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  • Erika Kirk endorses JD Vance for president

    During her opening remarks at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest conference, Erika Kirk,  CEO of the influential conservative organization, endorsed Vice President JD Vance for president in 2028.

    “We are going to get my husband’s friend, JD Vance, elected 48 in the most resounding way possible,” the widow of Charlie Kirk, the slain co-founder of Turning Point USA, said as the crowd erupted in applause.

    Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk, widow of late right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, speaks at the organization’s annual AmericaFest conference in Phoenix on Dec. 18, 2025.

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    Vance has not publicly indicated whether he intends to run for president but is widely expected to make a decision after the 2026 midterm elections. Still , an early endorsement from a powerful conservative group that helped galvanize young voters in 2024 for the Trump-Vance ticket underscores his growing stature within the movement and would carry significant influence in a future GOP presidential primary field.

    The vice president is scheduled to address the annual conference of thousands of conservatives on Sunday.

    Turning Point USA’s annual youth conference is being held in Phoenix.

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  • No reaction from Trump yet to explosive Vanity Fair interview with Chief of Staff Susie Wiles

    A new Vanity Fair piece highlighting President Trump’s inner circle includes a shockingly candid interview with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. One of the things Wiles said in the interview was that Mr. Trump has an “alcoholic’s personality.” CBS News White House reporter Olivia Rinaldi has more.

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  • Usha Vance Gives Telling Comment About Relationship With Melania Amid ‘Tough’ Personal Rumors: ‘We’re Different People’



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  • JD Vance Addresses Claims He Had a ‘Loud Fight’ in Public With His Wife Days After Denying Divorce Rumors

    Every public relationship, whether it is in the celebrity space or the political space, goes through divorce rumors. The Obamas have to respond to them pretty often, and so do Harry and Meghan and even Prince William and Kate Middleton. The same thing has happened to Vice-President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, who have been plagued by rumors of marriage problems ever since Usha was caught without her wedding ring during a public event.

    Now, Vance is addressing those head-on. The vice president took to X to repost a viral photo of himself at a restaurant in conversation with his wife, Usha. The picture had led people to speculate that the two were in the middle of a fight.

    Related: Here are the celebrities who support Donald Trump

    The photo, posted by a Facebook user, was captioned, “Looks like things are not so good in Republicanistan. Usha is a liberal. Always has been. Apparently they were having an argument loud enough to quiet the restaurant. Why is he wearing a tee shirt?” The snap was then shared on X, with the added caption,  “JD and Usha (allegedly) spotted having a loud argument at a restaurant recently.”

    Vance responded with a joke, “I always wear an undershirt when I go out in public to have a fight loudly with my wife.”

    Rumors about their relationship started when Usha Vance was seen without her ring on during a visit to Camp Lejeune in Richlands, North Carolina, alongside first lady Melania Trump. Then, Vance was seen sans ring once again as the two visited a holiday volunteer event at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.

    After the speculation started, a spokesperson for the second lady released a statement to People explaining that Usha Vance is “a mother of three young children, who does a lot of dishes, gives lots of baths, and forgets her ring sometimes.” Usha and JD Vance married in 2014 and have three kids together: sons Ewan, 8, Vivek, 5, and daughter Mirabel, 3.

    The vice president recently commented on the rumors during an interview with NBC News on December 5, saying. “I think that we kind of get a kick out of it,” and adding, “With anything in life, you take the good with the bad. You accept that there are some sacrifices and there are some very good things that come along with it, too. But our marriage is as strong as it’s ever been, and I think Usha’s really taken to it, and it’s been kind of cool to see how she’s developed and evolved in this new role.”

    And when he was asked if the divorce speculation has been “tough,” Vance responded, “It’s funny. I actually don’t think that it’s tough.” He went on to explain the moment Usha Vance was seen without her rings as her forgetting them after showering.

    “She was like, ‘Oh, if I don’t go back and get them, there’s going to be some ridiculous psycho who talks about it on social media,’” Vance said. “And I was like, let them. It’s not even worth the trip to run back upstairs. So we actually have a little bit of fun with it. And we thought that whole viral social media cycle was kind of funny.” He continued, “There are certainly ways in which it’s difficult on the family. I’m not going to pretend that it isn’t. But it’s the sacrifice that we signed up for.”

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  • Nicki Minaj Fully Leans Into MAGA Mischief As Barbz Become Belligerent Over Onika’s Budding Bond With JD Vance

    • Nicki Minaj praises Trump and Vance, while Cardi B criticizes them.
    • Minaj thanks Trump for addressing persecution of Christians in Nigeria.
    • Minaj declares herself part of Trump’s MAGA supporters.

    Nicki Minaj’s X account has turned into a White House fan account.

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    While Nicki hasn’t explicitly stated that she’s team Donald Trump, she has become increasingly open about her support for him and his Vice President, JD Vance.

    In a since-deleted tweet, the rapper posted a GIF of Chucky from the Child’s Play series alongside the caption, “Vance > Rants.” Fans aren’t exactly sure what the tweet was referring to, or why it was deleted, but before it was deleted, Vance reposted it with some commentary of his own.

    “Nicki > Cardi,” Vance wrote, referencing the ongoing beef between the rappers.

    While Minaj has warmed up to the administration in recent weeks, Cardi B has been vocal about her dislike of Trump for a long time now. Nicki even spoke in front of members of the United Nations to discuss the alleged persecution of Christians in Nigeria, thanking Trump in her speech.

    “I would like to thank President Donald Trump for prioritizing this issue, and for his leadership on the global stage, and calling for urgent action to defend Christians in Nigeria to combat extremism, and to bring a stop to violence against those who simply want to exercise their natural right to freedom of belief,” she said at the time. “We don’t have to share the same beliefs in order to respect each other. We’re way beyond thinking or expecting or assuming the next person sitting next to you will have the same beliefs. We’re beyond that. That’s ridiculous.”

    After Minaj’s speech, she seemingly declared herself as a part of Trump’s MAGA supporters, tweeting: “United Nations was a MAGA Flex. Trump on da text. Yall should be afraid of what I’m gon do next,” she wrote, in a post that also took thinly-veiled shots at Jay-Z.

    Since then, it’s been a full-on love fest between Minaj and the administration, with Nicki reposting several tweets about Trump– including one that alleged his wife, Melania, underwent a kidney surgery in 2018. The post claimed that the president postponed meetings to be with his wife, and sent her a “beautiful” letter.

    In other tweets, Nicki shared a video of Trump and Elon Musk dancing happily, over which she wrote, “Mood.”

    She also tweeted about Vance being “smarter than a computer.”

    “Nothing brings me joy like the Vance memes & knowing he leaned into it like a boss,” Nicki began in a tweet praising the VP. “Top Tier Comedy Character = 100 But make no mistake, Vance is an assassin. Don’t debate him. On anything. Quick as a computer. Maybe quicker. He’s the best blend I’ve ever seen of us&them.”

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  • Drugs soaked into pages of

    Columbus, Ohio — Vice President JD Vance’s memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” has a storied history as a New York Times bestseller, as the then-31-year-old’s introduction to the nation as a “Trump whisperer,” as a divisive subject among Appalachian scholars and, eventually, as a Ron Howard-directed movie.

    Its latest role? Secretly transporting drugs into an Ohio prison.

    The book was one of three items whose pages 30-year-old Austin Siebert, of Maumee, southwest of Toledo, has been convicted of spraying with narcotics and then shipping to Grafton Correctional Institution disguised as Amazon orders. The others were a 2019 GRE Handbook and a separate piece of paper, according to court documents.

    On Nov. 18, U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent sentenced Siebert to more than a decade in prison for his role in the drug trafficking scheme.

    Siebert and an inmate at the prison were caught in a recorded conversation discussing the shipment. He either didn’t know or didn’t care that a central theme of “Hillbilly Elegy” is the impact of narcotics addiction on Vance’s family and the broader culture.

    “Is it Hillbilly?” the inmate asks.

    “I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Siebert replies, momentarily confused. Then, suddenly remembering, he says, “Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s the book, the book I’m reading. (Expletive) romance novel.”

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  • Trump Says He Wants Ukraine’s Answer on Peace Plan by Thursday

    President Trump said he wants Ukraine to accept a sweeping U.S. deal to end its nearly four-year-old war with Russia by Thanksgiving, giving Kyiv less than a week to decide whether to agree to a draft plan that would make major concessions to Russia.

    “Thursday is, we think, an appropriate time,” Trump told Fox News Radio’s Brian Kilmeade in response to a question about whether he has given Ukraine a Thanksgiving deadline to agree to the plan. “We’re in it for one thing. We want the killing to stop.”

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  • Vance says Trump admin has ‘great’ healthcare plan coming, wants to work with Dems: ‘Politics be damned’

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    Vice President JD Vance on Thursday teased a “great” healthcare plan that the Trump administration has in the works to help bring costs down for American families, saying President Donald Trump cares about fixing a broken system, not playing political games with Democrats.

    Vance made the remarks during a fireside chat with Breitbart’s Matt Boyle in Washington, D.C., when asked about Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies expiring at the end of the year and the high costs of healthcare prices and premiums.

    “I don’t want to get ahead of the President … because we had a very, very good meeting the Oval Office yesterday,” Vance said. “I think that we have a great health care plan coming together. I think that it’s going to get Republican and Democrat support. And I think the president, look, right now, American people, the American people get crap healthcare and they pay way too much for it.”

    Americans could see sharp increases in healthcare premiums in 2026 as ACA subsidies are set to expire at the end of 2025, with their extension uncertain. Those using the ACA marketplace are already projected to face a 26% premium hike. If subsidies lapse, monthly payments for subsidized patients could jump by 114%, according to an October analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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    Vice President JD Vance speaks with Breitbart News Washington bureau chief Matthew Boyle at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

    Vance described the healthcare system as “broken,” claiming it was the Democrats who “broke it,” but said the Trump administration still wants to work together if Democrats are “willing to fix it.” He touted Trump’s leadership, saying that the president cares more about doing what is right for American families than playing politics.

    “People come to the president and say, ‘No, no, no, don’t talk about health care. That’s a graveyard for Republicans. Republicans always lose on health care,’” Vance said. “And the president’s like, ‘I don’t care about the politics of it. This system is screwed up for the American people. We need to fix it. So let’s go and do it. Politics be damned.’”

    Vice President JD Vance gestures while answering a question on stage

    Vance teased a “great” healthcare plan that the Trump administration has in the works while speaking at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

    He added: “I love that. That’s leadership. And that’s exactly what we should want coming from the White House.”

    OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES AT CENTER OF DEM SHUTDOWN FIGHT ‘FUEL’ HEALTHCARE COST INFLATION, CONSERVATIVES SAY 

    Republicans and Democrats clashed over whether to extend expiring ACA subsidies, triggering a shutdown that lasted more than 40 days — the longest in U.S. history.

    Democrats initially refused to support a funding measure without a provision to make the subsidies permanent but eventually backed a short-term bill that did not include the extension. However, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., agreed to hold a vote in December on legislation to continue the credits.

    Vice President JD Vance waves while standing on stage

    Vance said that the Trump administration is willing to work with Democrats to fix the healthcare system while speaking at Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

    Trump has signaled he would not back continuing the subsidies and said in a social media post Tuesday that Congress should not “waste” its time on negotiating an extension.

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    “THE ONLY HEALTHCARE I WILL SUPPORT OR APPROVE IS SENDING THE MONEY DIRECTLY BACK TO THE PEOPLE,” Trump said in the post.

    Fox News Digital’s Diana Stancy contributed to this report.

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  • JD Vance goes after “scumbags” attacking his staff

    U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized “scumbags” for attacking his staff after a self-proclaimed journalist questioned whether his deputy press secretary was “a vile bigot.”

    Sloan Rachmuth had posted about Buckley Carlson, Vance’s deputy press secretary and the son of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, claiming “racism and antisemitism is a Carlson family trait” amid the ongoing fallout from Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes. Vance said he had “zero tolerance for scumbags attacking my staff,” in response.

    Rachmuth told Newsweek: “I’m pleased to say that I have received an overwhelming amount of support from members of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. Christian and Jewish leaders have reached out to me for support as well.” She added that she hadn’t heard from anyone in the Carlson family since she posted her tweets.

    Newsweek reached out to Vance and Buckley Carlson to comment on this story outside of normal business hours.

    Why It Matters

    The social media spat came after Tucker Carlson stoked controversy in October for interviewing far-right commentator Fuentes, a Holocaust denier and extremist who has praised Adolf Hitler. It shows controversy from that interview is ongoing and is affecting other figures in American politics.

    Meanwhile, American politics has become increasingly polarized in recent years with the rise of social media sparking conversations about the line between free speech and allowing unbridled discourse, including hate speech.

    What To Know

    Writing on X, Rachmuth, an investigative journalist with 48,000 followers on the platform, said: “Today, we learned that Tucker Carlson’s brother idolizes Nick Fuentes. Racism and antisemitism is a Carlson family trait. Is Tucker’s son Buckley, who serves as JD Vance’s top aide also a vile bigot? America deserves to know how deep the Carlson’s family ethnic and religious hatred runs.” She did not expand or offer evidence to support this view.

    In response, Vance wrote on X: “Sloan Rachmuth is a ‘journalist’ who has decided to obsessively attack a staffer in his 20s because she doesn’t like the views of his father. Every time I see a public attack on Buckley it’s a complete lie. And yes, I notice ever person with an agenda who unfairly attacks a good guy who does a great job for me.”

    He continued: “Sloan describes herself as a defender of ‘Judeo-Christian Values.’ Is it a ‘Judeo-Christian value’ to lie about someone you don’t know? Not in any church I ever spent time in!”

    In another post, he said: “I have an extraordinary tolerance for disagreements and criticisms from the various people in our coalition. But I am a very loyal person, and I have zero tolerance for scumbags attacking my staff. And yes, *everyone* who I’ve seen attack Buckley with lies is a scumbag.”

    Rachmuth wrote back: “Mr. Vice President, that ‘someone I don’t know’ is one of your top advisors [sic] being paid with taxpayer funds. It’s not the guy who trims your shrubs or cuts your hair. And YES, defending Judeo-Christian values entails speaking out against the antisemitism that’s tearing our nation apart. It also involves questioning those at the highest level of government about their hires, and speaking truth to power when needed. Sir, shall I remain quiet while Jews like me are being targeted by massive media platforms, and while our country is being destroyed by hate?? Or can I continue to ask questions and fight against injustices without being unfairly questioned about my loyalty to my country? I look forward to hearing back from you.”

    What People Are Saying

    President Donald Trump told reporters in November: “You can’t tell [Tucker Carlson] who to interview—if he wants to interview Nick Fuentes, I don’t know much about him, but if he wants to do it…you know people have to decide, ultimately the people have to decide.”

    Nick Fuentes shared a video clip of this quote with the caption: “Thank you Mr. President!”

    Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro referenced the term “groypers,” used to describe Fuentes’ supporters, when he said in a post on X: “No to the groypers. No to cowards like Tucker Carlson, who normalize their trash. No to those who champion them. No to demoralization. No to bigotry and anti-meritocratic horses***. No to anti-Americanism. No.”

    What Happens Next

    The fallout from the Fuentes interview looks set to continue.

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  • Tennessee police officer working Vance motorcade in critical condition after crash

    Two law enforcement vehicles crashed in Tennessee on Friday night while supporting Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade, sending a police officer to the hospital in critical condition, authorities said.

    The crash in Maryville, about 17 miles south of Knoxville, involved a state trooper and a Maryville Police Department motorcycle officer, the city said in a statement. One of the two ambulances that were part of the motorcade immediately stopped to provide rapid medical assistance, said Special Agent Jason Pack, director of communications for the Tennessee Department of Safety, in a statement to CBS News. 

    The officer is in critical condition, the city of Maryville said on social media. No other details were immediately available. 

    “We ask everyone to keep the officer, family and the medical staff in your prayers,” said Maryville Police Department chief Tony Crisp. 

    Pack initially said that the trooper was not transported, but the city of Maryville said that both the trooper and the officer were taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center for evaluation and treatment. There was no information about the trooper’s condition immediately available. 

    The officer and trooper were not identified. The Tennessee Highway Patrol is investigating the incident, Pack said. Katherine Pierce, the U.S. Secret Service’s resident agent in charge in Knoxville, said the agency was closely monitoring the situation.

    “The safety and movement of our protectees were not impacted by this incident,” Pierce said in a statement.

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  • J.D. Vance Brags About Trump’s Appalling Lack of Sleep

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    If a friend was pulling all-nighters, sleeping less than four hours a night, bullying subordinates to do the same, and regularly posting incoherent social-media tirades at 2 a.m., you’d probably urge them to seek help.

    But apparently when the president of the United States does it, it’s good — nay, impressive!

    During a Thursday night appearance on Hannity, Vice-President J.D. Vance said he’s lucky that due to Secret Service protocols he can’t travel with the president, as President Trump forces Cabinet members to go without sleep, just like him.

    “They are always like, ‘You’re so lucky because if we go on a 20-hour trip somewhere, he does not sleep the entire time,’” Vance said. “And of course if he’s not sleeping, if he’s working, he expects everybody else to be working too.”

    “The energy that the guy has is really off the charts,” Vance claimed.

    A moment later, Vance expressed faux sympathy for Joe Biden, saying that for all his issues with his administration, he wonders if the poor guy had the “physical and mental ability to stay on top” of everything the comes at the president.

    “The answer is no, of course not,” Vance said. “And that’s the one thing that, agree or disagree with President Trump about a given issue, every Democrat and every Republican I think deep down would recognize, that [Trump] is a guy who has the energy to do the job. That’s a very, very rare thing.”

    Host Sean Hannity agreed with Vance, marveling at Trump’s lack of sleep during a recent golf trip.

    “Seventeen hours there, 17 hours back, and he’s awake the whole time,” Hannity said. “And he expects you to be awake!”

    Trump’s allies often marvel at his superhuman ability to go without sleep. Of course, we know this isn’t true, since Trump nodded off during an Oval Office press conference just last week, and it’s far from the first time he’s fallen asleep in public:

    But let’s go with Trumpworld’s “emperor’s new clothes” vibe for a moment and accept the premise that the president barely sleeps. Is that a good thing? The Cleveland Clinic says chronic sleep deprivation can cause or worsen many conditions, including:

    Type 2 diabetes.

    High blood pressure (hypertension).

    Obesity.

    Obstructive sleep apnea.

    Vascular disease.

    Stroke.

    Heart attack.

    Depression.

    Anxiety.

    Conditions that involve psychosis.

    We know Trump struggles with at least two of these conditions — obesity and chronic venous insufficiency, a vascular disease. Lack of sleep could also impact Trump’s ability to keep acing those dementia tests he’s so proud of. “There’s also some evidence that sleep deprivation could play a role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease,” the Cleveland Clinic notes.

    Beyond contributing to various health conditions, sleep deprivation is known to have a huge impact on your mood and mental health. According to SleepFoundation.org, not getting enough sleep can cause issues like “trouble paying attention,” “unplanned naps,” “irritability,” “mood changes,” and “difficulty thinking and being logical.” Sound like any presidents you know?

    Just imagine what Trump, and perhaps the world, might be like if rather than celebrating his bad bedtime habits, someone told him to go the fuck to sleep.


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  • JD Vance contradicts Trump on hiring foreign workers

    Vice President JD Vance has said the U.S. should “empower” blue-collar workers already in the country rather than replace them with foreign labor – despite President Donald Trump insisting that the nation needs to “bring in talent”.

    In his interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday, Vance offered a message that appeared to diverge from Trump’s recent remarks on foreign labor — even as he framed his position as aligned with the president’s economic vision.

    Vance argued that the U.S. should avoid relying on additional foreign workers and instead focus on using technology to “empower the blue-collar workers” already in the country.

    “Their (the Democrat’s) idea was the way that we get more prosperity is that you import more and more low-wage servants and that actually I think reduced prosperity, because it meant that a lot of our blue-collar workers were struggling,” he said.

    “But if you use technology and you empower the blue-collar workers rather than replace them with foreign labor, I think they are going to do way better, they are going to make higher wages and the whole country is going to be better off.

    “In other words, do you depend on low-wage immigrants or do you depend on American citizens bolstered by technology and innovation? That’s the Trump model.”

    But Vance’s framing followed Trump’s own comments on Fox News earlier this week. During an interview with Laura Ingraham, Trump defended the need for H-1B visas, insisting the U.S. “has to bring in talent.” When Ingraham asked whether the country lacked qualified American workers, Trump replied: “No, you don’t.”

    This is a developing story and will be updated.

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  • South Park’s Donald Trump and J.D. Vance Are Hooking Up

    She got him.
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    AI couldn’t make the November 12 episode of South Park. This week, the animated comedy took on Sora, OpenAI’s video-creation tool, and somehow managed to work in a new twist in the Donald Trump and Satan romance: a love triangle. J.D. Vance is pulling Trump away from his partner, despite Satan’s butt pregnancy.

    The episode begins with Butters using Sora to make revenge videos of his ex-girlfriend, Red McArthur, getting “pissed on by Santa.” Red retaliates by making a video of Butters having sex with Totoro (from My Neighbor Totoro) and playing the video at school assembly. Detective Harris, who doesn’t fully understand “Sora,” comes looking for Totoro, who he believes is actually molesting kids. But the South Park Elementary children continue to make gross videos of each other, leading Detective Harris down wackier and wackier paths, attempting to find his animated foes.

    Meanwhile, Cartman is being held in a hotel room by Peter Thiel, who kidnapped him during the “Six-Seven” episode because he believed Cartman was possessed (why else would he be laughing so hard at that meme?) and could help stop Satan’s butt baby, a.k.a. the Anti-Christ. Thiel is sending AI videos to Cartman’s mom in which Cartman tells her that everything is okay and he’s doing well, which she takes at face value.

    Co-conspirator Vance is also hard at work at the White House and tells Trump to get rid of his own baby because he won’t actually want to deal with it. Trump agrees. In the heat of the moment, Vance and Trump consummate their relationship on Trump’s bed with Satan in a NSF-anywhere scene.

    In South Park, the detective brings the kids to court to try to catch the animated predators. He then traces the IP address on the videos “Cartman” sent his mother and goes to arrest Thiel. There, on Thiel’s laptop, he finds security footage of Vance and Trump hooking up and leaks it. Satan chooses to believe Trump when he says that the sex tape is just AI. But when Trump leaves their bed, he goes to make out with Vance. What will Satan do?

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  • ‘South Park’ Fans React To Trump, Vance Erotica As Show Takes On Sora: “Thanks For The Nightmares”

    As if Donald Trump didn’t have enough on his plate this week with the recent Epstein emails release, South Park is continuing to roast the POTUS in this week’s episode.

    On Wednesday, audiences reacted in disgust to the Season 28 episode ‘Unholy Birth’, which took aim at Open AI’s Sora featured some an unfortunate homoerotic sex scene between Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

    “South Park is definitely going to trigger another White House response tomorrow bc holy s***,” one person wrote on X.

    “Thanks for the nightmares I’m gonna have tonight South Park,” another posted.

    “Watching south park,” read another tweet. “I’m now traumatized.”

    Meanwhile, the episode featured appearances from other cartoons, including Bluey, Totoro and Droopy Dog. “Even Bluey ain’t safe from south park,” one fan wrote.

    South Park co-creator Matt Stone previously praised Paramount for “letting us do whatever we want, to their credit,” as Trey Parker said of their reason for continuing to rip Trump and his political cronies, “There’s no getting away from this. It’s like the government is just in your face everywhere you look.”

    “Whether it’s the actual government or whether it is all the podcasters and the TikToks and the YouTubes and all of that, and it’s just all political and political because it’s more than political,” added Parker. “It’s pop culture.”

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  • Shapiro slams Trump, Vance over SNAP freeze, calls VP a ‘phony’

    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”

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  • Shapiro slams Trump, Vance over SNAP freeze, calls VP a ‘phony’

    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”


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  • Shapiro slams Trump, Vance over SNAP freeze, calls VP a ‘phony’

    PHILADELPHIA — Full SNAP benefits payments were flowing Friday to Pennsylvanians who were due at the start of November, Gov. Josh Shapiro announced while ripping into President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who he accused of acting purposefully to “keep people hungry.”

    “Folks got to wake up and realize the people who are leading in America quite literally want to keep people hungry. And, you’ll excuse me for getting emotional about it, but when I see people in my state who are hungry because of JD Vance’s bull—- politics, that makes me angry and that’s why I went to court,” Shapiro said. “America deserves better than JD Vance.”

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  • ‘No one will ever replace my husband…but JD’: Charlie’s been gone less than 2 months, and Erika Kirk already erased him from her story | The Mary Sue

    It has not even been two months since the right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk died, yet his wife, Erika Kirk, appears to have moved on. If her previous actions regarding her husband’s death were not already questionable, she is now providing even more reasons for speculation.

    At a recent Turning Point USA event in Mississippi, Erika Kirk introduced JD Vance, stating that while no one can replace her husband, Charlie Kirk, she sees some similarities between him and the current Vice President of the United States. Unfortunately, her choice of words did not come across well, leading many to interpret it as if she wanted to replace her husband with JD Vance, whom she considered the best fit. Her exact words were:

    “ No one will ever replace my husband, no, but I do see some similarities of my husband in JD.”

    As if that wasn’t enough, when Erika Kirk and JD Vance met on stage after the introduction, they shared a rather awkward hug that has set the internet abuzz. While Erika seemed to caress Vance’s head, he placed his hands on her lower back, which many deemed “too intimate.” Social media platforms, including X (formerly Twitter), were filled with discussions about the uncomfortable hug, with many advising JD Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, to be cautious about her husband’s antics.

    Many pointed out that Erika Kirk fits the “White American Christian” narrative that Republicans often promote, making her more marketable than Usha Vance’s Indian American identity, which some consider less appealing. Based on the same, they hinted that Usha was easily replaceable.

    One person on X, while poking fun at the incident, wrote:

    “The only thing that healed faster than Erika Kirk’s heart was Donald Trump’s ear.”

    Another person wrote:

    “Just a month after her husband’s death Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, says — “I see some similarities of my husband in JD… VP Vance.And now JD Vance complains his Hindu wife, Usha Chilukuri Vance, won’t convert to Christianity. Strange timing, isn’t it?”

    For context, during the same event, JD Vance had expressed a desire for his wife, Usha, to be ‘moved’ by the same things that once inspired him, referring to his hope for his wife to convert to Christianity.

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  • Air traffic controller shortages lead to broader US flight delays as shutdown nears one-month mark

    Travel delays were adding up at airports across the U.S. on Friday as the government shutdown drags on, putting even more pressure on air traffic controllers who have been working without pay for a month.

    U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been warning that travelers will start to see more flight disruptions the longer controllers go without a paycheck.

    “Every day there’s going to be more challenges,” Duffy told reporters Thursday outside the White House after a closed-door meeting with Vice President JD Vance and aviation industry leaders to talk about the shutdown’s impact on U.S. travel.

    The Federal Aviation Administration on Friday reported staffing shortages that were causing flight delays at a number of airports, including in Boston, Phoenix, San Francisco, Nashville, Houston, Dallas and the Washington, D.C. area. Airports serving the New York City area — John F. Kennedy International Airport, LaGuardia Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport — were also experiencing delays averaging around two hours, according to the FAA.

    “Currently nearly 50 percent of major air traffic control facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 90 percent of air traffic controllers are out at New York–area facilities,” the FAA said in a statement posted on X on Friday evening.

    Staffing shortages can occur both in regional control centers that manage multiple airports and in individual airport towers, but they don’t always lead to flight disruptions. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, flight data showed strong on-time performance at most major U.S. airports for the month of October despite isolated staffing problems that surfaced throughout the month.

    But Cirium said the data also showed a “broader slowdown” Thursday across the nation’s aviation system for the first time since the shutdown began on Oct. 1, suggesting staffing-related disruptions may be spreading.

    According to Cirium, many major U.S. airports on Thursday saw below-average on-time performance, with fewer flights departing within 15 minutes of their scheduled departure times. Staffing-related delays at Orlando’s airport on Thursday, for example, averaged nearly four and a half hours for some time. The data does not distinguish between the different causes of delays, such as staffing shortages or bad weather.

    Last weekend, a shortage of controllers also led to the FAA issuing a brief ground stop at Los Angeles International Airport, one of the busiest in the world. Flights were held at their originating airports for about two hours Sunday until the FAA lifted the ground stop.

    Most controllers are continuing to work mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said. That leaves little time for a side job to help cover bills, mortgage payments and other expenses unless controllers call out.

    Duffy said controllers are also struggling to get to work because they can’t afford to fill up their cars with gas. Controllers missed their first full paychecks on Tuesday.

    “For this nation’s air traffic controllers, missing just one paycheck can be a significant hardship, as it is for all working Americans. Asking them to go without a full month’s pay or more is simply not sustainable,” Nick Daniels, president of NATCA, said Friday in a statement.

    Some U.S. airports have stepped in to provide food donations and other support for federal aviation employees working without pay, including controllers and Transportation Security Administration agents.

    Before the shutdown, the FAA was already dealing with a long-standing shortage of about 3,000 air traffic controllers.

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  • Trump touts ‘12 out of 10’ meeting with Xi, downplays reports of Venezuela strikes

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    President Donald Trump spent the week in Asia meeting with other global leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, while his administration ramped up its attacks against alleged drug boats in Latin America.

    Trump met with Xi Thursday in South Korea, where the two hashed out a series of agreements concerning trade. Specifically, Trump said he agreed to cut tariffs on Chinese imports by 10% — reducing the rate to from 57% to 47% — because China said it would cooperate with the U.S. on addressing the fentanyl crisis.

    Additionally, Trump said that he would not move forward with imposing an additional 100% tariff on Chinese goods that were expected to kick in Saturday. Trump threatened the steep hike after China announced in October it would impose export controls on rare earth magnets, which he said China had agreed to postpone by a year.

    Afterward, Trump described the meeting as a massive success, and signaled that a broader trade deal between the two countries would be signed shortly.

    TRUMP, XI MEET IN EFFORT TO RESOLVE TRADE TENSIONS SPARKED BY US TARIFFS

    President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping as they hold a bilateral meeting at Gimhae International Airport, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, in Busan, South Korea, Oct. 30, 2025.  (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters)

    “Zero, to 10, with 10 being the best, I’d say the meeting was a 12,” Trump told reporters after meeting with Xi. “A lot of decisions were made … and we’ve come to a conclusion on very many important points.”

    From China’s point of view, Xi said afterward the two countries should work together and complete outstanding tasks from the summit for the “peace of mind” of China, the U.S., and the rest of the world.

    “Both sides should take the long-term perspective into account, focusing on the benefits of cooperation rather than falling into a vicious cycle of mutual retaliation,” Xi said, according to a state media report on the meeting.

    TRUMP ANNOUNCES MEETING WITH XI JINPING AT SOUTH KOREA APEC SUMMIT SCHEDULED FOR NEXT MONTH

    Additionally, Trump announced on the Asia trip, which also included stops in Malaysia and Japan, that he would instruct the U.S. to revive nuclear weapons testing —upending decades of precedent on nuclear policy, as the U.S. has not conducted nuclear weapons testing since 1992. The announcement also left lawmakers, experts and military personnel wondering what he meant since no other country has conducted a known nuclear test since North Korea in 2017.

    China’s and Russia’s last known tests go back to the 1990s, when Russia was still the Soviet Union.

    Mushroom cloud from nuclear test

    A mushroom cloud rises from a nuclear weapon test during Operation Tumbler-Snapper. Over two thousand Marines witnessed the event, which was conducted in 1952 at the Nevada Proving Ground. (Getty Images)

    The White House did not provide comment to Fox News Digital. The Pentagon did not respond to a request for comment.

    TRUMP CLAIMS ASIA TOUR RETURNED ‘TRILLIONS’ TO US AHEAD OF CRITICAL MEETING WITH CHINA’S XI

    However, experts are aligned that Trump likely meant he would instruct the U.S. to either increase its testing of nuclear-powered weapons systems or conduct tests of low-yield nuclear weapons.

    Vice President JD Vance told reporters Thursday that Trump would continue to work on nuclear proliferation, but said testing would be done to guarantee weapons are working at optimal capability.

    “It’s an important part of American national security to make sure that this nuclear arsenal we have actually functions properly,” Vance said. “And that’s part of a testing regime. To be clear, we know that it does work properly, but you got to keep on top of it over time. And the president just wants to make sure that we do that with his nation.”

    TRUMP THREATENS ‘MASSIVE’ CHINA TARIFFS, SEES ‘NO REASON’ TO MEET WITH XI

    The Trump administration also stepped up its campaign against drug cartels in Latin America, totaling at least 14 strikes against alleged drug boats in the region.

    U.S. strike on drug-trafficking boat

    The U.S. killed six alleged drug traffickers on a boat in international waters near Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Oct. 14, 2025. (realDonaldTrump/Truth Social)

    Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Tuesday that the U.S. had conducted three strikes against four vessels in the Eastern Pacific, and Hegseth announced Wednesday another strike had also been conducted in those waters.

    But the White House dismissed reports Friday that the Trump administration had identified and was poised to strike military targets within Venezuela imminently. Trump later told reporters that he hadn’t determined whether he would conduct strikes within Venezuela.

    Lawmakers — including some Republicans — have pressed for more answers on the strikes, and have questioned if they are even legal. For example, Sens. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., spearheaded a war powers resolution that would prohibit U.S. armed forces from engaging in “hostilities” against Venezuela.

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    “The Trump administration has made it clear they may launch military action inside Venezuela’s borders and won’t stop at boat strikes in the Caribbean,” Schiff said in an Oct. 17 statement.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

    Diana Stancy is a politics reporter with Fox News Digital covering the White House. 

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