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Jared Kushner raised eyebrows this week when he said on Fox News that Black people must “want to be successful.” Spike Lee took exception to the First Son-in-Law’s comments and made his feelings clear in a radio interview today. “Look, I am so tired of white folks telling us what we need to do,” the Oscar-winning…

UPDATE, 11:43 AM PT, Aug. 13: Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son in law and senior adviser, confirmed that he met with Kanye West last weekend. “We talk every now and then about different things, and we both happened to be in Colorado, and so we got together, and we had a great discussion about a lot of…

During the newest episode of Late Night, Seth Meyers criticized President Donald Trump for his plans to ban TikTok, even as the coronavirus continues to the spread in the United States and as millions of U.S. residents lose unemployment benefits. “I’m betting TikTok is one of the answers he wrote on his cognitive…

After taking a week break Last Week Tonight with John Oliver returned and there was a lot to address. Actually, it was all about coronavirus because that is the only thing really making headlines these days. From Oliver’s “Great White Void”, he touched on Alex Jones talking about eating his neighbors due to the…

Once again, Last Week Tonight came from what John Oliver likes to call the “empty white void” to shed more light on how certain people in leadership positions in our country are handling the coronavirus outbreak. Spoiler alert: some of them are doing a good job while others, well, not so much. After giving us a taste…

President Donald Trump’s coronavirus briefing on Thursday featured the unexpected appearance of his son-in-law Jared Kushner who, along with Admiral John Polowczyk and Peter Navarro tried to focus on one of the pressing issues of the crisis: The urgent need for masks, ventilators and other medical supplies. And while…

John Oliver kicked off Sunday night’s episode of Last Week Tonight taking us on the ongoing saga that is the Donald Trump presidency before digging into Jared Kushner’s Middle East peace plan. Oliver talked about Trump’s “big week in diplomacy” as he visited with various authoritarians around the world. He joked about…

On Sunday night’s Last Week Tonight, John Oliver had a full plate of things to discuss including the eight-way Scripps spelling bee tie, Narendra Modi getting sworn in for his second term as India’s Prime Minister and Robert Mueller screaming “the word impeachment with his eyes. He also dove into the world of the…

Patriot Act star Hasan Minhaj made the Time 100 gala more than a performance, calling on presidential advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner to use his influence with Saudi Arabia to free an imprisoned women’s rights activist. Minhaj, who has had his own confrontations with Saudi Arabian politics, having an episode…

John Oliver opened Last Week Tonight talking about President Donald Trump's terrible week. Among his series of setbacks, his summit with North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un flopped, and his former fixer Michael Cohen called Trump a racist, cheat conman, and himself a “fool” for his slavish devotion to the guy. "The fact…

The United States is “in the fact finding phase” of the investigation into the Saudi murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, First Son-In-Law Jared Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones. “We’re getting as many facts as we can from the different places; then we will determine which facts are credible and, after…

After President Donald Trump played canary in the coal mine for them, the Saudi royal family is getting ready to acknowledge this evening that Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul during an interrogation/kidnap gone wrong. The intention had been to kidnap, not kill…