Fact Check: Did Donald Trump Jr. Say Texas Governor Greg Abbott is a Democrat?
On 2/19/21 at 11:51 AM EST
Donald Trump Jr. came to the defense of under-fire Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after he admitted flying to Cancun while Texas dealt with power outages, dwindling water supplies and freezing temperatures.
The eldest son of former President Donald Trump hit out at those trying to cancel Cruz after he traveled to the Mexican city with his family, only to return on Thursday.
Cruz said he left Texas to be a good dad after his daughters asked to go on a trip with friends when school was canceled.
Michael Desmond/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Scandal fans think Biden s new press secretary Jen Psaki looks just like Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield).
Stanchfield, the fictional press secretary, picked up on the comparisons.
The actress tweeted advice to Psaki, including: Don t get power hungry and don t cry.
On Inauguration Day, the new White House press secretary Jen Psaki gave her first briefing of President Joe Biden s administration.
Not long after Psaki spoke with members of the press on January 20, fans of the ABC drama series Scandal pointed out her apparent resemblance to the show s fictional press secretary, Abby Whelan (Darby Stanchfield).
Introducing Rakewell, Apollo’s wandering eye on the art world. Look out for regular posts taking a rakish perspective on art and museum stories.
President Biden’s message of national unity at the Inauguration yesterday was bolstered by support from an unlikely source, as America came together in appreciation of Bernie Sanders’ outsized, though nonetheless rather natty mittens. In a picture that immediately went viral, the Democratic Senator folds his arms firmly against the freezing temperatures, pairing his gloves with a Goretex overcoat. ‘In Vermont, we know something about the cold, and we’re not so concerned with good fashion,’ Sanders said. (Rakewell would rather believe that he was anticipating being asked to give a warm round of applause.)
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In August, Jennifer Nevius slid into a lobby love seat amid the eerie quiet of a hospital on COVID lockdown. She’d been holding it together, but finally alone, thick tears welled in her eyes as she thought about the fact that her father had finally entered the last phase of his battle with ALS that, from the start, had been impossible to win.
There was only one thing to do. Retrieving her phone from her handbag, Nevius hovered a finger over the thumbnail for a romance novel titled
Richer than Sin, then pressed play. As the male narrator’s voice oozed through her AirPods, her heartbreak began to soften. She recalls, “as long as I had him in my ears, I could breathe and get through the day.