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It’s becoming a weekend routine – President Donald Trump blasts off a few tweets, then heads to his Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, VA. Today was no exception, and the Commander-in-Tweet had a few choice words to communicate before heading off for the links. The runoff election for Louisiana Governor caught the…

President Donald Trump has a busy Saturday planned. He’ll be speaking later at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, DC, and is en route to his Sterling, VA golf course for a few rounds. But before hitting the links, the Commander-in-Tweet had a few choice words for his friends and enemies. Particularly his enemies…

The Daily Show host Trevor Noah had a very cynical take on current events tonight, referring to President Donald Trump as a “Joker understudy” in his opening remarks. Noah noted that a new Fox News poll shows 51 percent are in favor of impeachment. “That’s like if Gayle said she was 51 percent against Oprah!” Moving…

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert was “Doin’ It Donkey Style” tonight, focusing on the Oct. 15 Democratic presidential debate in Westerville, Ohio. Colbert ran down the list of candidates who qualified, including Bernie Sanders, fresh off a heart attack and ready to take on the challenge, “But just to be safe, they…

The 300th episode of South Park won’t be seen in China. But it had a message for its rulers. Tonight’s milestone saw Randy, who makes money from China by selling marijuana to it, forced to shout out an epithet against the government. The 300th show’s dig underlined the mealy-mouthed denunciations that have come from…

Producer Brooke Nevils has responded to Matt Lauer’s open letter, calling it “a case study in victim shaming.” Nevils’s response was given to NBC News tonight after Lauer earlier today issued a 1,400-word defense of his alleged conduct, detailed in the Ronan Farrow book, Catch and Kill. Excerpts have been released in…

Stephen Colbert said he wasn’t “telling tales out of school” when he says President Donald Trump is in “double trouble,” thanks to his controversial phone calls with Ukraine and Turkey. The Ukraine call asking for an investigation into the Joe Biden family, and the one with Turkey that Colbert claims “sold out our…

No one who was on the set will ever forget the day the Joker freaked out. With his face frozen in grotesque makeup, he suddenly started screaming that his deal was fraudulent, his director was unprepared, his dialogue was stilted and he was quitting the doomed show. He kept shouting expletives for over two hours to…

Can Clint Eastwood save the Oscars? With luck and a little help, yes, absolutely. It could happen. The stars already are aligning. Since the debut last week of a trailer for Eastwood's Richard Jewell, about the pursuit of a security guard who was wrongly suspected of Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996…

UPDATED: Donald Trump criticized at Meet the Nation and Face the Nation on Sunday after they discussed the current impeachment inquiry. PREVIOUS: There is nothing on President Donald Trump’s schedule today. No travel, no photos, no public meetings. Which means there’s plenty of time to review the Sunday political…

It’s a take-off-the-gloves Saturday for President Donald Trump. He’s on the move and on the attack against his enemies in the media and politics. So far, the early tweets have targeted the New York Times and Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, and particularly Sen. Mitt Romney, whom Trump once endorsed but…

The Ukraine scandal is proving to be comedy gold for the political shows, and today was Trevor Noah’s turn to leap on the Trump train. Leading off, Noah mocked President Trump for calling on China to join Ukraine in investigating the Bidens, in effect doubling down on the issue causing him problems. “Trump may be the…