Latest news with #JillianMichaels
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
MAHA report can be an inflection point for US: Jillian Michaels
(NewsNation) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday unveiled a report that takes aim at the pesticides, processed foods and prescription drugs that he says are harming American children. Fitness expert and influencer Jillian Michaels joins 'On Balance' to weigh in on the findings. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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The Independent
22-05-2025
- Health
- The Independent
‘This timeline is so stupid': Social media shakes head over Jillian Michaels taking ‘new media' seat at White House
Jillian Michaels, best known as the fitness trainer on the reality series The Biggest Loser, got the opportunity to ask the first question at Thursday's White House press briefing as a 'new media' member – and the internet did not disappoint with its reaction to the spectacle. 'This timeline is just so stupid,' one Bluesky user noted, seemingly speaking for much of social media. With the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again Commission – led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – releasing its much-anticipated report on childhood chronic illness, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt invited Michaels to occupy the 'new media' seat at Thursday's press briefing. Michaels, who once criticized Donald Trump's former vice president Mike Pence as 'the number one anti-gay politician in the country,' has refashioned herself in recent years as a conservative podcaster and pundit. After expressing support for Kennedy's presidential campaign and MAHA movement, she ended up voting for Trump in what was a reversal of her previous stance on his first administration. The White House's 'new media' seat, meanwhile, has disproportionally (but not exclusively) been reserved for pro-Trump media outlets and influencers who have generally rewarded Leavitt for the assignment by tossing obsequiously softball questions her way. Prior to turning to the former reality star on Thursday, Leavitt promoted Michaels' podcast Keeping It Real and called her a 'media powerhouse' before acknowledging that she was at the White House to attend that afternoon's MAHA event. Michaels then kicked off the briefing by asking the press secretary about the personal impact of Kennedy's new study. 'As a MAHA mom yourself, how do you interpret the significance of this report in terms of delivering measurable health improvement for Americans and their kids? And what specific actions does the administration plan to take in response to it?' Michaels wondered. 'When the president took office, he promised to make this country healthy again. And the president signed an executive order directing this commission, now less than 100 days later, the commission is delivering this report,' Leavitt responded. 'Another promise kept.' Of course, it didn't take long for the spectacle of The Biggest Loser trainer asking questions at a White House briefing to make its way to social media. And the reaction, especially from liberals and progressives, was a combination of mockery, incredulity and dismay. 'Jillian Michaels is in the new media seat at the White House press briefing,' one Twitter user wrote. 'This timeline is so wild.' Laura Bassett, a columnist at The Cut, said she 'could write a dissertation about the new media seat.' States Newsroom reporter Kelcie Moseley-Morris added that her '2005 self would be so confused by this.' While some pointed out that she's now a host of a right-wing version of The View, others explained that they had to do a 'double take' when they noticed her while watching the briefing. Still, in the end, many just felt that Michaels' appearance showed 'spectacular levels of unseriousness' and snarked that the United States was now 'the least serious country in the entire benighted history of the solar system.'
Fox News
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Maher calls out SNL for 'zombie lie' that Republicans are racist, warns they are 'not helping'
Talk show host Bill Maher called out liberal writers on "Saturday Night Live" for their portrayal of conservatives, arguing they used an outdated stereotype. Maher spoke about the current state of American culture with fitness icon and commentator Jillian Michaels in an episode of "Club Random" released on Sunday. After Maher spoke about Trump's unique appeal as a brash outsider willing to be called "deplorable" by his detractors, Michaels marveled at how Democrats are still tarring his supporters. "The whole 'deplorable'" thing," Michaels said, referring to then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton infamously smearing Trump's supporters as "a basket of deplorables," noting, "They're still doing that." Michaels recalled having met outspoken liberal actor Tom Hanks multiple times, saying he was "lovely" in person, but crossed a line with his portrayal of a Trump supporter on "Saturday Night Live." Hanks portrayed a caricature of an unkempt racist Southerner in a MAGA hat named "Doug" several times on the sketch comedy show. In one famous moment in the recurring "Black Jeopardy" sketch, Doug initially balks at shaking the hand of the Black host, before eventually relenting. "I hated it too, and I said it on my show. I know. I hated it. Wearing the MAGA hat, not shaking hands with a Black person. And that's when I thought, 'You people don't know MAGA people,'" Maher said. "I mean, they have their issues and I certainly have my issues with them, but they're general — I mean, of course, there's some racists everywhere who are that bad, but generally, all the MAGA people I know have no problem shaking hands with a Black person." Maher then appeared to address the people behind such a portrayal by declaring, "You're just hysterical, and you're not helping." Maher referred to such a smear of Trump supporters as a "zombie lie." "Mostly what I hate is, it's what I call a zombie lie. Don't lie to me," he said, again addressing those who smear Trump supporters. "It's a lie that MAGA people won't shake hands with — I get it, it's part of a skit, and it's exaggeration, and that's comedy. It's a little too delicate a subject to just make — to go there for that one. You know, look, we all in comedy step over the line sometimes or do one that they want to take back. I doubt if they want to take that one back. I think they probably think it's great." One of the rules of comedy, said Maher - a comedian himself - is that good jokes have to have some element of observational truth about the world in them. "But I'm telling you, as a liberal, I don't like it," he said. "Again, because lying offends me. I'm a comedian. When the premise isn't real, I can't go with — the joke is not gonna work. The premise has to ring true. That premise doesn't ring true. It might have rang true, I don't know, X years ago. It doesn't now. So, you know — but that's where we are. Everybody has to just play the hate card, because that's what gets clicks. That's what gets you loved by your side."
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Patrick Bet-David on Middle East deals: If anyone understands negotiations, it's Trump
President Donald Trump wrapped up the first extended foreign trip of his second term Friday, ending a tour he said secured deals worth trillions in the Middle East. Patrick Bet-David, founder of Valuetainment, tells Jillian Michaels on NewsNation's 'On Balance' that Trump is trying to get 'everybody in the Middle East at peace.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
FDA commissioner says research on psychedelic treatment ‘top priority'
FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary tells Jillian Michaels on NewsNation's 'On Balance' that the agency needs to 'listen to doctors' and expand its research on psychedelic drugs, calling it a top priority for the Trump administration. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
