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Donald Trump may be crushing the polls for the GOP 2024 primary, but that’s just Republican voters. As fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has argued, he still needs to win swing voters and independents — which he probably won’t do given his divisive rhetoric and generally chaotic vibe. A new Quinnipiac poll even shows him losing to current president and possible incumbent Joe Biden — again — but Trump, of course, doesn’t believe it.

“The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on ‘TRUMP’ vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” the former president railed on his rinky-dink Twitter clone. It’s not just a “BAD” poll, he claims, but an inaccurate one:

“It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that, but FoxNews will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP. We’re winning BIG, they don’t like it, the RINOS don’t like it, the Democrats don’t like it but, most of all, the Marxists & Communists don’t like it!”

On one hand, people have underestimated Trump’s electability before. On the other, Trump has a pretty well-documented history of claiming he’s won things he hasn’t (except for those times when he accidentally tells the truth).

But there’s another thing Trump’s doing here, as Raw Story notes:

In claiming that the poll is under-sampling Republicans, the former president is employing the same tactics used in 2012 when some conservatives “unskewed” polls they thought sampled too many Democrats to claim that Mitt Romney was actually defeating former President Barack Obama.

The final election results showed that, if anything, the polls underestimated Obama’s support.

Whatever the case, the 2024 election is still about a year-and-a-half away. A lot could change. Or a lot could stay the same.

(Via Raw Story)

Donald Trump may be crushing the polls for the GOP 2024 primary, but that’s just Republican voters. As fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger has argued, he still needs to win swing voters and independents — which he probably won’t do given his divisive rhetoric and generally chaotic vibe. A new Quinnipiac poll even shows him losing to current president and possible incumbent Joe Biden — again — but Trump, of course, doesn’t believe it.

“The Quinnipiac Poll FoxNews keeps showing on ‘TRUMP’ vs. Biden is not just an old Poll, it is a BAD Poll,” the former president railed on his rinky-dink Twitter clone. It’s not just a “BAD” poll, he claims, but an inaccurate one:

“It under samples Republicans by 10 points, which means, instead of being down 4 points, I am up 6 points. Other Polls show me much higher than that, but FoxNews will always attempt, as they did in 2016, to only show negatives on MAGA & TRUMP. We’re winning BIG, they don’t like it, the RINOS don’t like it, the Democrats don’t like it but, most of all, the Marxists & Communists don’t like it!”

On one hand, people have underestimated Trump’s electability before. On the other, Trump has a pretty well-documented history of claiming he’s won things he hasn’t (except for those times when he accidentally tells the truth).

But there’s another thing Trump’s doing here, as Raw Story notes:

In claiming that the poll is under-sampling Republicans, the former president is employing the same tactics used in 2012 when some conservatives “unskewed” polls they thought sampled too many Democrats to claim that Mitt Romney was actually defeating former President Barack Obama.

The final election results showed that, if anything, the polls underestimated Obama’s support.

Whatever the case, the 2024 election is still about a year-and-a-half away. A lot could change. Or a lot could stay the same.

(Via Raw Story)

The third episode of The Idol came and went on Sunday night (June 18). There’s some confusion over viewership or whether it will demand a second season on HBO, and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) is “loving” the controversy, but people can count on Tesfaye to release The Idol singles after each episode of the first season.

This week, we got “A Lesser Man” and “Take Me Back” from The Weeknd, as well as “Get It B4” from Moses Sumney.

The Idol aired its premiere episode on June 4. The following Wednesday, June 7, Tesfaye shared his plan to release singles rather than wait until the season finale to drop the soundtrack in full.

“I was planning on dropping the whole soundtrack for idol by the finale, but I’m too hyped… instead, I wanna drop new music from the show every week with each episode,” he captioned an Instagram post. “I’m excited for you guys to hear what we’ve been cooking and all these incredible artists that are a part of this show… this week… Jocelyn’s pop song ‘world class sinner’ and ‘the lure’ (theme score)… episode 2 this Sunday [purple devil emoji].”

Following the June 11 episode, the singles were “Family” and “Devil’s Paradise,” joining “Double Fantasy” featuring Future and “Popular” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti, which arrived weeks ago.

The Idol was co-created by Tesfaye, Sam Levinson (Euphoria), and Reza Fahim. Tesfaye stars as Tedros, “a nightclub impresario with a sordid past” who develops a troubling (to say the least) relationship with Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), a pop star on the back end of a nervous breakdown, according to the show’s official synopsis.

The next Idol episode is scheduled to air on HBO on Sunday, June 25, at 9 p.m. EST. All episodes become available to stream on Max.

Listen to latest singles from The Idol above and below.

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The third episode of The Idol came and went on Sunday night (June 18). There’s some confusion over viewership or whether it will demand a second season on HBO, and The Weeknd (real name Abel Tesfaye) is “loving” the controversy, but people can count on Tesfaye to release The Idol singles after each episode of the first season.

This week, we got “A Lesser Man” and “Take Me Back” from The Weeknd, as well as “Get It B4” from Moses Sumney.

The Idol aired its premiere episode on June 4. The following Wednesday, June 7, Tesfaye shared his plan to release singles rather than wait until the season finale to drop the soundtrack in full.

“I was planning on dropping the whole soundtrack for idol by the finale, but I’m too hyped… instead, I wanna drop new music from the show every week with each episode,” he captioned an Instagram post. “I’m excited for you guys to hear what we’ve been cooking and all these incredible artists that are a part of this show… this week… Jocelyn’s pop song ‘world class sinner’ and ‘the lure’ (theme score)… episode 2 this Sunday [purple devil emoji].”

Following the June 11 episode, the singles were “Family” and “Devil’s Paradise,” joining “Double Fantasy” featuring Future and “Popular” featuring Madonna and Playboi Carti, which arrived weeks ago.

The Idol was co-created by Tesfaye, Sam Levinson (Euphoria), and Reza Fahim. Tesfaye stars as Tedros, “a nightclub impresario with a sordid past” who develops a troubling (to say the least) relationship with Jocelyn (Lily-Rose Depp), a pop star on the back end of a nervous breakdown, according to the show’s official synopsis.

The next Idol episode is scheduled to air on HBO on Sunday, June 25, at 9 p.m. EST. All episodes become available to stream on Max.

Listen to latest singles from The Idol above and below.

Madonna is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The last six months have seen a massive and rapid uptick in Artificial Intelligence. In some ways it’s exciting: Such tech could lead to advances in medicine and cure so-far-uncurable diseases. It’s also terrifying: It could eliminate untold jobs or, worse, lead to some doomsday scenario out of sci-fi dystopian fiction. One of the odder examples of AI tech has been this: A number of people have made AI “trailers” resembling Wes Anderson movies. Yes, Wes Anderson knows they exist and, no, he isn’t watching them.

“I’ve only been exposed to it verbally. I haven’t seen any of it,” Anderson told The Daily Beast. “Obviously, it’s easy for me to go to the right web page and see it. I choose not to really engage. I guess it’s because I don’t want to get distracted by that. It’s a bit like if you’re told, ‘Your friend does a great version of you.’ Maybe you say, I’d really like to see it, and maybe you say, I don’t want to see a version of me, even if it’s good. It can be like, ‘Is that me?’ That’s not necessarily the thing you want.”

Besides, he doesn’t seem that into some modern tech. “At some point, I’m sure I’ll go in there and see. But I’ve never seen a TikTok, for instance, of anything,” he said. “I’m not going to start with me.”

Those fake trailers (which we’re not linking to) imagine what it would be like if the iconoclastic filmmaker, who has arguably the most instantly recognizable style in modern cinema, got his mitts on big IP, like Lord of the Rings, Dune, and Star Wars. They feature eerie simulations of his stock company — Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, etc. — as iconic characters, usually frozen in place.

And yet Anderson shouldn’t have anything to worry about: They’re surface-level imitations of his work, including the new Asteroid City, missing the spirit and even the wit of his work. They can’t even pronounce Timothée Chalamet’s name correctly.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Middle school has to be the most insecure time in a person’s life. Kids in their early teens are incredibly cruel and will make fun of each other for not having the right shoes, listening to the right music, or having the right hairstyle.

As if the social pressure wasn’t enough, a child that age has to deal with the intensely awkward psychological and biological changes of puberty at the same time.

Jason Smith, the principal of Stonybrook Intermediate and Middle School in Warren Township, Indiana, had a young student sent to his office recently, and his ability to understand his feelings made all the difference.

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The child was sent to the office for refusing to remove his hat in class. “So, I sat down with him and asked him why, what was going on,” Smith told WRTV. “He said he just got his haircut, he didn’t like the way it looked, and he thought his hairline look a little funny.”

Having a haircut that’s a little off can be like waving a red flag at middle school bullies. So, Smith decided to fix the situation by offering the child a haircut.

“I’ve been cutting hair most of my life. I played college basketball and I cut my teammates’ hair before games and I’ve been cutting my son’s hair for 17 years so I had professional clippers and edgers at home, so I said, ‘If I go home and get my clippers and line you up, will you go back to class,’ and he said, ‘Yeah, I will,'” Smith said.

A photo of the cut was posted to Facebook where it’s been seen over 21,000 times.

After Smith fixed the child’s hairline, the student kept up his end of the bargain and returned to class.

“You know that age is a time for peer acceptance. It’s huge. And So a young man, especially an African-American young man the barbershop is a big deal in the community. Looking good a representing and presenting yourself is huge for kids,” Smith said.

A few days later, Smith posted a photo on Facebook of some memorable cuts he’s given in the past. “Who knew a skill that helped me survive in college would be useful 20 years later?” he captioned the post.

Smith saw the situation as a way to help the child in the moment instead of having to resort to disciplinary actions. From the child’s perspective what’s worse — being ridiculed in front of your peers or having a parent get angry?

“We’re not disciplining with a hard fist. You could call and have the parent pick up the kid up for defiance. Or you can sit and get to the root of the problem and see what can I do to help you? What do you need right now?” Smith said.

Imagine what the world would be like if more people simply asked each other, “What do you need?”

“He really was not trying to get out of class. He just thought that he would be laughed at. So, we took the time and did what we could to help him,” Smith said.

Smith recently posted a quote by professor Brené Brown on Facebook that serves as a great reminder of the practical power of solving problems at the root through compassion and direct action. “Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings, or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior.”

This article originally appeared on 02.25.21

As of right now, polls show Republican voters don’t want the pudding guy. They want to go old school. No, that doesn’t mean a return of classical conservativism. They want Donald Trump, the guy who last decade did a hostile takeover of the GOP. Even multiple indictments haven’t harmed him. If anything they’ve made him stronger. But there are some conservatives who seem cautiously optimistic that voters won’t fall for him a third time. One is his Celebrity Apprentice successor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

“I’m not worried about it because I don’t think it’s gonna happen,” Schwarzenegger said in a new sit-down with CNN’s Chris Wallace. He then broke down the stats.

“I just don’t think that you get reelected with 30% or 33% of people voting for you in your polls,” he explained. “Those are great poll numbers amongst conservatives, but I think if you put it all together, it’s not enough. You need the swing voters, you need the independents, so the question is can you do that? I believe he can’t.”

During the interview, Schwarzenegger argued that America needs a uniter, not a divider, and Trump is very much not a uniter. So who should be the GOP nominee? He’d do it, if he legally could — which, having been born in Austria, he can’t.

“Put me in because it’s, look — it’s a no-brainer. I see so clearly how I could win that that election,” Schwarzenegger told Wallace. “It’s like me and California, when I was running for governor,” he explained. “It was clear that people are looking for some new answer, not a right-wing or left-wing, but someone that can bring the nation together and doesn’t see the other party as the enemy.”

(Via Yahoo! Entertainment)

Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian had already cornered the market on PDA, and they apparently wanted to be known as king and queen of pregnancy reveals as well.

During Blink-182’s headlining reunion tour date in Los Angeles, California on Friday, June 16, Kardashian held up a sign from the crowd reading, “TRAVIS I’M PREGNANT.” Mark Hoppus drew his drummer’s attention to the announcement, and a shocked Barker walked toward Kardashian to hug and kiss her.

On Sunday, June 18, Kardashian more formally announced her pregnancy with an Instagram carousel of six endearing photos. The first shows Barker pretending to drum on Kardashian’s budding baby bump, and the second finds him lovingly kissing it.

“Overwhelmed with gratitude and joy for God’s blessing and plan,” Kardashian wrote in the caption.

“God is great,” Barker wrote in the comments section along with a prayer-hands emoji and a red heart emoji.

This will be their first child together. Barker (47 years old) shares Atiana (24), Landon (19), and Alabama (17) with his ex Shanna Moakler, while Kardashian (44) shares Mason (13), Penelope (10), and Reign (8) with her ex, Scott Disick. Barker and Kardashian were legally married in May 2022, confirming as much on Instagram.

In a recent episode of Hulu’s The Kardashians, Kardashian shared that she and Barker were “officially done with IVF” and “would love a baby more than anything,” as relayed by People last month.

Blink-182 is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

As children’s author Tarō Gomi wrote in the iconic 1977 book Everyone Poops: “Everyone poops.” That includes global superstars like Beyoncé and Jay-Z. Now, if you want to own an implement that may have one point been a part of that process for the Carters, here’s your chance.

As TMZ reports, Eric’s Architectural Salvage LA is selling a bunch of items supposedly from a home that Jay and Bey used to rent in 2015, a mansion in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles. After the couple left the home, the owners did a complete renovation and Eric’s Architectural Salvage LA ended up with some of the items from the building. That includes a fancy-pants bidet from the house, which is up on eBay right now.

The listing is titled “Bidet With Sherle Wagner Hardware Beyoncé Jay Z Estate” and is currently priced at $2,400. The description reads in part, “This is one of the prettiest bidets it features amazing Sherle Wagner hardware . SW was known for making beautiful Glamorous over the top hardware that was often gold plated. I’m not sure if this hardware is gold plated for we are unable to test it but it is highly possible that it is . This hardware is featured in the SW catalog it was salvaged out of the Holmby Hills area out of the $55 million home it was formerly occupied by Jay Z and Beyoncé this home was lavished with nothing but the best.”

Other items up for auction include doors, sconces, exterior lights, and other household miscellany, so find the Eric’s Architectural Salvage LA eBay store here.

Chris Paul is no stranger to being traded, as the 12-time All-Star point guard has now been dealt five times in his Hall of Fame career. Most recently, Paul has found himself as the centerpiece of the Suns’ latest attempt to add a superstar to their roster, sending him and Landry Shamet out for Bradley Beal.

While Paul was well aware he was potentially getting traded, as there were reports weeks ago that he and the Suns had met to discuss his future and the potential for him to either be waived or traded before his contract’s guarantee date, he apparently wasn’t very up to date on the Beal trade talks. On Monday, Paul had a pre-scheduled appearance on Good Morning America in New York that fell on the somewhat awkward day following the Beal trade.

Michael Strahan naturally asked him about his thoughts on it, with Paul saying he found out about it while he was flying across the country for the sitdown, before noting it’s just part of being in the NBA.

Part of what makes this particular trade unique for Paul is, there’s a good chance he’s headed to a third team that, as of this moment, we don’t know about. It’s possible the trade won’t be finalized for some time as the Wizards look to re-route Paul somewhere else, with the potential for a reunion between Paul and the Clippers. For now, Paul will promote his book and continue with his offseason, waiting to learn exactly where he’ll spend next season in the process.