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Huddled with his cabinet and flaunting his trademark-busting Game Of Thrones Rip-off “Sanctions Are Coming” poster, President Donald Trump: -Boasted he would have been a great general. If not for those darned bone spurs, of course. -Insisted his generals were “better looking than Tom Cruise – and stronger” -Stood by…

President Donald Trump took to Twitter to blast incoming Utah Sen. Mitt Romney's scathing op-ed, in Monday’s Washington Post, questioning Trump’s character. “Here we go with Mitt Romney, but so fast! Question will be, is he a Flake? I hope not,” Trump snarked, in a reference to departed Sen. Jeff Flake who was a…

Maher said today that he would convert from atheism to Mormonism if Mitt Romney would seize the White House from Donald Trump. Quite a remark given that Maher famously donated $1M to President Obama’s campaign to defeat Romney in his 2012 re-election bid. "I would happily give that million dollars right now to Mitt…

A flock of press infiltrated that “private dinner” between President-elect Donald Trump and former Dump-Trump spokesman/maybe next SoS Mitt Romney, resulting in the kind of breathless coverage usually reserved for fangirls’ One Direction sightings. Among them, CNN’s Jim Acosta got a “tip” as to when and where the…

Donald Trump — he’s no John McCain. An estimated 32.2 million people tuned in to watch Trump’s speech on the final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention, across 10 commercially-supported networks, Nielsen reports. That’s up compared to the final night of the RNC in 2012, when 30.3M watched Mitt Romney’s…

Hours after GOP frontrunner Donald Trump won Michigan and Mississippi presidential primaries, and Hawaii caucuses, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel’s ABC late-night show. This morning, Trump gave Romney’s JKL appearance a bad review, telling Fox News Channel’s Fox & Fr…

Updated with Donald Trump’s response to Mitt Romney’s speech: Mitt Romney is “irrelevant” and a “failed candidate” who was so desperate for Trump’s endorsement when he ran for the White House, “I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees; he would have dropped.” “He was begging me” for support, Trump added at a…

Of Donald Trump one thing is certain: He’s hard to ignore. The current frontrunner among GOP presidential candidates today suggested Sen. John McCain was not a real war hero “because he was captured.” Speaking at a conference of religious conservatives in Iowa, Trump was pressed on his description earlier this week of…

Mitt Romney was game for some self-deprecating self-promotion last night when he hit the late night stage to slow jam the news with Jimmy Fallon. Romney’s on the campaign trail for Mitt, the new Netflix docu tracking his two bids for Presidency. The film premiered in Salt Lake City as part of the Sundance Film Festival…

Proving there always is a second or third act in American life, former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney just might have a new career as a movie critic – especially when it comes to films about him. "Enjoy is the wrong word," Romney told me today at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City after I asked him what it…

Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential election, but he ruled the Sundance Film Festival tonight. In a scene you wouldn't expect to see at the Robert Redford-founded fest, the Republican and head of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games Organizing Committee showed up unannounced at the premiere screening of Mitt in the…

2ND UPDATE, 8:20 AM: Will cable news programs steer clear of comedy after MSNBC‘s botched Melissa Harris-Perry end-of-year show left her tearily apologizing for the show’s gags targeting Mitt Romney‘s adopted black grandson, and Fox News Channel devoting yet more airtime to MSNBC’s show host foot-in-mouth…