You’re Not Gonna Like the List of Donors Fronting the Bill for Trump’s Big, Ugly Ballroom
A White House spokesperson called them “a wide array of great American companies and generous individuals.” I call them a bunch of influence-buying grifters.
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16.10.2026
I’m Both Elated and Terrified to Hear That Trump’s Administration Is Coming Unstrung
A disastrous new press secretary. Whispers of a new chief of staff. A feud between the president and old lawyers. We have to endure two more years of this?
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15.10.2026
Comcast Donated $7.5 Million for Donald Trump’s Lavish New White House Ballroom
Comcast forked out $7.5 million to help fund President Donald Trump’s new 90,000-square-foot ballroom gold-plated ballroom and event space, with the company among the 57 corporate donors to the projec
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15.10.2026
Trump Wants to Sell Ukraine Out for a Couple Days’ Worth of Diesel Fuel
And you’ll never guess the pale pile of evil he brought in to help.
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14.10.2026
The Ridiculous Tin-Foil Hat Theory That May Have Pushed the Trump Administration to Start the War with Iran
This conspiratorial threat has been a bogeyman for the do-your-own-research techno-right for so long that it dates back to when Newt Gingrich was considered a political visionary.
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14.10.2026
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s new press secretary: ‘Her reading is good for an 11-year-old’
The host roasted Katie Zacharia after her awkward and confusing first press conferenceJimmy Kimmel reacted to the disastrous first day at work of the new White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia. C
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14.10.2026
Judge Extends Block on Trump’s White House Ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico
Following President Donald Trump’s White House ban on news organizations including CNN, MS NOW and Politico last month, a federal judge has now, once again, blocked him from doing so. U.S. District Ju
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14.10.2026
Trump’s Fundamental Electoral Strategy is Violence
Chants of “USA!” rang out at the president’s Ohio rally after a MAGA goon punched a protester in the face. Bet you can’t guess who got high-fived, and who got escorted out of the venue.
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13.10.2026
Trump’s Elevation of Ken Paxton Gets a Little Dumber Every Single Day
The president’s handpicked Senate candidate just turned up in a video of a New Year’s Eve party in Dubai. With two fugitives. And a woman who wasn’t his wife. Game knows game, man.
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13.10.2026
TV tonight: the advice columnist who sued Donald Trump twice – and won
A riveting documentary about the journalist who took the US president to the cleaners. Plus: John Simpson celebrates 60 years at the Beeb. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, BBC Four Why did journ
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13.10.2026
Tarek Atoui’s Turbine Hall review – hallelujah, it’s raining musical instruments!
Tate Modern, LondonThe Lebanese artist has turned trumpets, drums, cones and voices into an ingenious, interconnected sonic beast with funny, sad and mystical results. Prepare to feel the earth move!O
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12.10.2026
‘SNL’ Weekend Update Brutally Mocks Trump for Losing Nobel Peace Prize
Following a clunky cold open, host Shane Gillis’s flop of a monologue and the comic dropping an accidental F-bomb during a Dr. Seuss sketch, audiences were treated to another edition of “Saturday Nigh
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11.10.2026
U.S. DOJ Will Probe TV Networks Over President Trump’s Pool Coverage
The U.S. Department of Justice has told five of the nation’s biggest TV-news outlets that it plans to investigate whether a recent decision to suspend pool coverage of President Trump after he denied
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11.10.2026
In Trump’s America, Those Who Tell the Truth Are Punished
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is under fire for the testimony she gave during the January 6 investigation which, to my ears, sounds pretty damn credible.
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10.10.2026
Chuck Lorre Uses ‘Georgie & Mandy’ End Card to Troll Trump’s White House for Saying He Needs Psychiatric Help: ‘I Don’t Disagree’
Chuck Lorre is responding to the White House’s recent swipe at him, in a medium where he’s often not been shy in sharing his opinions: His post-episode vanity cards. At the end of Thursday night’s Sea
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08.10.2026
Jack White Slams Trump Over Comment That Iran ‘Take Out’ L.A., San Diego: ‘Worst American of All Time’
The president garnered fierce backlash from California leaders following his comments at a rally in Nebraska
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07.10.2026
‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway: Aaron Sorkin, Bradley Whitford and Team Behind Revival on Why It’s ’So Fucking Relevant’ in Trump Era
Aaron Sorkin never truly feels his scripts are finished. “They’re just confiscated,” he says. “There comes a time when someone says, ‘Pencils down.’” So when director Michael Arden proposed the first
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02.10.2026
‘South Park’ Goes After Billionaires, Data Centers, Anti-Vaxxers and Trump in Phallic-Filled New Episode
In the second episode of “South Park” (or, rather, “South America”) Season 29, an impassioned Butters sets out to rid South Park of “billionaire weenies” — which, as it turns out, are literal penises
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01.10.2026
Rough Seas: A War-Torn Middle East Isn’t the Only Reason the Red Sea Film Festival Was Abruptly Canceled
Geopolitical turmoil is as good an excuse as any to call off a film festival. But an explosive shake-up of another sort is happening on the Middle Eastern cinema circuit — and it’s not just due to Pre
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30.09.2026
Aaron Sorkin Says ‘Social Reckoning’ Reshoots Had Nothing to Do With Trailer Backlash, Explains Why Trump Isn’t Named: It’s ‘Not a Red-Blue Thing’
Ahead of the release of “The Social Reckoning” on Oct. 9, director Aaron Sorkin is telling all on the film’s much-discussed reshoots, limited test screenings and why Trump is never named explicitly, d
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30.09.2026