Trump was criticizing President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure package, which he signed into law in 2021, when Trump tried to say that four-syllable word. ″[It didn’t] work out too well ― $1.2 trillion for their fake infra-struck-er-sher par-,” Trump said. Trump’s verbal blunder managed to amuse many people on X, formerly Twitter. Source link
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sunday Brunch host Tim Lovejoy walked into an awkward conversation topic when asking how a guest celebrated his recent nuptials. On Sunday morning’s edition (28 April) of the Channel 4 show, Lovejoy and co-host Simon Rimmer were joined by comedian and presenter Sue Perkins, singer Jess Glynne, actor Sophie Thompson, comedian Josh Widdicombe and SAS: Who Dares Wins star Jason Fox. As Rimmer prepared the morning’s first course, Lovejoy made conversation with their celebrity special guests, and began asking former soldier Fox about his recent wedding to his long-time girlfriend, Jules Hawkins. After Fox noted that he got married in London and had “tapas-y” food for the reception, Lovejoy then asked whether the newlyweds went on honeymoon. “We did, we went to Jordan,” Fox said. “It’s amazing, it’s awesome, I’d thoroughly recommend it. We went all over the country and saw lots of different sides. It doesn’t disappoint.” …
The comments, which spread like wildfire on Russian state media and which the Vatican was eventually forced to row back on, sparked outrage in Kyiv and beyond, with officials viewing it as a call for Ukraine to surrender to Russia. Thanking Ukrainian chaplains working on the front lines, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a pointed late-evening statement Sunday: “This is what the church is — it is together with people, not two and a half thousand kilometers away somewhere, virtually mediating between someone who wants to live and someone who wants to destroy.” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who has strongly backed Ukraine as it faces down Russia’s invading forces, told a talk show on ARD Sunday evening that she “didn’t understand” the pope’s comments, and suggested he needed to visit Ukraine to see the damage being wrought by Moscow. “I think you can only understand some things if you see them yourself,” the Green politician said, adding that when she talks to children in Ukraine who are affected by the war, she asks herself: …
On Friday, 81-year-old Mr Biden confirmed that humanitarian help would be air-dropped into Gaza. This came a day after the health ministry run by Hamas reported that 30,000 Palestinians have lost their lives since the war started last October. “In the coming days, we’re going to join with our friends in Jordan and others who are providing airdrops of additional food and supplies”, the president stated. He added that the US will “seek to open up other avenues in, including possibly a marine corridor”. However, Mr Biden mistakenly referred to airdrops to assist Ukraine twice, leading White House officials to clarify that he was indeed talking about Gaza. While hosting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in Washington, Mr Biden shared this news. He warned that “children’s lives are on the line”. “The aid flowing to Gaza is nowhere nearly enough,” he declared. “Now, it’s nowhere nearly enough. Innocent lives are on the line and children’s lives are on the line. “We won’t stand by until we get more aid in there. We should be getting …
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Prince William appeared to make an unfortunate blunder at the Baftas, after telling actors that a film that tackles sexual assault “looked like a lot of fun”. The Prince of Wales was speaking to Bafta Rising Star winner Mia McKenna-Bruce, who stars as 16-year-old Tara in director Molly Manning-Walker’s acclaimed film, How to Have Sex. In the film, Tara and her two best friends go on a group holiday to the Greek Island Malia for a party holiday after completing their GCSE exams. Tara is raped by another British tourist in the film but feels isolated as she keeps it a secret from her friends. The storyline has been praised for its critical portrayal of the issues surrounding consent and for highlighting the lack of conversation surrounding the subject. Speaking at the Bafta’s ceremony, William admitted that he hadn’t watched the film, but added that it looked like …
Earlier this month, Rishi Sunak went to the economically depressed, wealthy second-home owners’ paradise of Cornwall, which is now £230m down as the Conservative government’s promises to replace funding lost from the EU because of Brexit remain predictably unmet. Take back control! Enjoy your fish!! What did the EU ever do for us? The Eden Project. The Hall for Cornwall. The South West Coast Path. Newlyn fish market. Penzance’s Jubilee Pool. The Camborne to Pool link road. Superfast broadband. The Penzance heliport. Oh. While in Cornwall, Sunak went for a photo op at a dentist that, it transpired, wasn’t accepting new adult NHS patients, a real problem for the Cornish populace, who having gnashed their teeth down to the gums in a nonspecific fury with the EU, now have no teeth left to gnash at the London newspaper columnists buying up their family cottages for half-term holidays twice a year with insolent middle-class teenage sons who steal locals’ lobsters out of pots in the harbour and eat them round campfires on the beach while smoking …
Donald Trump on Wednesday offered an explanation for his mix-up last month of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif, at a New Hampshire rally: he did it on purpose. The former president claimed at a South Carolina rally Wednesday night he actually intended to “interpose” the women’s names during the Jan. 6 gaffe, HuffPost reports. “It’s very hard to be sarcastic when I interpose,” Trump told the crowd. “I’m not a Nikki fan and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki from tricky Nikki, tricky Dicky.” “I interpose and they make a big deal out of it,” the former president continued. “I said, ‘No, no, I think they both stink, they have something in common, they both stink.’ And remember this, when I make a statement like that about Nikki that means she will never be running for vice president.” Trump’s comments came over a month after he said Haley was the person “in charge of security” …
A government minister has hit out at a BBC satirical show for being “completely biased” in the latest allegation from the Conservatives about the corporation’s impartiality. Huw Merriman also appears to have mixed up Art Attack presenter Neil Buchanan with BBC social affairs correspondent Michael Buchanan when challenged to give examples of unbalanced reporting. The transport minister’s comments came after Downing Street was forced to deny it is pursuing an agenda against the BBC, following a “culture wars” row over its impartiality reforms. On Monday, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer told Sky News the BBC has “on occasion been biased”, but then struggled to give examples. Mr Merriman, asked if he agreed with his colleague, told Sky News that an episode of BBC Radio 4 show The News Quiz last Friday had struck him as “completely biased”. “I was driving from my constituency office to home for 10 minutes and all I heard – and it wasn’t satirical – was just diatribe against the Conservatives, not the government,” he said. “I did listen to it and …
Former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley went back and forth Saturday over Trump’s age and mental fitness after Trump appeared to confuse Haley for Democratic Representative Nancy Pelosi in a campaign speech on Friday. The verbal sparring kicked off when Trump accused Haley of being “in charge of security” at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, a claim he has frequently lobbed at Pelosi. “They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi,” Haley said Saturday in Keene, New Hampshire. “The concern I have is — I’m not saying anything derogatory — but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this.” “My parents are up in age, and I love them dearly,” she added during a Saturday news conference following a campaign event. “But when you see them hit a certain age, there is a decline. That’s a fact — ask any doctor, there is a …
Therese Coffey’s Rwanda gaffe has already become the stuff of legend – inspiring a meme based on her “astonishment”. The deputy PM under Liz Truss made a geographical blunder on Wednesday in the Commons when MPs were debating the Safety of Rwanda Bill. The Tory backbencher said: “I have to say I’m somewhat astonished by the speech by the shadow home secretary, who can’t even get the name of the country right, talking about the Kigali government. “Rwanda is a respected country that has recently been president of the Commonwealth.” Kigali is, of course, the capital of Rwanda and the country’s largest city, and it is common practice to refer to a national government by talking about the capital of the country. Coffey later (unconvincingly) tried to cover her tracks … Some keyboard snipers moaning that I criticised the opposition for referring to the Kigali government, not the Rwandan government. I would not call the French government, the Paris government nor the Scottish government, the Edinburgh government.Why disrespect Rwanda? — Thérèse Coffey (@theresecoffey) January 18, …
