Monday Jan 29 2018
Hillary Clinton was on last night’s Grammys. Did you see that? Yeah, Hillary lost to Bruno Mars despite beating him by 3 million votes.
Yesterday after the Grammys, Jay-Z got into a Twitter feud with President Trump. Jay-Z and President Trump in a Twitter feud. It turns out the most powerful man in the world doesn’t like President Trump.
In a new interview, President Trump revealed that he tweets in bed. When asked if this were true, Melania said, “How the hell would I know?”
Big news in baseball. After numerous complaints from Native Americans, the Cleveland Indians have decided they’re going to get rid of their mascot Chief Wahoo in 2019. They said, “We realize our mascot is really offensive and racially insensitive, so we’re going to wait a year and then get rid of it.”
In Florida, a 7-year-old boy was arrested for punching his teacher. A 7-year-old boy — or as they call that in Florida, a prodigy.
On Thursday, KFC announced that Colonel Sanders will now be played by Reba McEntire. People have not been this shocked since 2007, when I took over for the Wendy’s girl. Remember that? The stock went down 95 percent.
Ed Sheeran won two Grammy Awards. But poor Ed Sheeran. He was up for best pop solo performance in a category against four female nominees, and when he won Twitter attacked him. “This is ridiculous… in this year of all years, how dare Ed Sheeran beat those women…” You know Ed Sheeran didn’t actually “beat” any women. There was a vote. I mean, what’s he supposed to do? Write less popular songs?
The big winner of last night was Bruno Mars. Bruno won six Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year, Album of the Year, and Record of the Year. You shouldn’t be able to win that many categories for the same thing. Imagine tuning in to the Oscars to see Meryl Streep win Best Actress, Best Actress with Long Hair, and Best Actress in a Movie About Newspapers. It’s too much.
Jay-Z didn’t win any of the eight Grammys he was nominated for last night, but he did get a tweet from the president. Jay-Z was on “The Van Jones Show” Saturday night on CNN and I guess Trump didn’t like what he had to say, because he tweeted, “Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies black unemployment has just been reported to be at the lowest rate ever recorded.” I don’t know what policy he’s talking about. He didn’t even get a piece of major legislation passed until December, and black unemployment has been going down in pretty much a straight line since 2010. In other words, the credit for lower black unemployment ironically goes to an unemployed black guy.
Donald Trump is right now gearing up for his first State of the Union speech; it’s tomorrow night. State of the Union is the one day of the year presidents are supposed to brag about their accomplishments. So he’s been training for this really for his whole life.
They hand out tickets for this event, actual hard tickets. These are the tickets they handed out. You see right there, you’re invited to the address to the Congress on the State of the Uniom. So we’re already off to a good start.
If I’m not mistaken, the Uniom was the side that won the Civil Warm, isn’t that right? Is there nothing they can’t screw up? That’s because we’re REAL Americans, not some pansy-a** spellers.
A prominent former Trump staffer, Omarosa, has a new job. She will be joining the cast of “Celebrity Big Brother,” a.k.a. “Get Out 2.”
Insiders say she left the White House for “Big Brother” because she wanted a more stable work environment. This is historic, because Omarosa could become the first person ever eliminated from “The Apprentice,” the Trump administration, AND “Celebrity Big Brother.”
Well, tomorrow is President Trump’s first State of the Union address. And you can tell he’s serious about it, because today he hopped on his computer and Googled “how to do State of the Union address.”
Of course, Trump’s been practicing his speech ahead of time. While Mike Pence and Paul Ryan are practicing their “I’m horrified but I can’t show it” face.
I heard that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not be at the State of the Union, because of a previous commitment. When asked what she had to do, she said, “Oh, I just don’t want to be there.”
Some big news about the Russia investigation. It came out that Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller last summer. Even weirder, he ordered it through a McDonald’s drive-thru. “I want two Big Macs, a Diet Coke, and the termination of Robert Mueller.”
But Trump’s lawyer allegedly told him that if he fired Robert Mueller, it would have a catastrophic effect on his presidency. Then after a long pause, the lawyer said, “That means ‘bad,’ Mr. President.” [imitates Trump] “Oh, I’m sorry – I thought you meant we were going to be invaded by cat people.”
As if that’s not enough, Trump’s in another Twitter fight. This time he’s feuding with Jay-Z. But on the bright side, it’s nice to see the president having beef that’s not between two buns.
Trump tweeted that someone should tell Jay-Z that black unemployment is at its lowest rate ever under his presidency. But after all the Cabinet members he’s fired, WHITE unemployment is at an all-time high. Very interesting.
The Cleveland Indians announced that they will no longer use Chief Wahoo as their logo beginning in 2019. They admitted that the logo is extremely offensive, so they’re only gonna wear it for 162 more games.
Today is Oprah’s birthday! Democrats got her a nice gift – an all-expenses-paid trip to Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
I saw that 83-year-old Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch was at the Grammys last night. Midway through, he turned to the person next to him and said, “This is the craziest State of the Union I’ve ever been to.”
It was a busy weekend for me. I was hosting the 60th annual Grammy Awards in New York last night. [audience cheers, claps] OK, I just want to say right off the top, I went out last night, and I drunk quite a lot. And then I flew straight to L.A. at 7 this morning, so that sort of noise feels very selfish on your part.
Alessia Cara won the award for best new artist. She was up against Khalid, Julia Michaels, Lil Uzi Vert and SZA. Or as your mom knows them: who, who, who, who and SZA.
If you watched the Grammys, you may have noticed we did a little comedy piece last night where Hillary Clinton read an excerpt from the book “Fire and Fury.” And she got the biggest cheer of the night in Madison Square Garden. But apparently some people in Trump’s administration took issue with it. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley tweeted, “I’ve always loved the Grammys but to have artists read the ‘Fire and Fury’ book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in.” So I guess Nikki only liked the other nonpolitical parts of the Grammys. You know, Kendrick Lamar’s performance about police violence. Or U2’s performance about immigration in front of the Statue of Liberty. You know, lighthearted nonpolitical stuff.
She wrote, “Some of us love music without the politics thrown in.” Well, Nikki Haley, you can tell your boss that some of us love politics without the Twitter meltdowns thrown in.
Even Trump’s son, Donald Jr., got in on the action. He tweeted, “Getting to read a fake news book excerpt at the Grammys seems like a great consolation prize for losing the presidency.” You’ve got to give him credit. If anyone knows anything about consolation prizes, it’s Donald Trump’s second-favorite child. At least you’re not Tiffany!
In other news, former Trump staffer and one-time “Apprentice” contestant Omarosa took a new gig this week. It was announced she will be joining the cast of “Celebrity Big Brother.” From Trump’s White House to CBS’s “Big Brother” house — by any standard that’s a promotion.
In an interview with Piers Morgan, Donald Trump admitted that he posts tweets while he is lying in bed. Yeah, Trump’s on Twitter while he’s in bed. And I guess that makes two places where Melania won’t follow him.
Who here watched the Grammys last night? The big winner was Bruno Mars, whose “24K Magic” won both Album of the Year and Record of the Year. That’s a neat trick. At next year’s Emmys, I hope we’re nominated for Best Late Night Comedy Show and Best Comedy Show in Late Night. It’s a twofer. And then lose ’em both to John Oliver.
It was a pretty political show last night. A lot of artists called out Trump’s immigration policy, including Camila Cabello, U2, and the rapper Logic. Not the first time Trump and logic have been at odds.
And there was even a surprise cameo from Trump’s archenemy and wedding guest, Hillary Clinton, who appeared in a sketch reading from “Fire and Fury.” That must have made Trump so mad to see Hillary showing off how she can read.
But all the politics in last night’s show upset UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. She tweeted, “I have always loved the Grammys, but to have artists read the ‘Fire and Fury’ book killed it. Don’t ruin great music with trash. Some of us love music without the politics thrown in it.” She just wants to take us back to when music was less political. You know, John Lennon, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, N.W.A.
N.W.A. — I loved their song “No Comment on Tha Police.”
Tomorrow night is President Trump’s first State of the Union address. He’s not scheduled to appear in front of Congress again until the impeachment hearings.
The administration wants to showcase what the country is like now that Republicans are in charge of everything. And they may have done just that, because they sent out these actual tickets to see the State of the Uniom.
Now they’re reprinting the tickets, and they’re going to recall the old ones — which could be tough, because I’ve seen members of the Trump administration testify, and they can’t recall ANYTHING.
But maybe, just maybe, it’s not a typo. He said he would change things. Maybe tomorrow WILL be the first State of the Uniom. “My fellow Anericams: With Doland Trunk as your predisent, every mang, woban, and chilm will know: The state of our uniom is strug!”
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the speech. Almost as much I’m looking forward to his interview with Robert Mueller. Since last we met, we learned that Trump tried to fire Mueller last June. So that interview might be awkward.
Now, ultimately, Trump didn’t fire Mueller because White House legal counsel Don McGahn “refused to ask the Justice Department to dismiss the special counsel, saying he would quit instead.” There was a time when I thought nobody in the White House had any scruples. But we found a scrap of scruple!