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Someone Hacked Paramount's X Account And Brutally Changed Their Bio Over Chummy Relationship With Trump
The breach occurred a day after David Ellison’s Paramount Skydance unveiled a hostile, direct-to-shareholders takeover push for Warner Bros. Discovery. It also landed just days after Netflix and WBD revealed an agreement for the streamer to acquire Warner Bros.’ studios, HBO, HBO Max, and its gaming units.
Trump has long maintained a close relationship with David Ellison and his father, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison. He has referred to them as "big supporters of mine."
The relationship between the three men has drawn considerable scrutiny since CBS' cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Colbert has consistently been at the top of the ratings but earlier this year, CBS, citing economic concerns, announced that his program would go off the air next May—news that came as its parent company, Paramount, sought government approval for a merger with Skydance.
The FCC later approved the merger and Paramount paid $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Trump, which Colbert said amounted to a payoff to secure approval for the merger.
Also worth noting: In October, David Ellison unveiled a deal—reportedly valued at $150 million—to purchase Bari Weiss’ contrarian outlet The Free Press, while also installing her as the top editorial leader at CBS News. The move fueled speculation among media analysts that Ellison was attempting to bolster the network’s credibility with Trump and the broader MAGA base.
Given all of this, and how openly Paramount has simped for the president, it seemed no surprise to anyone that the studio's X bio was changed to read:
"Proud arm of the fascist regime."
You can see a screenshot of the change below.
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Where's the lie?
Trump had already warned that a merger as large as the proposed Netflix–WBD deal might trigger market concerns, hinting he could be forced to step in. Speaking at the Kennedy Center Honors before Paramount launched its hostile bid, he said "it could be a problem."
Throughout the escalating showdown, David Ellison was reportedly confident that he held a “Trump card,” thanks to the long-standing ties he and his father maintain with the president.
At the same time, behind-the-scenes lobbying intensified. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos quietly visited the White House earlier this year to make his case directly to Trump, while Larry Ellison was said to have recently spoken with Trump administration officials about removing CNN hosts disliked by the president. CNN, notably, is owned by Paramount.
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Brooke Shields Has Hilarious Reaction After She's Given Awkwardly Short Chair On 'Today' Show
While visiting the TODAY Show with Jenna & Friends, Brooke Shields sat down for a fun conversation with Jenna Bush Hager, only for the two of them to quickly realize that the co-hosting chairs were not even close to the same height.
Instead, Bush Hager sat at her usual level behind the desk, while Shields appeared to be much, much shorter.
Looking around, confused, Shields quipped:
"Why am I in the kids' seat?"
Bush Hager looked out at the audience, shocked, and called out:
"You guys! Something is wrong! Something is very wrong!"
Shields began to giggle, repeating:
"I'm in the kids' chair!"
The audience erupted in laughter while the chaos continued to unfold.
Then, throwing her hands up in mock surrender, Shields quipped again:
"Oh my god, I get it! It's your show!"
In this moment, Bush Hager had to know:
"Is this the first time in your whole life that you've ever felt... not tall?"
While the two women continued to joke about the predicament, they tried out a few different solutions, including Shields sitting with one leg tucked under her to make her appear taller in the seat, as well as simply giving up and standing behind the table instead of sitting in the chair.
Then a member of the production team brought a replacement chair, which both women applauded, before they continued on with their conversation.
You can watch the moment unfold here:
Viewers were left giggling after the little mishap.
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You can watch the full segment with Brooke Shields here:
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Mistakes are going to happen when you're in front of an audience, and it's often easiest to just laugh them off.
This was a hilariously endearing moment and started the conversation off on a light and funny note—perfect for the morning and totally in tune with the Jenna & Friends vibe.
Trump Ripped After Telling MAGA Fans Why Higher Prices Are Actually A Good Thing This Christmas
But pundits noticed Trump's shtick is getting old for even his diehard MAGA minions.
MAGA are complaining about their cost-of-living increasing while Trump chased after a Nobel Peace Prize and sent their tax dollars to foreign governments, claiming they voted for lower grocery bills, not whatever Trump has been doing for the last 11 months.
At Tuesday's MAGA rally, Trump claimed in turn that any affordability crisis was a "hoax" created by Democrats and the increased inflation—that he claimed didn't exist—was the fault of Democratic President Joe Biden.
He also trotted out rhetoric the Trump administration tested on voters back in May. It didn't go any better when Trump tried it on stage Tuesday than it did when Trump and MAGA pundits tried it back then.
Trump apparently wasn't aware of the response another conservative MAGA mouthpiece got when they test drove telling average Americans to just buy gifts for people age 3-18 and exclude everyone else this holiday season as a solution to Trump's tanked economy and the inflation caused by his on-again/off-again tariffs.
It didn't go well.
But the POTUS still told however many people were at his casino ballroom rally that austerity—not higher wages and fewer tax cuts and bailouts for billionaires and record profit making corporations—was the answer to all their problems in a rambling, sometimes incoherent, almost 90-minute speech.
Trump told his MAGA minions:
"But [Democrats] use the word ‘affordability,’ and that’s their only word. They say ‘affordability.’ And everyone says, ‘Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.’ No, our prices are coming down tremendously from the highest prices in the history of our country. They always have a hoax."
Regarding the higher prices caused by his tariffs and trade wars, Trump added:
"You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two. They don’t need that many, but you always need steel."
"You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter, two or three is nice. But you don't need 37 dolls."
You can hear his remarks here:
Hearing what their own children can do without from a man who bragged about his gold toilet and shared photos of his own child in a gold baby carriage...
...wasn't the inspiring, compelling argument the Trump administration hoped it would be.
People pushed back on Trump's recommendations and his return to his MAGA rallies.
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Trump also falsely claimed:
"Democrats gave you the highest inflation in history, and we're… bringing those prices down rapidly, lower prices, bigger paychecks, you're getting lower prices. Bigger paychecks, we're getting inflation, we're crushing it, and you're getting much higher wages."
The pandemic brought the highest inflation in decades—over 19%—and the Biden administration had pushed it back under 3% before Trump took office. Since January, Trump managed to push it back up over 3% primarily through his TACO tariff games costing American exporters foreign sales and American consumers money.
People just aren't swallowing Trump's grifting and lies like he's used to his base always doing.
Getting an accurate crowd size for his first MAGA rally since this summer was difficult.
Trump claimed thousands were there—just not inside where he was—and attendees said anywhere from "200" to "600-700" to as much as "1,000" people were in the room with Trump.
No one but Trump has claimed thousands of people—which included his staff, press, Secret Service, and casino personnel—were in attendance or were lined up to attend. The ballroom has a maximum capacity of 1,200 people without the stage, and was visibly not packed, according to videos and photos from even the right-wing influencers and press in attendance.
Are the smaller rooms a trick so the cognitively declining Trump will think he's still drawing crowds?
One of his only statements that didn't require a fact check was Trump's claim that three years with him is an eternity.
But even his MAGA minion base is asking questions the Trump administration would rather not answer.
According to a new POLITICO poll, half of all Americans are struggling to afford food—not pencils and dolls—and aren't willing to fall for cute catchphrases any longer, which doesn't bode well for Republicans who stand by their man going into the 2026 midterm elections.
A majority (55%) from across the political spectrum blame the Trump administration for their economic hardships.