Rand Paul Breaks With Trump Over Military’s Role in Mass Deportations

Rand Paul has skewered Donald Trump’s plan to use the military to round up millions of undocumented immigrants once he takes office in January, calling it a “huge mistake.” The Kentucky senator criticized his fellow Republican in a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax. “I’m not in favor of sending the army in uniforms into our cities to collect people,” Paul told host Rob Schmitt. “I think it’s a terrible image and that’s not what we use our military for, we never have and it’s actually been illegal for over 100 years to bring the Army into our cities.” Paul explained that he thought local police and other domestic law enforcement should be the ones to carry out Trump’s plan, and he expressed worry about the image of “the housekeeper who’s been here 30 years” being arrested by a soldier in uniform. “I don’t see the military putting her in handcuffs and marching her down the street to an encampment,” he said. “I don’t really want to see that.” Trump on Monday doubled down on his deportation plan, as his team is reportedly looking into how to carry it out.

President-elect Donald Trump has now slapped his name on a “limited edition” collection of guitars for his staunch MAGA supporters who would also happen to be music fans, he announced in a Wednesday post on Truth Social. “Only 1,300 of each Acoustic and Electric Guitars MADE — Some personally signed!” he urged. The “American Eagle Series” guitars retail at $1,500 for electric and $1,250 for acoustic versions, with the Trump Guitar website promising that all in stock guitars will arrive in time for Christmas. The guitars hand-signed by the president-elect himself retail for $10,000, with only 275 versions available. In addition to being inlaid with Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” phrase, the guitars come in a variety of colors, black, yellow, and red, and an American Eagle and flag design. The instruments also feature a 45 on the headstock, “signifying President Donald J. Trump’s historic term as President.”

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A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for a total of $6.2 million at auction on Wednesday night, shattering expectations for the viral work of art that first made headlines at Art Basel in 2019. The piece, entitled Comedian, was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and displayed at the Miami art festival—only to prompt one artist to take a bite out of the fruit and another visitor to vandalize the display. Three other editions of Comedian, which simply consists of a banana and a piece of duct tape placed exactly 160 centimeters above the floor, sold for $120,000 and $150,000 in 2019, but Sotheby’s estimated the latest piece’s value would fetch somewhere between $1 million and $1.5 million. Voracious bidders at Wednesday’s live auction quickly pushed the price tag above $5 million. Even the auctioneer, Oliver Barker, seemed shocked at the flurry of bids for the fruit. “These are words I never thought I’d say. Five million for a banana. It’s your expensive banana, Jen,” he said, speaking to one of the auction house staffers. “Don’t let it slip away,” the auctioneer quipped. Comedian’s price tag extended to over $6.2 million with the buyer’s premium fee attached. Cryptocurrency mogul Justin Sun quickly identified himself as the buyer, proclaiming Cattelan’s piece was a “cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community“ and announcing that he would soon ”personally eat the banana."

Bill Belichick, one of the most successful head coaches in NFL history, might be eyeing a comeback next year with the Jacksonville Jaguars, according to chatter from football insiders. Belichick is preparing to return to a head coaching job in 2025, sources told The Athletic last Saturday. Rumors about his return have been circulating for months, and several teams have been floated as possible fits for the storied coach. The rumors that he might head to Jacksonville ramped up after the Jaguars suffered their worst defeat in franchise history on Sunday, losing to the Detroit Lions 52-6. “Belichick certainly has his eye on this Jacksonville opening,” The Athletic’s Dianna Russini said on the most recent episode of the sports publication’s Scoop City podcast. According to a column written by the host last weekend, Belichick’s desire for control over his team might rule out some of the other franchises searching for a new head coach, such as the Dallas Cowboys. On Tuesday, Russini said the Jaguars have “tons of respect” for the ex-New England coach—despite the fact that he has no immediate ties to Jaguars owner Shahid Khan. “But when you think about what they’re looking for and what they need there, it starts to make sense,” the host said.

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Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz defiantly dismissed reports chronicling numerous allegations that he hosted drug-fueled sex parties, paid for sex and engaged in intercourse with a minor. Gaetz, who has long denied the accusations, was at the Capitol Wednesday meeting with Republican senators alongside Vice President-elect JD Vance, where he is said to have pleaded his case as Trump’s choice to lead the Department of Justice. “Senators have been giving me a lot of good advice. I’m looking forward to a hearing. Folks have been very supportive, and they’ve been saying we are going to get a fair process so it’s a great day of momentum for the Trump-Vance administration,” Gaetz told reporters Wednesday afternoon, after the House Ethics Committee declined to release its report surrounding the allegations. “I’ll be honest with you, I’ve been focused on what we gotta do to reform the Department of Justice,” Gaetz said of the headline-grabbing committee meeting. “I’ve been meeting with senators, I haven’t been paying much attention to that,” Gaetz said, adding that while he hadn’t spoken with Trump on Wednesday, “I’ve had a great time with the vice-president elect.” When asked if he was confident his nomination would be confirmed by the senate, he simply replied, “it was a great day.”

As The Simpsons airs its 36th season, one of its mainstays is stepping away. Pamela Hayden, the voice of Bart Simpson’s best friend Milhouse Van Houten, as well as bully Jimbo Jones, Ned Flanders’ son Rod, and Chief Wiggum’s wife Sarah, announced her retirement, according to Variety. Hayden has worked on The Simpsons since its very first episode in 1989. “People are always saying what a nerd he is. But one thing that I love about Milhouse is he’s always getting knocked down but he keeps getting up. I love the little guy,” Hayden said in a video uploaded to YouTube to announce her retirement, where she called her gig on the show “the best job in the world.” According to Variety, Fox will now begin the casting process to find new voices for her characters. Hayden’s final voice performance will be in the upcoming episode “Treehouse of Horror Presents: Simpsons Wicked This Way Comes,” airing Nov. 24.

A new name has reportedly entered the race for Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary. The president-elect is taking a look at Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty, formerly a private equity investor and Trump’s previous ambassador to Japan, according to Axios. He resigned his previous position in Trump’s administration to make a run at the Senate—winning the tight Republican primary race on the back of an endorsement from his former boss. “Respected, loyal, and great on TV—the total Trump package,” a Republican source told Axios of Hagerty, who has close ties to Wall Street. Trump enjoyed spending time with the senator while he visited Mar-a-Lago this week, the publication reported. He also joined Trump at Tuesday’s launch of Elon Musk’s Starship rocket in Texas. Hagerty joins former Federal Reserve governor Kevin Warsh and Apollo CEO Marc Rowan—who will meet with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago this week—as one of three purported finalists for the role. In addition to his Wall Street ties, Hagerty appears to have the backing of the online crypto community. The senator said in July that Bitcoin would “thrive” under Trump. #BitcoinBill trended on X today, while a slew of memes endorsing Hagerty made the rounds, including some that depicted him as Batman.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will nominate MAGA hardliner and former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker to serve as the U.S. ambassador to NATO. Whitaker spent roughly three months leading the Justice Department during Trump’s first term, following the resignation of Jeff Sessions. He was a vocal critic of the Mueller investigation before Trump tapped him to temporarily lead the Justice Department. “Matt will strengthen relationships with our NATO Allies, and stand firm in the face of threats to Peace and Stability—He will put AMERICA FIRST,” Trump said in a statement. A former tight end for the University of Iowa football team, Whitaker has been an aggressive media surrogate for Trump and has echoed the president-elect’s view that other NATO members don’t spend enough on defense, blaming European countries for spending money on “socialized medicine and other experiments.”

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Donald Trump’s camp issued a blanket rebuke of all inquiries made by author Michael Wolff, incidentally revealing that the writer was working on a new book about the incoming president. In a Wednesday statement, the team said the best-selling author of Fire and Fury, which chronicled Trump’s first administration, “reached out to a number of administration officials for his next work of “fiction.” They added, “He is a known peddler of fake news who routinely concocts situations, conversations, and conclusions that never happened.” In a preemptive strike against his next project, the camp said it has decided “not to respond to his bad faith inquiries, and we encourage others to completely disregard whatever nonsense he eventually publishes.” Wolff has not officially announced the subject of his next book, but there have been clues. In an interview with the Daily Beast, he shared that he has more than 100 hours of recorded conversation with the late Jeffrey Epstein, with the convicted sex offender mentioning Trump in several excerpts of the recordings. The Beast has reached out to Wolff for comment.

Seinfeld’s Wayne Knight told TMZ that since he’s lost over 100 pounds, his acting career has taken a nose dive. The actor, who played Jerry Seinfeld’s nemesis Newman, explained, “It takes time for people to accept you as you are and they find out whether or not you can still do things without being fat.” He’s not letting it get him down, however, adding, “You just have to accept the fact that you can’t sell something that you’re not.” As for how he lost the weight, Knight said he tried “everything that anyone could ever try from therapy to drugs to surgery to radiation to being taken by aliens.” One of the things finally worked, Knight said, though he “doesn’t know” which one. “I lose 10, I gain 50, I lose 100, I gain 12,” he said of his weight loss journey. From his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park to now, he’s lost “about 110 pounds.” Though it’s affected his career in a “bad way,” he said, he still has faith that Hollywood will “give an old skinny guy a shot.”