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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images A bizarre video has emerged raising yet more questions about the blonde 35-year-old who is constantly at President Trump’s side. The social media clip recorded nine years ago shows Harp, who was in her mid 20s at the time, claiming that she was the sole survivor of serious medical malpractice thanks to Trump. Harp would go on to repeat the claim that…
X/ @mfa_russia Vladimir Putin has a new weapon in his grinding war with Ukraine: relics dating back to the 14th Century. The Russian president, 73, is looking to Russia’s medieval past as his war in Ukraine shows little progress. He has approved plans to send relics of Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy to Russian troops on the front line in an apparent attempt to boost morale, according to local media…
Evelyn Hockstein/REUTERS President Donald Trump is a “bad person” and “not to be trusted,” according to a top Canadian politician. Canada and the U.S. are enduring historically poor relations under the 80-year-old’s administration, which saw Trump threaten 50 percent tariffs on an array of goods, forcing both sides to the negotiating table to hash out a new agreement. As part of Prime Minister…
Mubi The setup of Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is an intriguing one. When Kris (Hannah Einbinder) is hired to reboot a storied slasher franchise, Camp Miasma, she meets with Billy (Gillian Anderson), the final girl from the original film. Things get weird, fast, as the lines between reality and fiction blur. But one thing’s clear: Kris and Billy desire each other. One…
Evelyn Hockstein / REUTERS The family of a Black war hero says they were blindsided by reports that an aircraft carrier named in his honor is to be renamed—potentially after Donald Trump. CNN reported that the Navy is taking steps to rename the USS Doris Miller, an aircraft carrier still under construction, and has already stopped using the name supposed to honor the Pearl Harbor hero. Sources…
Lionel Urman/SIPA/Shutterstock / Lionel Urman/SIPA/Shutterstock Jimmy Fallon tore into the president’s increasingly dubious relationship with his personal assistant Natalie Harp, interviewing a Harp doppelganger on Thursday night’s The Tonight Show . The sketch was inspired by the stories swirling about Harp, Trump’s 35-year-old executive assistant who rakes in $150,000 a year and has been a…
Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images An American aircraft carrier caught up in Donald Trump’s war on Iran is finally heading home after a brutal nine-month deployment that saw conditions aboard deteriorate dangerously. The USS Abraham Lincoln is heading back to its home port of San Diego after being replaced by the Japan-based USS George Washington, a U.S. official told The New York Times. The ship’s…
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters Donald Trump’s obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool resurfaced at 11:32 p.m. on Thursday, in a big self-own on Truth Social. As part of his ongoing “beautification” of Washington D.C., the president ordered the relining of the pool with an “American flag blue” material that soon peeled off, as green algae bloomed, and the pool had to be drained again. It has…
Evan Vucci/REUTERS One of Donald Trump’s staunchest defenders had a spectacular public meltdown over the rate at which unnamed MAGA aides are leaking details about the ongoing chaos inside the White House. “An anonymous source insists what they heard from two other anonymous sources is 100% factually true—because one anonymous sources [sic] in the West Wing was told the exact same thing by two…
Ken Cedeno / REUTERS New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman says that letters sent by Natalie Harp to President Donald Trump “alarmed” the Secret Service. Some words leap off the page, with Harp, a former right-wing cable host, going as far as to say she is “unworthy” of the president. On Thursday, the Daily Beast published the letters in full , revealing new details of just how obsessed Harp,…
Hollie Adams / REUTERS Follow Tom Sykes’ royal reporting at The Royalist on Substack, and get exclusive insight on everything going down behind the palace gates. One constituency of professionals is tracking Harry and Meghan’s blockbuster return to the United Kingdom differently from the rest of us: the accountants. Experts in the field believe the timeline of their departure and return is—from a…
Eric Faison/The Daily Beast As bad as you think things are, they’re worse. How do I know? I mean, besides that I am Jewish and this bleak worldview has been inculcated in me since growing up in the tiny shtetl of Summit, New Jersey. I know because while this administration has waged war on the First Amendment and is the least transparent in history, while it is erratic and chaotic and the goat…
Fred Prouser / Reuters Good Will Hunting star Minnie Driver shared an emotional update just over two weeks after getting into a serious car accident. “Paris update: It sucks being traumatized,” the British-American Oscar nominee, 56, said in a video she posted on Instagram on Tuesday. “Like you look like you’re OK and you keep saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and showing up but… You’re just not…
Curtis Means/Pool/Getty Images A top Democratic strategist has sounded the alarm on a “deadly serious” problem with President Donald Trump’s ever-present aide. David Axelrod, a senior Obama administration adviser, expressed concern about Trump’s adoring aide after MS NOW reported that she worked at the White House without security clearance for a year. “Now THIS is a different matter,” Axelrod…
SGranitz/WireImage This piece first ran on the Obsessed by Kevin Fallon Substack . Subscribe here to read more like it! There are roughly 400 people around the world whose wardrobes have been upgraded, hair finally works for them, and homes have traded tragic for chic, all thanks to the keen eyes of queer men. Since Queer Eye for the Straight Guy first premiered on Bravo in 2003, the makeover…
Brian Lawless/PA Images via Getty Images Donald Trump’s plot to build another ballroom is moving at a snail’s pace. Away from the circus of his gargantuan White House project , for which he destroyed the East Wing of the People’s House and set off a dispute now being considered by the Supreme Court, the president is also trying to build a ballroom at one of his golf courses across the Atlantic in…
Portland Fire & Rescue Two teenagers who were left dangling upside down on a malfunctioning amusement park ride have been awarded a combined $550,000. Xitlali Gomez-Salais and Evie Yannotta were 13 and 14 when they became trapped with 26 other riders on the AtmosFEAR pendulum ride at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland in June 2024. The ride malfunctioned during its 360-degree cycle, leaving…
PicMonkey / PicMonkey MAGA activist Laura Loomer has accused West Wing staffers of being responsible for the scrutiny that has befallen the president’s fawning young aide. In an interview with Politico , Loomer, 33, slammed the scrutiny surrounding 80-year-old Donald Trump’s close relationship with his executive assistant, Natalie Harp. The 35-year-old White House staffer is an omnipresent force…
Kevin Lamarque / REUTERS Donald Trump has warned that not even the Supreme Court will be able to halt construction of his ballroom project because he built it with indestructible concrete that can’t be taken down. America’s highest court is expected to rule on Friday whether the project should go ahead, after a federal judge declared this month the president did not have the authority to…
The Great American Road Trip/YouTube Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s rant against Harvard University for apparently corrupting young girls stands in stark contrast to the many conservative personalities who call it their alma mater. Duffy, a graduate of St. Mary’s College of Minnesota, which boasts a 92% acceptance rate, raged against Harvard, objectively one of the top colleges, if not the…
