Julia Child espoused, “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right.
21.03.2023 - 20:11 / thewrap.com
With the now very real threat of indictment looming over twice-impeached former President Donald Trump, Republicans are once again circling around him and defending him — including Nikki Haley. And considering she’s actively campaigning against her former boss, Alyssa Farah Griffin was baffled by this move Tuesday on “The View.”To kick off the day’s Hot Topics, the hosts played a supercut of GOP figures supporting Trump, including Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley. “When you get into political prosecutions like this, it’s more about revenge than it is about justice,” Haley said.
Meanwhile, the hosts of “The View” chuckled at how DeSantis’ defense of Trump was a bit backhanded, considering how, before he defended Trump, he said “I don’t know what goes into paying hush money to a porn star to secure silence over some type of alleged affair. I just, I can’t speak to that.”“Watching that clip, I want to be like, ‘Nikki, you’re running against him. What are you doing!'” Farah Griffin joked.
“I thought DeSantis, actually, the line was kind of funny.”But Farah Griffin added that the idea of ignoring Trump’s possible campaign finance violation, which is indeed what he’s potentially facing charges for, is confusing.“Should we not do that? Like, is that not something we should be investigating?” she said. “But herein lies the problem with my party in this moment, is when Trump is cornered, he grows emboldened, and then for whatever reason, everyone circles around him and defends him.” She continued, “Like, I’m talking to just some people who are still semi-close to Trump, who say he’s very nervous over this. He does think an arrest is coming.
Julia Child espoused, “Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right.
Future elections aren’t looking too promising for Republicans, at least in Joy Behar’s opinion. On Thursday’s episode of “The View,” the host argued that Gen Z reaching voting eligibility age “is the beginning of the end” for the party.The discussion kicked off the morning’s Hot Topics, as the women marveled at how many GOP candidates, pundits, and even current elected officials have been seemingly caught off guard by their low resonance with young voters.Both Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin agreed that Republicans aren’t doing enough to attract young voters, let alone recruit them.“What the current GOP is doing is like, ‘We’re not going to offer solutions, we’re going to deny the existence of climate change, we’re going to, you know, discriminate against the LGBTQ community, and we’re going to just say, we can’t even get anything done on gun violence,'” Farah Griffin said bluntly.
Ana Cabrera has been named the new host of MSNBC’s 10 a.m. hour as part of network president Rashida Jones’ ongoing effort to focus on hard news programming.
UPDATE: CNN cut away from Donald Trump’s post-arraignment at Mar-a-Lago shortly before it ended, with anchor Anderson Cooper calling it a “reprise of every grievance” by the former president.
new votes in 2024, which he would of course need to win.“The good news today is this: this only hurts Donald Trump in a general election, if he gets the nomination,” she said. “He’s not winning one vote that isn’t with him.
indictment on criminal charges came down on Thursday are being dismissed by one Fox News pundit as just an example of how Trump was able to become president in the first place.Former congressman and Fox News contributor Jason Chaffetz appeared on Howard Kurtz’ “MediaBuzz” Sunday to discuss the 34 counts that Trump faces allegedly falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. The conversation eventually turned to Trump’s fiery response on his Truth Social site, calling Manhattan District Attorney a “degenerate psychopath.” After reading back Trump’s comments, Kurtz asked Chaffetz if those comments worry him, to which the former Republican politician responded with dismissiveness. Chaffetz on Trump’s Death and Destruction post: I'm sure every attorney would advise their client, just don't say anything, but that's not Donald Trump, and that's why America loves the guy pic.twitter.com/g03mgDbbMV“Look, Donald Trump is always going to take the nonconventional way of doing things.
“Saturday Night Live” cold open kicked off by addressing Donald Trump’s indictment, of course, with cast member James Austin Johnson’s spot-on Trump impression being put to good use as the former president performed various cover songs to fund his legal defense.“Hello thank you, it’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me,” Johnson’s Trump began, Taylor Swift-style, before addressing the heart of the matter: “Well folks it happened, I got indicted. Or, as I spell it, indicated.”He then explained that as he faces consequences for his crimes (“What the radical left democrats are doing to me is worse than any crime ever committed”), he’s launching an album of cover songs called “Now That’s What I Call My Legal Defense Fund.”“I’ve been opening my rallies with my wonderful song ‘Justice for All,’” he said, referencing the very real song that Trump and those imprisoned for their actions on Jan.
The very obvious Saturday Night Live cold open featured James Austin Johnson as Donald Trump, this time following on the success of his Justice for All for January 6th defendants with his own album to raise money for his legal defense.
Rupert Murdoch was eager to make a call and effectively — and emphatically — declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential race as vote counting continued three days after election day, internal Fox News emails show.The Fox News Decision Desk played a pivotal role in the turn of events that was 2020 Election Night, calling the state of Arizona for Biden many hours before any other media outlet.But it was Murdoch who encouraged Fox News leadership to pull the cattle brand from the fire and call things for Biden on Nov. 6, with several states still counting votes, emails made public Friday by Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 billion defamation case against the network show.“It would be great if we call it for Biden as soon as he gets over, say, 35,000 ahead in Pennsylvania,” Murdoch wrote.
On Tuesday’s “The Late Show,” host Stephen Colbert unsurprisingly took a moment to lay into Donald Trump’s Monday night Fox News interview with Sean Hannity, playing clips of the former president’s “rambling” answers and his refusal to play along with some of Hannity’s soft-ball questions. When it came to answering to the photo he posted to Truth Social depicting himself holding a baseball bat over Manhattan DA Alvin Brigg’s head, Trump’s response didn’t satisfy Colbert.
the host joked on Monday.On Tuesday, he was feeling just as let down and impatient as ever.“So it’s another day, we’re all still waiting to find out if and when Trump will be arrested. The news has basically just become the NORAD Santa Tracker, except for Trump’s indictment,” Meyers joked.
routine criticism bit.Bassett, the Jackson-based network’s first chief meteorologist, was let go from her desk after uttering a racial epithet — “fo shizzle, my nizzle” — on air while reporting on rapper Snoop Dogg’s latest addition to his Cali wine line.Following the on-screen gaffe, which quickly went viral on social media, Bassett was removed from the station’s team page online and has been absent from broadcasts since March 8.Goldberg, 67, said it’s “hard to keep up” with the seemingly ever-changing social rules of what people can and can’t say — especially “if you’re a person of a certain age.”“There has to be a book of stuff that nobody could ever say, ever, ever, ever. Include everything,” Goldberg said.
Ana Navarro may be no fan of Donald Trump, but she still thinks the twice-impeached former president is right about one thing: he gets to take credit for Ron DeSantis’ governorship.Navarro’s thoughts came as the hosts of “The View” discussed Trump’s campaign rally in Waco, Texas, on Monday morning. Though the women largely scoffed at what Trump had to say — moderator Whoopi Goldberg even went so far as to call him the “most violent snowflake I’ve ever seen” — Navarro honed in on one smaller bit.“I did rallies for Ron that were massive rallies. And they were very successful,” Trump said.
Melania Trump is reportedly happy being at Mar-a-Lago but angry at Donald Trump over all of the Stormy Daniels drama and his possible indictment.
Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t officially declared himself a candidate for the 2024 presidential election at this point, and that’s fine by Whoopi Goldberg and the hosts of “The View.” That’s because, as Whoopi so bluntly put it on Thursday morning, DeSantis is “not ready for America.”To kick off the day’s Hot Topics discussion, the women discussed their opinions on how DeSantis has positioned himself politically thus far, particularly with his responses to twice-impeached former president Donald Trump’s attacks, as well as DeSantis’ own gripes about “wokeness.”When Sunny Hostin and Sara Haines began debating if DeSantis is actually playing a smart long game, having gone to both Yale and Harvard, Whoopi noted that DeSantis’ degrees don’t mean much to her.“Just because people have education, doesn’t mean they have any kind of real sense,” Whoopi said.
Piers Morgan and Donald Trump have locked horns after the former US president branded the presenter ‘ratings-challenged. ’The scathing remarks came ahead of the former Good Morning Britain presenter’s interview with the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, 44, which will be broadcast in full on Thursday.
As twice-impeached former president Donald Trump faces a possible indictment for alleged hush money paid to Stormy Daniels, “The Daily Show” guest host Al Franken joked on Monday night that really, the whole situation is just “another failed Trump business venture.”In case you’ve somehow missed it, here’s the short version: in 2016, Stormy Daniels received $130,000 from former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen has testified in court that that money was given to the adult film star to cover up an affair she had with Trump, at the instruction of Trump himself.
Whoopi Goldberg’s appearance during Monday’s episode of “The View.”Goldberg, who has been wearing eyeglasses for 28 years, hosted without them, explaining during the “Hot Topics” segment that she had undergone eye surgery over the weekend. “I had an operation, and they replaced the lens and the lens they replaced it with is kind of like my eyeglass lens,” the 67-year-old announced.
#TheView. pic.twitter.com/PIvwYRWMsyThe slip occurred as the panel – among them Sunny Hostin and Alyssa Farah Griffin – were discussing former president Trump’s legal battle with adult film star Stormy Daniels and the alleged hush money he and former attorney Michael Cohen paid her after an alleged affair.