Election 2024 live updates: Michelle Obama rips into ‘predator’ Trump during Harris rally in battleground Michigan

The Trump campaign has sent out the speaker list for the former president’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden:

• Sen. JD Vance
• Speaker Mike Johnson
• Rep. Elise Stefanik
• Rep. Byron Donalds
• Tulsi Gabbard
• Rudy Giuliani
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Lara Trump
• Eric Trump
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Elon Musk
• Dan Scavino
• Stephen Miller
• Dana White
• Tucker Carlson
• Brooke Rollins
• Steve Witkoff
• Howard Lutnick
• Grant Cardone
• Sergio Gor
• Michael Harris Jr.
• Tiffany Justice
• Lee Greenwood
• Christopher Macchio
• Mary Millben
• Sid Rosenberg
• Kill Tony
• Scott Lobaido
• David Rem

Shirley MacLaine has recalled an uneasy encounter with Donald Trump in the 1980s.

In an excerpt from her new book, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime, the 90-year-old Oscar winner shared that she’s met 13 US presidents, including the 45th and current Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. In the book, she recalled meeting the former president “at some function” in the 1980s, noting that the whole encounter made her feel extremely uncomfortable.

MacLaine told People that she and Trump first crossed paths while she was checking out a space in Manhattan’s 666 Fifth Avenue building, a property Trump owned at the time. Back then, Trump was a real-estate mogul quickly gaining notoriety after appearing on The Oprah Winfrey Show and David Letterman.

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Historian Allan Lichtman has insisted that he stands by his prediction about who will win the 2024 presidential race despite recent polls – and revealed that he has “never experienced” so much “hate” in an election cycle.

Lichtman is known as the “Nostradamus” of polling due to the fact he has correctly predicted the results of nine out of 10 presidential elections since 1984.

His method for forecasting the race so accurately is known as “The Keys to the White House,” a system he devised with the Russian academic Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981.

And despite the polls, which show the race is now tighter than ever between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, Lichtman stands by his prediction that the Democrat will win the White House in November.

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During his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Trump suggested fully getting rid of federal income taxes and replacing it with tariffs.

The former president suggested a return to economic policies that were in place before the early 1900s.

“Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs?” Rogan asked Trump after the former president suggested doing so on Monday on Fox News.

“Were we serious about that?” Rogan asked.

“Yeah, sure ... But why not?” Trump responded.

He praised the tariff policies of the 25th President William McKinley.

Without incorporating his suggestion to remove the federal income tax, the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that Trump’s economic plans could add $15tn to the debt over the course of a decade.

Two years ago, Joe Rogan said he wouldn’t have Trump on his show, saying the former president was “an existential threat to democracy.”

Rogan said he changed his mind after Trump was shot during the assassination attempt in Pennsylvania on July 13.

“Once they shot you, I was like, ‘He’s got to come in here,’” Rogan told Trump. “It’s all about timing.”

Joe Rogan pushed Donald Trump for government secrets on whether there is life beyond Earth, in a wide-ranging interview on his hit podcast.

The former president initially said he had “never been a believer” in extraterrestrial life before saying he had interviewed “solid” jet pilots who claimed to have seen “very strange” things in the sky.

“There’s no reason not to think that Mars and all these planets don’t have life,” Trump said.

But Rogan quickly moved to correct him.

“Well, Mars — we’ve had probes there, and rovers, and I don’t think there’s any life there”.

“Maybe it’s life that we don’t know about,” Trump interjected.

To date, no conclusive evidence of past or present life has been found on Mars despite decades of uncrewed missions to the red planet.

Evidence suggests that during the ancient Noachian time period, the surface environment of Mars had liquid water and may have been habitable for microorganisms, but habitable conditions do not necessarily indicate life.

Donald Trump said during his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast on Friday that his biggest mistake during his first term in the White House was hiring “bad people, or disloyal people.”

The former president has often complained about the establishment Republicans staffing his first administration who often worked to thwart his agenda. His longest-serving Chief of Staff John Kelly, recently called Trump a “fascist.”

Rogan asked Trump if he had made “bad choices” when putting in place various officials.

“The biggest mistake I made,” he said, was that “I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked.”

When Rogan asked if Trump was speaking about “neocons,” Trump said: “Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people.”

Joe Rogan could be seen laughing as he pressed former president Donald Trump for specifics on how the election was stolen in 2020.

The Republican nominee sat down Friday for an interview with the No. 1 podcaster. The interview ran for three hours and delayed Trump’s appearance in Traverse City, Michigan, later in the day.

At one point, Trump and Rogan started to discuss the 2020 election.

“I won by like,” Trump said, “I lost by like…I didn’t lose.”

Rogan could then be seen laughing.

“They say I lost, Joe, they say I lost by 22,000 votes,” Trump continued. “That’s like one one-tenth of one percent, it’s less than that. It’s a tiny little thing. Twenty-two thousand votes that’s spread all over this period.

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The former president’s interview with Rogan created another opportunity for the Republican nominee to highlight the hypermasculine tone that has defined much of his 2024 White House bid.

Trump has made masculinity a central theme of his campaign, appearing on podcasts targeting young male voters and tapping surrogates who sometimes use crude language.

Rogan pressed Trump on whether he’s “completely committed” to bringing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. into his administration.“Oh, I completely am,” Trump responded, but added he and Kennedy disagree on environmental policies. He said he’ll tell Kennedy to “focus on health, do whatever you want.”

Kennedy has been instrumental in spreading skepticism about vaccines, rejecting the overwhelming consensus among scientists that the benefits of inoculation outweigh the rare risk of side effects.

Trump again seemed to entertain the idea of eliminating federal income taxes, telling Rogan, “Yeah, sure why not?” when asked by the podcast host if he was serious about it.

He also repeated at length his grievances about the 2020 election but said, “If I win, this will be my last election.”