If the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election could be summed up in the style of Dustin Hoffman learning about plastics in The Graduate, it would be: Podcasts. ("One word, Benjamin: Manosphere.") Donald Trump went on every show he could; Kamala Harris didn't. And in the contemporary " attention economy," as lab-grown paid-media sound bites lose their potency, Trump won decisively with the part of the electorate whose last-minute votes are guided by vibes and auras-also known as the most important part of the electorate.
I have not reviewed the entirety of the files, Patel hit back. You haven't reviewed all of the Epstein files? Swalwell pushed. Personally, no, Patel replied. You're the director of the FBI. This is the largest sex trafficking case the FBI has ever been a part of. The buck stops at the top, and your testimony today is you have not reviewed all of the files? Swalwell asked.
President Donald Trump greeted Cooper after landing at Stansted Airport and the irony of the moment was not lost on the British press as the pair clasped hands and exchanged words for just over 11 seconds on the tarmac before the president boarded Marine One for the short flight to Winfield House, the U.S. ambassador's residence where he is staying.
Channel 4 will be marking Donald Trump's visit to the UK with what it describes as the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television. It will play more than 100 of Trump's lies or misleading statements in a segment called Trump v The Truth. All his greatest hits, from false claims about the price of eggs to disgusting lies about the US spending millions on condoms for Hamas, packaged together.
John Swinney and Donald Trump remain at odds on a whole range of issues - but something has fundamentally changed in their relationship. On Wednesday, Scotland's first minister will don his sharpest evening wear to attend a State banquet at Windsor Castle in honour of the US president. Six months ago there seemed little chance that the SNP leader would have anything to do with President Trump's second state visit to the UK.
Monday, on social media, President Donald Trump announced that he had murdered three people—"three male terrorists killed in action" was how he put it. By "terrorists," the president meant nothing more than that he claimed the three people were smuggling drugs; by "in action," he meant that they were traveling in a boat in the Caribbean when a U.S. military aircraft hunted them down and killed them.
REPORTER: Do you think it would have been fitting to lower the flags to half-staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin as well? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who? REPORTER: The Minnesota House Speaker, a Democrat TRUMP: Oh. REPORTER: who was assassinated this summer, and the TRUMP: Well, if the Governor had asked me to do that, I would have done that, but the Governor of Minnesota didn't ask me.
On Monday, Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office, where Brian Glenn of Real America's Voice asked the president about a possible reprimand. Ilhan Omar, after his assassination, called Charlie Kirk a reprehensible human being,' Glenn said. Should she be stripped of her committee assignments? Glenn appeared to be referring to a viral video that Omar reposted in which the creator called Kirk a reprehensible human being.
Donald Trump on Friday advocated for the death penalty in the killing of his close associate Charlie Kirk, as the widow of the rightwing activist spoke publicly for the first time since the shooting. The president told Fox & Friends in an interview during which he also announced that a suspect was in custody that he hopes the shooter gets the death penalty.
Concern over President Donald Trump's health has been renewed as he sported what appeared to be a droopy face during an appearance at a 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon Thursday. The internet was abuzz Thursday and Friday after the right side of president's face was noticeably drooping downward. After Trump showed up at the Pentagon ceremony, flanked by First Lady Melania Trump, the doctors of social media were quick to diagnose the president, with many floating the possibility that he had suffered a stroke.
We got him, Cox said. He added that a family member of Robinson's had reached out to a friend who contacted the authorities, and that friends and family members of Robinson, who had been interviewed by investigators, had described him as full of hate when discussing Charlie Kirk at a recent social gathering. Robinson is understood to be a local resident, not a student at the university.
President Donald Trump said Friday he'll send the National Guard to Memphis to address crime concerns there with the support of the mayor and the governor. Trump, a Republican, said on Fox News Channel "the mayor is happy" and "the governor is happy" about the pending deployment. The mayor is a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican. He said the city is "deeply troubled" and "we're going to fix that just like we did Washington," where he's sent National Guard and surged federal law enforcement.
On Monday, the House Oversight Committee released a letter that depicted a line drawing of a naked woman, with what appeared to be Donald Trump's signature in place of her pubic hair. The letter, which also included an imaginary dialogue between Trump and the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, had been included in a book compiled for Epstein's fiftieth birthday, in 2003, and was handed over by Epstein's estate following a congressional request.
