For the Fourth of July, Donald Trump's hometown paper, The New York Daily News, celebrated with a cover of the president, but it's not one Trump will be framing for the walls of Mar a Lago any time soon.
In fact, it portrays the president as a "clown who plays king":
The accompanying cover story is an editorial titled:
Our immigrants, ourselves: What Trump can't take away from this great nation
Which they also tweeted in an epic thread:
And Twitter was here for it:
Content Warning: Depression, Grief, Miscarriage, Late Loved Ones, Child Abuse, Medical Negligence
Life is full of ups and downs, and sometimes, we'll be in very dark places, mentally or emotionally, and the last thing we need is to have someone figuratively rub salt in the wound.
But when people stoop that low, the comments they make have a lasting and terrible impact when we're already in a dark place.
Curious, Redditor ThrowRAbbeusnwtshdb asked:
"What is the wildest thing someone has said to you while you were going through a hard time?"
"A Math teacher demanding to know why I failed a test so badly in front of all the students when I hadn’t been at the school to learn that particular subject in the test because my dad had died, having been off two weeks prior."
"And what's worse, he knew that. Boy, did he get it from my mum and the Headmaster!"
- jlelvidge
"I told my friend I was sleeping in my car for the past month, and he then proceeded to tell me how good his Thanksgiving was going to be."
"I had my dog at that time, and I remember going to buy food, driving to a park, and sitting there for two hours, eating a Thanksgiving meal with my dog."
- Sad_Okra2030
"First, if a friend tells me they've been sleeping in their car for the last month AND I didn't already know, I'm not as good a friend as I thought I was."
"Second, if a friend tells me they've been sleeping in their car for the last month and I don't immediately offer something, anything to help, I'm not as good a friend as I thought I was."
"I hope you and Rascal had a good meal together."
- Symtrees
"You still have to take care of us and cook for us. My late mom said that after I lost a baby at 14 weeks in July of 2006."
- Ok_Garden571
"Barbara Kingsolver wrote, 'A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from this world than haven't. Most don't mention it, and they go on from day to day as if it hadn't happened, so people imagine a woman in this situation never really knew or loved what she had. But ask her sometime: how old would your child be now? And she'll know.'"
- helr4zier
"My grandma showed up at my apartment to literally throw a fistful of old mail at me and basically berated me for being distant from the family."
"I'm not going to say I'm the best at keeping up communication. I love my family, but they're a lot and my dad and I don't see eye to eye on some things I feel are very important. But at the time, we were two weeks past my partner coming home from the hospital due to an ectopic pregnancy."
"I'd told my family and closest friends. I was grieving in ways I didn't know how to. There were things going on inside me that I didn't have the faculties to be fully aware of."
"I'd told her. She said she didn't know, but I'd told her. It was like being kicked while you're not just down, but out for the count."
- Bismothe-the-Shade
"When my mom was battling her cancer, her best friend's husband (a pastor) kept coming over to pray with her."
"He kept telling her her faith would save her, and all she had to do was believe."
"When it became obvious she was getting worse, not better, he started berating her and blaming her for not loving Christ enough."
"She died f**king terrified that she was going to h*ll. F**k religion."
- Eugoongally420
"That reminds me, when my 18-month-old daughter got her cancer diagnosis, nurses told me it was god putting me through a test since my faith had faded. All I needed was prayer."
"I also had a health nurse who had 30 years of experience working on the children's cancer ward, who asked if maybe I stopped breastfeeding too early and caused my daughter's cancer. Bewildering!"
- greenmammy
"The walls of my former apartment were so water-damaged and contaminated with mold that I ended up in the hospital with respiratory issues and MCAS that have caused permanent damage. My cats got scary sick too, and one of them nearly died."
"I had to find a new apartment, throw out nearly everything I owned (furniture, family heirlooms, notes from now-gone loved ones, etc.,) and thoroughly clean every inch of what I could clean and take with me, or they would bring the mold spores with them. What I couldn't bear to throw out but couldn't clean, I have locked up in air-tight storage containers in the basement."
"It took weeks of back-breaking work while I was still extremely ill, work I had to do mostly alone to not get anyone else sick, and it wiped out my savings. I lost over 30 pounds because I would cough until I vomited."
"While this was going on, I was told I might lose my (very niche) job due to budget cuts, found out I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (I had to figure it out myself while sick because my doctors weren't listening, and I got it confirmed in April by a specialist), got dumped by my boyfriend, and nearly lost one of my best friends."
"When I tried to express how stressful those months were, a colleague responded with, 'Yeah, but didn't you feel so much better, throwing out all that unwanted junk?'"
"I couldn't seem to make her understand that it wasn't a 'spring cleaning.'"
"In case anyone wants to know how things turned out: I've been in the new place for a few months now, and my cats are healthier, I'm slowly recovering, my job is safe for at least one more year, and my friend is doing well. I also finally snapped out of denial that my ex-boyfriend was abusive... so him dumping me turned out to be the kindest thing he could have done, and I'm happier and less anxious without him."
"I'm also pursuing legal action against my former landlord and writing a book about it all."
- Electrical-Still-558
"When I was about 15 and still going to my parents' evangelical church, my peers at youth group came to know of my extensive CSA history."
"Two girls were blindingly jealous. They told me they wished they had such a beautiful testimony to share when they got baptised, that Jesus had made it all better, and now I got to get attention for having such a dramatic past, and they didn't."
"I don't really blame them, because baptism was the only real time teenage girls had a voice at church. You got a minute on the mic before you got dunked, and if you're raised like that, it's the most romantic, dramatic moment of your life. But wow, did it hurt to hear at that point."
- megaglalie
"I have a family that was both physically and emotionally abusive when I was a child and now just sticks with the latter, because they’re frankly too old to do anything too physical."
"One example would be when my father began slapping me in the ER because he was convinced I was faking my symptoms to humiliate him. Turns out I had a stomach ulcer at the age of seven."
"I had a friend who was always very dismissive of this and told me repeatedly that I was likely perceiving it to be far, far worse than it really was because I’m too Westernized."
"Until one night, this friend overheard a discussion with my mother over the phone and told me they finally believed me, but, in their defense, they 'wanted to be the one with the worst family.'"
"So you were dismissing my pain for years because you were playing oppression Olympics with my experiences? The worst was that I was always readily available whenever they needed a sympathetic ear, and I never dismissed anything."
"And the discussion with my mom really wasn’t that bad; I wouldn’t even put it in the top 40 percent of worst discussions."
- puntpunt2000
"My cat of 16 years was dying. I took him to the vet in the middle of the night and they essentially gave me the option to euthanize him then or take him home with other pain killers. I decided to take him home because he was my mom's cat too, and I thought it insensitive to make that decision without her."
"When we got home, she berated me for not doing it then and there, that I only care about her money and mooching off her, so she pays for the vet bill, told me I don't give a f**k about him or anyone besides myself, and that she's sick of me."
"I miss him every day. I had him since he was a baby, and for the better part of his life, he slept at the foot of my bed. I still sleep with my legs tucked out of habit."
- dry-alt
"I think the reason we love our pets so much is because (even though we might not think it), they are the first experience we have with unconditional love."
"They don't care how much money we have, don't care what we look like, who we hang out with, how we dress. They don't make us feel shame, have an agenda, or expect us to jump through hoops to please them."
"All they want is love."
- MorgainofAvalon
"I have multiple mental health issues, and they're so severe, I'm disabled."
"Someone told me they wished I had cancer so I'd have something serious to ACTUALLY complain about for a while, and then hopefully the cancer would shut me up forever."
- RheasFantasy
"Oh my GOD, that is so cruel! I’m so sorry they said that. I hope you’re doing better and are surrounded by kind people now. Just because your fight is in the mind and not the body does not make it any less of a battle."
- puntpunt2000
"This tops my list easily. Sitting on a waiting list for about a year after having a small-scale heart attack, I go to a doctor to talk about why my chest and heart still hurt, and that I constantly feel like I worked an 18-hour shift no matter how much I rest."
"Then he's got nerve to tell me, 'You've just got to try a little bit harder, okay?'"
- Polarity1999
"I would have asked them to put that in my notes. 'Patient came in post-heart attack, complaining of exhaustion and chest pain. Doctor recommended trying a little harder to get over it."
- thesounddefense
"Not me, but my grandmother this past week. My grandad passed suddenly, and they’ve been married for over 50 years. The night before the funeral the family gathered at her house to bring food and comfort."
"One of her friends is watching us carry trays of food and drinks in and loudly asks, 'Well, why the hell do people keep coming in here bringing food and crowding the house?'"
"Before I could say anything, my grandmother looks at her and says, 'My husband JUST died. The funeral is tomorrow.'"
"This lady looks her dead in the eye, giggles, and says, 'WHAAAAAAAAT?!!! SHUT UPPPPP! Girl, I was just about to ask you where he was!' as if she just told her the f**king McRib is back or some s**t."
"So I tell her that’s no way to respond to your friend who just lost her husband of 50 years."
"And she had the nerve to say, Well, I didn’t know. Your grandma acts like she doesn’t know my number. She don’t call me.'"
"Yeah, because the first phone call was supposed to be to someone like YOU when she found out. I was livid, and luckily for her, my grandma put me out cause she knew I was about to flip out of her chair."
- Inner_Collection5463
"My brother and his gf got pregnant when they were 16. Although everyone was shocked by the noise, our family moved her in with us and supported them 100%. I was 10 and the youngest, so I was very excited to have a little baby around."
"When the girlfriend was seven months pregnant, someone ran a red light and t-boned her. She was physically okay, but the impact hurt my nephew in the womb. He was alive for an hour after he was born. Thankfully, my brother and his girlfriend were able to hold him before he passed."
"It was devastating for our family. I remember the funeral and seeing my dad holding my brother up while he was crying so hard he was almost collapsing on the smallest coffin I've ever seen."
"You know what I kept hearing from people? 'God works in mysterious ways.' and 'This was God's plan.' and 'This happened for a reason.'"
"Imagine a 10-year-old hearing all this? This was when my doubt in religion started. My dad was already an atheist so he understood my doubt. I remember asking him why God would want a baby to die? He told me not to listen to those people."
"I know it would've been hard for my brother and girlfriend to take care of a baby, but my side of the family was there for them 100% and we would've made sure that baby had everything he needed. It's been 24 years, and it still hurts to think about."
"Thankfully, they went on to have two more boys, but unfortunately, my brother had a lot of mental health issues and got into drugs really badly and died in 2019."
- BigFatChimichonka
"Sometimes it's not what they say but how deafening the silence is when they don't even notice that I'm struggling."
- swingsandwhatnot87
"I know what you're talking about! Telling people that you're not okay, and they just look at you and say nothing."
"One of the most compassionate people, who I never told what I was going through, would always look me in the eye after I told him I was doing alright (I was lying) and told me every time he saw me, 'It will get better.'"
"I appreciate him seeing through me, nodding to the fact that he knew, and acknowledging what I was going through without making me talk about it."
- Herekittykitty1234
Fellow Redditors were shocked by some of these stories and deeply saddened that anyone had to endure such hardships, only to be treated this way when they were already at their lowest.
How people treat us when we're at our most vulnerable says a lot about them. Hopefully, we can all start to take a hint and let them go so they don't have a chance to treat us like that again in the future.
As much as we might not want to admit it, there are some things in life that are hard, if not impossible, to explain.
That's all the harder to swallow when the unexplainable is also horrifyingly creepy.
Cringing, Redditor Exotic_Thing_2850 asked:
"What's the creepiest, most unexplinable thing you've ever seen with your own eyes that still haunts you to this day?"
"It wasn't creepy while it was happening because I was so young, but in hindsight it's pretty weird and a bit disturbing."
"When I was very young and shared a bedroom with my little sister, I woke up one night to the sound of puppies whimpering. I looked under my bed and there were two puppies, one black, and one brown and white."
"I woke my little sister, and we crawled under the bed to interact with the puppies, never questioning where they came from. (We were VERY young.)"
"Eventually, our dad heard us and yelled through the door to go to bed, so we did. Never saw those puppies again. I asked my sister about this recently, and she still remembers them, too."
- oldmanbinfodder
"My sister and I also had a bizarre experience when we were both very, very young. We both remember there being crabs coming out of our closet. Not just one crab, multiple crabs, enough to be afraid, and trying to smash them with a book to get out of the room."
"We do live in a coastal state, but over an hour away from the nearest beach."
"My mom insists this never happened. My sister and I both even remember the book we were using to fight off the crabs. We never saw them again after that day. And nobody else had access to our second-floor apartment."
- crfrx7
"Not creepy but still freak-out material. My mom passed several months prior."
"I woke up around 3:00 AM with the lights on in the living room, and the TV was on at full volume. I walk out of my room into the living room, and my mom is sitting in my rocker/swivel chair, knitting with her back to me, TV at full blast, and all the lights on."
"I turned to look at the clock, it was 3:44 AM, and I looked back, and it was dark, the TV was off, and nobody was in the chair but an afghan my mom had knit for me. I lost it."
- Got_Bent
"After my grandfather died, my grandmother was sitting at her sewing machine, and she said that my grandfather called to her from his chair, saying “'It’s getting late, you need to go on to bed.'"
"She answered him, saying, 'I just wanna finish this seam,' and then realized. When she turned all the way around, he was gone."
- headlesslady
"When I was around four years old, I remember looking out of my bedroom window and seeing cars driving through our side yard. Instead of looking like our yard, it looked like an actual road, and the cars were old-fashioned looking like from the 1940s (this was in the 1970s)."
"Our house was in a plan of homes with pretty large lots, and the through street ran in a completely different area. Naturally, I was frightened by what I saw and ran to tell my mother and older sister. They dismissed it and said I was either dreaming or making things up."
"I guess I can't really blame them for that. My sister occasionally would tease me about it over the years, and for some reason, every time I was in that part of the yard, I would get a creepy feeling that I shouldn't be there."
"I must have been about 12 or 13, and my grandmother was visiting. She told my sister and me that when she was a young girl, our neighborhood was part of a farm, and the main road used to run right through our side yard."
"The road was moved when the farm was broken up into housing lots. My sister and I looked at each other. All I could say was, 'Yes, I know...' Years later, I found aerials and maps online that proved the road was there until the 1940s."
- Dull-State-2457
"When we got our house, we did extensive remodelling inside. It was originally built in 1890."
"One thing we did was to cover up a doorway in one room, and build a new door in a different location. All this happened years before our daughter was born. When our daughter was born, that room became her room."
"One night, we were putting her to sleep, when she suddenly sat up in her bed, pointed to where the door used to be, and said, 'Nobody walks through there anymore.' No, there was no way of knowing there had been a doorway there, and we hadn't talked about it."
- Bicentennial_Douche
"I have a brother who is eight years older than me. My mom used to talk about a creepy, grinning version of my brother that she and a babysitter saw when he was little. It seemed to age with him, and my mom saw him multiple times."
"The babysitter saw him once and freaked the f**k out. I saw him when I was in high school."
"My brother worked multiple jobs and was gone a lot. To help him out and make some extra cash, I would clean his room and do his laundry for him each week. I would usually stay up late Saturday nights to watch MadTV and SNL while folding laundry."
"I started feeling like I was being watched, but my brother was at work and everyone else was asleep. When I turned to look, there was my brother peeking around the wall of the hallway at me with a super creepy grin on his face. All I could see were his hands holding the wall and his head sticking out around the corner, but that grin was freaky."
"I instantly thought my brother was messing with me so I said something along the lines of, 'Ugh. F**k off,' and looked back to the tv. Then I remembered that he wasn't even home and the hairs on my arms stood up. I looked back and he was gone."
"But the next morning, I told my mom what I had seen and she just nodded in understanding."
"It was almost as freaky as the times I would catch something out of the corner of my eye or hear something late at night and try to ignore it, only for my dog to start growling and facing the same direction. That house had some weird shit sometimes..."
- Katemonster89
"Was out the front of my parents' house at night with a friend. He was having a smoke while I was chatting away."
"For about five or seven seconds, the whole sky went bright blue. It was like blue daylight, everything completely visible but blueish. Along with a high-pitched ringing for a couple of seconds."
"We were just staring and then when it suddenly stopped, I said, 'Hey, um, did you happen to see and hear that?' He said yeah. And that’s all we said about it."
"I messaged him maybe ten years later when I was with friends, telling spooky experience stories. Just said, 'Hey, do you remember that thing we saw? Can you tell me what you saw and heard?'"
"He responded with all the details. Freaked all my friends out when I let them scroll through our past messages to prove we hadn’t set it up and actually fell out of touch a fair while ago."
- android017
"My sister and I moved in together in our mid-twenties. She had the en suite upstairs, while I had a room down the hall from the open-plan kitchen/lounge/dining room."
"One night, shortly after heading to bed, we both heard a noise in the kitchen and immediately texted each other, 'Was that you?' Nope."
"Then we both heard giggling. F**king GIGGLING."
"We met in the kitchen, turned all the lights on, and there was… nothing. We spent about three hours sitting on the patio, chain-smoking cigarettes (we had long stopped smoking at that point, lol) to calm ourselves. We were too scared to go back inside."
"A couple of nights later, we were watching TV on the couch. We had a fan on in the center of the kitchen counter, not remotely close to the edge, and it suddenly flew off, plug pulled out of the socket even, landing on the floor. Neither of us were even close to it. There was no breeze, nothing. It was a heavy metal fan."
- Born-Guard3733
"I had a friend growing up who came over one day, depressed. She told me she had a dream that a huge white bird told her that her mother was going to die. She was completely convinced of this and couldn't be persuaded otherwise."
"That weekend, she was supposed to come over and didn't, so my mom and I headed to her house. She wasn't there, I don't know why, but her grandmother was. The night before, her mom was driving home from work and got t-boned by a drunk driver."
"I never saw my friend again, so I never got to ask her about this."
- IntrudingAlligator
"I had something go on for months that I still can’t explain. Lived with my mum at the time and was probably 15/16 when this happened. I’d always been a lover of horror movies and interested in anything spiritual, but never felt like I truly believed anything could happen."
"At the time, I had a single bed pushed up against one corner of my bedroom, and one night I started seeing this girl appear as I was falling asleep. It would start whenever I went to close my eyes. I’d close my eyes and see this girl kneeling in front of me at eye level."
"She had her eyes closed, but I still felt like I was being watched?? Happened for maybe a week before I started feeling really uneasy, and as I fell further asleep, this girl became less clear and began moving into the opposite corner of the room. Not physically got up and moved, but I felt her presence become more sinister and dark, and that corner of the room was pitch black even though it was opposite the window."
"I tried to tell my mum, but she didn’t want to know anything paranormal. I kept it to myself and just got on with less sleep than usual. Then I had two really, really unsettling things happen. One friend came over after school with me to grab something from my room."
"We were standing at my bedroom door (her in my room and me standing on the upstairs landing), and she started crying. Like really scared crying. She says, 'There’s something behind me,' and of course I’m like EXCUSE ME!?! I had not mentioned a single thing to her at all, and she told me she felt like there was something standing right behind her, breathing down her neck. I stayed in her house that night and had friends over the following night to try to get myself over it."
"When I had the friends over, two of us topped and tailed, and in the morning I asked how she slept (she’s very spiritual FYI), she said fine, but I saw a girl in here and it kept me awake for a while. She was totally unfazed, and I asked her to explain, and when I say she described exactly what I had been experiencing down to the smallest detail. I basically sh*t my pants there and then. She then tells me that if I’m uncomfortable, I have to tell whatever spirit that I’m not afraid and to leave me alone."
"Absolutely terrifying concept. I FaceTimed whatever friend I could that night and shouted that I wasn’t scared and to get out of my space and leave me in peace. Never experienced any discomfort in that room ever again…"
- Weird-School-1844
"I was about 17 years old. My dad's company had a beach house in Brookings, Oregon, that senior employees could sign up for and use for free for a few days or a week. So we head there, and it's great, exactly as advertised. I decided to head out at night with a buddy whom I had brought with to just kind of explore and drive around the town."
"We turned down this one road and made it a couple hundred feet down. For context, there were high bushes on each side of the road and trees creating a canopy over the road. After we made it a little down, the headlights of the car just kind of... stopped lighting stuff. It was like a wall of black in front of us. No streetlights, house lights, nothing."
"We pulled forward a little more, and the headlights continued to kind of end at this wall of black and just stop illuminating anything beyond or around it. Buddy and I each got a chill down our spines and decided it wasn't worth exploring anymore. We backed up, turned around, and left."
"It was absolutely surreal. Here I am over 30 years later, and if you put a gun to my head, I'd say that someone built a wall and painted it with Vantablack. But back then? I don't know, it was just eerie as hell. We went back in the daytime the next day, a totally normal road. Absolutely nothing that could be quantified as a reason for the road and lights to just... not exist beyond the point we found the previous night."
"Did not investigate it anymore the rest of the trip and went home after a few days with an creepy story and plenty of skeptical looks from friends and family my buddy and I told about it."
- thebadwolf79
"We had a community pool growing up. My sisters were older than me, so I always would find other kids my age in the pool to play with. I spotted this girl my age who was with her dad."
"She was wearing swimmies at a table and started yelling happily, something like 'apalaycha apalaycha!' while she approached the pool. She then jumped in right next to me. But never came out of the water."
"She was literally not there, and neither was her Dad. I still think about it to this day. Like, where did they go?"
- orchidsandlilacs
"When I was in high school, my mom had a nightmare and we shared the experience. The way our house was set up, my bedroom was the first in the hallway, then my brother’s, the bathroom, laundry, and my mom was at the end of the hallway."
"While we were all in bed (I sleep with my door open cause pets), I heard her gasp up the hallway but didn’t really think anything of it. A few moments later, a shadow as tall as my doorframe walked past my door. I got up and immediately started flicking on lights and asking if she walked up the hallway."
"Of course, my mom saw since she was awake and we walked through the house. I went to get in bed with her after we found nothing, and she was telling me about her nightmare, which was a tall man in a wife-beater at the end of her bed with an axe that was swinging towards her(which is why she gasped awake in the first place). While we were laying there, we heard and felt knocking on her footboard of the bed and just laid there in silence holding each other’s hand until it stopped and asked did the other hear it."
"My brother stayed asleep throughout the entire thing, and nothing else ever happened, but boy, that was a scary night. I definitely don’t look at my doorway for too long at night time if I can help it, and I have fairy lights in my room so it’s never completely dark."
- chickpeadawg
"When I was around eight or nine, I had a teacher who sort of took on a motherly figure at school as I had issues at home."
"She ended up being murdered by her husband in a horrible way, and I remember months later seeing her, or a woman that looked identical to her walking in the store. We made eye contact and the woman sort of looked at me like I was a familiar face. Might have just been experiencing grief, not too sure."
- Additional-Cook8707
"More cool than creepy, but when I was younger, we would always play hide and seek in the dark, but in the woods. One time, I was hiding in a tree, and I saw two kids walking on the path holding arms."
"A little girl, and a boy about the same age. They were both dressed in early 1920s-style clothes and just walking super calm as if they had nowhere to go."
"When I told my mom and described them, she mentioned seeing the same little boy multiple times as a child in her room, he would come from her antique armoire and just sit at the end of her bed. Not sure about the little girl, but it was so fascinating and trippy even as a child. Just writing this gave me chills, but not in a bad way. They seemed to be very relaxed and not worried about me at all. Never seen them again."
- cottoncandyskylines4
"My parents took in a stray cat that we didn't know had a spreadable illness. After a few years, all our cats passed on."
"One night, I was lying on my bed and I physically felt a cat jump on my bed and lean against my back purring heavily."
"I called out my old cat's name, then I remembered he was dead and looked behind me, and no kitty."
- meadowfair408
"When I was in the Boy Scouts, we went to Gettysburg, and a friend and I were taking a piss in the woods, and we saw two bright orange balls of light fly through the air above us, making no noise at all as they flew. We ran back to the cabin, and a friend who was never scared ever for any reason said that his father was a pilot and he knew that planes were shaped like crosses, had a red blinking light on one wing and a green blinking light on the other wing, and made noise when they flew.
There's no denying that these encounters were shocking and chilling, or why these Redditors would choose this moment for the "Ask Redditor" question.
California Governor Gavin Newsom mocked Vice President JD Vance—and his love of couches—with an AI-generated video to troll him over the rising costs of goods due to President Donald Trump's retaliatory tariffs.
Earlier this week, Trump announced new tariffs: 10% on softwood timber and lumber, and 25% on “certain upholstered wooden products,” set to take effect October 14. The move follows Trump’s announcement last week of additional tariffs on kitchen cabinets, vanities, and other upholstered products, which will take effect October 1.
That prompted Newsom to share a video featuring a viral meme of Vance with a round face and long, curly hair, mockingly presenting “A History of Couches.” The clip referenced the now-infamous—though untrue—rumor that Vance wrote about having sex with a couch in his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy.
In the video, "Vance" discusses the history and "elegance" of the Chesterfield style of leather sofa before hinting at the viral rumor:
"Some artifacts shape nations. Some shape desires. Few shape both. The Chesterfield couch is one of them." ...
"There are rumors that I once had an encounter with a Chesterfield. People exaggerate, twist the truth, but when you sit on one, you understand where such stories come from."
"The Chesterfield isn't just furniture, it's an experience, and some of us know that a little too well."
Newsom accompanied the video with the following caption mocking Vance and the White House's tariffs in one fell swoop:
"POOR JD! HIS SWEET BELOVED COUCH NOW COSTS MORE WITH THE TARIFFS!"
You can see Newsom's post and the video below.
People couldn't resist trolling Vance themselves after that.
Trump claimed in a social media post that his tariffs on wood and cabinets and furniture will "strengthen supply chains, bolster industrial resilience, create high-quality jobs, and increase domestic capacity utilization for wood products such that the United States can fully satisfy domestic consumption while also creating economic benefits through increased exports."
In March, the White House directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether imported lumber, most of which comes from Canada, poses a national security risk. Trump has said the U.S. has enough trees to meet its own needs and has also railed against Canadian tariffs on U.S. lumber.
However, experts warn the new tariffs could backfire, raising lumber and construction costs and driving housing prices even higher. Economists and homebuilders note that domestic production capacity is insufficient to meet demand, meaning steep tariffs on Canadian imports could worsen the housing affordability crisis.
In July 2025, homes, businesses, Camp Mystic, and more were swept away when central Texas was devastated with severe flooding. At Camp Mystic alone, 27 campers and staff members, including the camp's director, died during the initial flood.
Many people were caught off guard by the flooding and were left stranded mid-flood, getting to the highest ground they could find while they waited and hoped for help to come.
That day, a team of bus drivers rallied to go to Camp Mystic, which is a faith-based and family-centric all-girls summer camp that many Texas families view as a tradition to be passed down through generations. Upon arriving, the drivers were able to rescue more than 900 girls from the campgrounds.
On her first episode back on the Kelly Clarkson Show after her ex-husband passed away, having lost his battle with cancer, Kelly Clarkson honored these bus drivers by inviting them onto the show to share their experiences that day.
Clarkson could barely keep herself together, each of the bus drivers appeared choked up while recollecting their experiences, and there was hardly a dry eye in the audience.
Some drivers were still shocked from the state of central Texas after the mass flooding.
"They didn't have shirts, shoes. It was really hard, driving out there and seeing how everything was torn up and you just, I greet my kids every day, and then here are these kids, and it's just like, 'Come on, let's get you home.'"
One driver was haunted by wrestling with the level of loss.
"It was awesome to see all the parents reunited with their kids... But the hardest part was when the last kid got off your bus, and the parents just asked, 'Was that it?'"
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Viewers were grateful for the bus drivers who stepped in to care for these children.
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Not all heroes wear capes, and it's important to remember that sometimes they drive school buses.
This incredible group of people stepped up in a way that most people didn't, and protected the lives of 900 young girls who couldn't necessarily care for themselves.
Pete Davidson went viral recently for calling out the weird online backlash to actor Pedro Pascal's unstoppable career trajectory in recent years.
And he thinks White Lotus star Walton Goggins is next.
Goggins has had a similarly fruitful few years, rising ever closer to household-name status on the heels of his starring roles in HBO's televangelist satire The Righteous Gemstones and the aforementioned White Lotus.
And speaking from experience with his own rapid rise to fame, Davidson predicts that the clock is ticking on the "overexposure" backlash for Goggins.
On Instagram, Goggins had a perfect response: gratitude.
In his post, Goggins shared a screenshot of a Hollywood Reporter article about Davidson's recent comments on Theo Von's podcast, in which he said of Goggins:
“Look at Pedro Pascal right now... He’s worked so hard and has been a struggling actor, [then] fu*king blows up so fu*king hard... And then a year later... everyone’s like, ‘Go the fu*k away, dude...’”
“They’re gonna do it with Walton Goggins, [he] will be next. It’s like, we build everybody up and now it’s so fast to turn. It’s within months.”
Having spent so much time on the business end of the internet and the public's fickleness when it comes to celebrities, Davidson's frustration on his colleagues' behalf is understandable.
But Goggins himself sees it very differently.
In his Instagram caption, he thanked Davidson for the "heads up," but took a very different point of view on the theoretical backlash:
"To me, being included in this headline isn’t a curse it’s a blessing. How lucky am I that this is even a possibility?!!"
He then reminisced about all the wonderful people he's gotten to work with in recent years after toiling for decades in relative obscurity, as well as the outpouring of love he's received from fans.
It seems to have left him feeling the kind of gratitude that even internet backlash can't dim.
"[It's] way more than a poor kid from GA would ever have the audacity to imagine. I wouldn’t take one back."
"So…If saying yes in life more than saying no is a crime, then I’m guilty as charged."
"And If this headline is a possibility or an inevitability… if this is my fate…"
"Well… Fu*k it. I’m going to enjoy the FU*K OUT OF IT."
On Instagram, fans were definitely in Goggins' corner—and Pascal's, for that matter—come what may.
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After nearly 30 years in the business, Goggins deserves every moment of adulation he's getting.
