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People online poked fun at the way President Donald Trump’s cabinet lavished praise on their “dear leader” during its first gathering on Monday.

Many likened the footage of cabinet members eulogizing Trump to an episode from his reality TV show “The Apprentice.” Here’s how Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) responded:

Some Twitter users said the meeting bore a striking similarity to a scene from the “Harry Potter” movie franchise, while others questioned whether North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s cabinet members acted the same way.

Check out some of the best responses below:

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CNN’s Anderson Cooper offered a humorous suggestion to reports that President Donald Trump might fire special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating allegations of ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

“Jared Kushner could take it over,” the host of “Anderson Cooper 360” quipped on Monday night. 

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin added that Kushner was already pretty busy handling Middle East peace.

Cooper’s crack was in response to Matthew Whitaker, executive director of the conservative Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust, who warned about what could happen to the investigation if Trump fired Mueller.

“Eventually, this will put it in the hands of the career professionals at the Department of Justice, which is not what this president wants for sure,” Whitaker said. 

See the full discussion above. 

(h/t Raw Story)

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“The story of my body is not a story of triumph,” Roxane Gay writes in her new memoir, Hunger, which publishes June 13. “This is not a weight-loss memoir.”

Instead, Gay ― the author of Difficult Women, Bad Feminist and An Untamed State ― explores her relationship to her body before and after the sexual violence that would rattle her youth.

Gay discussed her new book Monday on “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.” 

“As a comedian, I’ve made a lot of fat jokes,” Noah said in his conversation with Gay. So he was intent on listening to what Gay had to say about her experiences rather than continuing to equate fatness with farce.

Gay explained that she often feels uncomfortable on airplanes, at movie theaters and even at her own book signings, where readers and fans have offered her unsolicited weight-loss advice. 

“At the grocery store, people make commentary about what they see in your cart,” Gay said. “You don’t fit in the world, oftentimes. The world is not really interested in creating a space for you to fit.” 

Gay also shared a story from her childhood, when she was gang raped at the age of 12, before she was old enough to understand what happened to her.

“It was so unexpected,” Gay said. “I just thought, ‘I want to be stronger. I want to be bigger.’ … It was a deliberate choice.” 

Hunger isn’t her first experience with discussing assault and its aftermath. For The Rumpus online literary magazine, she wrote about the careless language of sexual violence and other essays based on her experiences.

In Hunger, she writes, “I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe.” This feeling courses throughout the book, which is subtitled A Memoir of (My) Body.

On “The Daily Show,” describing her motivations for writing the book, Gay said, “I wanted to tell the story of my body, because when you’re fat in the world, people have assumptions. They assume you’re stupid. … I think it’s important to show what it’s actually like to live in this world in a fat body.”

Buy it on Amazon or at your local indie bookstore. 

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Tonight during Sony’s E3 2017 press conference we got a good look at the new trailer for Destiny 2, and now Bungie has revealed when the game will launch. Officially, the sequel will be released on PS4 and Xbox One September 6th, ahead of its PC debu…

NBC News is reportedly under pressure from at least one major advertiser over the upcoming Megyn Kelly interview with right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. 

The Wall Street Journal reports that J.P. Morgan Chase has pulled its local TV ads and digital ads from all NBC News programming, including Kelly’s show, until after the interview airs Sunday night.  

Citing an unnamed source, the Journal said that “the company doesn’t want any of its ads to appear adjacent to any promotions for the interview.”

The decision came shortly after Kristin Lemkau, the company’s chief marketing officer, fired off a tweet criticizing the interview: 

An excerpt of the interview released Sunday led to swift backlash on social media, including the rise of the #shameonNBC hashtag on Twitter.  

Some criticized the interview, while others went further and called for a boycott of Kelly’s show and even the network itself for giving airtime to Jones. He has repeatedly claimed that 9/11 was an “inside job” and said that the parents of the 20 students murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 were actors and that their children’s deaths and the deaths of six adults at the school were faked.

Kelly left Fox News early this year, with NBC announcing her addition to its news team with great fanfare. “Today” anchor Matt Lauer gushed that Kelly was “someone who shares our values and will help make us even better tomorrow.”

Now critics are wondering just what those values are. 

A Facebook page dedicated to Victoria Soto, a Sandy Hook teacher killed in the attack, posted a message to NBC News and Kelly: 

“This incessant need for ratings at the cost of the emotional well-being of our family is disgusting and disappointing. You should be ashamed of yourselves for allowing this behavior. We hope you never are subjected to the kind of torture that Alex Jones and his followers inflict on us.

Everyone on tv needs to understand that there are real people who have lived these tragedies.” 

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