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Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel skewered President Donald Trump in his alternate Christmas address this year, a speech that read like a plea to U.S. allies.

Kimmel was invited to give a Christmas Day speech billed as an alternative to the Monarch's annual address in the United Kingdom. During the speech, he acknowledged the problems Trump has created in the U.S. and across the globe, and implored American allies not to give up on the U.S. The address aired on Channel 4 on Christmas Day.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest attack on transgender health care faced a wall of resistance on Wednesday after 19 states sued the Department of Health and Human Services.

Last week, Kennedy announced that HHS would stop funding health care providers that provide gender-affirming care to minors, a move that caused 19 states to sue the agency, Axios reported. The lawsuit claims the move exceeds Kennedy's authority as HHS Secretary and substantially violates the Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal lawmaking procedures.

President Donald Trump veered off topic to endorse fossil fuel energy during a phone conversation with a small child in a Mar-a-Lago Christmas Eve event.

"How long until Santa will be here?" asked the child.

The Atlantic's Jonathan Chait raked newly-installed CBS boss Bari Weiss over the coals for her controversial move to block the release of a "60 Minutes" report on horrific conditions at the foreign megaprison where President Donald Trump is shipping hundreds of migrants with no due process — and warned that her justifications for it are not credible in the slightest, given the context in which she was installed into the network in the first place.

"The year is 2029," wrote Chait. "President Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, having spent years raging against Fox News as a propaganda organ whose very operation is illegal, has found a pressure point to control it. She enables its sale to owners who are friends of hers, and whose business depends on regulatory favors she has made a practice of doling out to allies. As the new editor in chief of Fox News, the owners installed Tim Miller, a skeptic of conservatism who has never previously worked in television news."

A former GOP speechwriter bashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president went on a late-night "hate tweeting" session.

Late Tuesday night, Trump fired off a series of posts on Truth Social about late-night television hosts who have criticized him. For instance, he asked his more than 11.2 million followers which of the large networks has the worst late-night show, and claimed the hosts had "no talent." He also appeared to threaten to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks that are "100% negative" against him.

Neo-Nazi activist and "Groyper" leader Nick Fuentes has a new target to defeat in the political arena — and it's a MAGA Republican.

According to Fox News, "White nationalist Nick Fuentes vowed to campaign against Vivek Ramaswamy in a slur-laced rant denouncing the Republican’s Ohio governor bid," during a stream. Specifically, Fuentes said, "I think I’m going to go to Ohio, and the word that we are looking for is denial. We have to deny Vivek Ramaswamy the governorship. This is the only race I care about in ‘26. It’s the only one I care about."

The Justice Department is now all but openly manipulating the release of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files to insulate President Donald Trump from any potentially damaging information, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote on her Substack on Wednesday.

This comes after White House officials started directly controlling the social media account for the DOJ, which shortly proclaimed a letter in which Epstein appeared to incriminate Trump was "fake" and called an influencer expressing skepticism a "dope."