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New York Times
4 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Musk and Trump's Reality TV Dispute
A recent headline The Times has run about the Elon Musk-Donald Trump breakup includes the phrase 'Trump Has No Plans to Call Musk, Officials Say.' I guess they're at the no-contact point, after many hours of dramatic public scrapping on social media. Trump is threatening to sell his Tesla. There's been a variety of responses from the greater MAGAverse. While the majority of people appear to be siding with the president, there are a few who are on the fence, like the far-right influencer Jack Posobiec, who posted on X: Some of y'all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows This is direct communication (phallocentric) vs indirect communication (gynocentric) I understand you aren't used to it This view of masculinity is fascinating to me. Historically, 'phallocentric' communication was that you walked over to a guy and punched him in the face, or asked him to step outside. Even in professional wrestling, which involves histrionic male rivalries and is revered by Trump world, enemies eventually hit each other over the head with a folding chair (even if it's for show). I'm not saying it's the best way to work out differences, but that's the cowboy stereotype. Hurling epithets over social media with your friends as Trump and Musk have spent much of the last 24 hours doing is not behavior that I think of as traditionally male; if anything, it's passive-aggressive and female coded. It's Season 2 'The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,' Taylor versus Demi. It's any given season of 'Real Housewives,' where the women divvy their loyalties up behind whoever is the reigning alpha. I half expect Andy Cohen to moderate the MAGA reunion, if he could even get Trump and Musk in a room together. In The Atlantic earlier this year, Jill Filipovic called this version of manhood 'The Adolescent Style in American Politics.' I called it 'Toxic Immaturity' in 2023. This style of masculinity rejects the old-fashioned notion that being a man means being a provider, a moral exemplar or a protector. That's been replaced by disruption and edgelord posturing without any accountability to other people. If that's what passes for aspirational masculinity these days, men and boys are in more trouble than I thought.
Daily Mail
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Trump cronies claim there's 'evidence' Joe Biden is a clone after president shares wild conspiracies
The online MAGAverse is ablaze with claims that Joe Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by a clone after President Donald Trump boosted the wild conspiracy. Trump's internet sleuths are scouring images and video of the former president for signs he was a robotic clone. Raven Harrison, a U.S. House candidate from Florida, believes she found evidence that Biden's face is actually a synthetic mask being operated by a robotic clone underneath. Some online claim there were actors wearing Biden 'CIA masks' while others note a suspicious lack of veins as a sign there was circuitry underneath a human skin facade. Proof internet detectives provided for the actor theory is that Biden was standing a few inches taller than he once was prior to winning the 2020 presidential election. One said Biden was 'clearly' wearing a rubber mask. Trump amplified the wild conspiracy theory when he published a social media post to his Truth Social account that suggested Biden died in 2020 and a clone carried out his single presidential term. 'There is no #JoeBiden - executed in 2020. #Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see,' wrote the user named llijh. Trump didn't add his own commentary to the claims, but his interaction with the post only gave air to what some users already were discussing online. 'Trump just told the world what we have been saying the entire time. The real Joe Biden was takenn (sic) out a long time ago,' one pro-Trump X user wrote. They added: 'You are watching a scripted movie, with actors, clones, and AI generated footage to wake people up the demonic cult and the plans they had to destroy the world.' Some analyzed his height compared to other world leaders he met with during his four years in office. Others zoomed in on his face to show changes they observed in his skin, eyes and ear lobes. Last month, Biden's personal office announced that the former president was diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The dire prognosis led to speculation over the timeline of the diagnosis considering Biden was likely screened for prostate issues when he was in office – and medical experts claim the cancer would have been caught before reaching such an advanced stage, if that were the case. A Fox News host attempted to justify Trump's push on the clone conspiracy, claiming he was likely 'trolling.' Host John Roberts brought on Independent Women Features editor in chief Kaylee McGhee White during his Monday program. She questioned who was running the country over the last four years. Roberts began the discussion by claiming he's 'sure' Trump 'was just trolling' with the clone post. 'Well, I would hope so,' White replied. 'But I think, also, it gets to the real heart of this scandal, which is who in the world was president for the past four years if it wasn't Joe Biden? Was it a clone? Was it a cabal of White House officials?' 'And I'll say, one of the revealing things about Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper's book is that, apparently, there were more than 100 people within the White House and in the administration who were well aware of Biden's true mental state the entire time; and yet we still don't have a single name of the people who were making decisions on Biden's behalf,' she added of the latest book on the cover-up of Biden's decline.
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Issues Not-So-Coincidental Pardon of Massive Tax Cheat
Paul Walzack, a former nursing home executive guilty of tax fraud, got a full and unconditional pardon from President Trump after his mother attended a $1 million-per-person dinner with the president, according to The New York Times. His mother, a major Trump supporter, also happened to be involved in the 2020 plot to publicize Ashley Biden's stolen diary. Walzack was found guilty of stealing over $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses and doctors who worked for him to finance a yacht and other luxury items. He was charged in February 2023 on 13 counts of tax crimes, and eventually pleaded guilty and paid $4.4 million in restitution as Trump won back the White House in November. Walzack initially received no response from the Trump administration regarding a pardon request he submitted around Inauguration Day. But in April his mother, Elizabeth Fago, attended a $1 million entry dinner that included guaranteed face time with the president. The dinner was sponsored by MAGA Inc., a PAC that backs causes and candidates supported by Trump. It's not clear whether Fago donated to MAGA Inc., or how much, but three weeks later her son got his pardon. Walzack and his mother are well established within the MAGAverse. Fago has donated millions of dollars to GOP campaigns. She's hosted at least three Trump fundraisers and went to the VIP portions of both Trump inaugurations, where she cozied up to the president in photos posted on her Instagram. Fago was also deeply involved in a scheme to publicize the diary of Ashley Biden, former President Joe Biden's daughter, after she left it at a beach house in Florida. Aimee Harris, and Robert Kurlander, the individuals who stole the diary, brought it to a fundraiser at Fago's home in 2020 where it was shown to a Trump campaign organizer. Harris was sentenced to a month in prison and Kurlander is awaiting sentencing. This is yet another example of Trump's flippant use of his executive pardon power. Show him some loyalty, and some money, and you could get out of jail too.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Opinion: Why Biden's Cancer Diagnosis Could Become as Big a Scandal as Watergate
Anthony Scaramucci thinks former President Joe Biden's cancer diagnosis has the potential to rival the Watergate scandal. The broadcaster and financier, who briefly served as the White House's director of communications in 2017 during President Donald Trump's first term, joined The Daily Beast Podcast this week, where he and host Joanna Coles discussed Biden's Stage 4 prostate cancer diagnosis. 'My heart goes out to him. He served the country for 50 plus years. He lost his son,' Scaramucci noted. 'My heart goes out to him and his family.' But when asked by Coles how Biden could not have known that he had prostate cancer while still in office a few months ago, Scaramucci said, 'I don't think it's realistic.' Biden was last given a clean bill of health by White House Dr. Kevin O'Connor in February 2024. Annual medical reports from his presidency did not show that he was tested for prostate cancer, and representatives for Biden have yet to comment on whether he was screened while in office. '[If] you told me that you had a very obscure, hard to understand disease, you know, one out of 300 million people have it and they missed it—okay. But this is something that most men unfortunately are gonna get before their lifetime is over,' Scaramucci said. 'Whether Joe Biden just learned about this stage four cancer yesterday, even if that's 100% true, it doesn't matter for the conversation,' he continued, 'because the people don't believe that.' Since Biden's diagnosis, supporters and critics alike have raised questions about how—and whether—the cancer went unnoticed by doctors. Biden's health had already been under scrutiny amid new reporting about how aides concealed other health and acuity concerns. If Biden knew about his cancer diagnosis while he was still president it could be 'a scandal as bad as Watergate,' Scaramucci said. 'If that is true, this is political Enron. This is a scandal as bad as Watergate. You can't tell me that you're taking oaths to the Constitution and you've got somebody now that is not capable of doing the job that he's in and you're not removing him.' The loudest voices pushing questions—and raising concerns—about the context of Biden's diagnosis have come from the MAGAverse. Just hours after the announcement of Biden's cancer on Sunday, Donald Trump Jr., for one, alleged that it could have been 'coverup.' His take was echoed by a slew of pro-Trump influencers. The Sunday announcement from Biden's camp said that a doctor had discovered a nodule on his prostate last week and that the 82-year-old had been diagnosed with an 'aggressive form' of cancer that had spread to his bones. 'While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management,' the statement said. 'Cancer touches us all,' Biden wrote in an X post on Monday, alongside a photo of him and his wife. 'Like so many of you, Jill and I have learned that we are strongest in the broken places. Thank you for lifting us up with love and support.' New episodes of The Daily Beast Podcast are released every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Follow our new feed on your favorite podcast platform at and subscribe on YouTube to watch full episodes.
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Trump calls Biden cancer diagnosis ‘very sad' — before pivoting to his predecessor's cognitive state
Even cancer apparently can't salve the wounds between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Asked Monday about Biden's aggressive cancer diagnosis, Trump quickly pivoted from a brief stab at condolences to questions about his predecessor's mental acuity. Trump told reporters that Biden's doctors should have caught the cancer earlier. 'I think it's very sad, actually. I'm surprised that it wasn't, you know, the public wasn't notified a long time ago because to get to stage 9, that's a long time,' Trump said, referring to the 'Gleason score' used to characterize prostate cancer diagnoses. He then went on to suggest that the doctors who gave Biden a clean bill of cognitive health had missed early signs of his cancer. 'I think that if you take a look it's the same doctor that said that Joe was cognitively fine, there was nothing wrong with him,' Trump said. 'If it's the same doctor he said there was nothing wrong there, and that's being proven to be a sad situation.' Biden's personal office announced the diagnosis — an aggressive form of prostate cancer, with metastasis to the bone — on Sunday. His reaction, a more truncated version of the one he posted on Truth Social on Sunday, contrasted with even fierce Biden critics who wished the former president well in the wake of his cancer diagnosis. 'I'm sorry to see this news,' Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. 'Cancer is truly awful. My Dad passed away in 2021 with cancer. Prays for Joe Biden and his family.' Biden started experiencing increasing urinary symptoms and was diagnosed by his doctors last week with a prostate nodule. On Friday, the doctors diagnosed the former president with prostate cancer. Trump's comments come as Biden's cancer diagnosis set off a wave of speculation in the online MAGAverse, including from the president's own son, Donald Trump Jr., about how the cancer could have progressed so far before it was caught.
