Michael Daly

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

For all the time he spent in the Oval Office, the richest man in the world is foreign born, and one thing he can never do is sit in the Oval Office elected as the most powerful man in the world. But Elon Musk was able to buy his way into becoming the “First Buddy” and for a time he was able to bond his ultimate wealth with President Donald Trump’s ultimate power. Trump allowed Musk to take a chainsaw to federal agencies with the promise he would cut trillions in federal spending.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

Save for Catilin Clark and her famous No. 22 jersey, the years between the two Trump terms were bleak for Iowa’s premiere T-shirt producer. “It was kind of lean, so our catchphrase around here was, ‘Thank God for women’s basketball,’ because the whole Caitlin Clark women’s basketball thing really like saw us through the Biden years,” Mike Draper, founder of Raygun, told the Daily Beast.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Michael Daly

Save for Catilin Clark and her famous No. 22 jersey, the years between the two Trump terms were bleak for Iowa’s premiere T-shirt producer. “It was kind of lean, so our catchphrase around here was, ‘Thank God for women’s basketball,’ because the whole Caitlin Clark women’s basketball thing really like saw us through the Biden years,” Mike Draper, founder of Raygun, told the Daily Beast.

4 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

President Donald Trump appears to have first heard of gang kingpin Larry Hoover during a 2018 press event with the rapper Kanye West— also known as Ye—that has been called the craziest Oval Office performance of all time. The topic was prison reform and criminal justice. West, who was wearing a red MAGA hat, cited the case of Larry Hoover. “He has six life sentences, and they have him next to the Unabomber doing 23 and 1,” West said, meaning only one hour out of his cell a day.

4 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Michael Daly

As President Donald Trump seeks to defund, devalue and maybe destroy Harvard, another prestigious university a little over a mile away is escaping his unreasoning wrath. Since Trump is always ultimately about himself, we can assume that the reason is one he has often been able to cite as supposed proof of his “good genes”: that his paternal uncle was a longtime professor of particular brilliance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.