Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security under former President Donald Trump, discusses the former president’s “naked sexism” in his upcoming book Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.
Taylor’s book cites various accounts from aides that describe Trump’s lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka‘s physical appearance, including how he talked about “what it might be like to have sex with her.”
He also referred to Ivanka’s breasts and backside, leading White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to tell the president that she was his daughter.
This comes after multiple former staffers came out about Trump’s inappropriate behavior toward women while president and a New York jury found him guilty of sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Taylor also includes his personal account of seeing Trump’s behavior toward Kirstjen Nielsen, who was...
Taylor’s book cites various accounts from aides that describe Trump’s lewd comments about his daughter Ivanka‘s physical appearance, including how he talked about “what it might be like to have sex with her.”
He also referred to Ivanka’s breasts and backside, leading White House Chief of Staff John Kelly to tell the president that she was his daughter.
This comes after multiple former staffers came out about Trump’s inappropriate behavior toward women while president and a New York jury found him guilty of sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll.
Taylor also includes his personal account of seeing Trump’s behavior toward Kirstjen Nielsen, who was...
- 8/21/2023
- by Alex Nguyen
- Uinterview
Former Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf delayed and changed an intelligence report warning of Russian interference in the 2020 election due to concerns it would “hurt” former President Trump, according to an investigation by the department’s inspector general office.
The watchdog’s office said it interviewed an individual in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&a) “who told us the Acting Secretary asked the product be held because it made President Trump look bad and hurt President Trump’s campaign — the concept that Russia...
The watchdog’s office said it interviewed an individual in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&a) “who told us the Acting Secretary asked the product be held because it made President Trump look bad and hurt President Trump’s campaign — the concept that Russia...
- 5/3/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
Former president Donald Trump’s baseless attacks on mail-in voting during the 2020 election went further than just all-caps rage-tweets and unhinged statements to the media.
In April 2020, as election officials across the country scrambled to scale up their vote-by-mail operations at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of Trump’s top political appointees directed the Department of Homeland Security to look into potential voter fraud in the presidential contest later that year, Politico reported Friday, citing a former Dhs official.
Ken Cuccinelli, then the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security,...
In April 2020, as election officials across the country scrambled to scale up their vote-by-mail operations at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, one of Trump’s top political appointees directed the Department of Homeland Security to look into potential voter fraud in the presidential contest later that year, Politico reported Friday, citing a former Dhs official.
Ken Cuccinelli, then the acting deputy secretary of Homeland Security,...
- 3/18/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
Update, 9:26 Pm Pt: Miles Taylor appeared on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show and explained why he lied to Anderson Cooper in August about being Anonymous, the Trump administration figure who wrote a scathing New York Times op ed and book.
“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who has been a CNN contributor since August.
“It’s a great question, and I will just give you the blunt truth,” he said. “When I said in A Warning, I said in the book that if asked, I would strenuously deny it, that I was the author. And here’s the reason, because the things I said in that book were ideas that I wanted Donald Trump to challenge on their merits. We have seen over the course of four years that Donald Trump’s preference is to find personal attacks and distractions...
“Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who has been a CNN contributor since August.
“It’s a great question, and I will just give you the blunt truth,” he said. “When I said in A Warning, I said in the book that if asked, I would strenuously deny it, that I was the author. And here’s the reason, because the things I said in that book were ideas that I wanted Donald Trump to challenge on their merits. We have seen over the course of four years that Donald Trump’s preference is to find personal attacks and distractions...
- 10/29/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — They juiced the numbers to fabricate a non-existent terrorist threat on the southern border to make the case for President Trump’s border wall. They buried the intelligence about Russian interference in American elections to keep the president happy. They demanded the reassignment or termination of “deep state” analysts whose reports didn’t fit the administration’s predetermined narrative about violence and corruption in Latin America. And they retaliated against the career official who dared to question or resist these moves.
“They,” in this case, refers to a crew...
“They,” in this case, refers to a crew...
- 9/9/2020
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
Blasting Trump as “one of the most unfocused and undisciplined senior executives I’ve ever encountered,” a former top deputy in the Department of Homeland Security says he came away from his service in the administration “completely convinced, based on firsthand experience, that the president was ill-equipped, and wouldn’t become equipped, to do his job effectively.”
Miles Taylor rose to become chief of staff to then-secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. In two-and-a-half years in the administration, Taylor got his hands dirty. He defended Trump’s Muslim ban as...
Miles Taylor rose to become chief of staff to then-secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen. In two-and-a-half years in the administration, Taylor got his hands dirty. He defended Trump’s Muslim ban as...
- 8/18/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Miles Taylor didn’t have a speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention, but he’s certainly garnered attention for a video in which he endorsed Joe Biden and warned of Donald Trump’s behavior.
ABC News’ Good Morning America got the first interview with Taylor since he wrote a Washington Post op ed and appeared in a video for the group Republican Voters Against Trump.
Taylor, who was chief of staff to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, told George Stephanopoulos that Trump wanted to hold off emergency aid to California in 2018, then going through devastating wildfires. The reason: the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, and later Gavin Newsom, “did not support him.”
“As wildfires were burning down houses in the state, the president basically said to us, ‘I don’t care. These people haven’t done enough to deserve it. Cut off the money.'”
Taylor said that they...
ABC News’ Good Morning America got the first interview with Taylor since he wrote a Washington Post op ed and appeared in a video for the group Republican Voters Against Trump.
Taylor, who was chief of staff to then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, told George Stephanopoulos that Trump wanted to hold off emergency aid to California in 2018, then going through devastating wildfires. The reason: the state’s governor, Jerry Brown, and later Gavin Newsom, “did not support him.”
“As wildfires were burning down houses in the state, the president basically said to us, ‘I don’t care. These people haven’t done enough to deserve it. Cut off the money.'”
Taylor said that they...
- 8/18/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
President Trump’s big immigration deal with Mexico hasn’t exactly gone over the way he expected when he announced it on Friday. The New York Times reported on Saturday that the particulars of the deal were agreed upon months ago, not in response to Trump’s recent threats to hike up tariffs on Mexican goods, leading the president to spend most of the weekend railing against the paper while cryptically touting a mystery provision that has yet to be announced publicly.
On Monday morning, Trump again teased that the...
On Monday morning, Trump again teased that the...
- 6/10/2019
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Housing discrimination is how Donald Trump got his start in public racism.
If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump company did everything from marking up applications with a piece of paper marked “C” for “colored” to hiding applications altogether to simply lying and telling African Americans looking to live in a Trump building that there were no open apartments. One Doj lawyer on the case,...
If you are unfamiliar with the history, the Department of Justice sued the Trump family real estate management company in 1973 for barring rentals from prospective non-white tenants in New York City. The government found that the Trump company did everything from marking up applications with a piece of paper marked “C” for “colored” to hiding applications altogether to simply lying and telling African Americans looking to live in a Trump building that there were no open apartments. One Doj lawyer on the case,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
One of the more comical episodes recounted in Robert Mueller’s report occurred in the summer of 2017 when President Trump, days after futilely ordering the special counsel fired, dictated a note to Corey Lewandowski. The president told his former campaign manager to copy down a speech for then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to read. Trump thought Sessions could effectively un-recuse himself from the investigation and clear the president all at once, declaring, according to Lewandowski’s notes, that “there were no Russians involved with him. I know it for a fact b/c I was there.
- 4/25/2019
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
The latest installment of NBC's Saturday Night Live parodied The View, with Leslie Jones playing Whoopi Goldberg, Cecily Strong portraying Abby Huntsman, Kate McKinnon playing Joy Behar, Melissa Villaseñor portraying Ana Navarro and Aidy Bryant playing Meghan McCain. The evening's host, Emma Stone, also came in halfway through as former View panelist Jenny McCarthy.
The sketch touched on President Donald Trump's plans to build a border wall and Kirstjen Nielsen, the former Secretary of Homeland Security. "Trump, Trump, what a chump," McKinnon's Behar said. "Can I just say something, as the Princess of Arizona? There is ...
The sketch touched on President Donald Trump's plans to build a border wall and Kirstjen Nielsen, the former Secretary of Homeland Security. "Trump, Trump, what a chump," McKinnon's Behar said. "Can I just say something, as the Princess of Arizona? There is ...
- 4/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Bill Maher kicked off his “Real Time” monologue Friday with a few cheeky references to this weekend’s big event, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival’s first weekend, featuring acts like Kacey Musgraves and Ariana Grande.
“Just what America needs, another reason to take drugs,” he joked. “Coachella lasts two weekends, like a cabinet member who works for Trump…Dozens of acts there who are competing for the affection of entitled millennials. I’m sorry, I’m thinking of the Democratic primary.”
Maher then went in on Trump’s new Attorney General William Barr, who was confirmed back in February and has been criticized for his refusal to release the Mueller report in full.
“Trump finally has the lackey Attorney General he always wanted, William Barr, he testified before Congress this week. He began by thanking the committee for the opportunity to come there and shed more darkness on the situation,...
“Just what America needs, another reason to take drugs,” he joked. “Coachella lasts two weekends, like a cabinet member who works for Trump…Dozens of acts there who are competing for the affection of entitled millennials. I’m sorry, I’m thinking of the Democratic primary.”
Maher then went in on Trump’s new Attorney General William Barr, who was confirmed back in February and has been criticized for his refusal to release the Mueller report in full.
“Trump finally has the lackey Attorney General he always wanted, William Barr, he testified before Congress this week. He began by thanking the committee for the opportunity to come there and shed more darkness on the situation,...
- 4/13/2019
- by Erin Nyren
- Variety Film + TV
It’s mid-April so a lot of people are thinking about big returns — for some that return involves the IRS, for others it’s another pilgrimage to the low desert to see the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Income Tax Day is Monday, Coachella’s opening weekend is already underway and both timely topics were front and center on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO on Friday night.
“You’re not even excited about me,” Maher said at the very top of his opening monologue. “It’s Coachella. It kicks off this weekend. Just what America needs another reason to take drugs. You know Coachella lasts two weekends. Like a cabinet member that works for Trump. And it’s pricey. None of that Woodstock ‘come in for free’ shit. But you get a lot for your money. Dozens of acts are there competing for the affections of entitled millennials.
“You’re not even excited about me,” Maher said at the very top of his opening monologue. “It’s Coachella. It kicks off this weekend. Just what America needs another reason to take drugs. You know Coachella lasts two weekends. Like a cabinet member that works for Trump. And it’s pricey. None of that Woodstock ‘come in for free’ shit. But you get a lot for your money. Dozens of acts are there competing for the affections of entitled millennials.
- 4/13/2019
- by Geoff Boucher
- Deadline Film + TV
President Trump’s decision to oust Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday comes just weeks after he was publicly urged to do so by his friend, Fox Business host Lou Dobbs.
During a show on March 29, Dobbs disparaged Nielsen and warned that “millions” of Americans could die if she remained on the job.
“Dhs Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is foiling, and her department appears utterly paralyzed under ineffectual leadership,” Dobbs said, accusing Nielsen of being insufficiently tough on border control. “Tonight, we are calling on the president to fire these incompetents and the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Border Protection.”
Also Read: Fox News Host Kimberly Guilfoyle Parties With Trump and Don Jr at White House
“The president needs to fire [Nielsen],” he added later during an interview with former border patrol chief Mark Morgan. “She is nothing but a roadblock on creativity, innovation, adaptiveness and responding...
During a show on March 29, Dobbs disparaged Nielsen and warned that “millions” of Americans could die if she remained on the job.
“Dhs Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is foiling, and her department appears utterly paralyzed under ineffectual leadership,” Dobbs said, accusing Nielsen of being insufficiently tough on border control. “Tonight, we are calling on the president to fire these incompetents and the leadership of the Department of Homeland Security and Customs Border Protection.”
Also Read: Fox News Host Kimberly Guilfoyle Parties With Trump and Don Jr at White House
“The president needs to fire [Nielsen],” he added later during an interview with former border patrol chief Mark Morgan. “She is nothing but a roadblock on creativity, innovation, adaptiveness and responding...
- 4/8/2019
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
President Donald Trump resumed his attack on the “Fake News Media” after a brief break to rail on illegal immigration and calling on Mexico and Democrats in Congress to help Republicans “end the horrible, costly and foolish loopholes in our Immigration Laws.”
In an early Sunday morning tweet, Trump revisited earlier news reports that some investigators on Robert Mueller’s team told associates that Attorney General William Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling that Barr indicated.
“Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources – sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!”, Trump tweeted.
So far, it’s been a quiet Twitter Sunday from the Commander-in-Tweet. But that’s unlikely to last.
In an early Sunday morning tweet, Trump revisited earlier news reports that some investigators on Robert Mueller’s team told associates that Attorney General William Barr failed to adequately portray the findings of their inquiry and that they were more troubling that Barr indicated.
“Looks like Bob Mueller’s team of 13 Trump Haters & Angry Democrats are illegally leaking information to the press while the Fake News Media make up their own stories with or without sources – sources no longer matter to our corrupt & dishonest Mainstream Media, they are a Joke!”, Trump tweeted.
So far, it’s been a quiet Twitter Sunday from the Commander-in-Tweet. But that’s unlikely to last.
- 4/7/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Ava DuVernay, John Leguizamo, and Laura Poitras have added their signatures to a letter fighting against the impending deportation of Claudio Rojas, subject of the documentary “The Infiltrators.” The non-fiction feature from directors Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra debuted in Park City earlier this year to strong reviews, with IndieWire’s Eric Kohn saying it made a “strong case for abolishing Ice.”
Rojas is a native of Argentina but has lived in the United States for 19 years. The International Documentary Association said in a memo that Rojas has been detained by Ice and is now being held at the Krome Detention Center in South Miami-Dade after what should have been a routine check-in. Rojas is now facing deportation as early as sometime this week.
“We feel strongly that detaining a protagonist of a documentary film has a chilling effect on those whose stories we tell as documentary journalists, and restricts...
Rojas is a native of Argentina but has lived in the United States for 19 years. The International Documentary Association said in a memo that Rojas has been detained by Ice and is now being held at the Krome Detention Center in South Miami-Dade after what should have been a routine check-in. Rojas is now facing deportation as early as sometime this week.
“We feel strongly that detaining a protagonist of a documentary film has a chilling effect on those whose stories we tell as documentary journalists, and restricts...
- 4/2/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi daring her to keep him from delivering his State of the Union Address from the House of Representatives chamber on Tuesday.
After previously inviting Trump to deliver his Sotu on January 29, Pelosi last week sent him a letter calling on him to postpone or cancel his upcoming Very Big TV Moment, due to security concerns caused by his partial shutdown of the government.
And there’s the whole not-paying-the-people-who-will-protect-the-chamber thing, Pelosi added, writing, “Both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now – with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.” She suggested he deliver his speech from the Oval Office, or in writing.
Trump responded by cancelling Pelosi’s use of a military jet to fly to Afghanistan, as she and other politicians were on their way to board the jet,...
After previously inviting Trump to deliver his Sotu on January 29, Pelosi last week sent him a letter calling on him to postpone or cancel his upcoming Very Big TV Moment, due to security concerns caused by his partial shutdown of the government.
And there’s the whole not-paying-the-people-who-will-protect-the-chamber thing, Pelosi added, writing, “Both the U.S. Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have not been funded for 26 days now – with critical departments hamstrung by furloughs.” She suggested he deliver his speech from the Oval Office, or in writing.
Trump responded by cancelling Pelosi’s use of a military jet to fly to Afghanistan, as she and other politicians were on their way to board the jet,...
- 1/23/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has not yet heard from President Donald Trump, 24 hours after sending him a letter suggesting that the State of the Union Address be delayed until he re-opens the government or that he deliver it in a letter or from the Oval Office.
As House speaker, Pelosi gets to decide when and if Potus delivers speechwriter/adviser Stephen Miller’s address to the joint session of Congress on January 29 at which, TV political pundits reported, a good-ish chunk of time would be used to pitch not the state of the union but Trump’s border wall that he wants taxpayers to finance after promising that Mexico would cover costs.
At a Thursday morning presser, Pelosi rejected one reporter’s suggestion she was trying to deny Trump a platform.
“I’m not denying him a platform at all. I’m saying let’s get a date when the government is open.
As House speaker, Pelosi gets to decide when and if Potus delivers speechwriter/adviser Stephen Miller’s address to the joint session of Congress on January 29 at which, TV political pundits reported, a good-ish chunk of time would be used to pitch not the state of the union but Trump’s border wall that he wants taxpayers to finance after promising that Mexico would cover costs.
At a Thursday morning presser, Pelosi rejected one reporter’s suggestion she was trying to deny Trump a platform.
“I’m not denying him a platform at all. I’m saying let’s get a date when the government is open.
- 1/17/2019
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
President Donald Trump’s next State of the Union address, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29, will be delivered in writing and not televised — or rescheduled for a later date — due to security concerns caused by the partial U.S. government shutdown, which is now in its 26th day.
“During the 19th Century and up until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, [SOTUs] were delivered to Congress in writing,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote on Wednesday in a letter to the president. “And since the start of modern budgeting in Fiscal Year 10977, a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.
“During the 19th Century and up until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, [SOTUs] were delivered to Congress in writing,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrote on Wednesday in a letter to the president. “And since the start of modern budgeting in Fiscal Year 10977, a State of the Union address has never been delivered during a government shutdown.
- 1/16/2019
- TVLine.com
Last week, a group of 163 migrants who crossed the border near Lordsburg, New Mexico, turned themselves in to Border Patrol. Among the migrants was a Guatemalan man and his seven-year-old daughter, Jackeline Caal. Eight hours after they were taken into custody, Caal began having seizures. She was flown to the Providence Children’s Hospital in El Paso, Texas, where she went into cardiac arrest. Less than a day later, she was dead. “Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of the child,” U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Andrew Meehan...
- 12/14/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Democracy has seen better days than November 6th, 2018. Though dozens of diverse new leaders were elected to Congress, several states were plagued by dysfunctional voting systems, effectively disenfranchising countless Americans. This was largely the result of voter suppression measures enabled by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that ravaged the Voting Rights Act, allowing states to change their election laws without federal approval. “Our country has changed,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision, “and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, Congress must ensure that the legislation it...
- 11/21/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Some packages came from Florida, says homeland security secretaryAll devices were intercepted and no injuries reported
Federal agents have searched a mail facility near Miami as they race to find who sent 10 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of Donald Trump.
The homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, told Fox News: “Some of the packages went through the mail. They originated, some of them, from Florida. I am confident that this person or people will be brought to justice.”...
Federal agents have searched a mail facility near Miami as they race to find who sent 10 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of Donald Trump.
The homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, told Fox News: “Some of the packages went through the mail. They originated, some of them, from Florida. I am confident that this person or people will be brought to justice.”...
- 10/26/2018
- by Jon Swaine and Amanda Holpuch in New York
- The Guardian - Film News
The Federal Emergency Management Agency should, ideally, operate independently of the president’s ego. This doesn’t appear to be the case in 2018. During a Sunday morning appearance on Meet the Press, Fema Director Brock Long defended the president’s claim that the Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico had been artificially inflated. “I’ll tell you this,” Long began. “One thing about President Trump is that he, uh, is probably the one president that has had more support for what goes on back here. I think he’s...
- 9/17/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
For her most controversial The Break segment yet, Michelle Wolf stars as Department Of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in a recruitment video for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The recruitment video is called “What Ice Is” – which, when you say it fast enough, often enough, sounds remarkably like “Isis.” No, it’s not subtle. [Watch Below]
“Are you worried about your country? Do you feel like your land is being invaded by foreign intruders? Is your way of life under attack and are you ready to do something?” Voiceover Guy asks in the new video, which launches Sunday via Netflix.
“There is no better representation of American values than Ice Is,” Nielen/Wolf enthuses as she enters the shot, dressed in Chanel-ish jacket and pearls. She says Ice Is an “equal opportunity employer accepting from all levels of experience and education, from low to very low, and actively welcomes those with diagnosed anger issues.
“Are you worried about your country? Do you feel like your land is being invaded by foreign intruders? Is your way of life under attack and are you ready to do something?” Voiceover Guy asks in the new video, which launches Sunday via Netflix.
“There is no better representation of American values than Ice Is,” Nielen/Wolf enthuses as she enters the shot, dressed in Chanel-ish jacket and pearls. She says Ice Is an “equal opportunity employer accepting from all levels of experience and education, from low to very low, and actively welcomes those with diagnosed anger issues.
- 7/20/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” opens each show with a goofy little skit making fun of Donald Trump and his supporters the same way Colbert does in his monologue, and the opening sketch on Monday’s episode was particularly amusing.
The skit took aim at the fact that some folks in the Trump administration, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen and Stephen Miller, seem to be having trouble finding a restaurant to eat at without getting heckled by protesters or straight up told to leave by the staff for being, well, a member of the Trump administration. “The Late Show” has a solution for them.
That solution is a restaurant that moves — because it’s in the back of a large black van.
Also Read: Colbert: If Trump and Manafort Were Any Closer, 'They'd Be Wearing One Long Tie' (Video)
The skit took the form of a TV ad,...
The skit took aim at the fact that some folks in the Trump administration, like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Kirstjen Nielsen and Stephen Miller, seem to be having trouble finding a restaurant to eat at without getting heckled by protesters or straight up told to leave by the staff for being, well, a member of the Trump administration. “The Late Show” has a solution for them.
That solution is a restaurant that moves — because it’s in the back of a large black van.
Also Read: Colbert: If Trump and Manafort Were Any Closer, 'They'd Be Wearing One Long Tie' (Video)
The skit took the form of a TV ad,...
- 6/26/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
The Hollywood Reporter's Late-Night Lately is a one-stop shop for all of the most memorable moments of late-night TV, coming to you each Saturday morning to ease you into your weekend.
So fill up your coffee, set your DVR for the week and sit back. Below are a few of the week's best, funniest and strangest late-night moments you can't afford to miss.
This week: John Oliver attacked U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for justifying the immigration policy with the holy book and Samantha Bee praised a restaurant for kicking out Kirstjen Nielsen following her support for the ...
So fill up your coffee, set your DVR for the week and sit back. Below are a few of the week's best, funniest and strangest late-night moments you can't afford to miss.
This week: John Oliver attacked U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for justifying the immigration policy with the holy book and Samantha Bee praised a restaurant for kicking out Kirstjen Nielsen following her support for the ...
- 6/23/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah argues he stands apart in an increasingly crowded late-night space.
“We’re the only late-night show with a host of color,” Noah told TheWrap. “We are the only late-night show that has an international voice that speaks to politics,” added the South Africa native.
Noah’s tenure at the “Daily Show” has come during a time when the late-night space has undergone numerous changes. When his predecessor, Jon Stewart, was the host, late-night was dominated by the likes of Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, with Jimmy Kimmel joining the fray in 2003.
Also Read: Trevor Noah Tells Kirstjen Nielsen Where Else She Can't Eat Thanks to Child Detainments (Video)
But a lot has changed since then.
Both Leno and Letterman have since left the airwaves (though Letterman now has a talk show with Netflix), and the past few years have seen the debuts of John Oliver,...
“We’re the only late-night show with a host of color,” Noah told TheWrap. “We are the only late-night show that has an international voice that speaks to politics,” added the South Africa native.
Noah’s tenure at the “Daily Show” has come during a time when the late-night space has undergone numerous changes. When his predecessor, Jon Stewart, was the host, late-night was dominated by the likes of Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, with Jimmy Kimmel joining the fray in 2003.
Also Read: Trevor Noah Tells Kirstjen Nielsen Where Else She Can't Eat Thanks to Child Detainments (Video)
But a lot has changed since then.
Both Leno and Letterman have since left the airwaves (though Letterman now has a talk show with Netflix), and the past few years have seen the debuts of John Oliver,...
- 6/21/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Corey Lewandowski has been dropped by his speakers bureau, Leading Authorities, Inc., CNN reported on Thursday, noting that his name and information had been removed from the bureau’s list of speakers.
The decision represents a first sign of fallout to hit the former Trump campaign chairman since he dismissed the president’s policy of separating undocumented migrant families at the U.S. border on live television with a sad trombone “womp womp.”
Several public figures earn sizable pay days by booking speeches through groups like Leading Authorities — and the move should hit Lewandowski squarely in his pocket book.
During an interview on Fox News Tuesday, Lewandowski tried to dismiss criticism of the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families by mocking a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who had been separated from her mother after illegally crossing the border.
“I read today about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome...
The decision represents a first sign of fallout to hit the former Trump campaign chairman since he dismissed the president’s policy of separating undocumented migrant families at the U.S. border on live television with a sad trombone “womp womp.”
Several public figures earn sizable pay days by booking speeches through groups like Leading Authorities — and the move should hit Lewandowski squarely in his pocket book.
During an interview on Fox News Tuesday, Lewandowski tried to dismiss criticism of the administration’s policy of separating immigrant families by mocking a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome who had been separated from her mother after illegally crossing the border.
“I read today about a 10-year-old girl with Down syndrome...
- 6/21/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Three weeks after calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” Samantha Bee’s TBS program “Full Frontal” is starting to see advertisers return.
Wednesday night’s episode saw an increase from bigger brand advertisers, including ETrade, Progressive, Kia, as well as Wonderful Pistachios and Grand Canyon University. Universal ran commercials for both “The First Purge” and “Skyscraper,” and Sony’s PlayStation also aired an ad. The two companies have advertised each of the past two weeks.
For the previous two weeks, “Full Frontal” had roughly one-third of its usual amount of national advertisers.
Also Read: Samantha Bee: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Is 'Fjull of Shj-t' (Video)
Bee set off a firestorm in her May 30 episode when she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” for not doing more about President Trump’s immigration policies. But once Bee apologized during the subsequent episode on June 6, for using the slur, TBS had expected advertisers to return.
Wednesday night’s episode saw an increase from bigger brand advertisers, including ETrade, Progressive, Kia, as well as Wonderful Pistachios and Grand Canyon University. Universal ran commercials for both “The First Purge” and “Skyscraper,” and Sony’s PlayStation also aired an ad. The two companies have advertised each of the past two weeks.
For the previous two weeks, “Full Frontal” had roughly one-third of its usual amount of national advertisers.
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Bee set off a firestorm in her May 30 episode when she called Ivanka Trump a “feckless c—” for not doing more about President Trump’s immigration policies. But once Bee apologized during the subsequent episode on June 6, for using the slur, TBS had expected advertisers to return.
- 6/21/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Samantha Bee reprised her attacks on the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance" illegal immigration policy on her TBS broadcast on Wednesday night during a fiery segment in which she excoriated Trump's Wednesday executive order and particularly took aim at Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
The segment came after Bee stirred up controversy in May when she called Ivanka Trump a "feckless c---" for posting an Instagram of herself with her children while her father's administration was separating children from families at the U.S. border. Bee apologized for the remark, and TBS subsequently promised that it will provide ...
The segment came after Bee stirred up controversy in May when she called Ivanka Trump a "feckless c---" for posting an Instagram of herself with her children while her father's administration was separating children from families at the U.S. border. Bee apologized for the remark, and TBS subsequently promised that it will provide ...
- 6/21/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Washington — President Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order to keep families at the border together, amid outrage over an administration policy that has seen the separation of migrant children from their parents.
“I’ll be doing something that’s somewhat preemptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I’m sure,” Trump said.
Trump said he would be signing the executive order on Wednesday, before he flies to Duluth, Minn., for a rally. He did not provide any more details of the language of the order.
Earlier in the week, Trump had said that it was Congress that must take action to end the practice, resisting calls from a growing number of Democrats and even Republicans to end the policy.
Trump said that “we’re going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime,...
“I’ll be doing something that’s somewhat preemptive and ultimately will be matched by legislation I’m sure,” Trump said.
Trump said he would be signing the executive order on Wednesday, before he flies to Duluth, Minn., for a rally. He did not provide any more details of the language of the order.
Earlier in the week, Trump had said that it was Congress that must take action to end the practice, resisting calls from a growing number of Democrats and even Republicans to end the policy.
Trump said that “we’re going to keep families together but we still have to maintain toughness or our country will be overrun by people, by crime,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Washington — Steve Schmidt, who was senior adviser to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and later an MSNBC contributor, said on Wednesday that he is leaving the Republican party, citing the Trump administration’s border separation policy as a factor in his decision.
He wrote on Twitter that “29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.” He wrote that the Gop has “become a danger to our democracy and our values.”
29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party.
He wrote on Twitter that “29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.” He wrote that the Gop has “become a danger to our democracy and our values.”
29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party.
- 6/20/2018
- by Ted Johnson
- Variety Film + TV
Dhs Chief Driven From Mexican Eatery After Hard Day Enforcing Donald Trump Baby-Snatch Border Policy
If you are among those who think Kirstjen Nielsen’s decision to dine Tuesday night at a Mexican restaurant was not so much “tone deaf,” as some media outlets have reported, as “deliberate Trump-base-revving stunt,” you are in good company.
Nielsen, apparently deciding she had a craving for Mexican food Tuesday night, headed to Mxdc for dinner, when activists approached her table, shouting “Not in D.C.” etc. She and her body guards left and got into the vehicle parked immediately outside. It was reminiscent of that stunt last fall when Veep Mike Pence and Mother flew to an Indianapolis Colts vs San Francisco 49ers game, so they could turn around and walk out when about 20 49ers kneeled during the national anthem. President Donald Trump bragged, after that caper, that he had orchestrated it.
Mxdc, in downtown Washington, D.C. is located directly across from the National Press Club, and...
Nielsen, apparently deciding she had a craving for Mexican food Tuesday night, headed to Mxdc for dinner, when activists approached her table, shouting “Not in D.C.” etc. She and her body guards left and got into the vehicle parked immediately outside. It was reminiscent of that stunt last fall when Veep Mike Pence and Mother flew to an Indianapolis Colts vs San Francisco 49ers game, so they could turn around and walk out when about 20 49ers kneeled during the national anthem. President Donald Trump bragged, after that caper, that he had orchestrated it.
Mxdc, in downtown Washington, D.C. is located directly across from the National Press Club, and...
- 6/20/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Kirstjen Nielsen was heckled by Democratic Socialists while dining at a Mexican restaurant in Washington D.C. Tuesday evening. The mob ultimately forced the Homeland Security secretary and her guest to vacate the restaurant.
“Sec. Nielsen, how dare you spend your evening here eating dinner as you’re complicit in the separation and deportation of over 10,000 children separated from their parents,” a man yells. “How can you enjoy a Mexican dinner as you’re deporting and imprisoning tens of thousands of people who come here seeking asylum in the United States.”
“Fascist pigs!” another woman screamed.
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As Nielsen sat in increasingly awkward silence, activists clapped their disapproval, repeatedly shouting “shame.”
“No human being is illegal, no child is illegal” the cries continued. “Abolish Ice. No borders, no walls, sanctuary for all.”
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“Sec. Nielsen, how dare you spend your evening here eating dinner as you’re complicit in the separation and deportation of over 10,000 children separated from their parents,” a man yells. “How can you enjoy a Mexican dinner as you’re deporting and imprisoning tens of thousands of people who come here seeking asylum in the United States.”
“Fascist pigs!” another woman screamed.
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As Nielsen sat in increasingly awkward silence, activists clapped their disapproval, repeatedly shouting “shame.”
“No human being is illegal, no child is illegal” the cries continued. “Abolish Ice. No borders, no walls, sanctuary for all.”
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- 6/20/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Kirstjen Nielsen -- the Secretary of Homeland Security -- busted out a walk of shame after a group of protesters disrupted her dinner at -- of all places -- a Mexican restaurant. The incident went down Tuesday night at the popular Mxdc Cocina Mexicana Restaurant near the White House ... where Nielsen sat in the back surrounded by her security detail and waited for dinner. That's when a group from the Metro DC Democratic Socialists of...
- 6/20/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Seth Meyers didn’t have a new “A Closer Look” segment on “Late Night” Tuesday night, but that doesn’t mean Meyers skipped making jokes at Donald Trump’s expense. His monologue was filled with barbs pointed directly at Trump, from his family separation policy to his claims about German crime statistics to a loophole that Trump himself offered up in a tweet that Meyers joked is the key to finally getting rid of him.
Since Meyers’ monologue is a series of quick hitters every night, we’ll just organize the quotes by what joke he’s making.
The legal loophole that will allow the U.S. to dump Trump: “President Trump tweeted today, quote, ‘If you don’t have Borders, you don’t have a Country.’ And if you don’t have a country, you can’t have a president! So we did it, we got rid of him.
Since Meyers’ monologue is a series of quick hitters every night, we’ll just organize the quotes by what joke he’s making.
The legal loophole that will allow the U.S. to dump Trump: “President Trump tweeted today, quote, ‘If you don’t have Borders, you don’t have a Country.’ And if you don’t have a country, you can’t have a president! So we did it, we got rid of him.
- 6/20/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Donald Trump has finally managed to do something that has people so angry that the news cycle isn’t taking any breaks from it — and so, yes, Stephen Colbert spent a second night — a third time in the last four “Late Show” episodes — ripping the Trump administration for its policy of separating immigrant children from their families at the border and putting the kids in camps.
“You know, when it comes to the news, let’s face it, we don’t want to face it,” Colbert said to open his monologue Tuesday night. “Because once again, the big story is Trump’s policy of taking immigrant children from their parents at the border. Now, there are two ways to look at this story: either you can be horrified, or you can work for Donald Trump.
“Take secretary of Homeland Security and stepmom flushing pictures of your real mom down the toilet,...
“You know, when it comes to the news, let’s face it, we don’t want to face it,” Colbert said to open his monologue Tuesday night. “Because once again, the big story is Trump’s policy of taking immigrant children from their parents at the border. Now, there are two ways to look at this story: either you can be horrified, or you can work for Donald Trump.
“Take secretary of Homeland Security and stepmom flushing pictures of your real mom down the toilet,...
- 6/20/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Updated with video: There is the right side of history and then there is the side of history in which the Trump administration defends its policy of separating children from their parents, Stephen Colbert said – one of many late-night stars to pummel President Donald Trump’s baby-snatching immigration policy.
Fox News Channel argued the chain link fenced boxes in which children are being put after they are separated from their parent are not cages, they’re pens, the CBS late night host described via video. “We’re not treating these kids like zoo animals. We’re treating them like farm animals,” Colbert translated.
Border patrol told CBS This Morning they’re “very uncomfortable” with the characterization of the boxes as “cages,” saying it’s not inaccurate – it’s just uncomfortable-making.
“It’s accurate; that’s why they’re uncomfortable,” Colbert explained.
While President Donald Trump continues to blame Democrats for...
Fox News Channel argued the chain link fenced boxes in which children are being put after they are separated from their parent are not cages, they’re pens, the CBS late night host described via video. “We’re not treating these kids like zoo animals. We’re treating them like farm animals,” Colbert translated.
Border patrol told CBS This Morning they’re “very uncomfortable” with the characterization of the boxes as “cages,” saying it’s not inaccurate – it’s just uncomfortable-making.
“It’s accurate; that’s why they’re uncomfortable,” Colbert explained.
While President Donald Trump continues to blame Democrats for...
- 6/19/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
Stephen Colbert addressed Donald Trump’s new immigration policy, which separates children from their families at the border and locks them in detention centers, in a serious segment where he went after Jeff Sessions for using the Bible to justify it. Colbert opened his monologue on Monday’s “The Late Show” with another bit of commentary about that whole situation, which has dominated the discourse for several days.
“The big story continues to be the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents. And faced with almost universal condemnation from both sides of the political aisle, from religious leaders, from the Un Human Rights Council, Donald Trump finally took full responsibility for the policy and promised a swift end to this humanitarian disaster,” Colbert said, pausing for a long moment after finishing that sentence.
“I’m just kidding. No, he blamed the Democrats, tweeting, ‘The Democrats...
“The big story continues to be the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating immigrant children from their parents. And faced with almost universal condemnation from both sides of the political aisle, from religious leaders, from the Un Human Rights Council, Donald Trump finally took full responsibility for the policy and promised a swift end to this humanitarian disaster,” Colbert said, pausing for a long moment after finishing that sentence.
“I’m just kidding. No, he blamed the Democrats, tweeting, ‘The Democrats...
- 6/19/2018
- by Phil Owen
- The Wrap
Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham has come under fire for comments she made on The Ingraham Angle on Monday, calling immigration detention centers for children, “essentially summer camps.” Ingraham’s show faced an advertiser boycott in April after she took to Twitter to mock Parkland survivor David Hogg. On the heels of the “summer camps” quip Monday night, some on Twitter were using the hashtag #boycottlaura.
On her program, Ingraham said, “As more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed at what are, essentially, summer camps.” Ingraham added, “The president is doing what we should have been doing all along, prosecuting all border crashers.”
Ingraham was discussing Donald Trump’s controversial ‘zero tolerance’ on immigrants entering the country illegally. Potus had spent his Monday morning Tweet-storm blaming...
On her program, Ingraham said, “As more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed at what are, essentially, summer camps.” Ingraham added, “The president is doing what we should have been doing all along, prosecuting all border crashers.”
Ingraham was discussing Donald Trump’s controversial ‘zero tolerance’ on immigrants entering the country illegally. Potus had spent his Monday morning Tweet-storm blaming...
- 6/19/2018
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Department of Homeland Security Secy Kirstjen Nielsen defended the Trump administration’s appalling policy of snatching children from parents at the border, insisting she’s merely enforcing the law and it’s up to Congress to “fix it.”
“Congress and the courts created this problem and Congress alone can fix it,” she insisted to reporters at the White House briefing, which started four hours late so she could be flown back from New Orleans, reportedly after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she did not want to field the inevitable questions about the Trump administration’s decision.
Nielsen said the policy was signed into law during the George W. Bush administration.
The Dhs “is no longer ignoring the laws,” enforcing them as they exist on the books, she said. The beginning of the unraveling of a democracy she said, is when the body that makes the laws, instead of changing the law,...
“Congress and the courts created this problem and Congress alone can fix it,” she insisted to reporters at the White House briefing, which started four hours late so she could be flown back from New Orleans, reportedly after White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said she did not want to field the inevitable questions about the Trump administration’s decision.
Nielsen said the policy was signed into law during the George W. Bush administration.
The Dhs “is no longer ignoring the laws,” enforcing them as they exist on the books, she said. The beginning of the unraveling of a democracy she said, is when the body that makes the laws, instead of changing the law,...
- 6/18/2018
- by Lisa de Moraes
- Deadline Film + TV
The host of “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” wasted no time taking the Trump administration to task, following her apology for calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c–t” last week by slamming Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
After a heartfelt apology to the people she offended with her comment about Ivanka Trump, Bee brought up another topic from last week’s episode: The Trump administration’s policy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents when they try to cross the U.S. border.
As part of her monologue during the segment, Bee said the U.S. shouldn’t be treating families of illegal immigrants “like sea monkeys.”
Watch the video above.
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Bee discussed the 11,000 children are being held in government custody separated from their parents, giving a rundown of the situation. Even...
After a heartfelt apology to the people she offended with her comment about Ivanka Trump, Bee brought up another topic from last week’s episode: The Trump administration’s policy of separating the children of illegal immigrants from their parents when they try to cross the U.S. border.
As part of her monologue during the segment, Bee said the U.S. shouldn’t be treating families of illegal immigrants “like sea monkeys.”
Watch the video above.
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Bee discussed the 11,000 children are being held in government custody separated from their parents, giving a rundown of the situation. Even...
- 6/7/2018
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
USA Today shed its usual stoicism, dropping a nasty editorial Tuesday blasting President Donald Trump and Gop allies over comments he made about “shithole countries” during a close-door meeting last week about immigration. “It’s bad enough that the president of the United States is an inveterate liar. It’s even worse when members of Congress and his Cabinet feel compelled to lie on his behalf,” the paper wrote. “No legislative priority is worth sacrificing your credibility to protect a president with so little regard for decency and honesty.” The paper also took a dim view of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and her...
- 1/17/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
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