‘It’s gonna be OK’: Tommy Tuberville adds to confusion on IVF in latest muddled interview

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‘It’s gonna be OK’: Tommy Tuberville adds to confusion on IVF in latest muddled interview
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said Tuesday that he opposes the Alabama Supreme Court's decision that embryos are children — after initially supporting it.

ABC's Rachel Scott caught up with Tuberville outside the Capitol.

"You've been back and forth on this issue," Scott noted. "Do you support the Supreme Court's decision?"

"I support that people that want to have IVF, I'll support them 100 percent," Tuberville insisted.

"Okay, but that's not what the Supreme Court's decision is allowing at this point," the ABC reporter observed.

"I know, but the state's getting ready to pass a law in Alabama that it's gonna be okay," the senator replied. "When we're going to pass it, that it's going to be positive."

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Scott pointed out that some women were still not able to receive their IVF treatments.

"I just came back from Alabama," Scott explained. "I talked to one woman. She's on her last embryo transfer. It was scheduled for tomorrow. And now she has to start all over. Is that acceptable to you?"

"Well, not really," Tuberville admitted. "Now, I want everybody, if they want kids, if they can't have it, and that's the only way they can have it, I won't be able to use that."

"So, to be clear, you believe it's the wrong move?" Scott asked.

"Wrong move by the Supreme Court, yes," the senator agreed.

But just days earlier, Tuberville approved of the IVF decision.

"Yeah, I was all for it," Tuberville said to reporters at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Watch the video below.

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'Donald is finished': Gavin Newsom Press Office rips into Trump's White House change

A change made to the presidential portraits in the White House has been mocked by Gavin Newsom's Press Office.

The Governor of California's team took aim at a recent addition made by Donald Trump, who is said to have written some of the newly fixed plaques himself. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Trump had written some of the entries onto the presidency portrait wall himself. She said, "As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself."

One plaque presumed to have been written by the president says Trump "saved America" from Joe Biden's administration. It reads, "He left office issuing blanket pardons to Radical Democrat criminals and thugs, as well as members of the Biden Crime Family - But despite it all, President Trump would get Re-Elected in a Landslide, and SAVE AMERICA!"

Other plaques for Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan, also made reference to Trump. Newsom's Press Office has since mocked up a photograph of Trump's presidential portrait and written their own plaque.

The image, which was posted to X yesterday (December 17), has since gone viral and featured some jabs at Trump and his administration. The edited plaque reads, "Donald is finished - he is no longer 'hot'. First the hands (so tiny) and now me - Gavin C. Newsom - have taken away his 'step'."

"Many are saying he can't even do the 'big stairs' on Air Force One anymore - uses the little baby stairs now. Sad! All the television cameras are on me. Even low-ratings Laura Ingram (edits the tapes!) can't stop talking about my beautiful maps. You're welcome for Liberation Day, America!"

"Donnie J missed 'the deadline' (whoops!) and now I run the show. Thank you for your attention to this matter! - GCN." The plaque mock-up comes as talk show host Jimmy Kimmel branded Trump a "special kind of lunatic" for writing the plaque paragraphs himself.

He said, "So he calls up a trophy shop and says, 'grab a pen, lets make some plaques.' It takes a special kind of lunatic to get his insults cast in bronze. Can we please put this man in a home before he destroys the one he's in now?"

Newsom also weighed in on the plaques, writing on X, "Inflation is up. Unemployment is up. Grocery prices are up. Electricity costs are up. And Donald Trump is spending his time doing this bull***t."

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Stephen Colbert mocks Trump's 'stupid ballroom' and points out growing cost concern

Renovations to the White House East Wing, where a ballroom is being constructed, have been mocked by talk show host Stephen Colbert.

The Late Show host pointed out that the initial price Donald Trump had given for the project, $200million, had doubled between the first announcement and the president's most recent statement. Colbert, whose stint on The Late Show will come to an end in May 2026, blasted the president for the increasing cost of the ballroom renovation.

The White House East Wing will be converted into a ballroom, though the project has faced criticism from historical activists and even prompted a lawsuit to be filed against Trump for his plans for buildings in the area.

Colbert's team clipped together each time the price had increased under Trump. The first announcement confirmed the ballroom would be $200million to construct, paid for by donors from companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. But Trump's latest statement on the cost of the ballroom had the president suggest it would be $400million.

Colbert said, "...and because air was passing through Trump's windpipe, he brought up his stupid ballroom. The one that's going to cost, sorry, how much is it going to cost again?" The clips of Trump increasing the price each time he was asked about the ballroom renovation price then played.

At a Hanukkah address earlier this week, Trump confirmed the ballroom would, in fact, cost $400million to make. Colbert added, "$400million up from $200million. How much is this price going to go up? But at least all that money is going towards something important, thick windows."

Trump would brag about the thickness of the windows in his Hanukkah address, saying it would take a Howitzer to breach the five inch thick windows.

Other projects on the White House lawn are causing concern too, with the president slapped with a suit over how he intends to change the Eisenhower Building. Greg Werkheiser, one of the lawyers who filed the lawsuit, has said the issue is not in Trump's plan, but in how he wants to make the sweeping changes to historic buildings.

Werkheiser said, "Paint traps moisture, ruins the mortar, weakens and cracks the rock." Trump's wish to repaint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building was confirmed in an earlier statement from the president, where he shared his desire to change the "ugly building".

He said, "It was always considered an ugly building and it’s actually one of the most beautiful buildings ever built." Even with the lawsuit hitting Trump, some art experts believe there is nothing stopping the president from making changes regardless.

'Special kind of lunatic': Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump for new addition to the White House

A series of plaques written for portraits featured in The White House have been mocked by talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.

The paragraphs of text now appearing under the presidential portraits feature frequent mentions of Donald Trump, who was confirmed to have written a handful of the texts. Plaques were added to the presidential portraits just a short while after President Joe Biden's portrait was replaced with a picture of an autopen. Trump has baselessly claimed any law signed with Biden's autopen is invalid and that it had been used by Michelle Obama to pardon "Radical Democrat criminals".

Trump's writing for the plaques was confirmed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who says Trump's interest in history is what prompted him to pen the paragraphs. She said, "As a student of history, many were written directly by the President himself."

The paragraph on the plaque below Biden's presidency, for instance, reads, "He left office issuing blanket pardons to Radical Democrat criminals and thugs, as well as members of the Biden Crime Family - But despite it all, President Trump would get Re-Elected in a Landslide, and SAVE AMERICA!"

Other plaques now featured in the White House included a comment on President Barack Obama being "one of the most divisive political figures in American History" and frequent boasts of Trump besting Hilary Clinton in the 2016 election.

A plaque for President Bill Clinton makes note that Hilary Clinton also lost the 2016 Presidency to Trump. A note on President Ronald Reagan's plaque alleges the two-term Republican president was "a fan of President Donald J. Trump long before President Trump's Historic run for the White House."

Speaking of the plaques, talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said, "Reagan was a fan of his long before he ran for president. Ronald Reagan died in 2004. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's 10 years before that. What was he a fan of exactly? Trump's Pizza Hut commercials? What a sad individual."

"He knows deep down in the pit where his soul should be, in that pot where all the undigested fried chicken piles up, he knows that no one respects him. He knows they all just want something from him. He knows the world is laughing at him and that his brain and face are like a creamsicle melting on the sidewalk."

"So he calls up a trophy shop and says, 'grab a pen, lets make some plaques.' It takes a special kind of lunatic to get his insults cast in bronze. Can we please put this man in a home before he destroys the one he's in now?"

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