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On Truth Social — which sees its stock price heading to the toilet — he went after MSNBC host STephanie Ruhle after she laughed at him on the Bill Maher show.
Trump called Ruhle “a bimbo” after she laughed at him on Maher’s show. We know how much he doesn’t like laughing, and this did him in.
Trump also went on a wild diatribe about women’s rights and abortion. The convicted rapist says women are less happy and safe than they were four years ago under his paws.
On abortion, Trump continues to insist that without him outlawing Roe v. Wade there would be seventh, eighth, and nine month abortions. There would also be the “Execution of a baby after birth!”
All of this is written in capital letters and NONE OF IT IS TRUE! NOT A WORD OF IT!
Truth Social is the lowest level of Hell. It’s also contributed to by the deeply stupid. One poster is very upset that Oprah Winfrey hasn’t contributed money to “MUAI” which I thinks means “Maui.” The post doesn’t actually make sense, anyway, but it’s typical of the illiterate types who live on the failing platform,
Oprah Winfrey is great at interviewing other people. But she doesn’t want us to know much about herself.
Oprah has just cancelled an Apple TV Plus documentary from award winner Kevin Macdonald. She reportedly gave Apple the money they paid her (enough to buy a warehouse of Macs). Macdonald’s work will never be seen now.
This isn’t the first time Oprah has cancelled projects she commissioned or approved about herself.
In 1993, she pulled back an autobiography that was ready to be published. That caused quite a stir because, in publishing no one does that. Oprah had been paid a stunning $3 million advance. But she gave it back just three months before pub date.
In 2015 I wrote that she had a book she planned for 2017 called “The Life You Want.” Again, the book never materialized.
Macdonald is a respected filmmaker, so the film would have been of merit. But according to sources, Oprah didn’t like the finished product, and she had editorial control.
Martha Stewart feels the same way about her doc, from RJ Cutler, which just showed at the Telluride Film Festival and will be in the Hamptons Film Festival. But ultimately Martha knew most of her life is already in the public domain. The film will come and go.
As for Oprah, we know a lot about her childhood, family life, and years in broadcasting before her show took off in 1986. We know a lot about weight loss. But her personal life with Steadman Graham and Gayle King is less transparent. She’s obviously not ready for public consumption of those details.
I’m curious about Oprah’s observations about her impact on American political life. Her involvement with promoting the Obamas would be fascinating. She’s also had wealthy Republican friends. It’s unknown if Macdonald was able to get into any of that.
During her time at the White House, Melania Trump dug up and destroyed Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden.
For years there have been petitions to restore it. But the Biden Administration hasn’t had a chance to do it yet. The renovation will be up to Kamala Harris when she’s elected.
Now in her book, called “Melania,” the AWOL ex First Lady will explain how she made such a mess of things. Should be interesting! She never promised s a rose garden, after all!
The book is coming October 8th, and I can’t wait. Can you? It’s designed as a distraction from Donald Trump’s campaign, just like everything else, to keep voters away from the terror of a Trump presidency. Instead of discussing Project 2025, Trump will misdirect voters to the rose garden and other nonsense.
Trump Media stock is in the $13 range right now. If it drops below $12 Trump will not be able to sell his shares.
Last week he swore he wouldn’t sell. But it’s looking dicey now.
Apparently his last 24 hours haven’t impressed shareholders. He told a Jewish group that if he lost the election it was their fault.
He also has heaped praise on North Carolina governor candidate Michael Robinson announced that he was a “Black Nazi.” He’s also accused of posting damaging stuff on the internet. Really damaging.
Robinson said these things on a porn site called Nude Africa years ago, just discovered now. He also said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.”
Trump has sung Robinson’s praises at his rallies.
In two different speeches, Trump said Jews would be crazy to vote for Kamala Harris — whose husband, by the way, is Jewish, and she has clearly stated her support for Israel.
Maybe, you were led to believe, only 1 or 2 tracks on Katy Perry’s “143” album were produced by Dr. Luke.
It turns out 10 of the 11 tracks were co-written and produced by Lukasz Gottwald, or basically the whole album. Only one track– the best — called “Wonder” — comes from the Swedish producer Stargate.
Why Perry returned to Dr Luke as a producer and collaborator remains a mystery. Gottwald has been part of an ongoing scandal with the singer Kesha with accusations of rape and abuse. The long and winding court cases were only recently settled. But nearly every female performer of Perry’s era — starting with Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga — denounced Gottwald publicly.
And yet, here is Katy Perry with her first album in four years that includes an anthem called “Woman’s World” put together by Gottwald. It boggles the mind. When “Woman’s World” first appeared, Perry was heavily criticized for continuing to work with Dr. Luke. The reaction didn’t bother her. she told Variety that Dr. Luke was “one of her collaborators.” IN reality, he is all of her collaborators.
And then “Woman’s Word” and the next two singles were flops. The album may be, too. It just entered the iTunes chart at number 27.
I was kind of rooting for Perry to make a good comeback. She left “American Idol” after 7 seasons very rich but with a career left behind. On “143” the songs are ones designed for a 20 year old, not a 40 year old. All the credit she built up with “Roar” and “Firework,” her big hits, has been squandered on Dr. Luke, samples, synth, and juvenile lyrics. This could have been a big moment for her, but it isn’t.
There are a lot of people who will be writing stories about Olivia Nuzzi this week. The busted New York Magazine writer is on leave after it was discovered she’s been having an affair with former wanna be presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy is married to actress Cheryl Hines, his third wife. Nuzzi has been engaged for a while (maybe not any more) to former New Yorker magazine writer Ryan Lizza. He was fired in 2017 during the #MeToo scandals over sexual malfeasance at the austere publication.
After the New Yorker incident, Lizza and Nuzzi were hired to write a book about Biden and Trump. The book never materialized and by 2021 their contract was cancelled.
Nuzzi and Lizza must have been quite the couple.
Ever since Nuzzi interviewed Kennedy for the November 22, 2023 cover of New York magazine she started supporting him and Donald Trump on Twitter X. There are endless posts touting them.
Her best Tweet, though, came back in 2015 in response to a story about the TV show “House of Cards.” Posted over a picture of actress Kate Mara from that show, Nuzzi wrote: “Why does Hollywood think female reporters sleep with their sources?”
You’ve got to feel sorry for Cheryl Hines. She bought Robert Kennedy Jr’s crap wholesale, and now she’s been done in.
New York Magazine says — as reported by the Status newsletter — that reporter Olivia Nuzzi had an affair with Kennedy beginning around the end of last year.
She’s been put on leave. Nuzzi is a star reporter at New York. She’s also obviously insane.
Nuzzi’s portrait of Kennedy for New York was ironically published on November 22, 2023 — the anniversary of the assassination of RFK Jr’s uncle President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy is already established as a liar and a cheat. His second wife hanged herself in their barn when she discovered his sex diary noting dozens of affairs in one year.
It’s the same Kennedy who was running for president and then endorsed Donald Trump.
Here’s the Note to Readers from New York magazine:
“Recently our Washington Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi acknowledged to the magazine’s editors that she had engaged in a personal relationship with a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign, a violation of the magazine’s standards around conflicts of interest and disclosures. Had the magazine been aware of this relationship, she would not have continued to cover the presidential campaign. An internal review of her published work has found no inaccuracies nor evidence of bias. She is currently on leave from the magazine, and the magazine is conducting a more thorough third-party review. We regret this violation of our readers’ trust.”
It’s Oliver Darcy at Status that revealed the person in question was Kennedy.
Hines must be beside herself. She’s defended Kennedy over and over, actually putting her own career and friendships in danger. No one has understood her devotion to him, considering his reputation. But this has to more than she could ever have imagined.
The stock market is booming today. Except for one stock.
The Dow is up almost 600 points at 2:30pm thanks the Fed rate cut yesterday.
Donald Trump always warned that markets would crash if he wasn’t president. But that’s proven untrue. The only stock bombing is his Trump Media.
Trump Media, a sewage system for haters, has fallen below $15 today. That’s an all time low since the company merged and was revived last winter. It may drop even more before the day is over.
If the stock hits $12, Trump cannot sell any shares. He promised last week that he wouldn’t anyway and praised the horrific content on the site.
But Wall Street watchers are waiting now to see if Trump will renege, screw his investors and sell off. That could happen at any time.
Long before Madonna was a Material Girl living in the Material World, George Harrison defined the term.
The former Beatle created the album, “Living in the Material World” in 1973 as a follow up to his “All Things Must Pass” masterpiece and “The Concert for Bangla Desh.”
Beatles fans were pretty excited to hear “Living in the Material World” because George had finally emerged as a solo artist as big as John Lennon or Paul McCartney. We were not disappointed. The only single, “Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)” shot to number 1 before the album came, out that set the stage.
Now the 50th anniversary edition is coming in November thanks to George’s amazing wife, Olivia Harrison, and their devoted son, Dhani Marrison. They have done the best job of any family of a passed rock star in keeping a legacy alive. They’ve handled it all with enormous class.
The 50th anniversary edition includes remixes of the album, naturally. There are also a dozen different takes of the songs — never heard before — including Take 18 of “Give Me Love,” which is out today as a featured track.
There’s also a 7″ single included of Harrison’s “Sunshine Life for Me (Sail Away Raymond)” with an all star cast including The Band, and Ringo Starr. Ringo recorded the song for his famous “Ringo!” album, produced by Richard Perry, also in 1973.
The Super Deluxe Edition will have only 5,000 copies, folks. There will be less expensive iterations. But the Super Deluxe sounds hot. According to a press release: “Housed in a rigid slipcase, the box set contains a beautiful 60-page hardcover book curated by Olivia Harrison and Rachel Cooper, with unseen imagery and memorabilia from the era, handwritten lyrics, studio notes, and tape box images. Also included is a 12-page Recording Notes booklet, drawing from original Living in the Material World production notes, photographs, and reel-to-reel session tapes housed in the George Harrison Archive. For the first time, the Harrison archive team offers an in-depth, chronological account of the album’s creation, revealing insights that have never been shared with the public before.”
All the tracks on “Living in the Material World” were FM hits although there was only one single. I always thought “Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long” would have gone to number 1. “Try Some Buy Some” was covered eventually by the legendary Ronnie Spector. The title track could also have been a hit on its own.
The 50th anniversary edition arrives on November 15th. I’d put my order in now. By the way, George donated all the publishing proceeds from the album to the Material World Foundation forever, which he formed to collect and distribute money for the Bangla Desh concert. The Material World Foundation continues to transform lives across the world today.
