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Trump Official Dragged After Suggesting 'Atlantic' Editor 'Hacked' Into Signal Group Chat
Mar 27, 2025
Speaking to Fox News personality Laura Ingraham, national security adviser Michael Waltz suggested that Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg hacked his phone to gain access to a Signal chat with high-level Trump administration officials, particularly Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, discussing military strategy surrounding war strikes in Yemen.
Waltz made this claim even though he had previously acknowledged setting up the Signal group in question, while President Donald Trump suggested that it was one of Waltz’s associates who added Goldberg.
He said:
"I built the group. My job is to make sure everything's coordinated. ... Have you ever had somebody's contact that shows their name and then you have somebody else's number there?"
"You've got somebody else's number on somebody else's contact so of course I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Now whether he did it deliberately, or it happened in some other technical mean is something we’re trying to figure out."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Despite repeated denials from the Trump administration this week that any sensitive information had been leaked, The Atlantic stood by its reporting, asserting that top officials, including Hegseth and Vice President J.D. Vance, had discussed key details of the strikes, such as targets and weapons systems.
Notably, Waltz's comments on Fox News came after he took “full responsibility” for inadvertently allowing Goldberg to access the discussions.
And as people pointed out, whatever he said now did not make sense.
Waltz's Fox News appearance came after Florida Democratic Representative Jared Moskowitz mocked him for using a strange series of emojis—consisting of fist bump, American flag, and fire emojis—while discussing war plans.
Holding up a sign featuring the emoji series, Moskowitz said that "when we're in a chat with friends when we're talking about who we're going to bomb and all of that. ... I'm holding this up."
Meanwhile, Hegseth has declined to confirm whether he shared classified information on Signal. Currently traveling in the Indo-Pacific, he has only dismissed questions, insisting he did not disclose “war plans.”
Despite efforts by the Pentagon and White House to deflect criticism by attacking Goldberg and The Atlantic, the magazine has stated that Goldberg repeatedly contacted the White House both before and after publication to seek clarification on the Signal chat and ensure that releasing the full messages would not compromise security.
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Denzel Washington Sparks Debate After Pushing Back On Being Called A 'Hollywood Actor'
Mar 27, 2025
If you ever get a chance to talk to Denzel Washington about his acting craft, be careful how you address him.
Big-time actors Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal are currently starring in a Broadway rendition of Othello, which is the first Shakespeare play to be produced on Broadway in more than 40 years, alongside other big actors and producers traditionally found in Hollywood-based productions.
In just its second week of performance, the Broadway show has grossed more than $2.8 million dollars, and a single ticket costs over $900.
While being interviewed by Bill Whitaker at CBS, Washington was asked about his thoughts on so many "Hollywood actors" making appearances on the Broadway scene.
Washington deflected the question:
"What's the definition of a 'Hollywood actor'? Myself, I'm from Mt. Vernon, so I'm a 'Mt. Vernon actor."
"I don't know what 'Hollywood' means. I know it's a place?"
Whitaker clarified that a Hollywood actor would be someone who's experienced "great success on film."
Washington, however, did not agree with that definition at all.
"I'm a stage actor who does film. It's not the other way around. I did stage first. I learned how to act on stage, not on film."
"Movies are a filmmaker's medium. You shoot it, and then you're gone, and they cut together and add music and do all of that."
"Theater is an actor's medium. The curtain goes up, and you're on. Nobody can help you."
Some fans in the "Fauxmoi" subReddit understood where Washington was coming from.
"I get it!" - Lali_mco11
"I love this quote. It reminded me also of this Anthony Boyle's quote I saw last spring, he also seems to love theatre (I do too, I need to go to see play soon, to be honest)."
"He said, 'Theatre is an actor’s medium, and film is the director’s final say. When you’re on stage, you’re the editor and director, and you set the tone and pace, it’s a conversation between you and the audience. It’s the most alive you can feel when you’re acting.'" - Working-Ad-6698
"It’s a weird way to express that. But he is classically-trained. And one of the few big names who can pull off Shakespeare because of it. So I guess he’s referring to his theater background and training."
"I highly recommend him in the Cohen brothers’ Macbeth. Even in interviews about that film, the producers said they couldn’t find enough actors who could do Shakespeare." - creakyvoiceaperture
"Why is everyone being so serious? I thought it was well established that Denzel is not into the Hollywood scene outside of work. He's talked about how he doesn't have a lot of Hollywood friends. So him saying this is not surprising." - mintleaf14
"It’s Denzel. He can say whatever he wants, and he’s at the age where he also doesn’t care what people are thinking. His interviews have been hilarious in his older 'wisdom from a sometimes cranky elder' era." - Chaoticgood790
Others understood what Whitaker meant by "Hollywood actor" but also understood why Washington wouldn't want to be labeled.
"Denzel, it just means you are a very popular actor and known mostly for your movies. Don’t overthink it." - stay_fr0sty
"He knows what it means... that’s his way of saying he doesn’t like the term." - kayodoms
"Nobody likes being labeled, especially artists, because it puts them into very specific bins that don’t reflect their whole identity as an individual (musician, painter, actor, etc)."
"But these labels exist because a journalist needs a quick way to refer to a famous person, and 'Mt. Vernon Stage Actor who does film, and perfers the difficulty of theater, Denzel Washington says...; is just a bit too much."
"Artists have been dealing with it since being famous for your art was a thing." - stay_fr0sty
"I get it… but what Bill should’ve said was it means being able to charge $900+ for a single ticket, lol. There are a lot of stars on Broadway right now." - Faitchierrire
"Definition of a humble brag but I love him too much to care." - Federal_Street_8895
Later in the interview, Jake Gyllenhaal spoke specifically about the power of getting to perform in a play like "Othello."
"You get to a point where you're like, 'Oh, I've worked my whole career for this moment.'"
Washington could not agree more with that take.
"That's what it feels like for me, too. I've worked my whole career for this moment. This is a 48-year journey for me."
You can watch the full interview, which also features Gyllenhaal, here.
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It's interesting to see Washington's perspective on how he defines acting and how he wants to be recognized. Clearly, his focus is on the craft and deliverance of the acting, rather than the final polish that's offered in the final cut of a film.
While he and Gyllenhaal surely have had their share of enjoyable roles over the years, it speaks volumes that they felt that Othello was a defining moment for them and one they've both been waiting their entire career for.
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Pedro Pascal Left Red-Faced After Photo Reveals His Bonkers Morning Coffee Order
Mar 27, 2025
There are some things that should be between you and the person you worked with to get it: your medical prescriptions, the number of packages you receive from online shopping, and your coffee order.
Actor Pedro Pascal was recently being interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live when the host brought up how a paparazzi had accidentally revealed Pascal's coffee order in an image from last year.
The order, Kimmel said, was out of this world.
"They got your coffee order and then zeroed in on, an insane order by the way...Is that six extra shots or six total shots in one cup of coffee?"
Pascal immediately jumped to defend himself and his coffee order, which he said was six total shots and crept up on him.
"There's so much context to why it has become six shots of espresso...It was always a quad, but then I feel like the cups got bigger? And the shots, I don't know, got less strong, and at some point it became six."
The actor said that mostly he uses that large bolus of caffeine to do what many of us do: get emails answered.
He joked how private this information was, or should have been.
"I cannot begin to tell you how violating this was....It's an incredibly private morning ritual that I never wanted anyone to know about."
First, the supplier of Pascal's morning abomination of a coffee order chimed in.
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People approved of how he used all that caffeine.
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Folks fell in love with Kimmel's description of the drink.
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Many people confessed their own coffee habits and felt a kinship with Pascal.
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Those for whom caffeine is not their usual drug of choice were appalled by the drink.
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They called for the paparazzi to leave the man alone.
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Starbucks baristas better watch out, because this segment might have inspired people to go out and order 'The Pascal.'
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And finally, some fans were less interested in his coffee order than in the man himself.
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Pascal's next project, season 2 of The Last of Us will be available on streaming in mid-April.
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Gwyneth Paltrow And Meghan Markle Epically Shut Down Rumors That They're Feuding
Mar 27, 2025
The newest Hollywood feud is the one in which actor Gwyneth Paltrow and Meghan Markle are at each other's throats after Paltrow mocked Markle's new Netflix show.
The only problem—it apparently never happened.
Rumors swirled recently that Paltrow has been dragging With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex's lifestyle show.
Which was weird in the first place—Paltrow had just spoken positively about Markle's foray into lifestyle content days before the rumors began.
Paltrow also said that she didn't even know Markle anyway. She told Vanity Fair:
“I mean, I’ve met Meghan, who seems really lovely, but I don’t know her at all — maybe I’ll try to get through their security detail and bring them a pie.”
Well that all seems to have changed—the two appeared in a social media video together to address the rumors, with a little help from that aforementioned pie.
The video was in response to a social media user's question to Paltrow about the supposed beef, to which Paltrow responded:
"I genuinely do not understand this at all, whatsoever. Do you understand this?"
At which point she panned her phone over to reveal Markle beside her at the table, eating a piece of pie.
It perfectly underlined the silliness of the rumors, which all seem to have started because Paltrow posted a video of herself making breakfast, which people online for some reason interpreted as mockery of Markle, despite Paltrow having made such videos for years.
And not only had she been complimentary of Markle in that Vanity Fair article, she had also spoken pointedly about the way the media and people online love to pit women against each other.
Paltrow said:
"[When] there’s noise about certain women in the culture, I do have, always, a strong instinct to stand up for them.”
She also said she was excited to be joined by Markle in the lifestyle space, not threatened by her.
“I was raised to see other women as friends, not foes. I think there’s always more than enough to go around. Everybody deserves an attempt at everything that they want to try.”
Paltrow and Markle's video has of course gone very viral, and fans are loving it.
There's not much certain in our world anymore, but one thing you can count on is people's insatiable hunger for dragging Meghan Markle, now matter how much of a stretch it may be.
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Trump Slammed After Touting Plan To Financially Compensate Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioters
Mar 27, 2025
President Donald Trump is facing criticism after suggesting the creation of a "compensation fund" for individuals who were pardoned after participating in the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
In one of his first official actions upon returning to office, Trump granted sweeping clemency to nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the riot. He issued pardons to most defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers militia, many of whom had been convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Trump has previously described the rioters as “hostages” and victims of an unfair legal system. Despite the violent nature of the attack—including assaults on police officers, property destruction, and threats against Vice President Mike Pence—he has continued to portray the events as largely peaceful protests.
During an interview with Newsmax host Greg Kelly on Tuesday night, Trump—who is also forever obsessed with crowd size—stated that he had “taken care” of his supporters involved in the attack and mentioned that discussions were underway about compensating them.
He said:
"I took care of them. I said I was going to and I did. ... There's a lot of talk about [compensation]. We have a lot of people talking about it, a lot of the people now in government talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people."
"They were patriots as far as I'm concerned. I talk about them a lot. They were treated very unfairly."
"The thing they [the media] show is they show a group of 1,000, whatever they may be, 1,500 people. What they don't show is you never see the crowd that day. It was the biggest crowd I've spoken before. It went all the way to the Washington monument."
"It was so wide. You virtually couldn't see anything else anything else but people. They never show that whether it's a million people or less than a million. I don't know what it was but I see they say Bernie Sanders has a few people out there. A group of people went down there peacefully and patriotically, remember that."
You can hear what he said in the video below.
Some of the pardoned January 6 rioters and their supporters, including Ed Martin—whom Trump appointed as the top federal prosecutor in Washington—have been advocating for financial compensation for those involved in the attack.
Many of these individuals spent time in prison, and their advocates argue they deserve reparations for what they see as unjust treatment by the legal system.
But these calls conveniently overlook that the attack, spurred by Trump's lie that he defeated then-candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 election, resulted in at least five deaths, over 100 injuries to law enforcement—some of whom were forced to retire or resign due to PTSD—and millions of dollars in property damage to the Capitol building.
The notion that participants in the attack could end up benefiting financially on top of being pardoned sparked considerable outrage among those who noted that such a move would incentivize domestic terrorism.
Trump later called himself a “big fan” of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to climb through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby.
“Ashli Babbitt was a really good person who was a big MAGA fan, Trump fan,” he said, claiming she was “innocently standing there” and even “trying to sort of hold back the crowd.” He described the officer’s actions as “unthinkable” when he “shot her.”
When asked if he would take action against the officer, Trump said he would “take a look at it.” U.S. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd was investigated by the Justice Department and cleared of any wrongdoing in the shooting.
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