Barron Trump has been named his father's all but official ambassador to Generation Z - as Donald Trump aims to reach young voters, particularly young men, with a string of podcast appearances.
In an interview with Fox News, Trump admitted his youngest son is impacting his presidential campaign - something he perhaps never saw coming.
When asked by Maria Bartiromo about Barron's role, Trump, 78, admitted that his 18-year-old son has helped him adapt to the unfamiliar podcasting world.
“A little bit, I mean, he tells me about all the hot guys, people I’d never heard of, ‘Dad, that guy is hot,’” Trump said. “You know, it’s very cute, actually. A little bit."
"But you know, Don [Jr.] knows a lot about it, and Eric knows a lot about it. Tiffany knows a lot," Trump added. "Ivanka knows a lot."
This isn't the first time Trump has credited Barron with connecting him to podcasters like Adin Ross, Lex Fridman, and Theo Von. The podcast appearances have afforded Trump the opportunity to show off his personal side to a younger demographic that typically leans left.
Polling in Trump's matchup with Kamala Harris has shown a pronounced gender gap, with Trump leading strongly among men in all age groups. The gap has rattled Democrats, prompting Barack Obama to scold black men in particular for considering Trump.
Harris has also engaged in podcast outreach, recently targeting young women on the sex podcast Call Her Daddy.
Meanwhile, Trump told the Nelk Boys podcast that he would be going on Joe Rogan before the election, although Rogan has yet to confirm this. Rogan has the top-rated podcast and a significant audience of young men.
“Oh sure I would. I mean I think I’m doing it, actually,” Trump told the Nelk Boys podcast, calling Rogan a “good guy.”
Earlier this year, Trump announced that Barron would be going to business school at New York University. Speculation has intensified around Barron's future and whether he will follow his father into politics.
During his Fox interview, Trump made it clear how proud he is of his "very tall" son, his only child with wife Melania Trump.
"You know, Barron’s a very good student, he’s going to a very good school, always got good marks. He’s also tall, very tall, he’s a tall student," he said.
After leaving politics when she was beaten badly by former President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tried her hand at producing Broadway musicals.
And she failed. Big time, according to Breitbart.
The musical "Suffs," which lists Clinton as a producer, failed to turn a profit in its first six months and has formally been tossed in the trash after running for only eight months.
The cast, which are all women and "non-binary" actors, apparently didn't have the talent or the story backing to wow audiences into coming back.
According to a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing, "Suffs," a play about the women's suffrage movement, cost a staggering $19 million to produce.
The play is apparently such a drag that it can't recoup its operating costs from ticket sales, and has failed to turn a profit.
Hillary Clinton‘s Feminist Musical ‘Suffs‘ Bombs, Will Close After 8 Months on Broadway https://t.co/pbmafwU8Io via @BreitbartNews pic.twitter.com/INVeUFU6Hf
— Tuck's News (@tucksnews) October 13, 2024
The show has a tie to Vice President Kamala Harris.
Breitbart noted:
Producers announced Friday that Suffs will close January 5 — only running for eight full months since its opening on April 18, 2024. Among the show’s other producers is Meena Harris, the niece of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Upon announcing that she was a major producer of the Broadway show, Clinton aggressively marketed it through late-night talkshows and other media allies. Still, even they couldn't convince enough people to buy tickets to keep the show afloat.
Clinton was widely mocked across social media for not being able to keep the show alive for more than eight months
"It’s the name behind the musical that made it a failure. When will people learn. No one likes her or supports her," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, "It is possible visitors to New York don't want to hear women complaining about being born female when they attend a Broadway show."
Breitbart noted:
As Breitbart News reported, the musical showed signs of struggle early in its run, with attendance dipping as low as 78 percent in May, just a month after opening — a troubling sign for a show that was in the midst of prime Broadway season.
As Vice President Kamala Harris continues to hit the campaign trail with her husband, Second Gentleman Dough Emhoff, bombshell news reports regarding his past are undoubtedly becoming a painful thorn in the side of her campaign.
According to the Daily Caller, Emhoff has been accused of being routinely "inappropriate" and "misogynistic" by some of his former colleagues, adding to past allegations that he might have some skeletons in his closet.
He had also been accused of sexual misconduct, and former colleagues claimed that Emhoff only hired young, attractive women for certain positions.
Other colleagues said Emhoff routinely yelled at some of the younger women and staffers, only to later brag about it to some of the other men at Venable's Los Angeles offices.
One of the former female staffers at the law firm said Emhoff was very "flirty," adding that the women who didn't flirt back were essentially blacklisted by Emhoff and treated poorly.
"If you weren’t flirty back or didn’t respond positively then you were on his s**t list," the former female staffer told the Daily Mail.
NEW: Doug Emhoff's former colleagues have come forward, say he refused to promote women who didn't flirt with him & would brag about yelling at women.
Emhoff impregnated his nanny, is accused of assaulting his girlfriend, and now this.
According to the Daily Mail, Emhoff was a… pic.twitter.com/DV9OnqhGMh
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) October 8, 2024
Another former female staffer said Emhoff would host "men only" drink nights at the office -- a practice she said was stopped after she brought it to the attention of Venable's top brass.
“He had, for many years cocktail parties where only men were invited,” she told the Daily Mail. “In the office, on Friday evening. When my colleague brought that to the attention of Venable [around 2010], that stopped."
Emhoff, according to another former employee, also reportedly demanded a cut from new client fees.
Emhoff is also still getting backlash from some for reports that broke earlier this year about the time he impregnated his nanny, who also happened to be a teacher at his children's school.
Other reports emerged that accused Emhoff of slapping his ex-girlfriend.
The wide range of disgusting allegations tends to paint a shockingly bad picture of who Emhoff is as a person.
The Harris campaign has not commented on the most recent allegations of his past workplace behaviors, though it might have to sooner than later.
Hollywood actress Theresa Randle was arrested for an alleged assault in Los Angeles on Monday - just the latest incident to raise concern about the Bad Boys star who hasn't been seen in movies recently.
Randle, known for playing Martin Lawrence's wife in the Bad Boys action comedy series, was reported to police last weekend over an alleged assault.
When the cops showed up, Randle was not there. But two days later, the police received a second call about domestic violence and a restraining order violation from the same house.
The cops found Randle at the residence, but she was not cooperative as they detained her for felony assault with a deadly weapon.
Officer Charles Miller, a public information officer for the Los Angeles Police Department, told the Los Angeles Times that Randle struck another person during an "argument" at a home in the 500 block of 7th Street.
The details about the assault, including the nature of the deadly weapon, are unclear. The woke District Attorney of Los Angeles, George Gascon, is not prosecuting the case, citing insufficient evidence.
Randle is known for her roles in Malcolm X, Space Jam, Beverly Hills Cop III, and the Bad Boys series. She hasn't received much acting work lately, last appearing in Bad Boys For Life in 2020.
Randle did not appear in the most recent Bad Boys movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, which was released this summer.
Randle portrayed Theresa, the wife of Martin Lawrence's character Marcus Burnett, in the first three Bad Boys movies, but she was replaced by Tasha Smith in the latest installment.
The movie was a box office success, netting $400 million across the world and marking a triumph for star Will Smith, who fell into disgrace after slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars.
Last year, Randle caused alarm when she was seen in LA's notorious Skid Row, known for its large homeless population. A viral video showed Randle in a walker, wearing disposable gloves, raising concern about her health.
Her former publicist, Roger Neal, confirmed Randle's identity but noted he hasn't represented her in a decade. Neal said that casting agents have called him to book Randle, but he has no way of getting in touch with her.
"'That's definitely her. 100 percent," he said of the video.
Jack Smith's October surprise filing in Donald Trump's January 6th case is a "big win" for Trump, according to a former federal prosecutor appointed by Barack Obama.
The judge in the case, Tanya Chutkan, last week released a 165-page filing from Smith that accuses Trump of "resorting to crimes" to stay in power.
While many have accused Smith of interfering in the presidential election, Joyce Vance, a former prosecutor and commentator, said the filing is beneficial to Trump because it gives his lawyers a map of the trial.
"This brief puts Trump's team in a better position to respond, to make their own immunity arguments, and to prepare their case," Vance said on the podcast Stay Tuned With Preet Bharara.
Smith's move has been condemned by legal analysts across the aisle as a breach of legal ethics, with CNN pundit Elie Honig calling it a "cheap shot" aimed at kneecapping Trump's campaign. But some are skeptical that Smith's filing will have any impact on voters.
"This is, in fact, a win for Trump. And I guarantee you that nobody in the public who spent their time reading 165 pages in detail didn't have their mind already made up about this election, right? The broad contours here, they are well known. This is not impacting the election," Vance insisted.
Smith was desperate to prosecute Trump before the election, but the case was delayed by Trump's appeals on the issue of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court ruled in July that presidents have broad immunity from prosecution for their official acts, forcing Smith to tailor his sweeping indictment.
Smith's superseding indictment retains many of the allegations against Trump, but Smith instead refers to Trump as a political candidate rather than a sitting president.
Given the low odds of Trump receiving a fair trial in overwhelmingly Democratic Washington D.C., his best hope of exoneration likely lies with winning the presidency and having the case dismissed outright.
Trump's lawyers asked the judge Thursday not to release any more of Smith's "unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized" evidence while voting is underway.
“There should be no further disclosures at this time of the so-called ‘evidence’ that the Special Counsel’s Office has unlawfully cherry-picked and mischaracterized—during early voting in the 2024 Presidential election—in connection with an improper Presidential immunity filing that has no basis in criminal procedure or judicial precedent,” his lawyers wrote.
Nicholas Pryor, a prolific actor known for playing the father in Tom Cruise's breakout movie Risky Business, has died. He was 89.
With a career spanning decades, Pryor was known to generations of viewers, from his debut in Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1961 to his most well-known television role in the 1990s teen drama Beverly Hills: 90210.
The cause of death was cancer, his agent, Susan Tolar Walters, said, telling Variety, “He was one of the nicest people I have ever met and he will be missed.”
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Pryor was perhaps best known as the father in two Generation X touchstones: 1983's Risky Business and the cult classic Less Than Zero (1987), starring a young Robert Downey Jr.
Pryor was a nauseous airline passenger who utters the notable line, "I shouldn't have had that second cup of coffee" in the zany 1980 comedy Airplane!
RIP Nicholas Pryor, 89. He was the dad in "Risky Business" & "Less Than Zero" ... and he really shouldn't have had that 2nd cup of coffee in "Airplane!" pic.twitter.com/Zz6p9M3IzJ
— Matthew Rettenmund (@mattrett) October 8, 2024
A regular on daytime TV, Pryor was one of the original cast members in the soap opera Another World, playing the role of Tom Baxter when the series launched in 1964.
He had his longest-running TV role as former spy Victor Collins in Port Charles, a spinoff of General Hospital. Pryor starred on Port Charles from 1997 to 2002.
From 1994 to 1997, Pryor appeared as A. Milton Arnold, the father of Kathleen Robertson's character in the teen drama Beverly Hills: 90210.
His list of guest appearances spans the decades, from shows like M*A*S*H, Little House on the Prairie, Knight Rider, and Who’s the Boss? to NYPD Blue and Hart of Dixie.
The news of Pryor's death was shared by his friend and fellow actor Jon Lindstrom, who shared a heartfelt tribute on social media.
“It is my solemn task to announce the passing of the great Nicholas Pryor. Nick was an Actor’s actor, and an exceptional friend,” he wrote. "He passed on October 7, 2024, surrounded by loving family."
"He was a mentor, a sounding board, a trusted confidant, and even a father-figure beyond, yes, playing my own father on #GH and #PortCharles. And he was one of the funniest people you could hope to spend time with over a bottle of good wine and a great meal.”
Pryor is survived by his wife Christine Belford, who played Samantha Sanders on Beverly Hills, 90210. He is survived by his wife, his daughter Stacey, and his grandchildren Gus and Avril.
Donald Trump shared what his son Barron was doing when he was told the horrific news that his father had been shot in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump told Fox News' Laura Ingraham - who joined Trump in Butler last weekend for a triumphant return there - that his youngest child was playing tennis when he heard about the attempt on his father's life.
Trump made a heroic return to Butler last weekend, where he spoke behind bulletproof glass and held a moment of silence for Corey Comperatore, the brave firefighter who died shielding his family during the July 13 shooting.
A bullet whizzed Trump in the ear, leaving him bloodied. As Trump recalled to Ingraham, his supporters didn't know if he was alive or dead until he got up and raised his fist in an iconic moment.
"I convinced them I thought I was only hit in the ear," he said, referring to Secret Service. "It's very interesting," he recalled. "But they got me up and I watched and it was dead silent, even though I was standing up and in vision because people didn't know I was alive or not, and then when I did the fist pump, everybody realized and they're screaming, ‘USA, USA.’ It was the craziest day. It was a crazy time."
His son, Barron, saw his father's triumphant fist pump while watching at home with his mother, Melania.
"Barron was playing tennis with his friends, and somebody walked over and — ran over — and said, ‘Your father’s been shot. He’s been shot,’” Trump said.
“Barron — and Barron really likes his father a lot,” Trump continued. “And he came in, ‘Mom, Mom, Mom, what happened?’ So, and then they saw me get up, and then they saw the fist pump,” he said.
Trump survived a second attempt at his West Palm Beach golf course last month. The gunman, Ryan Routh, was taken alive without firing a shot.
Barron is attending his freshman year at New York University's Stern School of Business, where he has been under a close watch from Secret Service agents.
The assassination attempt in Butler has rattled public confidence in Secret Service, while leaving Trump and his family concerned for their personal safety.
In an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, Melania Trump commended her husband's "great team" but speculated that "something is going on at the top."
“It’s hard to say that you trust, right?"
Keanu Reeves may be able to stop bullets in the movies, but in real life he's still subject to the laws of physics.
The 60-year-old Matrix actor lost control of his car over the weekend while making his professional racing debut at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The actor spun out in the middle of the race, but he didn't crash and finished the race unharmed.
The John Wick actor spun out on the grass on the exit of turn 9 about halfway through the 45-minute race. Reeves ran as high as 21st in Saturday's race and finished 25th. His teammate was Cody Jones from the sports and comedy group "Dude Perfect."
Reeves is competing in the Toyota GR Cup, an amateur-focused racing series. He placed 24th in a second race on Sunday.
The actor is driving the No. 92 BRZRKR car, which is promoting his graphic novel, "The Book of Elsewhere."
Reeves, a racing enthusiast and amateur racer, previously won a celebrity event in the 2009 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
The actor attended the Formula One British Grand Prix qualifying event in 2022, which he described as "thrilling."
"It was absolutely amazing to be that close. Silverstone and rain, perfect. I think being that close to it, just seeing the speed and the way that they're going at the turns and exiting the turns is something unbelievable."
Keanu Reeves made his professional car racing debut today in the Toyota GR Cup and placed 25th out of 35.
He did spin out at one point but signalled that he was uninjured and kept going.
His teammate was Cody Jones from ‘Dude Perfect’ pic.twitter.com/kZyvyImiKc
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) October 5, 2024
The actor, musician, and trained martial artist is attending a 30th anniversary screening of his movie Speed with Sandra Bullock in Los Angeles on Tuesday.
Reeves is famous for his action roles in movies like the 1999 sci-fi thriller The Matrix and its sequels, and in more recent years, the John Wick series.
His most recent appearance on screen was John Wick: Chapter 4 in 2023, and he is set to appear in an upcoming spinoff, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina.
Earlier this year, the action movie icon shared the news that his knee "cracked like a potato chip" while he was working on an upcoming comedy movie, Aziz Ansari's Good Fortune.
Democrats continue to take jabs at the conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court and have spent several months needling Chief Justice John Roberts about Justice Samuel Alito.
According to Courthouse News, House Democrats recently attempted to pressure the chief justice to elaborate about reports that he had removed Alito "as the lead opinion author for a Supreme Court case involving the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot."
The same Democrats also questioned Roberts as to why he allowed Alito on the case to begin with.
Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin (D) and New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) penned a letter to Roberts asking for that information, the reports noted.
Ever since the reports regarding a flag being flown upside down at Alito's residence, which was done by his wife, Democrats have pressured the chief justice to have him removed from all J6-related cases.
The outlet noted:
The New York Times reported last month that the chief justice removed Alito from the opinion in May 2023 amid swirling controversy over an upside-down American flag — a symbol co-opted by the “Stop the Steal” election denial movement — which flew outside his Virginia home in the days following the Capitol riot.
The flag display, which the justice has since said was done by his wife, prompted calls from lawmakers and legal advocates on Alito to recuse himself from cases related to Jan. 6.
Alito refused to give in to the pressure from his critics, as it was his wife's action and like Justice Clarence Thomas' wife, is a conservative activist to some degree.
The two Democrats argued in the letter that replacing Alito on the majority opinion of the J6-related ruling "strongly suggests" that the chief justice viewed the flag incident as a potential conflict of interest.
Chief Justice Roberts has contended that it's not up to him to force justices to recuse themselves from certain cases, but AOC and Raskin pushed back on that claim.
"The notion that individual Justices can decide for themselves whether their own conduct violates the Constitution, federal law or the court’s code of conduct is untenable in our republic and clearly violates the fundamental and original principle of due process that 'no man can be a judge in his own case,'" they wrote.
AOC and Raskin demanded that Roberts confirm the New York Times report that said he had, in fact, replaced Alito on the case's opinion.
They also demanded to know that if he was removed, what Roberts' rationale was to do so.
In addition, the Democrat lawmakers sought to know whether or not Roberts had spoken with Alito or Thomas about recusing from certain related cases.
So far, Roberts hasn't given in to the radical, progressive left's attempt to soil the Supreme Court. Hopefully, it stays that way.
One of former President Donald Trump's trials made headlines for an especially concerning reason last week.
According to the Daily Caller, a man who threatened to murder Judge Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Trump's classified documents case, was indicted and now faces six charges related to the threats against Cannon.
In addition to threatening to assault and kill the judge, defendant Eric Rennert threatened to abduct the judge's family in St. Lucie, Florida.
While Judge Cannon wasn't specifically named as the target of the threat, she's the only district judge in the area where the threats were made.
Judge Cannon sparked anger from the left after she dismissed the classified documents case Trump was facing after making the determination that Jack Smith was improperly appointed as special counsel.
An Illinois man named Eric James Rennert has been charged with threatening to kidnap & murder a Florida federal judge & with threatening the judge’s family. The judge isn’t named but there are strong indications it’s Judge Aileen Cannon, who tossed the Trump classified docs case. pic.twitter.com/niUOjDpi6C
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) October 5, 2024
Even prior to the case being thrown out, Cannon was accused by many anti-Trump people on the left of being too easy and lenient with the former president.
Of course, Smith has sought to appeal the decision that led to the case being thrown out, though it's still undetermined whether or not he'll have any luck doing so.
The Daily Caller noted:
Rennert allegedly acted with “the intent to communicate a true threat of violence and with recklessness as to whether the communication would be viewed as a true threat of violence,” according to the indictment. The indictment also states that Rennert made the alleged threats starting in May 2024, and later made more threats in July 2024.
Many across social media assumed, based on the left's nasty rhetoric concerning Judge Cannon, that the defendant is also an anti-Trump leftist. It wasn't clear what the defendant's political leanings are, but probably not difficult to guess.
"More radicalized leftist violence," one X user wrote.
Another X user wrote, sarcastically, "So much love and tolerance, I can just feel it."
"These insane woke liberals belong in gitmo," another person wrote on X.
Obviously, the rhetoric coming from the anti-Trump left in the media is having a serious and potentially deadly outcome on a far-too-regular basis. It needs to stop.