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1 month ago | 
thedailybeast.com | Nell Scovell |Yasmeen Hamadeh
On Sunday, Second Lady posted a to her SLOTUS Instagram account announcing her upcoming trip to Kalaallit Nunnaat, Greenland, to attend a dog sled race. The video features the 39-year-old standing in front of a mantel in a room with limited decor. Despite the bland background, however, one particular item can be spotted in the top left hand corner of the screen; a small figurine standing in front of a book written by a vice president of the United States.
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Feb 1, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Nell Scovell |Jane Godiner |Kevin Fallon |Nandika Chatterjee
Reality TV thrives on conflict, competition and humiliation—much like working for the Trump administration. President Trump’s new Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy’s resume includes roles on three reality shows: The Real World: Boston in 1997, Road Rules: All Stars in 1998, and Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Battle of the Seasons which aired in 2002.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
thedailybeast.com | Royalist Meghan |Nell Scovell |Melissa Leon |Marlow Stern
Accusations that the prominent author Neil Gaiman forced women into painful and unwanted sex were a harrowing read in this week’s New York magazine. The cover story addressed a lot of the same ground as the 2024 Slow Tortoise podcast, Master,” while adding claims from additional alleged victims and another layer of reporting and legal fact checking.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
malaysia.news.yahoo.com | Nell Scovell
Nell Scovell9 December 2024 at 3:21 pm·4-min readIn an all-too-poised appearance on Fox & Friends last week, Penelope Hegseth sought to distance herself from herself. The mother of president-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, Penelope listened intently as host Steve Doocy read excerpts from a scathing email she had sent her son in April 2018.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nell Scovell
“It’s a bright new dawn for rapists in America,” was my first thought on Wednesday morning. Horrifying? Yes. Wrong? No. An overwhelming number of white and Latino men joined with a majority of white women to elect Donald Trump to a second presidential term, even though he has been found guilty of sexual battery in a court of law. Another 28 women have come forward to allege that they were groped and sexually harassed by him.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nell Scovell
If Broadway-style programs had been handed out at Donald Trump’s recent rally in Pittsburgh, a slip of paper would have fluttered to the floor announcing, “In this performance, the role of Ivanka Trump will be played by Megyn Kelly.”Kelly’s star turn onstage appeared to resolve a long-standing feud between the former President and the former Fox News host. And in an unlikely twist, it was Trump who blinked. So why did he extend an olive branch to Kelly instead of, say, Nikki Haley?
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Nell Scovell
Conflict makes good TV. Barbara Walters knew this when she launched The View in 1997. Since then, messy political disagreements have helped fuel the show’s success. Epic on-air clashes include Rosie O’Donnell vs. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Alyssa Farah Griffin vs. Sunny Hostin, and Meghan McCain vs. Everyone Else (Including her hair stylist.)With no new look this week.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
thedailybeast.com | Nell Scovell
GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance really wanted America to know that he has friends who have had abortions. Still, before Vance launched into the story of his "dear" friend, he should have signaled to the audience that she'd consented to it being told on national TV. Without that assurance, it sounded like Vance was busting a friend for receiving life-saving health care, which she may or may not have wanted him to do. The story was meant to induce sympathy.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thedailybeast.com | Nell Scovell
Look for candidate JD Vance to come out swinging at Tuesday's vice presidential debate against Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Odds are good that Vance will go for the Trumpian emotional trifecta: playing the victim, spewing anger, and attacking women and immigrants. While not everyone is charmed by righteous rage, Donald Trump is the "audience of one" who needs to hear his chosen candidate mimic the boss. There's precedent for this behavior from fellow Yale Law School graduate, Brett Kavanaugh.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thedailybeast.com | Nell Scovell
Dead men may tell no tales. But Donald Trump has no problem telling tales about dead men. In the past two months, Trump has repeatedly name checked Bob Tisch who passed away in 2005. The message is always the same. "Bob Tisch of Loews, friend of mine, great guy. Wonderful man...." Trump said at a Sept. 24 Trump Tower press conference. "Bob Tisch used to tell me that he thinks San Francisco is the greatest city in the country. He passed away quite a while ago, but...
