The YouTube channel TwinsTheNewTrend — hosted by real-life twin brothers Fred and Tim Williams — usually entertains their 700,000 subscribers by posting video reactions to popular songs, from Dolly Parton to Aerosmith to Whitney Houston. But on the channel’s latest episode, as the brothers were listening to Bob Dylan’s “The …
Read More »The Obamas Address Class of 2020 in Virtual Commencement Speeches
Barack and Michelle Obama both participated in YouTube’s four-hour livestream commencement event, Dear Class of 2020, held for graduating seniors who cannot participate in in-person commencement ceremonies due to COVID-19. In a clip from Barack Obama’s speech, courtesy of YouTube Originals, the former president highlighted the challenges that the Class …
Read More »Joe Biden Asks Audience to Imagine Obama's Assassination, Evoking RFK and MLK
During a town hall about health care in New Hampshire on Friday, Democratic candidate Joe Biden asked the audience to ponder how American citizens would have reacted if Barack Obama had been assassinated after becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in 2008. Towards the end of his speech, Biden began …
Read More »Trump Takes Credit for Obama's Border Wall
On Friday, President Donald Trump stood in front of recently-refurbished border wall along the California-Mexico border and boasted that it was the beginning of construction on the wall he promised voters in the 2016 campaign. And Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen installed commemorative plaque bearing Trump’s name last fall along …
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