Actress Sydney Sweeney is making her first public comments following the significant backlash to her viral American Eagle ad campaign.
The 28-year-old celebrity discussed the drama during a newly published <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/sydney-sweeney-gq-cover-story-interview-men-of-the-year-2025">interview</a> with GQ. When asked by the interviewer what it was like when President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the campaign, Sweeney gave a one-word answer: “Surreal.”
She also said not to believe the lies being circulated about American Eagle losing business because of it. 
“I was aware of the numbers as it was going. So when I saw all the headlines of in-store visits were down a certain percentage, none of it was true,” she told GQ. “It was all made up, but nobody could say anything because [the company was] in their quiet period. So it was all just a lot of talk. And because I knew at the end of the day what that ad was for, and it was great jeans, it didn’t affect me one way or the other.”
Sweeney deflected when asked if “there [is] something that you want to say about the ad itself” because “the criticism of the content was basically that, maybe specifically in this political climate, white people shouldn’t joke about genetic superiority.”
“I think that when I have an issue that I want to speak about, people will hear,” the actress said. She also said she put her phone away and stayed busy with filming the entire time she was making headlines for appearing in the ad.
“I didn’t really see a lot of it,” Sweeney said of the critical comments.
Controversy erupted over the summer over an ad spot featuring Sweeney in various seductive poses while saying she had “good jeans.” The double entendre with the word “genes” made leftists deem the ad racist, noting that Sweeney is white with blond hair and blue eyes.
In one of the ads, Sweeney says, “Genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality, and even eye color. My jeans are blue.”
American Eagle responded to the backlash by issuing a simple statement: “&#8217;Sydney Sweeney Has Great Jeans’ is and always was about the jeans. Her jeans. Her story. We’ll continue to celebrate how everyone wears their AE jeans with confidence, their way. Great jeans look good on everyone.”
Trump’s response to the ad campaign was positive after the president discovered that Sweeney was a registered Republican. 
“She’s a registered Republican?” Trump confirmed with a reporter in August, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-delighted-to-learn-sydney-sweeney-is-a-republican-now-i-love-her-ad">reported</a>. “Oh, now I love her ad. Is that right? Is Sydney Sweeney? Yes. You’d be surprised at how many people are Republicans. That’s what I wouldn’t have known. But I’m glad you told me that. If Sydney Sweeney is a registered Republican, I think her ad is fantastic.”
Vance also weighed in on the controversy during an appearance on the &#8220;Ruthless&#8221; podcast.
&#8220;My political advice to the Democrats is: continue to tell everybody who thinks Sydney Sweeney is attractive is a Nazi,&#8221; Vance quipped.
&#8220;You have like a normal all-American, beautiful girl doing like a normal jeans ad, right? They’re trying to sell… jeans to kids in America and they have managed to so unhinge themselves over this thing. It’s like, you guys, did you learn nothing from the November 2024 election?&#8221;

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Sydney Sweeney Says Trump’s Support Was ‘Surreal’ During Viral Jeans Ad Controversy

Sydney Sweeney Says Trump's Support Was 'Surreal' During Viral Jeans Ad Controversy 

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Actor and major Democratic donor George Clooney declared that the strategy of replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris months before the 2024 election was a “mistake.”
The “Ocean’s Eleven” star made the admission during an interview with CBS &#8220;Sunday Morning.&#8221;
When asked if he would write his infamous New York Times op-ed again if he had a chance to redo things, Clooney said he would.
“Yes. We had a chance. I wanted there to be, as I wrote in the op-ed, a primary. Let’s battle-test this quickly and get it up and going. I think the mistake with it being Kamala is she had to run against her own record. It’s very hard to do if the point of running is to say, ‘I’m not that person.’ It’s hard to do, and so she was given a very tough task,” the actor said.
“I think it was a mistake, quite honestly. But we are where we are. We were gonna lose more House seats, they say. So I don’t know. To not do it would be to say, ‘I’m not gonna tell the truth.&#8217;”
After Biden totally flubbed his first presidential debate against Trump, Clooney echoed what many in Hollywood were saying and wrote his thoughts in an essay published in July 2024, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-turns-on-biden-these-celebrities-say-its-time-to-go?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Hollywood+Turns+On+Biden%3A+These+Celebrities+Say+It%E2%80%99s+Time+To+Go">reported</a>.
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He wrote at the time, “We are not going to win in November with this president. On top of that, we won’t win the House, and we’re going to lose the Senate. This isn’t only my opinion; this is the opinion of every senator and congress member and governor that I’ve spoken with in private. Every single one, irrespective of what he or she is saying publicly.”
Clooney defended speaking out after being criticized, <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-clooney-defends-his-op-ed-knifing-joe-biden-as-a-civic-duty/">telling</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper at the time that it was his “civic duty” to call for Biden to drop out of the race.
“That’s the deal, you have to take your stand if you believe in it,” he said at the time. “Take a stand, stand for it and then deal with the consequences. That’s the rules, so when people criticize me — they criticized me for my stance against the war 20 years ago, people picketed my movies and they put me on a deck of cards — I have to take that, that’s fair. I’m OK with that, I’m OK with criticism for where I stand. I defend their right to criticize me as much as I defend my right to criticize them.”

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George Clooney Admits Replacing Biden With Kamala Was A ‘Mistake’

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Kamala Harris

Politics

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence recently realized that regular people generally do not care what celebrities say about politics and will not vote a certain way because someone famous urges them to.
The leftist actress said as much during an episode of “The Interview” podcast, when the host mentioned a 2016 op-ed she wrote criticizing Donald Trump after he was first elected, and asked whether she wanted to speak about the president’s current policies.
“I don’t really know if I should,” Lawrence replied. “The first Trump administration was so wild, and just how can we let this stand? I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.”
“But as we’ve learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart. We are so divided,” she went on.
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The “Hunger Games” star went on to discuss more effective ways of advancing her political opinions.
“I think I’m in a complicated recalibration because I’m also an artist,” Lawrence continued. “With this temperature and the way things can turn out, I don’t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don’t like my political opinions. I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I’m doing. And if I can’t say something that’s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I don’t want to be a part of the problem.”
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“I try to express my politics through my work,” she explained. “A lot of movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape and that’s how I feel like I can be helpful.”
Lawrence has criticized Trump multiple times over the years and voiced support for the Women’s March, which was inspired by opposition to Trump.
Like most other major celebrities, Lawrence endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in 2024, <a href="https://people.com/jennifer-lawrence-endorses-kamala-harris-womens-rights-documentaries-exclusive-8717082">telling</a> People magazine at the time that she mostly made that choice because of “abortion being on the ballot.”
“That&#8217;s the most important thing, is to not let somebody into the White House who is going to ban abortion,” she said at the time.

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Jennifer Lawrence Realizes No One Cares About Her Politics: ‘Celebrities Do Not Make A Difference’

Jennifer Lawrence Realizes No One Cares About Her Politics: 'Celebrities Do Not Make A Difference'

Endorsement

Hollywood

Comedian Wanda Sykes is being dragged for saying the quiet part out loud and admitting she will choose job candidates based on their race and gender.
The 61-year-old celebrity proudly made the admission last week at Variety’s Power of Women event in Los Angeles.
“My joy is when I’m able to hire somebody. And you know who I like to hire? Women. … I’ll be upfront with you. When it comes to a position and I look on the paper — she might be right here, and he’s up there,” Sykes said, indicating with her hands that the man was in a slightly elevated position compared to the woman. 
She went on, “I’m hiring the woman. That’s just how I operate. And I’ll be honest with you, if she’s a black woman — oh, pssh. Girl, you got the job.”
The crowd gave her a big round of applause for acknowledging her bias.
“When women thrive, the community thrives,” Sykes added, before throwing in a punch line. “We make everyone around us better. When you get women, when we win, everybody wins. When men win, sometimes they get a younger wife.”
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“What I plan on doing is to continue to create projects — and even in my stand-up — to speak and represent more of what powerful women can do. We’re at a moment in time where, with everything that’s going on in the government, we need to create projects where life imitates art,” she continued. 
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“Looking at what’s happening with cutting SNAP benefits; that’s going to affect single mothers. I want to do things that speak to them and uplift them. … Use your power to uplift women. If we did that, and if that’s the way we moved, we would have two female presidents by now.”
Social media commenters blasted Sykes for bragging about discriminating in her hiring practices.
“Haha cool this is totally illegal,” conservative commentator Megyn Kelly <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1984372349215658407?s=43">replied</a>. 
“Why do people think it’s OK to be so blatantly racist and sexist?” another account <a href="https://x.com/OneHegemony/status/1984372640170271192">posted</a>.
“Where&#8217;s the outrage from the left who cry ‘racism’ at the drop of the hat?” echoed a third.

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Wanda Sykes Brags About Her Hiring Bias: ‘If She’s A Black Woman, Girl You Got The Job’

Wanda Sykes Brags About Her Hiring Bias: 'If She's A Black Woman, Girl You Got The Job'

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Discrimination

Racial Bias

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“Uncut Gems” actress Julia Fox is facing backlash for her controversial Halloween costume, which social media users are calling “<a href="https://x.com/BeeAwake2/status/1984291814686515274">sick and disgusting</a>.”
The 35-year-old celeb, who is an ex-girlfriend of rapper Kanye West, stepped out for a Halloween party in New York City on Thursday and donned an outfit meant to depict the aftermath of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 
Fox was photographed wearing the recognizable pink suit and pillbox hat that JFK’s wife Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis wore on that day. The outfit was splattered with blood meant to represent the assassination.
Reactions on social media were fiercely opposed.
“Julia Fox continues to be one of the most insufferable people imaginable,” one person <a href="https://x.com/Process718/status/1984280085982314831">replied</a>. 
“What a ghoul,” another person <a href="https://x.com/cactusncookies/status/1984321326220525986">echoed</a>.
“You will never be able to convince me that Hollywood is not a product of the devil,” <a href="https://x.com/adhdrunsme/status/1984287556406796756">said</a> another.
“Tasteless, narcissistic attention seeking,” another commenter <a href="https://x.com/GenXgal90/status/1984325643308581108">replied</a>.
As backlash mounted, Fox posted a statement on Instagram defending the outfit, insisting her morbid outfit choice was &#8220;not a costume&#8221; but &#8220;a statement.&#8221;
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“When her husband was assassinated, she refused to change out of her blood-stained clothes, saying, ‘I want them to see what they’ve done,&#8217;” the celeb wrote. 
“The image of the delicate pink suit splattered with blood is one of the most haunting juxtapositions in modern history. Beauty and horror. Poise and devastation. Her decision not to change clothes, even after being encouraged to, was an act of extraordinary bravery. It was performance, protest and mourning all at once. A woman weaponizing image and grace to expose brutality. It’s about trauma, power and how femininity itself is a form of resistance. Long live Jackie O.”
Fox is known for getting attention by wearing provocative outfits. In a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/03/t-magazine/julia-fox-freak-guide.html">essay</a> published last year, the actress said she was sick of pretending to be normal and instead wanted to openly be a “freak.”
&#8220;I remember being in fifth grade [on New York’s Upper East Side] and being exhausted from trying to pretend to be normal all the time,” Fox wrote. “It’s not easier [to try] to be normal … eventually freaks are like, &#8216;I’m going to be myself and live my truth because I can’t pretend anymore.&#8217; Pretending is draining; it’s exhausting; it’s depression. Being a freak’s not an easy thing, but it can be a very beautiful thing.&#8221;

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Julia Fox Faces Backlash For ‘Sick’ Blood-Splattered Halloween Costume

Julia Fox Faces Backlash For 'Sick' Blood-Splattered Halloween Costume

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New York City

Actor Harrison Ford is not happy that President Trump won&#8217;t buy into climate change alarmism.
The 83-year-old “Indiana Jones” star ripped into the president while speaking to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/harrison-ford-donald-trump-climate-crisis">The Guardian</a> this week as he prepared to receive a conservation leadership award at Chicago’s Field Museum.
“[Trump] doesn’t have any policies, he has whims. It scares the sh** out of me,” Ford told the outlet. “The ignorance, the hubris, the lies, the perfidy. [Trump] knows better, but he’s an instrument of the status quo and he’s making money, hand over fist, while the world goes to hell in a hand basket. It’s unbelievable. I don’t know of a greater criminal in history.”
“I knew it was coming, I have been preaching this stuff for 30 years,” the actor said. “Everything we’ve said about climate change has come true. Why is that not sufficient that it alarms people that they change behaviors? Because of the entrenched status quo.”
Ford’s tirade against Trump continued. “He’s losing ground because everything he says is a lie,” he added. 
The “Star Wars” actor’s comments come just after climate activist Bill Gates admitted that there are bigger problems in the world that need solving before climate initiatives should be addressed.
“Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems,” the tech billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-gates-walks-back-climate-doom-it-will-not-lead-to-humanitys-demise">wrote</a> in an essay earlier this week. “We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause.”
The Microsoft co-founder admitted that the Earth’s temperature is not the most important factor for improving life on the planet and said the “doomsday” view of climate change is “wrong.”
“Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,” Gates wrote.

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Harrison Ford Whines That Trump’s Climate Policy ‘Scares The Sh**’ Out Of Him

Harrison Ford Whines That Trump's Climate Policy 'Scares The Sh**' Out Of Him

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Climate Change

Reality TV star Kim Kardashian has bought into the conspiracy theory that the 1969 moon landing was fake.
The 45-year-old mom of four laid out her reasons during the most recent episode of her show, “The Kardashians,” which aired on Thursday.
&#8220;I&#8217;m sending you, so far, a million articles with both Buzz Aldrin and &#8230; the other one,” Kardashian told actress Sarah Paulson while on the set of the show “All’s Fair.”
&#8220;This girl says, &#8216;What was the scariest moment?&#8217; And [Aldrin] goes, &#8216;There was no scary moment, cause it didn’t happen. It could&#8217;ve been scary, but it wasn&#8217;t, cause it didn&#8217;t happen.'&#8221;
Kardashian also shared her theory that Aldrin is accidentally revealing secrets because he’s &#8220;gotten old.&#8221;
&#8220;So I think it didn’t happen,” the reality star asserted.
Back in her trailer, a producer can be heard asking her more about the conversation, to which Kardashian repeated her previous statements.
“I don’t think we did,” she said of the moon landing. “I think it was fake.&#8221;
&#8220;I’ve seen a few videos [of] Buzz Aldrin talking about how it didn’t happen. He says it all the time now, in interviews,&#8221; Kardashian continued.
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&#8220;Why does Buzz Aldrin say it didn&#8217;t happen? There&#8217;s no gravity on the moon … why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon [have] a different [foot]print than the photos. Why are there no stars?&#8221;
The producer predicts that Kardashian&#8217;s audience will call her crazy, to which the star replies, “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what. But like, go to TikTok. See for yourself.”
Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first two people to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission. Third crew member Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit during the same mission.
One of the Aldrin quotes Kardashian was referencing came from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4UP6nRMuGs&amp;t=430s">out-of-context comments</a> Aldrin made during a 2015 interview with a young child that have been repeatedly used by conspiracy theorists.
As for the “scary moment” comment, it came from an event when Aldrin said the scary moment never happened, not the moon landing itself.
The 95-year-old astronaut recently celebrated the 56th anniversary of the moon landing with a post on X.
“July 20, 1969. ‘Contact light, engine stop.’ The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon,” he <a href="https://x.com/TheRealBuzz/status/1946988549187702957">posted</a> in July. “A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by.”
“An achievement resulting from years of incalculable effort, commitment, and team work,” he went on.
“We all did our part to see President Kennedy’s words become reality: ‘We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others too.’”
“I couldn’t be prouder to have completed this mission with the hundreds of thousands of people that helped get us to the moon and back home. God bless the USA and all of humankind,” the post concluded.

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Kim Kardashian Insists Moon Landing Was Fake: ‘Like, Go To TikTok, See For Yourself’

Aerospace

Conspiracy Theory

Actress Elizabeth Olsen recently made headlines for saying she’s drawing a proverbial line in the sand when it comes to community and shared experiences.
“I think it’s important for people to gather as a community, to see other humans, be together in a space,” the “WandaVision” star <a href="https://deadline.com/2025/10/elizabeth-olsen-acting-movies-theatrical-release-wanda-mcu-1236593646/">told</a> Deadline in a recent interview in which she stressed the importance of releasing films in theaters. “That’s why I like sports. I think it’s really powerful for people to come together for something that they’re excited about. We don’t even audition in person anymore.”
“If a movie is made independently and only sells to a streamer, then fine. But I don’t want to make something where that&#8217;s the end-all,” she added.
It’s not just nostalgia for movie theaters. Olsen, whether she realizes it or not, is alluding to something bigger: the death of shared culture and shared experiences.
In an interesting turn of events, Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh has been warning about this collapse as well. “Pop culture peaked at a specific and identifiable point in our very recent past,” Walsh said in a recent monologue. “And has fallen off a cliff, perhaps irretrievably, since then.”
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He even named the exact moment: 2007–2008. Walsh pointed to some of the best entertainment from the era, including “There Will Be Blood,” “The Dark Knight,” “The Office,” “Breaking Bad,” and “Superbad,” which came from a time when everyone watched the same things, quoted the same lines, and shared the same cultural conversations.
That’s what Olsen is missing, too. Our society no longer experiences anything together. Instead, they’re fed customized content via the algorithm, guaranteeing that everyone doesn’t wind up watching the exact same things.
Walsh explained it further, saying, “We no longer have a shared cultural experience … All of that has been consumed by an infinite scroll of content created by an algorithm specifically for you.”
He mentioned how there used to be radio DJs, movie premieres, and Thursday-night sitcoms everyone talked about on Friday. Now, everything is individually-tailored and undeniably lonely.
“The algorithm,” Walsh says, “is the only shared culture we have left. And it keeps us staring at the screen alone, isolated, fragmented.”
“As our lives have become increasingly centered around these devices, centered and condensed into these little glowing boxes, we have lost something very important,&#8221; Walsh added. &#8220;We no longer have a shared cultural experience, what some have called the monoculture, or what you might just call mainstream culture.&#8221;
“If I’m very optimistic, which I’m not,” Walsh said, “I’d hope people will rebel against this fragmented, algorithmic pseudo-culture by building strong communities … in physical space.”
Olsen’s pushback against streaming, and wanting people “to gather as a community” is exactly the rebellion Walsh hopes for. She’s advocating for that same thing by taking a stance against streaming projects.
Watching a movie alone on a laptop in your apartment is no different than scrolling through TikTok: solitary, algorithmically curated, and fleeting. Olsen’s defense of theaters isn’t just about art. It’s about returning to in-person human connection. Because once you lose shared experiences, you lose shared meaning. 
Olsen doesn&#8217;t have much in common with Walsh: she&#8217;s not conservative, and predictably, she <a href="https://x.com/PopCrave/status/1849915089031246076">endorsed</a> Kamala Harris for president in 2024. But in her quest for in-person connection, she’s actually advocating for conserving the fundamentals of human existence and rejecting the progressive nature of pursuing all types of technology, no matter the cost. 
Because in the end, culture can’t continue without community, and community dies when we choose solitude.

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has done an about-face on climate change alarmism, recently saying that there are more pressing matters people should be worrying about instead.
The 70-year-old tech billionaire, who has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as much in a <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/work/accelerate-energy-innovation/reader/helping-the-worlds-poorest-adapt-to-climate-change">&#8220;memo&#8221;</a> published Tuesday titled “Three Tough Truths About Climate.”
&#8220;Climate change, disease, and poverty are all major problems,&#8221; Gates wrote. &#8220;We should deal with them in proportion to the suffering they cause.&#8221;
The businessman admitted that the Earth’s temperature is not the most important factor for improving life on the planet and said the &#8220;doomsday&#8221; view of climate change is “wrong.”
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&#8220;Although climate change will have serious consequences — particularly for people in the poorest countries — it will not lead to humanity’s demise,&#8221; Gates wrote. &#8220;This is a chance to refocus on the metric that should count even more than emissions and temperature change: improving lives. Our chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions who live in the world’s poorest countries.&#8221;
Gates added, &#8220;Although climate change will hurt poor people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them it will not be the only or even the biggest threat to their lives and welfare.&#8221;
He wrote the 17-page analysis ahead of next month’s United Nations climate change conference in Brazil, in hopes of shifting funding away from climate initiatives toward other endeavors he now believes are more important.
Gates insisted that climate change remains a major concern but should be moved lower on the priority list. 
“If you think climate is not important, you won’t agree with the memo. If you think climate is the only cause and apocalyptic, you won’t agree with the memo,” Gates <a href="https://apnews.com/article/bill-gates-climate-change-united-nations-4108f76e746d1e3e13845f33b8ae7007">told</a> reporters of his stance, per Associated Press. “It’s kind of this pragmatic view of somebody who’s, you know, trying to maximize the money and the innovation that goes to help in these poor countries.”

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Bill Gates Walks Back Climate Doom: 'It Will Not Lead To Humanity’s Demise'

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Pop star Katy Perry and former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau were seen holding hands at a cabaret show at Crazy Horse Paris in France, confirming their rumored status as a couple to many on social media.
They were celebrating Perry’s 41st birthday when they were spotted together on Saturday. Photos show the “I Kissed a Girl” singer wearing a form-fitting red dress while walking down the street with Trudeau, 53, who is clad all in black.
Rumors of the two having a romantic relationship date back to the summer, when Trudeau and Perry were seen together in Montreal. Then, earlier this month, images of the couple kissing on her yacht started circulating on social media, though they had been captured earlier in the summer.
“[Perry] pulled up her boat next to a small public whale-watching boat, then they started making out,” a witness reportedly told The Daily Mail about the encounter.
“I didn’t realize who she was with until I saw the tattoo on the guy’s arm, and I immediately realized it was Justin Trudeau.”
Trudeau also attended a concert stop on Perry’s “Lifetimes” tour the following night with his teen daughter, per reports. Videos from the event show Trudeau smiling and singing along enthusiastically to “Firework,” “Roar,” and “Dark Horse,” as The Daily Wire previously reported.
In July, Perry announced she was splitting from her fiancé of six years, Orlando Bloom. The two share a four-year-old daughter. 
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“Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry’s relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting,” the statement said at the time. 
“They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is — and always will be — raising their daughter [Daisy Dove] with love, stability, and mutual respect.”
Trudeau split from his wife of 18 years in 2023.
Both Trudeau and Perry have experienced negative publicity in recent years. Trudeau resigned from office earlier this year, amidst dissatisfaction from voters over multiple issues such as immigration and the cost of living.
Meanwhile, Perry was mercilessly mocked in April for joining the much-hyped all-female Blue Origin space flight. She was also blasted for her “Lifetimes Tour,” which got terrible reviews. The Grammy Award-winning singer called her critics “unhinged and unhealed.”

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The sudden death of American Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky, just 29, has shaken the chess world and sparked intense backlash against former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, whose repeated, unproven cheating accusations cast a long shadow over Naroditsky’s final months.
No cause of death has been publicly disclosed.
Widely beloved for his skill, humility, and gift for teaching and inspiring through streaming, Naroditsky — affectionately known as “Danya” — was not only a top chess player but also a vital bridge between the game and its global online audience. His passing has sparked a reckoning within the chess community over harassment, accountability, and the emotional toll of public defamation.
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World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/magnus-carlsen-horrible-vladimir-kramnik-daniel-naroditsky-death-10319480/?utm">described</a> the treatment of Naroditsky as “horrible,” placing direct blame on Kramnik’s behavior. “When he started going after Naroditsky so hard — first of all, I don’t think anybody thought Naroditsky was cheating,” Carlsen said. “The way he was going after him was horrible. Seeing how it affected him&#8230; it was apparent now.”
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Carlsen admitted he had supported Naroditsky privately but regretted not doing so publicly.
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“Probably should have done that publicly as well. It’s a great loss. It’s very sad for all of us that somebody who was such a resource to the chess community&#8230; was led to the place that he was.” Carlsen reflected on his early support for Kramnik’s anti-cheating campaign, saying, “At the start, I didn’t agree with his numbers, but I thought he was kind of fighting the good fight. But it turned on its head.”
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Indian Grandmaster Nihal Sarin, who played Naroditsky in his final online games, <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/chess/nihal-sarin-interview-as-told-daniel-naroditsky-death-kramnik-10319542/lite/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">revealed</a> the emotional distress Naroditsky expressed in their last conversations. “He said he was under immense stress due to a lot of accusations, from Kramnik. I can imagine the pain he was going through and the toll on his mental health.”
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Sarin noted that those close to him defended him when Kramnik accused him of cheating, making his experience much easier than Naroditsky’s. “Not as many people could be so vocal in supporting Naroditsky,” he said. Sarin believes the campaign of false accusations “literally took a life.”
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He recalled their final games: “Our last few games felt very abnormal&#8230; It was like he was just freezing. I was worried&#8230; and then I did not see him online again. The next day, I heard the news.”
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World No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura, a friend and fellow streamer, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWcK8Ib5rc">did not hold back</a>: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Kramnik can go f*** himself. He can go f*** himself and go rot in hell.”
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Nakamura and others have voiced outrage over Kramnik’s relentless online crusade, which, beginning in 2024, accused dozens of players of cheating, often based on flawed statistical analyses. Naroditsky, known for his honesty and transparency, was deeply affected.
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In a December 2024 Twitch stream, Naroditsky acknowledged the campaign was breaking him down: “I don’t think I’m good. I don’t think I’m thick-skinned enough to say, honestly, that that hasn’t been affecting me at all. I’ve been nice and civil and courteous to this army of troglodyte lowlifes for way too long. I’m really sick of it.”
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He later described Kramnik’s campaign as “a sustained, evil and absolutely unhinged attempt to destroy my life.”
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The World Chess Federation (FIDE) has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmxj102039o">said</a> it is formally reviewing Kramnik’s actions. CEO Emil Sutovsky confirmed the organization is “looking into” the attacks against Naroditsky. British champion Jovana Houska welcomed the investigation, warning against “trial by social media.”
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Naroditsky was more than just a grandmaster — he was a coach, commentator, and role model. The Charlotte Chess Center called him “admired and respected by fans and players around the world.” His Twitch and YouTube channels reached hundreds of thousands of viewers, making chess accessible to a new generation.
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As the chess world reels from this tragedy, many now echo the same message: this must never happen again. As Sarin put it: “When respected figures spread unfounded allegations without accountability, real lives are destroyed.”
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Daniel Naroditsky is ranked first in the world for chess for boys 12 and under.

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Actor Robert De Niro had a full-scale meltdown over President Donald Trump, going so far as questioning if he was even human.
The 82-year-old made an appearance on the MSNBC show “The Weekend” on Sunday to voice support for the nationwide &#8220;No Kings&#8221; demonstrations, which were very popular with his age demographic, and urge followers to keep protesting against Trump.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t let up,&#8221; De Niro said. &#8220;We cannot let up because [Trump] is not going to leave the White House. He does not want to leave the White House; he will not leave the White House. Anybody who thinks, &#8216;Oh, he&#8217;ll do this, he&#8217;ll do that,&#8217; is just deluding themselves.&#8221;
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“We see it all the time—[Trump] will not want to leave,” he went on. “He set it up with, I guess he’s the Goebbels of the cabinet, Stephen Miller.”
“He’s a Nazi,” the actor continued, comparing Miller, who is Jewish, to Adolf Hitler’s chief Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels. “Yes, he is, and he should be ashamed of himself.”
Trump did mention seeking a third term in the past, but more recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-reveals-who-will-most-likely-be-the-2028-republican-nominee">stated</a> that Vice President JD Vance is “most likely” going to be the Republican Party’s 2028 presidential nominee.
&#8220;I&#8217;m looking to having four great years and turn it over to somebody, ideally a great Republican, to carry it forward,&#8221; he said in August.
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During the MSNBC segment over the weekend, De Niro whined that Trump was a “bully” and advocated for pushing him out of office.
&#8220;Trump does not understand anything about humanity,&#8221; the “Raging Bull” star said. &#8220;He has no empathy. I don&#8217;t know what he is, but he&#8217;s an alien, and he wants to hurt this country. It&#8217;s something deeply psychological in him. He wants to hurt people.&#8221;
De Niro has been suffering from a severe case of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) for some time. Last year, it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-post-trolls-robert-de-niro-with-wednesday-morning-cover-raging-bullst?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=New+York+Post+Trolls+Robert+De+Niro+With+Wednesday+Morning+Cover%3A+%E2%80%98Raging+Bulls**t%E2%80%99">landed him on the cover</a> of The New York Post alongside the headline, “Raging Bullsh**” after the actor ranted about Trump outside a New York City courthouse. 
“I never knew how small, both mentally and physically, Wacko Former Actor Robert De Niro was,” Trump said in a Truth Social post at the time. “Today, De Niro, who suffers from an incurable case of TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, commonly known in the medical community as TDS, was met, outside the Courthouse, with a force far greater than the Radical Left – MAGA.”

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