Jimmy Kimmel shared a video of Roseanne Barr imploring people to drop out of college “‘cause it isn’t nothing but devil-worshipping, baby blood-drinking Democrat donors,” the Daily Beast reports.
SNL Roasts Trump for Hawking Bibles
Saturday Night Live mocked Donald Trump for selling $60 Bibles during Holy Week.
Said James Austin Johnson, playing Trump: “It’s Easter, the time of year when I compare myself to Jesus Christ. That’s just the thing I do now, and people seem to be okay with that…I’m going to keep doing.”
He added: “And if you think that this a bad look, imagine how weird it would be if I started selling Bibles. Well, I’m selling Bibles.”
A Fight Mark Robinson Won’t Win
North Carolina Lt. Governor Mark Ronan (R) insulted Beyoncé’s singing abilities, called her a “skank,” and said she was teaching “young women how to be hyper-sexual whores,” The Root reports.
Steph Curry Might Run for Office One Day
NBA star Steph Curry told CBS News that he’s a “maybe” on a future presidential bid, saying he’s open to running for elected office “if politics is a way that you can create meaningful change.”
Advice for Biden on the State of the Union
President Biden got some good advice from actors who have played presidents in movies.
Bezos Surpasses Musk as World’s Richest Person
Jeff Bezos is once again the world’s richest person, eclipsing Elon Musk, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Mark Cuban Backs Biden in 2024
“Mark Cuban urged President Joe Biden to go further to rein in prescription drug costs, a key element of his reelection pitch, as he backed the incumbent ahead of a likely November rematch against Donald Trump,” Bloomberg reports.
He also downplayed concerns about Biden’s age.
Said Cuban: “If they were having his last wake, and it was him versus Trump, and he was being given last rites, I would still vote for Joe Biden.”
Sinead O’Connor’s Estate Says Trump Can’t Play Her Music
The estate of Sinead O’Connor on Monday asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies, saying the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil,” the AP reports.
Biden to Sit Down with Seth Meyers
Joe Biden is in New York to appear on Seth Meyers’ 10th anniversary episode of his late night talk show, Late Nighter reports.
Biden was one of the very first guests to appear on the show a decade ago.
Trump Was Consumed With Fury at Snoop Dogg
Rolling Stone: “With just hours left before Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s renewed fury at the rapper set off a frenzied effort both in and outside of the White House to convince Trump that Snoop Dogg wasn’t, in fact, mad at him anymore.”
“The effort lasted almost literally until the final minute of the presidency. Failure to move Trump would have cost the freedom of one of the co-founders of the legendary hip-hop record label Death Row Records, who at the time had been behind bars for three decades.”
One in Five Believe Taylor Swift Conspiracy
A new Monmouth poll finds that 18% of Americans believe that Taylor Swift is part of a covert effort to help President Biden win the 2024 election.
Fully 71% of those who believe this identify with or lean toward the Republican Party and 83% indicate they are likely to support Donald Trump in the fall.
Also, 73% of those who believe the Swift conspiracy also believe the 2020 election outcome was fraudulent.
On a less sinister note, 68% of the American public approves of Swift encouraging her fans to vote in the upcoming election.
Trump Says Taylor Swift Is ‘Disloyal’ to Him
Donald Trump said on Truth Social that Taylor Swift should be thankful for his 2018 signing of the Music Modernization Act, which he said he did “for Taylor Swift and all other Musical Artists.”
Said Trump: “Joe Biden didn’t do anything for Taylor, and never will. There’s no way she could endorse Crooked Joe Biden, the worst and most corrupt President in the History of our Country, and be disloyal to the man who made her so much money.”
Could Taylor Swift Turn Florida Blue?
“Florida Democrats don’t know why Taylor Swift is naming an upcoming song on her new album ‘Florida!!!’ or the reason she chose to hold three concerts in Miami less than a month before the November elections,” Politico reports.
“But their excitement around the news is less about ‘why?’ and more about leveraging Swift’s celebrity status to fill the blank space for beleaguered voters tired of losing to Republicans.”
The Meaning of the Hysteria Over Taylor Swift
The Economist: “Conspiracists have often worried about artists being manipulated for political ends. After Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet, gave a recital in Moscow, Stalin is said to have raged: ‘Who organized the standing ovation?’ In the 1950s America’s paranoid ‘Red Scare’ blighted careers and lives, including Charlie Chaplin’s.”
“As during the cold war, American politics is now especially conducive to suspicion of entertainers. One of them became president, a reality-TV star whose rallies combine the vitriol of a witch-burning with the reassuring formula of a game show. Donald Trump blurred to vanishing the line between politics and showbiz; he also dragged conspiracy theories to the centre of debate. And he exacerbated a prior political trend—America’s extreme polarisation—which encourages conspiratorial thinking.”
Larry David Takes Aim at Georgia’s Voting Law
“Television comedies like ‘Veep’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’ have long poked fun at the absurdities of national and local politics, but it’s rare for them to zero in on the fine print of laws passed by state legislatures,” the New York Times reports.
“So it was surprising that the end of Sunday night’s season premiere of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ — look out, spoilers coming — took pretty, pretty, pretty clear aim at the major voting law Georgia passed in 2021.”
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Trump Privately Says He’s ‘More Popular’ than Taylor Swift
Rolling Stone: “Behind the scenes, Trump has reacted to the possibility of Biden and Swift teaming up against him this year not with alarm, but with an instant projection of ego. In recent weeks, the former president has told people in his orbit that no amount of A-list celebrity endorsements will save Biden. Trump has also privately claimed that he is ‘more popular’ than Swift is and that he has more committed fans than she does.”
“Last month, the source close to Trump adds, the ex-president commented to some confidants that it “obviously” made no sense that he was not named Time magazine’s 2023 Person of the Year — an honor that went to none other than Swift in December.”
Hollywood Activists Want to Remove Trump’s Star
Los Angeles Times: “Although multiple City Council members said they do not support the former president and would like to see his star removed, nobody knows exactly how to make that happen. Several groups with varying levels of jurisdiction have a hand in operating the Walk of Fame, including the City Council, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the Hollywood Historic Trust.”
“The removal of a star is unprecedented, and a process for doing so has never been established.”
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