Source: Lionsgate / Lionsgate Taraji P. Henson may be the hardest working woman in shoe business. We recently caught up with the superstar, who revealed, not only did she film Acrimony in five days, she filmed it simultaneously with Empire . But what else was she to do when her friend and colleague Tyler Perry called with a role designed specifically for her? “He had me at, ‘This is your Glenn Close moment in Fatal Attraction ‘,” Taraji revealed in a candid sit-down while promoting the film. “Taraji is a brilliant actor,” Tyler Perry said. “Nobody could have played this role but her.” Acrimony hits theaters March 30. RELATED STORIES: EXCLUSIVE ‘Acrimony’ CLIP: Once A Cheater, Always A Cheater? [WATCH] Taraji P. Henson Is Electrifying In New Trailer For Tyler Perry’s ‘Acrimony’
Source: Amanda Edwards / Getty Stacey Dash announced that she’s given up her run for congress. Just weeks after she revealed her aspirations to become a U.S. congresswoman, the actress has changed her mind. “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my candidacy for California’s 44th Congressional District,” Stacey said in an email to CNN . The former Fox News commentator explained that she began her congressional bid with the best of intentions. “I started this run with the intention to address the pressing issues in the district where I live,” she added “I hoped, and remain hopeful, that I can assist people living here on the national level. My goal was, and remains, to improve the lives of people who have been forgotten for decades by the Democratic Party.” Stacy was running to represent an area of California that includes cities like Compton, Watts, San Pedro, and North Long Beach. These areas have always leaned democratic. They have a long history of voting in democratic in congressional elections (they’re currently represented by Nannette Barragán), and 83% of the population there voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. However, Stacey has been a very vocal conservative republican, so we can’t imagine who would have voted for the Clueless star in California’s 44th district. It’s not exactly her base. Stacey said that she’s choosing to lay down her campaign to focus on her family. RELATED STORIES: Compton Mayor Aja Brown Considering Congressional Bid Against Stacey Dash Stacey Dash Is Begging For Campaign Donations By Shouting Out The Bronx Stacey Dash Attempts To Slam Oprah and Seal
Source: Amanda Edwards / Getty Stacey Dash announced that she’s given up her run for congress. Just weeks after she revealed her aspirations to become a U.S. congresswoman, the actress has changed her mind. “After much prayer, introspection and discussions with my family, I am withdrawing my candidacy for California’s 44th Congressional District,” Stacey said in an email to CNN . The former Fox News commentator explained that she began her congressional bid with the best of intentions. “I started this run with the intention to address the pressing issues in the district where I live,” she added “I hoped, and remain hopeful, that I can assist people living here on the national level. My goal was, and remains, to improve the lives of people who have been forgotten for decades by the Democratic Party.” Stacy was running to represent an area of California that includes cities like Compton, Watts, San Pedro, and North Long Beach. These areas have always leaned democratic. They have a long history of voting in democratic in congressional elections (they’re currently represented by Nannette Barragán), and 83% of the population there voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. However, Stacey has been a very vocal conservative republican, so we can’t imagine who would have voted for the Clueless star in California’s 44th district. It’s not exactly her base. Stacey said that she’s choosing to lay down her campaign to focus on her family. RELATED STORIES: Compton Mayor Aja Brown Considering Congressional Bid Against Stacey Dash Stacey Dash Is Begging For Campaign Donations By Shouting Out The Bronx Stacey Dash Attempts To Slam Oprah and Seal
I n case you forgot, it was white women who got President Trump into office. Even through decades of sexism and “grab ’em by the p***sy,” white women didn’t fail the reality star. According to NewRepublic.com , “more white women voted for Donald Trump than for Hillary Clinton” and “The only factor that differentiated the level of support among white women voters was education, with college-educated white women favoring Clinton, compared to non-college educated women who favored Trump by a far higher margin.” Now, some white women are trying to fix that in unique ways — witchcraft. See below: Actually, this is nothing new. Vox reported back in October that every month a group of witches go to Trump Tower in New York City and cast a spell to protect America from our insane president. They are known as “resistance witches” and “at least 13,000-strong umbrella group of internet neo-pagans, Wiccans, solo practitioners who self-identify as ‘hedge witches,’ longtime magical practitioners in various traditions, and committed activists.” They are part of a #MagicResistance (yes, that is a real thing) and have come together every month since Trump’s inauguration. The folks are serious, check out some of their tweets below: We're hunting you, all right! And we're not stopping until you're driven from office, Little Benedict Donald! #BindTrump #MagicResistance #WitchHunt pic.twitter.com/FLFOBtvm6X — Michael M. Hughes (@michaelmhughes) March 19, 2018 Tonight is the dark of the moon. Perfect for power spells, banishments, etc. Tonight we #BindTrump to protect our country from harm. #MagicResistance — Myrth (@MyrthMystic) March 17, 2018 Thank you all for sharing your hearts & magic. Remember that everything that changes takes time, nothing is permanent, especially him. The more he loses power, the more he screams. So mote it be! #MagicResistance #BindTrump pic.twitter.com/GexFTiJnZP — Kitty_Lemiew (@Kitty_Lemiew) March 15, 2018 “That time of the month” means something a little different around here. #magicresistance #bindtrump https://t.co/1T8XZOPlKD pic.twitter.com/eY1uQ088hK — Mildly Unstable Genius (@fizzbulous) March 15, 2018 While we love any form of resistance, and this one is pretty damn hilarious, these spells do not seem to be working. Maybe they need to call on some Yoruba or Santeria saints, Oshun and Oya might make magic happen. Let’s hope Ben Carson doesn’t hear about this, he will surely think all liberals are possessed by witchcraft — even though he is possessed by stupidity. SEE ALSO: One Step Forward, 10 Steps Back: San Francisco’s First Black Woman Mayor Unseated By Rich White Man Taye Diggs Says Black Women Ruined His Love For White Girls ‘Look Like I’m Dead:’ Black Florida Shooting Survivor On The Quick Decision That Saved Her Life [ione_media_gallery src=”https://newsone.com” id=”3478918″ overlay=”true”]
Eric Trump is totally on to Ellen DeGeneres. She may play all calm and cool and funny and happy and peaceful and loving on television, but the President’s son knows what’s really going on here. And he’s finally come out and revealing his truth to the world… … Ellen DeGeneres is a key member of The Deep State! This is a term often thrown around by Sean Hannity and other like-minded conservatives. It gained momentum during the 2016 Presidential campaign after being trumpeted by ex-White House strategist Steve Bannon and it refers to an alleged shadowy entity of civil servants. This shadowy entity of civil servants purportedly coordinates efforts and policies behind-the-scenes to delegitimize the Donald Trump administration. Many members of the mainstream press, someone like Eric Trump would argue, are working with The Deep State to bring down the commander-in-chief. How does Ellen fit in? What has she done to earn this reputation? It’s unclear. But consider the following Tweet by Eric Trump, which has gone viral for its hilarious accusation: “Shocking… once again, here are the @Twitter “suggestions” of who I should follow. #DeepState,” wrote Eric as a caption to the screen capture of who Twitter thinks he may want to follow. One person listed there is the previous President of the United States. Another person listed there is the candidate Donald Trump defeated to become President. (If either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton are members of the supposed Deep State, well, they aren’t very deep undercover.) And the third person is beloved talk show host, comedian and former American Idol judge, Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen is very likely a Democrat, but she actually isn’t very outspoken when it comes to politics. Yes, she once sent a message to Donald Trump that was based around Finding Dory. But she mostly talks on her show about love and respect and hope , which… okay, nevermind. We get it now. These aren’t exactly Donald Trump-espoused values, are they? As you might expect, Eric Trump’s Tweet has become quite a source of ridicule on social media. Some folks are trying to teach him how Twitter works (“I know you’re not the smart one, but Twitter’s algorithm looks at who you searched for most recently when making suggestions. It looks like you might have recently searched for a Democrat, buddy.”) … … while others are just openly mocking him. To wit: Said another user, pretty much summing up Eric’s statement: This is the most unintentionally hilarious tweet of the very very new year! Fast forward 362 days and we have a feeling it may remain the most unintentionally hilarious Tweet of the year. Good luck, trying to top it, everyone else on the planet. This is gonna be a challenge.
Look, we understand that headline’s not gonna please anyone. Either you’re a dyed-in-the-wool #MAGA ass and you came here just to deride us as a bunch of libtard cuck-flakes in the comments, or you’re part of the majority of Americans who wishes the president would stop tweeting entirely, in which case, you probably think we didn’t go nearly far enough. But hey, our New Year’s resolution is to piss off as many people as many people as possible, and we decided to get an early start! We kid, of course. Resolving to offend people in 2018 is like resolving to breathe in and out. It’s gonna happen no matter what, and it doesn’t require any active effort. For evidence of just how easy it is to piss off tens of millions of people these days, you need look no further than the tweets of America’s P-ssy-Grabber-In-Chief, Captain Offensive Pants. No doubt still clad in a Trump Hotel bathrobe , the president frequently outrages half the planet before he’s even dropped his morning Big Mac deuce. While our more heathen-y presidents may have taken the holidays off in order to drink Starbucks and slaughter a virgin, the Trump Train kept right on rolling! By which we mean the 71-year-old leader of the free world spent the season of peace talking enough trash on social media to shame a recently-dumped middle school girl or a butthurt Star Wars fan. And who were the Donald’s targets this time around? Well, there was Vanity Fair , which committed the grievous offense of cracking jokes about a woman Donald once threatened to imprison, and then there was planet Earth, which has apparently pissed Trump off by continuing to exist despite his apocalyptic environmental policies. First, some context: In case you haven’t heard, it’s effing cold in the northeast. Like, even by “winter in the northeast” standards. Someone told this to Donald, and his response was apparently to crack his knuckles and start sticking it to the libs: “In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!” Now, hopefully, we don’t have to tell you that’s a dumb thing to say or point out that weather and climate are not the same thing. A cold day isn’t an indication that the planet is stable anymore than a single hot day is evidence that it’s heating up. The world’s scientists are concerned due to data collected over several decades which indicates a disturbing trend toward hotter … ya know what? Let’s just move on to less-terrifying idiocy… As you may have heard, there was controversy this week over a video posted by Vanity Fair , in which several staffers expressed their 100 percent-justified belief that Hillary Clinton should probably step away from the political arena for the foreseeable future. The situation outraged the president, not because of the content of the clip, but because VF dared to issue an apology for the sake of those who found the video offensive. “Vanity Fair, which looks like it is on its last legs, is bending over backwards in apologizing for the minor hit they took at Crooked H. Anna Wintour, who was all set to be Amb to Court of St James’s & a big fundraiser for CH, is beside herself in grief & begging for forgiveness!” Trump tweeted. Never mind that our commander-in-chief is still devoting his days to picking petty fights with various media outlets, Anna Wintour is the editor of Vogue , not Vanity Fair. Sure, they both star with “V,” but if we Donald off easy on this one, next week he’ll be referring to Justin Trudeau as the prime minister of Cambodia. Needless to say, Trump was roasted to a crisp over both tweets, but sadly seeing our president get savagely corn-cobbed by the entirety of Twitter is one of the many things we’ve been forced to get used to in 2017. Cheers to the new year! *guzzles large quantity of Drano* View Slideshow: 12 Donald Trump Tweets That Outline His Plans as President
W e need Black folks on both sides of the aisle — Democrat and Republican. However, being a Republican in the age of Trump is a whole other level of Republician-ism. Our current POTUS has sympathized with neo-Nazis, disrespected gold star families of color, thought Frederick Douglas was still alive, known for language like “That’s my African-American over there!” and is advocating for policy that will damage Black and brown communities. Nonetheless, there are Black Republicans who will defend him at any cost. Here are the ones who mortified us in 2017. Pastor Darrell Scott Pastor Scott is ride-or-die for Trump and is known to scream on television at anyone who disagrees that Trump is presidential perfection. Here is just one disturbing moment from one of his many television rants. He is actually defending Trump defending Nazis. Fix it, Jesus! Joy Villa The singer is a passionate Trump supporter who is constantly on Fox News defending his madness. However, the tide has changed a bit. Now that she accused his former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski of sexually assaulting her, Fox News is dragging her . Nonetheless, we can’t forget this classic sunken moment, when Villa wore a “Make America Great Again” dress to this year’s Grammys. Dr. Ben Carson Social media lovingly calls him Uncle Ben. Mr. Carson loves him some Trump and his loyalty got him the bizarre position of the decretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Yep, this is the title for a former neurosurgeon. There are so many sunken moments to choose from for Ben, but this moment, which shows Carson thanking God for Trump after the despicable tax bill was passed, is disgustingly unforgettable. Ray Lewis Ray Lewis is an NFL legend. He is a 10-time Associated Press All-Pro and one of the few players in history to play in a Pro Bowl in three different decades. However, he is tainting his legacy by being Trump’s BFF and slamming NFL players who knelled during the National Anthem. Yet, when he knelled, he claimed, “I wasn’t protesting, I was praising God,” which was when Shannon Sharpe destroyed him on ESPN. Watch Ray’s sunken response below. Jim Brown If Ray Lewis is an NFL legend, Jim Brown is an NFL icon. In 2002, Sporting News named him the greatest football player of all time and now he appears to have been swallowed by the sunken place. The 81-year-old shocked us all by defending Trump to anyone who would listen, especially when he voted for Hillary Clinton . He believes Trump can magically give the Black community jobs, which is ludicrous — he can’t even hire a Black person for the White House senior staff, unless it’s Omarosa. Watch Jim Brown defend his king below: Paris Dennard A few times a week you can catch Paris Dennard getting dragged all over CNN. It’s as if his brain has been lobotomized of all logic because Paris is convinced 45 is the messiah for the Black community. One of his best suken moments of the year was when Keith Boykin said he was “ashamed” that Paris as a Black man would defend Trump sympathizing with Nazis. The madness starts at the five-minute mark. Omarosa Manigault The reality star turned Trump’s side-kick is the arguably the ruler of the sunken place. She called for America to “bow down” to Trump, she attacked April Ryan and had a complete breakdown at the National Association for Black Journalists conference. Watch Omarosa in the widely parodied clip below, bawling because she lost her Black friends over supporting Trump. Oh — and honorable mention to Stacey Dash , who was the queen of the sunken place in 2016, but vanished from television when Fox News fired her. We’ll be in a new year in a few days, maybe some of these folks can escape the sunken place in 2018. We’ll get the prayer warriors out for all of you! SEE ALSO: Charlottesville Hero Pushed Fiancée Out Of The Way Of Deranged Terrorist WATCH: White Supremacist Charlottesville Rally Organizer Flees From Counterprotesters
Source: Yana Paskova / Getty We miss Barack Obama so much and according to Huffington Post so does a lot of other people. In a Gallup poll released, 17 percent thought that Obama was the most admired man. Donald Trump came in second place with 14 percent. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! Close Thank you for subscribing! Please be sure to open and click your first newsletter so we can confirm your subscription. Email Submit Hillary Clinton came in third with 9 percent and Michelle Obama received 7 percent. The survey from Gallup News states that this is the 16th time for Clinton to be the most admired woman. Since 1946 the polling group has asked Americans ab out their choice. Gallup said, “All but Truman in 1947 and Ford in 1974 had job approval ratings well below 50%, like Trump.” RELATED: Barack Obama Cracks Joke Aimed At Trump & Others [VIDEO] RELATED: Chance The Rapper, Kenan Thompson Sing “Come Back Barack” On SNL [VIDEO] RELATED: Barack Obama “Crashes” Michelle Obama Speech To Say “Happy Anniversary” [VIDEO] The Latest : Barack Obama Scores “Most Admired Man” Title For The 10th Time In A Row Why Tamar Braxton Isn’t Ready To Leave Her Husband Vince Herbert This Is How Long Sheree Whitfield May Have To Wait To Marry Her Prison Bae Prayers Up! Solange Cancels NYE Gig After Revealing Autonomic Disorder Diagnosis [ione_media_gallery src=”https://rickeysmileymorningshow.com” id=”1756994″ overlay=”true”]
Hey, remember the 2016 election? Sure you do. Even if you were somehow able to forget that you’ve lived every day since November 8 in some sort of Orwellian hellscape where up is down, black is white, and hamburgers eat people, the principal players still bear the psychic scars of their electoral combat, and they will not let you forget it for a single second. In case you decided to take up residence in a Unabomber shack in the woods around the time a presidential candidate started talking about his dong during a televised debate and you’re just now re-entering society, allow us to bring you up to speed: Donald Trump is now our president, despite running a campaign marred by multiple genital-related scandals . Despite the fact that he won, Trump clearly still awakes with the election at the forefront of his mind every morning, presumably staring dead-eyed at the ceiling fan over his bed, a la Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now . Hillary Clinton is also still obsessed with the most bonkers presidential election in American history, but she’s decided to seek catharsis by writing a book in which she blames everyone else for her loss. Ya know, like an adult! (Hey, petty adults who are more concerned with settling old scores than with the future of the country are still adults.) The Donald, on the other hand … well, he’s decided to handle things quite differently. Trump-Clinton Golf GIF Take six seconds of your day to watch the clip above in order to remind yourself that we’re currently living in the Upside Down (RIP, Barb). It’s from a Twitter account with the stunningly apt handle @fuctupmind, and it was retweeted by the President of the United States. Yes, 71-year-old Donald Trump was so tickled by the thought of him pelting a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state with a golf ball that he felt compelled to share @fuctupmind’s handiwork with the world. It’s easy to get bored when you’re in your bathrobe by 6 pm every evening, but surely a man with a pretty important gig can find better ways of keeping himself busy. Obviously, there were millions of stunned reactions on social media, but the consensus is perhaps best encapsulated by this tweet from former director of US Office of Government Ethics Walter Schaub: “The President of the United States just retweeted a video vignette that imagines him assaulting his political rival. The man is unfit,” Schaub wrote. It’s the truth, folks. No matter where your beliefs fall on the political spectrum, it’s time to admit that Donald Trump is unfit. And we’re not talking about the fact that he an ass that could rival Kim Kardashian’s . View Slideshow: Tiny Trump: Internet Cuts President Down to Size!
So as you may remember, last fall was a pretty wild time for us here in the good ol’ U.S.A. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton engaged in an epic battle to win the title of president, and Trump somehow managed to win, shoving the country into the Dark Times. In the months leading up to the election, countless celebrities took the time to campaign for their ideal nominee, or at least to make a shout-out on social media. Since it was such a divisive election, these celebrities expressed that they felt it was their duty to speak out in support of what they felt was right. But one major pop star was quiet as a mouse … and that pop star was Taylor Swift. While everyone else was tweeting up a storm or getting out on the campaign trail, Taylor neglected to say a single word against or in favor of either Hillary or Trump. It actually became a pretty big deal, and many of her fans urged her to speak out on things, but she refused. She did make a post on Election Day about the importance of voting, but still, she neglected to suggest who people should vote for. And in the months since the election, she’s failed to make a single statement about anything political, save for a tweet in support of the Women’s March back in the spring. And honestly, all this is fine. Taylor is a pop star, it’s not like she’s obligated to get into these kinds of subjects. But to many people, her silence indicated one thing: she actually voted for Trump, and she knew she’d get an unbearable amount of backlash for admitting it. After all, is there another reason for her to stay so quiet? Other popular singers — Katy Perry, for instance — went hard for Hillary, and they were applauded for it. And since this has been a theory for several months now, you’d think she’d deny it if it wasn’t true, right? Not so much, according to one of her besties, Todrick Hall. In a new interview , Todrick, who appeared in her incredible “Look What You Made Me Do” music video, said “Taylor has never to my knowledge come out and said anything about her being pro-Trump.” “But people would still rather believe that she is the one who is pushing Trump’s agenda.” He said that after the video was released , people began tweeting him things like “So are you made that you think she might support Donald Trump?” And that, he said, he didn’t really understand. “I’ve never felt like there was ever a moment that I couldn’t be myself, and talk about the fact that I’m gay or whatever,” he said. “At Thanksgiving, we all sat around and talked about it, and there was another one of her friends there who was African-American, and we all sat down and talked about racism and watched 13th on Netflix and talked about how important it was.” Yeah, that doesn’t really sound like a Thanksgiving a pro-Trump person would throw, huh? Todrick said that “Maybe one day, Taylor will start being super-political, and using her voice to do the things that people think that she should be doing.” “But even then, she will probably be ridiculed for not being vocal enough, or not being on the right side.” Wisely, he said that “I don’t think that there is a way to win in this industry, so every person has to take their own journey at their own pace, at their own time, and do what they feel is right.” And it sounds like that’s exactly what Taylor is doing. ] View Slideshow: 13 Stars Who Are Actually Happy Donald Trump is President
