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If you take the President of the United States at his word, America is thriving. If you look at any factual data, maybe not so much. Welcome to American politics in 2026. Donald Trump went on one of his buddy’s news networks to reassure America that everything is fine right now despite so very man […] The post Donald Trump was asked what his plans were to help the US economy and he didn’t just not read the room, he was in the wrong building appeared first on The Poke.

Nowhere is safe these days for JD Vance. The smarmy Veep usually has a condescending deflection for any question lobbed his way. But this might be a turning point. (Pun sadly intended.) Vance was speaking to what he was assuming was a home crowd fully on board with everything Maga has done to the United […] The post JD Vance was challenged about the Epstein Files in his political back yard and his response suggested he really didn’t see this coming appeared first on The Poke.

The very first Vice President of the United States described the job as, “the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.” Here we are all these years later and JD Vance is doing his best to stay true to the role. Vance spoke at a sparsely attended Turning […] The post JD Vance excitedly unveiled a plan for ‘taking the country back’ and basically the entire internet said the same thing appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump is famously unhappy with Keir Starmer’s refusal to follow him into the Iran war. And he’s now so unhappy that he’s threatened to do the one thing Trump loves to do even more than drop bombs on people – unleash the tariffs! Here’s what the president said about the state of UK-US relations […] The post Donald Trump threatened to rip up the UK-US trade agreement over Iran and Keir Starmer’s response really wasn’t messing around appeared first on The Poke.

In words we never thought we’d write – even here – Kemi Badenoch just did a sex toys joke at PMQs. Amid all the Byzantine rules about what you can and can’t say in the Commons, most of which should surely be ditched fortwith, we can’t believe there isn’t one relating to this. Get ready […] The post Kemi Badenoch did a sex toys joke at PMQs and it didn’t generate quite so much buzz as she might have hoped appeared first on The Poke.

You don’t see chefs doing this every day – and it’s probably just as well, for the sake of restaurant ceilings. Check it out. Guy straight boomerangs that pizza dough!!! by u/Upstairs-East-3020 in toptalent It was posted to r/nextfuckinglevel by u/floof_mcgenius, who added – “I have no clue what he’s making but daaang his skills […] The post This street-food vendor’s showmanship was impressive, but the comments were the icing on the cake appeared first on The Poke.

You’ll know by now the (since deleted) Donald Trump ‘Jesus’ meme which the president has since claimed showed him as a doctor. No-one was buying that, obviously, and the whole episode prompted a stream of mockery and A++ takedowns. But surely no-one did it better than this, a ‘Dr Trump’ TV ad which is a […] The post This hilarious ‘Dr Trump’ TV ad is so good you could almost forgive AI for a second because it’s magnificent appeared first on The Poke.

Even if you’ve never been to a music festival in Britain, you’ll broadly know how they go: brilliant bands, too much alcohol and an extreme of weather that will either leave you with trench foot or sunstroke. You’ll be grubby and hungover but always having an excellent time. American festivals, and particularly Coachella, appear to […] The post Somebody asked about the differences between Coachella and UK festivals – 21 huge cultural chasms appeared first on The Poke.

Not too long ago, the most viciously fought generational battle was between millennials and boomers. But that seems to have calmed down lately in favour of millennials feeling alarmed, perplexed and downright annoyed by the strange ways of Gen Z. They’ve been discussing this total lack of understanding on the AskReddit page after appropriaterice873 posed […] The post ‘What’s something Gen Z does that older generations just don’t get?’ – 23 very millennial gripes appeared first on The Poke.

When it comes to slightly rude comedy place names, we Brits tend to think we have it sewn up, as anyone who has been to Fanny Street in Cardiff will agree. However, it turns out that the good ol’ US of A does slightly NSFW names bigger and better (or, perhaps, worse) than we do, […] The post ‘What is the worst town name you have ever heard?’ – 22 American places that blow Butthole Lane out of the water appeared first on The Poke.