This article was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published by Rolling Stone with permission. On Oct. 10, 2017, a fresh-faced J.D. Vance was direct and pragmatic about America’s energy future when asked whether the U.S. “should protect the coal and steel industries.” The then-33-year-old author of Hillbilly Elegy …
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Good news for Donald Trump if he was hoping to catch a livestream of the Evo 2024 tournament this weekend: Twitch announced Friday that it has reinstated the former president’s channel after banning him from the platform in 2021. Just weeks after the “guardrails” on Trump’s Instagram and Facebook accounts …
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Jason Aldean, who famously railed against crime in his song “Try That in a Small Town,” joined convicted felon Donald Trump in the former president’s box at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. Aldean, in a gray T-shirt and white hat adorned with an American flag logo, was seated …
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After months of conspicuous absence from public life, former First Lady Melania Trump made a rare appearance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday. In a break with longstanding precedent among former first ladies and the wives of presidential hopefuls, Melania did not address the convention — as she did …
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MILWAUKEE — Former President Donald Trump — who left the White House only after an unprecedented campaign to undermine the results of his 2020 election defeat, culminating in a deadly insurgency at the U.S. Capitol — has completed one of the most disturbing comeback stories in American politics, accepting the …
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Tenacious D‘s Kyle Gass has deleted his Instagram apology post following intense backlash over comments he made about Donald Trump onstage in Sydney. The musician initially wrote that he regretted saying “Don’t miss Trump next time” in response to the attempted assassination of the Republican nominee, confirming, “I’m incredibly sorry …
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In his big debut at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance pitched the convention crowd on the faux-populist schtick he’s been honing since leaving his venture capital job in Silicon Valley to run for Senate in the Rust Belt. “Wall Street barons crashed the …
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MILWAUKEE — Former Trump aide Peter Navarro — fresh out of a four-month term in federal prison for defying a subpoena to testify to the House Jan. 6 Committee — addressed the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night, just hours after his release. The RNC delegates greeted Navarro with a …
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While the motive behind the gunman’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump remains unclear, key details have begun to emerge in the investigation into the attack. On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that F.B.I. officials told members of Congress that the shooter had looked up images of both …
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J.D. Vance spoke to the nation for the first time as former President Donald Trump’s running mate on Wednesday, headlining the third night of the Republican National Convention. Vance began his speech by praising Trump’s resilience following the assassination attempt against him on Saturday, suggesting as he did then that …
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