27 h. ago Trump says he would ‘love’ to see ESPN pundit Stephen A. Smith run for president

The president said he would put the TV personality and sports pundit above other Democratic candidates as Smith challenged him on attacks on DEI

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28 h. ago Trump claims he ‘hasn’t made any mistakes’ in first 100 days under questioning on TV town hall: Live

The president was grilled by journalist Bill O’Reilly and sports pundit Stephen A Smith as he joined NewsNation town hall by phone

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31 h. ago Trump’s loyal footsoldiers doff their Maga caps at cabinet love

Red and navy hats were strategically placed as Trump’s cabinet gushed over 100 presidential days like no otherThere were navy blue and red baseball caps up and down the table, strategically placed in front of every cabinet member, and each bearing the message “Gulf of America”.Yet the unorthodox collection of headwear, embroidered with Donald Trump’s forced new name for the centuries-old Gulf of Mexico, was far from the most bizarre aspect of an extraordinary White House gathering hosted by the president on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Stephen A Smith says Trump’s poor approval rating actually hurts Dems because they have no one to beat him

Trump’s approval rating marked the worst showing for a president in 80 years, but Smith argued ‘the Democrats still can’t beat him’

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9 d. ago R&A ‘would love’ the Open to return to Donald Trump’s Turnberry course

Scottish course last hosted event in 2009R&A says logistics, not politics, are a concernThe R&A would like to see Donald Trump’s Turnberry course in Scotland return as host of the Open but will first need to assess the feasibility of the venue, the governing body’s chief executive, Mark Darbon, said.Turnberry, a seaside course in South Ayrshire, has staged the Open four times – most recently in 2009 when American Stewart Cink edged past his compatriot Tom Watson to claim the title in a thrilling victory. Trump bought the property in 2014 and has spent £200m upgrading the resort’s courses. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How Trump really feels about Putin as body language experts analyse meeting

The love story of Trump and Putin began in 2017 when they first laid eyes on each other at the G20 summit - now a body language expert has revealed what the pair truly thought of each other

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2 w. ago Price hike on Shein? How Trump tariffs could shift the US’s love of fast fashion

Trump ended the ‘de-minimis’ rule while launching a trade war with China – which will make retail giants such as Temu more expensive, experts sayAfter a chaotic week of flip-flopping tariff policies, cheap clothes from China are nearly certain to face a steep price hike soon – prompting concern among fast fashion retailers and potentially pushing consumers to look for other alternatives.As part of a package of global tariff policies announced on “liberation day” last week, Donald Trump signed an executive order that ended a duty-free exemption for low-priced goods to enter the US from China and Hong Kong. Known as the “de-minimis” rule, packages under $800 do not qualify for any taxes or tariffs on the goods and are inspected minimally at the border. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Novelist Katie Kitamura: ‘As Trump tries to take away everything I love, it’s never been clearer that writing matters’

The Japanese-American author of unsettling new novel Audition talks about why fiction isn’t frivolous, family life with fellow writer Hari Kunzru, and how US authors are facing a critical momentSome years ago, Katie Kitamura came upon a headline that read something like: “A stranger told me I was his mother.” The headline gripped her, but she never clicked through to the article. She imagined the story would offer some explanation – perhaps the author had given up a child for adoption, for instance. “I was much more interested in not having a concrete answer but just exploring the situation itself,” she tells me. “I’m intrigued by the idea that you could be very settled in your life and something could happen that could overturn everything that you understand about yourself and your place in the world.”The headline provided the inspiration for Kitamura’s fifth novel, Audition, a beguiling and unsettling book that opens with a meeting between an unnamed actor and a handsome college s...

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3 w. ago Olivia Munn mocks Trump’s ‘destructive’ tariff strategy in surprise Daily Show return

‘This is all to make up for Donald Trump’s enormous deficit of attention and love,’ Munn quipped

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3 w. ago Stephen A. Smith now says he’s ‘serious’ and ‘leaving all doors open’ on presidential run

‘Time to stop messing around. Life is great. Especially at ESPN/Disney. Hate the thought of being a politician. But sick of this mess,’ Stephen A. Smith tweeted this week

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3 w. ago Keir Starmer urged to channel Hugh Grant's Love Actually PM and stand up to Trump as world braces for more turmoil

In Love Actually, Grant's PM turns on an arrogant US president during a press conference to say the so-called special relationship has become 'a bad relationship'.

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3 w. ago Melania Trump’s secret to getting through hard times? Love (actually)

The first lady spoke about (wait for it) diversity as she presented awards to courageous women from around the worldLet’s take a quick break from the increasingly dreadful news for a little check-in, shall we? So how are you holding up right now? How are those stress levels? Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Stephen A Smith v LeBron James turns NBA’s narrator into a main character

ESPN’s biggest name has never been shy about giving his opinion. But now he is part of the drama he so often comments onWho would win in a fight between LeBron James and Stephen A Smith is a question only Stephen A Smith would think to ask. There has been little avoiding the question since the Los Angeles Lakers superstar confronted ESPN’s No 1 personality during a recent game against the New York Knicks. The player was venting his displeasure at Smith for his pointed comments about James’s eldest son, and Lakers teammate, Bronny – the 55th pick in last year’s NBA draft.James approached Smith, a courtside spectator for the game, and appeared to tell him to “keep my son out of this shit” – a callback to Smith questioning whether Bronny deserved to be on a league roster. Smith went on TV the next day to make clear that he wasn’t actually picking on Bronny, the player; he was really calling out LeBron as a bad father for setting a high bar for his son’s pro career. Smith would come bac...

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4 w. ago First Trump joked he wanted a third term. Then he got serious | Moira Donegan

The US president made himself explicit this week by saying: ‘I’m not joking’ when asked about his ambitions to stay in officeJokes have a specific relation to Trumpian politics: they are the tip of the spear for introducing illegal or once-unacceptable ideas to the public, under a thick gloss of irony or plausible deniability, to advance a far-right agenda.In 2016, Donald Trump’s support from the young, online “alt-right” was underestimated in part because so much of the profession of love for Trump, and for his racist and authoritarian ambitions, came in the form of supposed jokes. Trump himself, meanwhile, uses humor to charm and titillate, making jokes to demean adversaries, get audiences on his side, and hint, with winking coyness, about his next move. This has been his strategy for years.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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