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Jesse Watters took time out of his busy schedule of listing things that aren’t manly – straws, crossing your legs, eating soup in public, to name just three – to prove he’s either a card-carrying member of the Karoline Leavitt Trumpian Propaganda Club, or the most unobservant man in the world. We suspect the former. […] The post Jesse Watters said people never call Trump dumb, and left everyone wondering which cave he’s been living in – 15 savage takedowns appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump likes to fashion himself as the master of the art of the deal and the great peacemaker who has single handedly ended eight (at the last count) conflicts around the world. So having brought Nato to the brink of collapse before announcing that, no, the United States would not be invading Greenland after […] The post CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Donald Trump if it was ‘mission accomplished’ on Greenland and his response didn’t speak volumes, it bellowed them appeared first on The Poke.

So it turns out Donald Trump isn’t going to invade Greenland after all, for which we can all be grateful. The American president and his team, such as they are, executed Operation Save Face by announcing a ‘framework of a future deal [with Nato] with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region’. […] The post Magas have been desperately bigging up Trump’s Greenland ‘deal’ and were fact checked til they farted appeared first on The Poke.

Over on Twitter, user StripMallGuy has asked his followers what people actually did in offices before computers and mobile phones, apparently imagining an entire workforce staring silently at a beige desk until it was time to go home. Luckily there were enough people still around from The Olden Days who were on hand to explain […] The post Someone asked what people with office jobs did before computers and mobile phones – 21 nostalgic replies appeared first on The Poke.

It’s the morning after the Donald Trump speech the night before, and what a speech it was. The good news was that the US won’t actually be invading after all. The bad news was basically everything else Trump had to say. But there was one moment in particular that stood out, when the American president […] The post Donald Trump told Davos they’d all be speaking German if it wasn’t for the US and it was a glorious self-own for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

Job hunting is a pain. As well as worrying about money, you’ve got to prepare a CV, write a covering letter, and win over people in the interview. If you’re looking for a job, improve your chances of success by avoiding the weird behaviour that DemonSkank stumbled across when they put the following question to […] The post Interviewers have been sharing the weird reasons they instantly decided not to hire candidates – 17 examples of how not to job hunt appeared first on The Poke.

Just one of a great number of problems with Donald Trump’s Davos speech on Wednesday was the fact that he kept referring to Greenland as Iceland. Trump now confusing Greenland with Iceland multiple times pic.twitter.com/nDvufNVB6T — Acyn (@Acyn) January 21, 2026 He wants to take over ownership of the country so much, he can’t be […] The post Karoline Leavitt denied that Trump had mixed up Greenland and Iceland, then provable facts entered the chat – 19 frank rebuttals appeared first on The Poke.

Nigel Farage just can’t keep out of the news, at the moment. On Wednesday, the privately educated former commodities broker, who has railed against ‘career politicians’ throughout his 27-year career in politics, was found to have breached the MPs code of conduct by failing to make a timely declaration of more than £380,000 of his […] The post Nigel Farage claimed to be putting the ‘global elites’ on notice and got owned all the way back to his exclusive public school – 17 exploding irony meters appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump’s time at the World Economic Forum in Davos has proved to be every bit as mind-boggling as his speech in the White House on Tuesday. No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply […] The post Air Force One made an unexpected return to the airbase with Trump on board, and the mockery really took off – 22 funniest responses appeared first on The Poke.

‘When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers’, said Mark Twain. And he’s right: it never rains, but it pours. They’ve been chatting about the most galling gases of misfortune over on the AskUK subreddit after Dangerous-Land-1773 posted this particularly egregious example: What’s the worst bit of bad luck/bad timing […] The post ‘What’s the worst bit of bad timing that you or family and friends have had?’ – 22 people who just missed out on greatness appeared first on The Poke.