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- Oscar Host Conan O’Brien Makes Trump ‘Small Penis’ Joke During Show
Oscar Awards host Conan O’Brien took a shot at President Donald Trump’s “small penis” and penchant for naming things after himself as he came back from a commercial break. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences held their 98th annual Oscar Awards Show on Sunday night, and viewers watched with the usual anticipation or dread that politics would rear its head during the festivities. It didn’t take very long, with references to the Epstein Files and the turmoil in the country during the host’s monologue. But after the commercial break, O’Brien snuck in a dig at Trump over his propensity for naming things after himself — and a reference to Trump’s oft-bandied penis size: CONAN O’BRIEN: We’re vibing with Timothy right now, we’re vibin’, right? He doesn’t think so. All right. Welcome back, we are coming to you live from the has a small penis theater! Let’s see him put his name in front of that. These are the films vying for the Best Picture: Bugonia – Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers F1 – Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Scott Stuber, Producers Hamnet – Liza Marshall, Pippa Harris, Nicolas Gonda, Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, Producers Marty Supreme – Eli Bush, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Anthony Katagas and Timothée Chalamet, Producers One Battle after Another – Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers The Secret Agent – Emilie Lesclaux, Producer Sentimental Value – Maria Ekerhovd and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, Producers Sinners – Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Ryan Coogler, Producers Train Dreams – Marissa McMahon, Teddy Schwarzman, Will Janowitz, Ashley Schlaifer and Michael Heimler, Producers Sinners set a record for the most Academy Award nominations ever, at 16. Watch above via ABC and The Oscars.The post Oscar Host Conan O’Brien Makes Trump ‘Small Penis’ Joke During Show first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.52 mins ago - Conan O’Brien Makes Stinging Epstein Dig in Oscar MonologueConan O’Brien included a stinging dig at President Donald Trump’s administration in his opening monologue at the 2026 Academy Awards. O’Brien noted on Sunday night that no British actor was not nominated in the category of Best Actor at the Oscars. He then took a clear dig with a reference to convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. Two high profile figures have been arrested in the UK over their past relationship to Epstein. Andrew Windsor (formerly Prince Andrew) and former UK ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson were both arrested in February over alleged misconduct while in public office. O’Brien joked on Sunday that even though the Brits missed out on nominations, they were one or two steps ahead when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein. “That there are no British actors nominated for Best Actor or Best Actress. Yeah, a British spokesperson said, yeah, well, at least we arrest our pedophiles,” O’Brien said. President Donald Trump has faced a mixed reaction from even his own supporters over Epstein. Trump, a former friend of Epstein’s, has called theories about lists of high profile clients of Epstein’s a Democratic “hoax.” Files related to Epstein over a congressional bill forcing their release have faced a mixed reaction, with critics taking a problem with the many redactions, the initial inclusion of victims’ names, and more. Attorney General Pam Bondi recently claimed “all” Epstein files had been released. Thousands of documents related to Epstein’s case were released after a congressional vote. The late billionaire was a convicted pedophile when he was charged with sex trafficking crimes. Epstein had been friends at one time or another with everyone from Trump former President Bill Clinton at one time or another. He died of an apparent suicide in 2019 while being hit with sex trafficking charges. Watch above via ABC.The post Conan O’Brien Makes Stinging Epstein Dig in Oscar Monologue first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Fox Anchor Presses Trump Honcho On $200 Oil Dodge: ‘He Didn’t Answer Yes or ...Fox News Senior White House correspondent and anchor Jacqui Heinrich called out President Donald Trump’s chief economist Kevin Hassett over Secretary of Energy Chris Wright’s failure to answer a tough question about the price of oil. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Kristen Welker asked Wright if Americans should “be worried that this war will actually drive the price of oil above $200 a barrel?” Wright did not offer a “yes” or a “no” even when Welker pressed him. On this week’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Sunday Briefing, Heinrich pointed out that Wright is taking flak for that answer, and asked him the same question: FOX NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AND ANCHOR JACQUI HEINRICH: The energy secretary was asked this morning, on Meet the Press, about what the Iranians are saying that you could see oil prices at $200 a barrel. His answer to the anchor of that show was, don’t listen to the Iranians, or I would doubt what the Iranian are saying about much of anything. But there are some headlines calling out the fact that he didn’t answer the yes or no question. So do you expect that that number could happen, $200 an oil,$200 a barrel oil? Is that possible? NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL DIRECTOR KEVIN HASSETT: You know, what happens in White houses is that people come on a show like this and then they’ll tell you what they think. But the best measure of what you think or what you should think about the future of oil prices is what we see in futures markets. And I actually believe what we in futures market, which is that this is going to end relatively quickly. In the futures markets, they’ve got the price of oil dropping about as fast as I’ve ever seen it going down in the end of the horizon to below $50 a barrel. And so that’s what… Financial markets are saying right now. So financial markets agree with what President Trump says, which is that this is a temporary shock, that we’re not going to eliminate the harm from the disruption, but we’re going to minimize the harm. Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Sunday Briefing.The post Fox Anchor Presses Trump Honcho On $200 Oil Dodge: ‘He Didn’t Answer Yes or No Question’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
- Bill Maher Gripes About ‘Oscars So White’ Campaign Ahead of Academy Awards: ... Comedian and pundit Bill Maher ranted at anyone who is still concerned about diversity at the Academy Awards, ranting that #OscarsSoWhite supporters need to accept that “We won!” On Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, the interview guest was Gov. Josh Shapiro, Democratic governor of Pennsylvania and author of the new book “Where We Keep the Light: Stories From a Life of Service.” The panel guests were Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director under President Trump and author of the new book “All The Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump”; and Lloyd Blankfein, former CEO of Goldman Sachs and author of the book “Streetwise: Getting to and Through Goldman Sachs.” During the “New Rules” segment, Maher marked the 10th anniversary of the diversity campaign by struggling to pronounce the names of nonwhite Oscar winners as he lambasted “progressives”: BILL MAHER: Don’t take that the wrong way. I’m on our side. OK, I’m for us winning, right? I’m not on that page of Trump did it, so I’m with the Ayatollah now. But I got to say, they are looking a little nervous in our war room. The Pentagon banned photographers this week for the briefings because Pete Hegseth said some of the pictures of him looked unflattering. Pete wants you to know two things about our military. This is the new alpha male, very masculine, non-woke military. Also, don’t get my bad side. CHEERS AND LAUGHTER. And–. So this is the most macho administration we’ve ever had. Also the gayest. I gotta say. I don’t mean litera–, I just, a lot of redecorating. I’m just saying. Also, Trump has a new thing. I’m not making this up. He’s guessing other men’s shoe size. Have you seen, am I making this sh*t up? I’m, he has been. He looks at other men and guesses their shoe size and then they send them a pair. The entire cabinet is wearing shoes. He got them, including Marco Rubio, where they didn’t fit, so he’s in clown shoes. I’m just saying. It’s a little weird for a man to look at other men and go, “What you got down there, a nine and a half?” Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.The post Bill Maher Gripes About ‘Oscars So White’ Campaign Ahead of Academy Awards: Hollywood ‘Not a Secret Cabal of Racists!’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago
- Ex-GOP Honcho Says Trump Should Drop ‘A Dozen’ Nukes on Strait of Hormuz
(Sipa via AP Images) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) shared an explosive idea to re-open the Strait of Hormuz that has been essentially closed to shipping by Iranian attacks and mines. The narrow passageway is the conduit for up to 30% of the world’s total oil consumption and 20% of global liquefied natural gas. Although he hasn’t been seen in public since becoming Iran’s new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei vowed in a written statement to use the “lever of blocking the Strait of Hormuz” to keep the enemy “highly vulnerable”. President Donald Trump has urged allies — like France, South Korea, Japan, and the UK — as well as China, to send warships to the Strait to police the area and keep it open for oil shipments. But Gingrich posited that it would be much better to open the Strait with a nuclear attack. “Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever,” Gingrich wrote, “we cut a new channel through friendly territory.” “A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks,” Gingrich wrote. Instead of fighting over a 21-mile-wide bottleneck forever, we cut a new channel through friendly territory. A dozen thermonuclear detonations and you’ve got a waterway wider than the Panama Canal, deeper than the Suez, and safe from Iranian attacks. https://t.co/Et21kHCiAw — Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) March 15, 2026 Gingrich’s post linked to an article that a community note called “satirical,” but Gingrich didn’t mention the humor angle in his post. Since the Iran strikes began, the U.S. Navy reported that 20 commercial vessels have been targeted in the Strait, causing seven fatalities, and four crew members to go missing. One of the reasons given by the Trump administration for striking Iran in the first place was to avoid nuclear war by stopping the Islamic State from producing nuclear warheads. Although Trump insisted the U.S. destroyed Iran’s ability to produce nuclear bombs with airstrikes last June, U.S. intelligence officials reportedly believe that up to 20 canisters of Iran’s highly-enriched uranium is still attainable even under the rubble at Isfahan. The New York Times reported, “If President Trump ends the war without getting control of the canisters, Iran will almost certainly speed toward going nuclear. Grabbing it, on the other hand, would entail huge risk and the inevitable deployment of American or… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - NBC’s Welker Straight-Up Asks Trump Energy Honcho ‘If You Were Prepared’ W...NBC News anchor Kristen Welker straight-up asked Secretary of Energy Chris Wright why the Strait of Hormuz is “effectively closed” if the Trump administration was “prepared,” and got a puzzling response. As the Iran war enters its third week, 13 U.S. servicemembers have been killed, a preliminary military investigation has determined the US is responsible for the strike on an elementary school that killed at least 160 children, and attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have exacerbated surging prices and roiled the stock market. But Trump and his administration have kept up a steady drumbeat of attacks on the media for reporting on the full effect of the war. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth complained last week that reporting on troop deaths is intended to “make the president look bad,” and this week loudly demanded positive coverage from a “patriotic press corps.” Trump has been especially sensitive about the attacks on oil tankers, which reporters like Maggie Haberman and others have noted do not appear to have been successfully prepared for. On Sunday morning’s edition of NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Welker confronted Wright over the vulnerability of the waterway, and Wright responded by pointing out something that should have been obvious before the war started: KRISTEN WELKER: Very quickly, Mr. Secretary. There’s a big debate over whether you all were prepared for what’s happening in the Strait of Hormuz. If you were prepared, why is the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed right now? SEC. CHRIS WRIGHT: Because it’s right near the Iranian shoreline. The world is abundantly supplied with oil and energy. We knew there would be a short-term disruption in energy flows. And to hear Chuck Schumer say that we didn’t, is just so — he knows how foolish that is. And to say stuff to try to undermine the United States in the midst of a world-changing conflict just boggles my mind. But this mission was carefully planned out. It’s been superbly executed. On the other side, we’ll be in a much better place. KRISTEN WELKER: Okay. SEC. CHRIS WRIGHT: The greatest driver of terrorism in the world, the greatest threat to global energy supplies will be defanged. Yes, we have disruption to get there. But we’re going to be in a much, much better place in the not-too-distant future. Watch above via NBC’s Meet the Press.The post NBC’s Welker Straight-Up Asks Trump Energy Honcho ‘If You Were Prepared’ Why Is Strait Closed? first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
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