Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
Ugh! As if! In tonight’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the comic host delved into one of the main talking points having come out of the presidential debate held earlier this month: that of the GOP ticket’s parroting of a baseless racist dog whistle regarding the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio.
Oliver began the segment by playing Donald Trump’s much-memed and discussed clip where he falsely claimed that Haitians were eating pets, a notion that running mate J.D.
Vance had circulated (and since walked back) and that originated in neo-Nazi groups. In playing a video of Vance first discussing the discredited conspiracy theory, the VP candidate is seen mispronouncing the Caribbean nation as “Haitia.” Not missing a beat, the talk show host quipped, “First, there is only one Haiti-related mispronunciation we recognize in this house, and it’s Alicia Silverstone in Clueless, delivering the iconic line: ‘And so if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haiteeans.” Oliver is, of course, referencing the ’90s classic teen movie, inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma, which stars Silverstone as a Cher Horowitz, a high schooler with the makings of a socialite, as she uses her matchmaking prowess to court the new girl in town (Brittany Murphy) into her popular squad, to disastrous ends.
In a 2022 interview with Looper, the actress confirmed a long-standing claim that she did not, in fact, know how to pronounce the word “Haitians.” Filmmaker Amy Heckerling stopped the pic’s script supervisor from rushing up to correct Silverstone, opting to keep that take in the final cut. “She was like, ‘Stop,’ and she didn’t let anybody go near me because she loved
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