Hollywood [is] sort of the epicenter of the woke left. I don't think they're doing the Democratic Party any favors, the comedian said. I think if Democrats want to win elections in the future, job one, tell the celebrities to Just shut the f**k up. You're not helping. You don't strike people in most of the country as sensible or in touch with reality.'
Since Richard Nixon was forced to resign, powerful people in both political parties have worked assiduously to ensure that their leaders would escape the consequences of their actions. Trump has evaded punishment for crimes both low (campaign-finance violations, for which he was convicted, though he will serve no time thanks to his 2024 victory) and high (his attempted overthrow of the federal government in the aftermath of his 2020 election loss, for which he was spared by the Supreme Court's decision to grant him a kingly immunity).
There's the possibility that Thomas and I are talking to in Congress to build a bipartisan coalition to say, look, it's not just these three interviews that concern Donald Trump. There has been now reporting that ninety survivor statements have not been released just by a review of these files. And we're not even talking about the redactions. They just have not produced these things.
During a discussion on NewsNation's Cuomo about whether Smith would run for president in 2028, O'Reilly said, I think he should run, and I'm being serious now, and Trump opened the door for you. You should send Trump a big bouquet of flowers. O'Reilly argued that while Smith would likely have no real shot at being elected president, he would be injecting himself into the debate, the national debate, and you're exposing the charlatans, which would be an amazing historical achievement.
Journalists are supposed to enjoy legal protections from raids such as this, because courts have recognized that if the government could treat them as criminals for acquiring nonpublic information, their work-protected by the First Amendment-would become impossible. Gray areas do exist, and previous administrations have often tangled with the media over where to draw the line between legitimate investigations of important government secrets and impingement upon the free press.
This week, Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and guest host Juliette Kayyem discuss the juxtaposition between the devastating layoffs at The Washington Post and the exorbitant price owner Jeff Bezos and Amazon paid for the Melania movie, this week's ominous foreshadowing of the Trump administration's real threats to the 2026 elections with election law expert Nate Persily, and why the Clintons are facing deposition in House Epstein investigations.
The president shared the 62-second video on Thursday, just before midnight, which pushes a conspiracy about manipulated vote-counting machines but concludes by cutting to an AI clip that shows the faces of the Obamas superimposed on apes' bodies for roughly a second, accompanied by the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. The video carries a watermark linked to a pro-Trump account on X with tens of thousands of followers.
From George Washington's first presidential "administration" to Donald Trump's promises to cut taxes "bigly," U.S. presidents have played a big role in shaping the direction of the country, including the words we use to talk about everything from national politics to everyday objects and actions.
These "levees," as they were called, were not loose occasions. Washington stood by the fireplace in a dining room cleared of its chairs. Dressed in a black velvet suit, hair powdered, hat in hand, he greeted guests with a formal bow. Handshakes, familiar and egalitarian, were prohibited. Conversation was sparse. The president, per Alexander Hamilton's instructions, might talk "cursorily on indifferent subjects," but nothing more.
What we must call out as a blatantly racist reposting on his so-called Truth Social (which is never true and certainly not social) posting, the current president of the United States, Donald Trump, uploaded an AI generated video depicting both former President Barack Obama and former First Woman Michelle Obama as very hairy dark brown monkeys donning wide smiles while standing in a tropical jungle.
One of its most common tools is to write a book, or have a book written, to introduce the presidential supplicant to voters. Historians trace the practice to Thomas Jefferson, whose 1785 book, Notes on the State of Virginia, predated his first campaign for president in 1786. Using the book as a conscious tool of image-building is a more recent phenomenon, however, leading critic Jaime Fuller to lament the banality of such tomes in his 2019 Literary Hub article.
The Founders, in creating and nurturing our system of governance by and through the Constitution provided separate and distinct branches of government, the Legislative, Executive and Judicial and, further, provided for intentional, established and delineated checks and balances so that power was balanced and not able to be usurped by any one branch tyrannically against the interest of the citizenry.
