Trump Claims Taylor Swift Is 'No Longer Hot' After He Posted 'I Hate Taylor Swift!'New Foto - Trump Claims Taylor Swift Is 'No Longer Hot' After He Posted 'I Hate Taylor Swift!'

UPDATED: Donald Trump took a break from his presidential duties to cast shade on Taylor Swift, nursing a grudge he holds against the global megastar for her endorsement of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. "Has anyone noticed that, since I said 'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' she's no longer 'HOT?'" Trump wrote in a post Friday on his Truth Social platform. He provided no elaboration for the claim. More from Variety Blake Lively's Lawyers Fight Back Against Taylor Swift Blackmail Accusation: 'Unequivocally and Demonstrably False' Benson Boone, Taylor Swift, Universal Music Publishing Group Win Top Honors at 2025 BMI Pop Awards Unions and MPA Urge Trump to Back Hollywood Tax Deductions Swift has a current net worth of $1.6 billion, making herthe wealthiest female musician in the world, according to Forbes. Swift's 149-date Eras Tour, which concluded last December,set a new record as the music industry's first $2 billion tour. She holds the record as the performer with themost wins in the Grammy's album of the year categorywith four, and she has won arecord 30 trophies at the MTV Video Music Awards. In January, Swift's "Lover (Live From Paris)" vinyl recordsold out in less than an hour. A few hours after Trump's presidential post regarding Swift — and a subsequent, evenmore insulting one about Bruce Springsteenin response to the singer's onstage criticism about the president earlier this week — Tino Gagliardi, president of the the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada, issued the following statement: "The American Federation of Musicians will not remain silent as two of our members — Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift — are singled out and personally attacked by the President of the United States. Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift are not just brilliant musicians, they are role models and inspirations to millions of people in the United States and across the world. Whether it's 'Born in the USA' or the Eras Tour, their music is timeless, impactful, and has deep cultural meaning. Musicians have the right to freedom of expression, and we stand in solidarity with all our members." Trump critics said the posts lashing out at the two popular artists were meant to draw attention away from controversies involving the president. "Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari 'gift' [of a Boeing 747 jet] or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now," anti-Trump conservative group the Lincoln Projectsaid on X. In September 2024,Trump had posted "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!"— coming days after Swift shared on Instagram thatshe intended to vote for Harris for U.S. presidentfollowing Harris' Sept. 10 debate victory over Trump. "I'm voting for @kamalaharris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them," Swift wrote in part in the Instagram post. "I think she is a steady-handed, gifted leader and I believe we can accomplish so much more in this country if we are led by calm and not chaos." In her post, Swift also called out Trump for previouslyusing a fake, AI-generated image of herto make it falsely appear as if Swift were endorsing him. Trump, in an interview with Fox Business, suggested he wasn't concerned that Swift would sue him over his posting of the fake images, saying they "were all made up by other people." Last October, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump's daughter,took her daughter Arabella and her friends to see Swift's Eras Tourconcert at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, according to a People magazine report. Following Swift's public backing of Harris, Trumpclaimed in an interview on Fox News "Fox & Friends"that "I was not a Taylor Swift fan" and said "she'll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace." Trump once expressed admiration for Swift, at least for her physical appearance. "I think she's beautiful — very beautiful! I find her very beautiful. I think she's liberal. She probably doesn't like Trump. I hear she's very talented,"he toldVarietyco-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodehin the book "Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass." Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Emmy Predictions: Talk/Scripted Variety Series - The Variety Categories Are Still a Mess; Netflix, Dropout, and 'Hot Ones' Stir Up Buzz Oscars Predictions 2026: 'Sinners' Becomes Early Contender Ahead of Cannes Film Festival Sign up forVariety's Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us onFacebook,Twitter, andInstagram.

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Trump Claims Taylor Swift Is ‘No Longer Hot’ After He Posted ‘I Hate Taylor Swift!’

Trump Claims Taylor Swift Is 'No Longer Hot' After He Posted 'I Hate Taylor Swift!' UPDATED: Donald Trump took a break from ...
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Chrissy Teigen to Appear on Season 2 of Meghan Markle's Netflix Series "With Love, Meghan"

Taylor Hill/WireImage; Craig Barritt/Getty Meghan Marklewill welcomeChrissy Teigenas a guest on the second season of her Netflix series,With Love, Meghan. PEOPLE understands that Teigen, 39, will join the Duchess of Sussex, 43, on the sophomore season ofWith Love, which will premiere this fall. TheDaily Mailwas first to report the news. TheSelf-Consciouspodcast host, model and cookbook authorwas one of the first people to receive jam from Meghan's initial lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchardin 2024 and said then it "might have been one of the best bites we've had all year." The Duchess of Sussex announced in February that she was renaming the venture to As ever and the brand's first collection of food products sold out on its debut day. Can't get enough of PEOPLE's Royals coverage?Sign up for our free Royals newsletterto get the latest updates on Kate Middleton, Meghan Markle and more! PEOPLE exclusively revealed thatWith Love, Meghanwill return for a second season on Netflix this fall. The second season has already been filmed and sees Michael Steed return as director for the show Meghan tells PEOPLE is a"love letter" to her favorite things. "The series is about doing what you can do," the Duchess of Sussex said, "and doing it with love." Read the original article onPeople

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Chrissy Teigen to Appear on Season 2 of Meghan Markle's Netflix Series “With Love, Meghan”

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AJ McLean Is 'Dedicating' "Building the Band "to Liam Payne After Pair Bonded on Set Over Sobriety and 'Life Experiences'

Frazer Harrison/Getty; Karwai Tang/WireImage At 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., AJ McLean remembered his lateBuilding the Bandcostar Liam Payne The Backstreet Boy said the two singers bonded over their many similarities McLean said the show, slated to air this summer, will be dedicated to Payne Liam Payne's work onBuilding the Bandwillsoon be seen, and costarAJ McLeanis making sure people will remember. The two talented musicians worked alongside each other, as well as withNicole ScherzingerandKelly Rowland, as judges on the upcoming series, set to premiere later this summer. The Backstreet Boy looked back at his time with formerOne Directioner, who tragicallydied in October 2024 at age 31, during a panel at 90s Con in Hartford, Conn., in March. "The very last thing Liam did was work on this amazing TV show for Netflix calledBuilding the Band, which will be out this summer. And we're dedicating the show to him," McLean, 47, said at the time. "I got to really know him on a personal level and we had a lot of very similar life experiences, both in sobriety and out of sobriety." Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE's free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. McLean paid tribute to Payne when news of his death became public last fall. Sharing a photo of the two of them from their time filming the competition series, he wrote, "Words cannot begin to express the pain I have for this man and the great loss we have endured!" "We became very close almost immediately and shared so many stories , laughs, and life experiences. Gone too soon my friend. You were such a light an incredible person to be in the presence of daily while we worked together! I cannot believe you are gone," McLean wrote. "Keep shining and keep singing for us all to hear. My deepest condolences to your family , loved ones, and your bandmates. Love you bro! 😢." Payne served as a guest judge on the series, which follows individual singers as they attempt to form the next great band without ever seeing one another.  A source told PEOPLE at the time that series producers were shocked and saddened by the loss of the formerOne Directionstar. On May 14, 2025,Netflix confirmedthe show will air as planned, and feature Payne posthumously. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty PEOPLE's source indicated that the "Strip That Down" singer had no behavioral issues during filming, and that there were zero issues on set with the star. In fact, the source added that Payne was so fulfilled by his experience onBuilding the Bandthat he wanted to continue working with the bands after production ended. Payne died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, after falling from a balcony at his hotel.It was later confirmedhe died of "polytrauma," according to a hearing that took place in December 2024 at Buckinghamshire Coroner's Court, theBBC reported. Polytrauma means multiple injuries that involve multiple organs or systems, according to theNational Library of Medicine. Read the original article onPeople

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May 16, 2025

AJ McLean Is 'Dedicating' “Building the Band ”to Liam Payne After Pair Bonded on Set Over Sobriety and 'Life Experiences'

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France's Macron: Gaza conditions are 'intolerable,' hopes to discuss it with Netanyahu and TrumpNew Foto - France's Macron: Gaza conditions are 'intolerable,' hopes to discuss it with Netanyahu and Trump

TIRANA (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed on Friday that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza was unacceptable, and said he hoped to discuss the matter soon with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump. "The humanitarian situation in Gaza is intolerable," Macron told reporters, as he attended a meeting of European leaders in Albania. "We are reaching a level that we have never seen before, in terms of the humanitarian impact, since the beginning of this," said Macron. Macron said the priority was on getting a ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, and restoring access to humanitarian aid. "I will have the opportunity to speak about this with Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have also raised the matter with President Trump," he said. Trump, who ended a Middle East tour on Friday with no apparent progress towards a new ceasefire as Israel steps up its military campaign, has acknowledged Gaza's growing hunger crisis and the need for aid deliveries. (Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, Andrew Gray, Jean-Stephane Brosse; Editing by Toby Chopra and Diane Craft)

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France's Macron: Gaza conditions are 'intolerable,' hopes to discuss it with Netanyahu and Trump

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Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to LibyaNew Foto - Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News. The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya's leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said. In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said. No final agreement has been reached, and Israel has been kept informed of the administration's discussions, the same three sources said. The State Department and the National Security Council did not respond to multiple requests for comment before this article was published. After publication, a spokesperson told NBC News, "these reports are untrue." "The situation on the ground is untenable for such a plan. Such a plan was not discussed and makes no sense," the spokesperson said. Basem Naim, a senior Hamas official, said that Hamas, the U.S.-designated terrorist group that has run Gaza, was not aware of any discussions about moving Palestinians to Libya. "Palestinians are very rooted in their homeland, very strongly committed to the homeland and they are ready to fight up to the end and to sacrifice anything to defend their land, their homeland, their families, and the future of their children," Naim said in response to questions from NBC News. "[Palestinians] are exclusively the only party who have the right to decide for the Palestinians, including Gaza and Gazans, what to do and what not to do." Representatives of the Israeli government declined to comment. Libya has been plagued by instability and warring political factions throughout the nearly 14 years since a civil war broke out in the country and its longtime dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, was toppled. Libya is struggling to care for its current population as two rival governments, one in the west led by Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and one in the east led by Khalifa Haftar, are actively and violently fighting for control. The State Department currently advises Americans not to travel to Libya "due to crime, terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict." Dbeibah's government could not be reached for comment. Haftar's Libyan National Army did not respond to a request for comment. How many Palestinians in Gaza would voluntarily leave to live in Libya is an open question. One idea administration officials have discussed is to provide Palestinians with financial incentives such as free housing and even a stipend, the former U.S. official said. The details of when or how any plan to relocate Palestinians to Libya could be implemented are murky, and an effort to resettle up to 1 million people there would likely face significant obstacles. Such an effort would likely be extremely expensive, and it's not clear how the Trump administration would seek to pay for it. In the past, the administration has said Arab nations would help with rebuilding Gaza after the war there ends, but they havebeen critical of Trump's idea of permanently relocating Palestinians. In recent weeks, the Trump administration has also looked at Libya as a place where it could send some immigrants it wants to deport from the U.S. However, plans to send one group of immigrants to Libya were stalled by a federal judge this month. Moving up to 1 million Palestinians to Libya could put far more of a strain on the fragile country. TheCIA's most recent publicly available estimateof Libya's current population is about 7.36 million. In terms of population, Libya absorbing 1 million more people would be equivalent to the U.S. taking in about 46 million. Precisely where Palestinians would be resettled in Libya has not been determined, according to the former U.S. official. Administration officials are looking at options for housing them and every potential method for transporting them from Gaza to Libya — by air, land and sea —is being considered, according to one of the people with direct knowledge of the effort. Any of those methods would likely prove cumbersome and time-consuming, as well as costly. It would take around 1,173 flights on the world's largest passenger airplane, the Airbus A380, at its maximum passenger capacity to transport 1 million people, for instance. With no airport in Gaza, moving anyone from there on flights would first require transporting them to an airport in the region. If Israel does not want to allow Palestinians to come through its territory, the closest airport would be in Cairo, about 200 miles away. Transportation by land from Gaza through Egypt to Benghazi, Libya's second-largest city, which is farther east than the capital, Tripoli, would require driving about 1,300 miles. Automobiles typically hold fewer passengers than other modes of transportation. About 55 people can fit in an intercity passenger bus. Up to 2,000 people can fit on the top-end versions of some of the ferries the U.S. used to transport civilians along the Mediterranean Sea to escape Libya's civil war in 2011. If those vessels were to be used — and assuming that they didn't need to refuel and weather conditions were good — it would take hundreds of trips lasting more than a day each way for up to 1 million people to travel from Gaza to Benghazi. The plan under discussion is part ofPresident Donald Trump's vision for a postwar Gaza, which he said in February the U.S. would seek to "own" and rebuild as what he called "the Riviera of the Middle East," two current U.S. officials, the former U.S. official and the two people with direct knowledge of the effort said. "We're going to take over that piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs, and it will be something the entire Middle East can be proud of," Trump said at the time. To achieve his goal for the reconstruction of Gaza, Trump has said Palestinians there would have to be permanently resettled elsewhere. "You can't live in Gaza right now, and I think we need another location. I think it should be a location that's going to make people happy," Trump said in February during a White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump outlined a goal of finding "a beautiful area to resettle people permanently in nice homes, and where they can be happy and not be shot, not be killed, not be knifed to death like what's happening in Gaza." "I don't think people should be going back to Gaza," he said. Trump's idea, which blindsided some of his top aides, includingSecretary of State Marco Rubio, when he announced it,drew criticism from America's Arab alliesandU.S. lawmakers from both parties. "We'll see what the Arab world says but, you know, that'd be problematic at many, many levels," Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at the time. The U.S. and Israel in March alsorejected a proposal from Egyptfor rebuilding Gaza without relocating Palestinians. The administration's work on a Libya plan comes as Trump's relationship with Netanyahuhas become strained, in part because of Israel's decision to launch a new military offensive in Gaza. The Trump administration has considered multiple locations for resettling Palestinians living in Gaza, according to a senior administration official, a former U.S. official familiar with the discussions and one of the people with direct knowledge of the effort. Syria, with its new leadership following the ouster of Bashar al Assad in December, also is under discussion as a possible location for resettling Palestinians currently in Gaza, according to one of the people with direct knowledge of the effort and a former U.S. official familiar with the discussions. The Trump administration has taken steps toward restoring diplomatic relations with Syria. Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions on Syria and met briefly with the country's new leader, Ahmad al-Sharaa, on Wednesday.

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May 16, 2025

Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya

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