Feb. 26, 2025

Eagles ready to visit Trump after Megyn Kelly meltdown: The White House invite that never existed!

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The Philadelphia Eagles are caught in a bizarre invitation controversy after Megyn Kelly's meltdown, while twenty-one employees resign from Elon Musk's DOGE department refusing to "dismantle critical services." Meanwhile, Don Lemon and Megyn Kelly wage war over Joy Reid's MSNBC exit, with Lemon sipping tea from a "Kelly Today" mug while delivering choice words. House Speaker Mike Johnson struggles to pass Trump's "big, beautiful budget bill" as staff shuffles continue across agencies. The White House turns into America's strangest workplace - where football teams await invites that don't exist, government employees write bullet-point book reports to keep their jobs, and network personalities tell each other to perform anatomically impossible acts!

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Callaroga Shark media from Philadelphia, where maybe the Eagles will

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visit the White House? This is ballot, that's right, sure,

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and maybe Don Lemon will have Megan Kelly over for dinner.

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Let's hit this. The Philadelphia Eagles haven't snubbed President Trump's

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White House invitation because plot twist, there hasn't even been

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an invitation. Talk about preemptive outrage. A tabloid report claimed

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the Eagles were planning a massive no to a White

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House celebration, which triggered conservative commentator Megan Kelly to tell

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the team to gf yourselves. Eagles, that's the kind of measured,

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thoughtful response we've come to expect from today's media personalities.

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This whole situation feels like deja vu from twenty eighteen,

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when Trump yanked the Eagles invite after several players said

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they wouldn't show up. Remember when kneeling during the anthem

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was our biggest national crisis? Simpler times, But this time,

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Eagles sources say the team would be honored to visit

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the White House and are looking forward to receiving the invitation. Translation,

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please invite us so we can prove we're not those

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Eagles from twenty eighteen, The White House hasn't made any

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official offer yet. They're probably still figuring out how to

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fit all those massive football players into the Lincoln bedroom.

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Or maybe they're just busy with more pressing matters, like

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figuring out how to make Elon Musk stop firing government

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employees via emoji. Back in twenty eighteen, when the Eagles

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last won, they got disinvited by then President Trump after

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several players said they wouldn't attend. Remember that whole kneeling

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during the anthem controversy, The Eagles and Trump weren't exactly

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exchanging friendship bracelets. But now, according to ESPN, CNN, and

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NFL Network, the Eagles are singing a different tune. One

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team source told CNN, we would be honored to visit

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the White House, though that's a bit like saying you'd

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be honored to visit your ex's wedding. Sure you'll go,

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but everyone's watching to see what happens. Eagles offensive lineman

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Lane Johnson is on board, saying he'd be honored to

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go regardless of who the president is. Meanwhile, head coach

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Nick Sirianni gave the classic non answer of we'll see

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as we go, which is coach speak for please stop

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asking me political questions. Twenty one employees just resigned from

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Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. That's right, twenty one

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people who apparently didn't understand what efficiency meant when they

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took the job. They're refusing to dismantle critical public services,

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which I believe is literally the first line in the

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doge job description. It's like applying to work at a

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demolition company and then being shocked when they ask you

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to knock something down. These former employees warned that many

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people must enlisted are political ideologues who lack the necessary skills, which,

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to be fair, describes about ninety percent of people in

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Washington regards wardless of which administration we're talking about. Meanwhile,

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a fired VA cybersecurity expert is warning that sensitive veterans

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health data could be compromised. I guess the worry is

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that Elon might accidentally tweet eight million veterans social security

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numbers with the caption seem legit. Over in Congress, House

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Speaker Mike Johnson is struggling to pass what Trump calls

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a big, beautiful budget bill. Johnson told reporters there may

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be a vote tonight there may not be, which is

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the congressional equivalent of texting you up at two in

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the morning. Johnson can only afford to lose about one vote,

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and he's hearing complaints from both sides, Republicans worried about

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steep cuts and budget hawks who want even more cuts.

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He said, everybody wants to be on this train and

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not in front of it, though based on how Congress

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usually works, most people are typically nowhere near the train station.

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Trump made a surprise appearance at the first official White

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House tour of the year, telling visitors maybe you'll be

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here someday as president, which is technically true. All you

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need is several billion dollars, a Twitter account and absolutely

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no filter whatsoever. Anyway, the Trump administration just can't decide

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if they want to fire everyone or just most people.

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You've got to love government efficiency. So here's what happened.

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Elon Musk demanded that every federal employee send him bullet

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points of what they did last week, or else they'd

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be considered as having resigned. Because nothing says small government

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like making two point three million people write book reports.

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The Office of Personnel Management initially sent out Musk's email

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to everyone, including federal judges, but then they had to

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walk it back faster than a politician caught at a

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furry convention. They told agency leaders, actually, you know what,

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you can just ignore that whole you're fired thing. Meanwhile,

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President Trump was in the Oval Office saying anyone who

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didn't reply would be sort of semi fired or you're fired,

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which is exactly the kind of clarity we've come to

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expect from this administration. Different agencies handled this email chaos

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in different ways. Some told employees not to respond at all.

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Others suggested using pre written bullet points like promoting productivity,

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which is ironic since writing these emails was literally preventing

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people from doing their actual jobs. One TSA employee said

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security screeners were pulled away from checking for dangerous weapons

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so they could sit at computers and write about what

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they did last week. The White House insists everyone is

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working together as one unified team, which explains why different

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agencies are giving completely contradictory instructions. Embark on an extraordinary

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Smoke wherever you get your shows. So Don Lemon and

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Meghan Kelly are at it again. The media world is

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buzzing after Don Lemon went nuclear on his YouTube show yesterday.

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Why because Meghan Kelly couldn't resist dancing on Joyread's professional

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grave after reads MSNBC exit was announced. When the news

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broke that the readout was ending, Kelly jumped on X

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faster than a network executive canceling a show with bad ratings, writing,

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remember when Joy Reid laughingly mocked white women tears as pathetic?

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Who's crying now? Joy, good riddance to the absolute worst

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person on television. Don Lemon, who knows a thing or

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two about unexpected network departures, responded in the most delicate

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way possible by telling Kelly to go perform an anatomically

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impossible act on herself. Very classy. He delivered this sentiment

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while sipping tea from a Megan Kelly Today mug, which

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might be the only remaining merchandise from her seventeen minute

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stint at NBC. The worst person from television was fired

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from NBC and The Today Show a few years ago,

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and that was Megan Kelly, said Lemon, a man who

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was definitely not fired from CNN in twenty twenty three

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for reasons that were definitely not similar. Kelly's NBC show

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was canceled after She wondered on air why blackface Halloween

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costumes were problematic, a question that answers itself if you

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think about it for more than zero seconds. Portions of

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today's program were made with the help of AI, MSNBC

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and DGE