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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2019 6:14:24 GMT
President Donald Trump is explaining himself after his controversial July Fourth speech, in which he said the Continental Army took “over airports” while fighting the British in the Revolutionary War — despite it being more than a century before airplanes were invented.  “Well, I can just tell you, those people that you see — there’s a lot of people in front of the White House — every one of them loved it,” Trump said referring to how his speech was received. “I would actually say — and I want to sort of give a little appreciation — the media, generally speaking, loved it. They loved the evening. We had a lot of rain. I stood in the rain. The teleprompter went out…” With heavy rain coming down on Trump and his supporters gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, the teleprompter went out right before he made his history lesson snafu, he claims. |
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Post by Admin on Jul 8, 2019 19:42:16 GMT
Taylor Swift's grandest holiday tradition, her annual Taymerica Fourth of July party in Rhode Island, didn't happen in 2017 and 2018, and it didn't happen this year either. Swift instead spent her Fourth of July holiday pretty far from the East Coast. As LaineyGossip noted, photographers caught her and her friends boarding her plane in St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The girls spent five days there, arriving on July 2.  Swift's last Fourth of July party was back in 2016 when she was dating Tom Hiddleston, he wore the I Heart TS tank, and their party was extravagantly documented on every guests' Instagram. Cara Delevingne, Blake Lively, and Gigi Hadid were among the stars to share a glimpse of their red, white, and blue-themed festivities. It was a different time, before Kim Kardashian posted those Snapchat takedown videos of Swift and before the Reputation era happened:  Swift's vacation comes after she spoke out about Justin Bieber's manager Scooter Braun acquiring the rights to her music catalog after purchasing her old label, Big Machine Label Group. In the open letter she posted on her Tumblr, Swift called it her "worst case scenario" because of "the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years."  |
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Post by Admin on Jul 10, 2019 17:49:04 GMT
Last week was a tough one for Taylor Swift, but the superstar is spending quality time with her loved ones.
Days after the Grammy winner, 29, sparked a heated debate among heavy hitters in the industry over music rights and bullying, Swift flew with her girlfriends to the Caribbean for a beach getaway, PEOPLE confirms.
“Taylor loves a good sun vacation. One of her favorite spots to visit is the Caribbean islands,” says a source. “She has been many times in the past, and her July 4th vacation was long-planned. It had nothing to do with her getting away from any drama.”
On Wednesday, the star will make her first public appearance since going to battle with Scooter Braun and her former label head Scott Borchetta over the manager’s $300 million purchase of Big Machine Label — and her music catalog — at Amazon Music’s Prime Day Concert in New York City.
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Post by Admin on Jul 11, 2019 17:59:36 GMT
President Trump’s plan to turn the Fourth of July into a commercial for his reelection campaign paid off spectacularly, if you’re using Nielsen ratings as a metric. According to just-released figures from the audience-measurement company, more than 6 million Americans watched coverage of the Trump propaganda effort between 7 and 8 p.m. EDT last Thursday, the hour during which the former star of The Apprentice read remarks from a teleprompter.  Unsurprisingly, Trump-friendly Fox News, which covered the event most exhaustingly, dominated the hour, notching an eye-popping 4.9 million viewers during the hour, about double what the network normally draws in the time slot. CNN, which mixed coverage of Trump’s speech with some analysis, drew about 1.5 million viewers, also a substantial improvement over its typical early-evening numbers (which generally hover around the 1 million mark). That puts the combined audience for the Trumpified festivities at around 6.4 million. As impressive as these numbers are, it should be noted that more Americans opted to watch NBC’s politics-free presentation of the Macy’s Fourth of July fireworks/concert. The Peacock’s two-hour premiere telecast of the show generated an average audience of 5.9 million from 8 to 10 p.m., with the audience peaking at 8.8 million viewers from 9:30 to 10 p.m. (when the actual fireworks were going off). The network also aired a condensed version of the special in the 10 p.m. hour, drawing another 3.8 million viewers. That puts the estimated combined audience for the two telecasts at around 9 million viewers (since there was likely some overlap between the two telecasts’ viewerships). |
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