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[ponchi101]

I had that. A mild case of facial paralysis. It ended up being nothing (stress induced, and it happens quite frequently to a lot of people). But it can also be one first sign of a stroke.
Which any of his doctors would notice immediately. So, nothing to see here.

[ti-amie]

CNN slammed over Trump health coverage as 'face suddenly drops' on live TV
Donald Trump sparked concern as viewers bashed CNN for not stopping a broadcast as the President's face 'drooped'

By Gemma Jones, Showbiz Reporter
10:56, Fri, Sep 12, 2025 Updated: 10:56, Fri, Sep 12, 2025


CNN fans were concerned for Donald Trump's health (Image: Getty)

Viewers of CNN News were outraged when the broadcasters continued to air, despite American President Donald Trump's face seemingly drooping. The US leader sparked concerns for his health following a recent public appearance at a 9/11 anniversary memorial service at the Pentagon.

While he was at the event, his appearance was being broadcast all over the world, which was when fans noticed Mr Trump's mouth appeared to droop to one side - with CNN continuing to film, despite worries from fans. One X user posted an image of the president in which, they claimed: "He looks like he has had a TIA/minor stroke. This isn’t a one off expression, he’s been like this for 30 mins". A second X user claimed: "Don't usually buy into conspiracy theories much but Trump definitely looks like he's had a stroke at some point." A third added: "Trump struggling to keep his eyes open at 9/11 remembrance event at the Pentagon".

There has been no official update on Trump's health from the White House, and no confirmation of the president suffering any medical incident.

However, fans online are now calling for the American news channel to investigate the President's health issues, criticising show bosses for not deciding to stop airing.

Posting to X, one viewer said: "@jaketapper @CNN In the interest of #journalism, your network thought Joe Biden's health was worthy of non-stop coverage. Isn't it time you dug into Trump's obvious health issues?"

https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-ra ... h-coverage

[ti-amie]

I was reading the subtitles of this on another subreddit and it was taken down while I was reading. I expect the same thing to happen here.

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[ti-amie]

ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments
By Brian Steinberg

Disney’s ABC said it would take Jimmy Kimmel‘s popular late-night show off its schedule “indefinitely” after one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., Nexstar Media, said it would pre-empt airings of the program following remarks the host made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Nexstar said Wednesday that its “owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight’s show.” The company said it “strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”

In his monologue Monday night , Kimmel said that the “MAGA gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s murder. Kirk, a prominent conservative activist, was shot and killed Sept. 10 at a debate at Utah Valley University. Three days later, authorities announced they had arrested the suspected shooter.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said.

More to come..

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nexsta ... 236522584/

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[ponchi101]

Ah, if you always follow the money.

[ti-amie]

There's a show that features someplace called the upside down I think. For us it was either the Twilight Zone or
Bizarro World.

I don't know what to call this.


‪Bradley P. Moss‬
‪@bradmossesq.bsky.social‬
· 1h

Folks, I don’t know what end is up right now.

[ponchi101]

How incredible how people stop toeing the line after the checks stop coming in.
Tucker.

[Owendonovan]

There goes my Hulu subscription.

[ti-amie]

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals
The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.
Updated
September 25, 2025 at 7:14 p.m. EDTtoday at 7:14 p.m. EDT

By Tara Copp
,
Dan Lamothe
,
Alex Horton
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Ellen Nakashima
and
Noah Robertson

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.

The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.

In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details. Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no security concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.

It was not clear whether President Donald Trump will attend the meeting or if Hegseth had given the president advance notice of his plans. He told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon that he will go “if they want me.”

Despite the meeting’s size and secrecy, both Trump and Vice President JD Vance downplayed its significance, with Trump asking, “Why is that such a big deal?” Vance, appearing alongside Trump, said it is “not particularly unusual” that generals are speaking with Hegseth. “I think it’s odd that you guys have made it into such a big story,” he said.

There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, each of these officers oversees hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.

Top commanders in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are among those expected to attend Hegseth’s meeting, said people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. The order does not apply to top military officers who hold staff positions.

“All general officers in command in grade O-7 through O-10 and their general officer senior enlisted advisers are directed to attend within operational constraints,” the order states, according to one person who saw a copy. O-7 through O-10 refers to the military’s classification for all generals and admirals.

Each commander typically travels with his senior enlisted adviser and a few lower-ranking military aides, meaning the total group of people traveling for the summit could seemingly exceed 1,000. It’s unclear how the military will house them or transport them.

None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.

“People are very concerned,” one person said. “They have no idea what it means.”

Others expressed frustration that even many commanders stationed overseas will be required to attend Hegseth’s impromptu summit, with some questioning the wisdom in doing so.

“It will make the commands just diminished if something pops up,” a defense official said.

The Defense Department possesses and often uses highly secure videoconferencing technology that enables military officials, regardless of their location, to discuss sensitive matters with the White House, the Pentagon or both. Another person said ordering hundreds of military leaders to appear in the same location is “not how this is done.”

“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person added, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer.

“Are we taking every general and flag officer out of the Pacific right now?” one U.S. official said. “All of it is weird.”

On Capitol Hill, where Hegseth’s unorthodox stewardship of the Defense Department has rankled members of both political parties, lawmakers also appeared caught off guard. Republican and Democratic leaders of the Senate and House Armed Services committees did not immediately comment on the development.

The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent through a sweeping consolidation of top military commands, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.

News of the order drove considerable confusion in the Pentagon on Thursday. By midday, military officials were reaching out to one another seeking a clearer consensus on who needs to be at Hegseth’s Quantico meeting and whether anyone knew why they had been ordered to Virginia. There was growing concern, too, that firings could occur.

Another official familiar with the matter said it did not seem possible that Hegseth would have called such a meeting to unveil a new defense strategy, examine the consolidation of commands or lecture commanders on military standards.

“You’re not pulling out everyone in the room to bring them over to say, ‘Stop painting your nails because we’re a war-fighting organization,’” this official said, adding that some had expressed worry that Hegseth’s meeting will collide with a government shutdown and potentially leave commanders, or at least some of their staff members, stranded without transportation back to their jobs.

The unusual travel order coincides with efforts by Hegseth to exert greater influence over who gets promoted to be a senior military officer, multiple officials told The Post. Even at the one- and two-star level, the secretary’s team is scrutinizing old relationships and what officials have said or posted on social media, as they determine whom to send forward for a higher rank or assignment.

The effort has had a chilling effect on rising officers, people familiar with the matter said, as multiple officials have expressed unease about the initiative and questioned whether it will erode the military’s ability to stay insulated from the nation’s toxic politics. Others have said such pressure would drive some rising officers to leave, resulting in enormous losses to the Pentagon in terms of the time and money spent training those leaders.

Top administration officials also have been preparing a new national defense strategy that is expected to make homeland defense the nation’s top concern, after several years of China being identified as the top national security risk to the United States. Some officials familiar with the order to travel said they thought that may come up.

Hegseth’s directive in May to slash about 100 generals and admirals also has generated concern among top military leaders. He called then for a “minimum” 20 percent cut to the number of four-star officers — the military’s top rank — on active duty and a corresponding number of generals in the National Guard. There will also be another 10 percent reduction, at least, to the total number of generals and admirals across the force.

Last month, Hegseth fired Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency; Vice Adm. Nancy Lacore, the chief of the Navy Reserve; and Rear Adm. Milton Sands, a Navy SEAL officer who oversaw Naval Special Warfare Command. No specific reasons were given in those cases.

The firings were the latest in a wider purge of national security agencies’ top ranks. Since entering office, the Trump administration has also fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; the chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the commandant of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; and the Air Force vice chief of staff, Gen. James Slife, among others. The list includes a disproportionate number of women.

Gen. David Allvin, the chief of staff of the Air Force, said last month he will step down in November, after he was asked to retire. His replacement has not yet been nominated.

Michael Birnbaum contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national ... o-meeting/