Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update addressed Donald Trump‘s second inauguration, his dozens of controversial executive orders, and the salute by Elon Musk that has neo-Nazis and white nationalists overjoyed. Co-anchor Colin Jost noted that during his oath, Trump was seen not placing his hand on the Lincoln Bible. “Well, he …
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President Donald Trump has said he wants the United States to be “the world capital of artificial intelligence and crypto.” On the latter front, he has so far launched and profited from his own meme coins and signed a pro-crypto executive order that did little to move markets. On AI, …
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From his explosive debut on the presidential election trail in 2015, Donald Trump‘s career in national politics was uniquely entwined with internet culture. The trolls of 4Chan and the ascendant alt-right embraced him as a living meme, someone whose ability to offend the mainstream and bulldoze social norms could reshape …
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After a year-long truce between Elon Musk, owner of the extremism-saturated X (formerly Twitter), and the Anti-Defamation League, an organization meant to combat antisemitism and other kinds of bigotry, it seems the billionaire and the advocacy group are on the outs once again. Musk and the ADL had first taken …
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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, has an office in the White House and played a prominent role in Donald Trump’s inauguration. He has a formal position reshaping government in the new administration and has already derailed a bipartisan spending deal in Congress. Global leaders are taking Musk’s meddling in …
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Donald Trump became president for the second time yesterday, offering a lot of comedic fodder for Jon Stewart on the latest episode of The Daily Show. The late-night host recapped the inauguration, calling it “this most historic vibe shift of a day.” Stewart began his monologue by explaining how Trump …
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As Donald Trump resumed the powers of the presidency — declaring in his inaugural address that he was “saved by God to make America great again” — he began signing a slate of sweeping executive orders that reflect his ambition to be a dictator on “Day One.” In his address …
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second term on Monday before the world’s richest people. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg were among those seated closest to Trump as he demonized the most vulnerable members of our society, rewrote the history of his criminal prosecutions, and pledged …
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Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t mince his words as Green Day performed “American Idiot” in Johannesburg, South Africa over the weekend. While visiting Elon Musk‘s home country on Sunday, the band switched the lyrics of their classic song to take aim at the Tesla and X CEO. “I’m not a part …
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Most recent attention on Elon Musk has concerned his attendance at the second inauguration of President Donald Trump (and a distinctive salute he gave at the event that was cause for cheer among neo-Nazis). But we meanwhile got confirmation that his claims to gamer greatness were only possible thanks to …
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