President Donald Trump will not declare a state of emergency in order to get border wall money from the Department of Defense, his whisperers began telling cable news networks a few hours before his first national primetime address from the Oval Office. But, his re-election campaign is fundraising off the address, in…

Kathy Griffin has responding in a big way to RNC’s new The Left In 2018: Unhinged ad for the midterm election. The GOP ad opens with footage of Griffin’s controversial photo shoot in which she holds a fake severed Donald Trump head. Outrage over that imagery, including word it had traumatized 11-year old Barron Trump…

UPDATE: Steve Wynn announced today that he has resigned as chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts, according to the Associated Press. His departure comes after he was accused of sexual misconduct. "In the last couple of weeks, I have found myself the focus of an avalanche of negative publicity," said the casino mogul in a…

CNN’s former Donald Trump surrogate Kayleigh McEnany has been named new spokesperson for the Republican Party. McEnany played the role of Perfectly Poised Surrogate for Donald Trump on the cable news network Trump most loves to hate throughout the election cycle and since, while Jeffrey Lord assumed a more…

Ted Cruz this afternoon endorsed the man he once called "utterly amoral" and a "pathological liar" who builds giant buildings on which to put his name because of a “yawning cavern of insecurity.” That would be Donald Trump, per Cruz’s description of the GOP candidate back in May. On Facebook today, the Texas senator…

First Lady Michelle Obama visited Stephen Colbert’s Late Show to promote her Let Girls Learn initiative and to reminisce about her FLOTUS years as they draw to a close: ordering French fries during a sleepover at Buckingham Palace, mispronouncing people’s names, etc. Colbert wondered if she has any “sympathy” for the…

Donald Trump, playing to what he knows best – media – has brought in scorched-earth-er Steve Bannon to shake up his campaign, as polls show the GOP candidate sliding in key states, and news headlines showed him losing control of his narrative. Word that the Breitbart chief exec, known for his take-no-prisoners style…

Hulu has released its new trailer for  Triumph The Insult Comic Dog Summer Election Special 2016, debuting August 11, covering the RNC and DNC conventions in Cleveland and Philly, respectively. A few days ago, Triumph and his handler, Robert Smigel, came to TCA to talk about their latest Hulu election-cycle special…

HBO’s Last Week Tonight With John Oliver wrapped up two weeks of political conventions with a relentless, hilarious and absolutely (if fittingly) profane knockout punches Sunday. Kicking things off with a can’t-lose local news clip of a skybound jet-packer plunging directly into the ocean — a visual analogy to Day 1…

After two weeks of speeches, scandals and parties partying, it’s time to digest just what we took from the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. There was no shortage of fireworks and fizzling from either side either week, but here is a collection of memorable and forgettable moments, lines and people. In no…

It was a historical night on Thursday to see the first woman as the Presidential nominee of a major American political party take the stage at the Democratic National Convention and deliver her oration to the delegates and those watching online and on TV. And there were a lot of people watching Hillary Clinton on NBC…

You can't get away from politics at today's PBS panels at TCA. The pubcaster this afternoon connected reporters and critics with the PBS NewsHour co-anchor/managing editor team of Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff via Skype from Philadelphia, where they are covering the final day of the Democratic National Convention. An…