to be in a conversation in a way that is targeting Boston's values, Wu added. Ten toes down for Boston.
Elon Musk said he was going to donate to Rep. Thomas Massie in July. As of the end of September, it hasn't happened yet. The Kentucky Republican's campaign filed its latest quarterly report with the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday, and Musk's name appears nowhere among the various campaign donors listed in the document. The report covers all of the Massie campaign's donations and spending from the beginning of July through the end of September.
I worked this up for you because I wanted to thank you, personally and publicly for all you did for me for these past nine and a half years, Midler told Colbert on Tuesday. And I mean this from the bottom of my heart, I would not I'm going to cry I would not have made it through without you. I really wouldn't have. You're a voice of sanity and reason and, most important, honor.
O'DONNELL: Well, just after midnight, the night before Donald Trump left Washington headed for Israel and Egypt, he had one of his most serious hallucinations yet. It was another Trump self-administered dementia test that he published on social media. At 12:38 a.m., Donald Trump said the Biden FBI placed 274 agents into the crowd on January 6th. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a scam. Do something. Three exclamation points.
We can only rejoice that, for now, Israel's genocide in Gaza has halted. The killing has stopped. Food is being allowed in, easing the starvation. Palestinians forcibly displaced from their homes are returning to their cities, if not their homes, most of which Israel has pulverized. Yet celebration must be tempered by the gnawing reality that the conditions for a lasting peace are, in classic Middle East fashion, being kicked down the road for future resolution if ever at all.
When it comes to vaccines, president Donald Trump's attitude tends to be "do what I say, not what I do." Over the weekend, it was revealed that Trump received both a flu shot and a COVID-19 booster during his second physical of 2025. News of Trump's inoculations came from Trump's personal physician, Dr. Sean Barbabella, who wrote that the shots were part of a preventative health battery "in preparation for upcoming international travel."
That old line that politics is showbiz for ugly people is so good it should be true, but it isn't really. Politics has always been politics, and showbiz is something different. Not, however, in the unique case of Donald Trump. The current US president is best understood as a pomp-era megastar. Extraordinary, really, that Trump never even needed to get into cocaine. I think when he dies scientists will discover that his body naturally produced coke as a byproduct of digesting overcooked hamburgers.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One late Monday, the president randomly pivoted from a question about whether Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan could help bring an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine to banter with the White House press corps about the performance of his press secretary. How's Karoline doing? Trump asked. Is she doing good? Then, Trump clearly in jest floated the prospect of ousting Leavitt.
Popular opinion in the Arab nations is always going to hate Israel. That has not changed. Tonight they hate Israel, last night they hated Israel, said O'Reilly during an appearance on NewsNation's On Balance with Leland Vittert. What has changed is the view toward the United States. In Trump's first term, the Arabs were neutral In the second term of Trump, that is totally different.
Donald Trump shows me what's politically possible, he said on The Breakfast Club on Monday. Trump shows me what presidents can do when they want to do it. Donald Trump shows me what can be said if you're willing to say it. It's not about what can't be done; it's about who has the political will to do it. I don't want to hear a peep from Democrats about nothing until they get the ball to say what's really on their mind in regards to this country and this world," he said.
I watched your coverage, and I really appreciate it. You are a real professional not because it's good or bad, you're just really professional, Trump told Yingst during a brief TV interview from Israel. It would be great if other people could do what you do, because, you know, they put negative spin [in their news stories]. The president then said he has been pleasantly surprised that has not been the case with the recent coverage of the Israel-Hamas hostage deal he spearheaded.
So there's a lot of respect, and I think you'll see some tremendous progress, both in the Middle East. This country is doing very well. It has good leadership, Trump said of Sisi, who came to power following a coup in 2013 and has since been accused of widespread oppression and anti-democratic tactics. Trump continued: It's about leadership, and it's really nice when you say, How is your crime situation? and they don't even know what you're talking about.
Fox's Peter Doocy asked Trump about comments he made in August about how he is trying to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in order to "try and get to heaven if possible." "I'm hearing I'm not doing well. I am really at the bottom of the totem pole," he said at the time. "But if I can get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons." Doocy asked Trump if he thought his more recent actions would help him get into heaven.
The White House released audio of Trump's press gaggle on Sunday, during which he praised Larry and David Ellison, the father-son duo that now owns Paramount, CBS's parent company. Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, is a close ally of Trump and is taking part in the U.S.-backed takeover of TikTok, a deal brokered by the Trump administration. He's doing pretty well, huh? So who's going to be the head anchor at CBS? Trump quipped at one point during the gaggle.
