Former President Donald Trump’s declaration at a Thursday event in Washington that Jewish Americans would “have a lot to do” with his defeat drew quick condemnation as a textbook example of antisemitism, with both the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee criticizing the Republican presidential nominee. Trump’s comments, ironically delivered at an Israeli American … Read more
Brandyn Gallagher should be on the road right now. Instead, the 36-year-old, who has spent the last five years driving an 18-wheeler, is at home in northeast Arkansas looking for a new job. Gallagher doesn’t want to give up trucking. They pivoted to the profession after working as a consultant for diversity, equity and inclusion … Read more
Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump, raising concerns about the party’s presidential nominee relying on outside groups for an important part of his campaign operations. Trump and the Republican National Committee he controls opted to … Read more
In June 2015, former President Donald Trump infamously came down a golden escalator and declared himself the man who couldn’t be bought. “I’m using my own money,” Trump said in the opening speech of his presidential election campaign. “I’m not using the lobbyists. I’m not using donors. I don’t care. I’m really rich.” Trump, who … Read more
Janet Jackson entertained a false claim about Kamala Harris’ racial identity in an interview published by The Guardian on Saturday. “Well, you know what they supposedly said? She’s not Black. That’s what I heard. That she’s Indian,” the music icon told The Guardian’s Nosheen Iqbal. Iqbal, in her piece on the singer, referred to Jackson’s … Read more
Donald Trump went after Oprah Winfrey late Saturday night and suggested that the media mogul was embarrassed while speaking with Vice President Kamala Harris during a recent live-streamed campaign event. “When I watched her interview yesterday with a woman who is destroying, through her complete and total incompetence, America, I couldn’t help but think this … Read more
Sebastian Stan flooded his phone with Donald Trump imagery in preparation to perfectly capture the former president in his upcoming movie, “The Apprentice.” “And 562 videos that I had pulled with pictures from different time periods — from the ’70s all the way to today — so I could pull out his speech patterns and … Read more
Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is the latest national politician to be mimicked by comic and impressionist Matt Friend. Friend showed off his impression of Walz to MSNBC’s Ari Melber on Wednesday. “Yeah, I mean, look, he’s got a real kind of a Ted Lasso coach thing going on, he’s always kind of yelling, … Read more
A major exchange-traded fund and mutual fund manager finds the winning gold trade isn’t talked about as much as the artificial intelligence trade — but maybe it should be. VanEck CEO Jan van Eck thinks the best investment this year is “the hedge against political cycles.” To him, that means investing in gold. “It is quietly … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump lashed out Saturday on his social media site, Truth Social, over Friday night’s episode of “Real Time with Bill Maher.” In a rant against the “increasingly boring” HBO talk show, Trump griped about Maher inviting on MSBNC host Stephanie Ruhle, who the former president called a ”‘dumb as a rock’ … Read more
