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Few leaders in world history have had the ability to confidently avoid the truth on camera quite like Donald Trump. The US President took some time out of his busy schedule ordering McDonald’s deliveries to the White House to share an update on his war with Iran. Mind you, this is a war that Trump […] The post Donald Trump just said the war with Iran was going ‘swimmingly’ and it turned out he’s not waving but drowning appeared first on The Poke.

Working in an office in the days before the internet must have been great. If your line manager wanted to tell you to pull for your finger out and do some work, they’d have to physically come and speak to you. Which means, often, they wouldn’t have bothered, and you could have frittered away the […] The post ‘What are your favourite passive aggressive corporate phrases and what do they actually mean?’ – 23 translations necessary to navigate work appeared first on The Poke.

The President of the United States appears to be trying just about everything he can to distract the public from the Epstein Files. The big orange man has attacked multiple countries, dismantled the American economy, and put the entire globe on alert for World War III, all in the last 4 months. And yet, the […] The post Donald Trump dismissed the Epstein survivors as ‘victims or whatever’ and it didn’t speak volumes, it bellowed them appeared first on The Poke.

The current US White House administration is full of billionaires who live in solid gold palaces. They desperately want to position themselves as the party of the people but any time they open their mouths they shatter that ilusion. The worst offender: Scott Bessent. With every new update on the economy, the US Treasury Secretary […] The post Trump’s Treasury secretary just said Americans feel great about the economy, they just don’t know it – 15 people who knew precisely how they felt about that appeared first on The Poke.

To the world – apologies – of Donald Trump, where the president has been doing his best to show some interest in the affordability crisis gripping the United States right now. Specifically, Trump has been talking corner stores, a phrase it turns out the president has never heard before. But don’t take our word for […] The post Donald Trump said he’d ‘never heard of a corner store’ – 14 funniest and most on-point comebacks definitely worth ringing up appeared first on The Poke.

It’s Friday, the evenings are getting lighter, the weekend awaits – and Twitter has been very funny recently. We’ve gathered some of our favourite posts from the past week, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. 1. My wife and I are planning a 3 week kitchen remodel , so I […] The post Our 25 Favourite Funny Tweets of the Week appeared first on The Poke.

We’ve featured no end of comedy show answers on these pages – unintentionally comedy, obviously – but none of the others are quite so jaw-dropping as this. It’s a moment from ITV’s The Chase which has just gone viral again for reasons which will surely become obvious. We’ve seen it before and we still don’t […] The post This incredible Chase answer has just gone viral again and you don’t have to be a woman to appreciate it (but it helps) appeared first on The Poke.

Like us, you probably won’t have come across Tate Reeves who – apart from having an exceptionally American name – is also governor of Mississippi. We mention them because Reeves spotted a claim about where the UK would rank if it became the 51st state of the United States (the methodology involved is muddled/absolute bollocks, […] The post The governor of Mississippi took a bigoted swipe at the UK and these Brits’ magnificent comebacks will make you proud to be British appeared first on The Poke.

It’s no secret that Donald Trump is really unhappy with the Pope, because he has been doing his actual job and speaking out against war. 🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Pope Leo XIV just declared the Iran War unjust. Called it a war crime. Said it is “not solving anything.” And told Americans directly — call Congress. […] The post The US has cancelled its $11 million contract with a Catholic children’s charity, and the pettiness is visible from space appeared first on The Poke.

It all began with a think piece about the ‘myth of the independent girl boss’ which need not overly bother us here. But it prompted this response from @emilykmay … "cheap immigrant labor to do their cooking, cleaning, and childcare" is a funny way of saying "it is not men's job to cook, clean, or […] The post A podcast bro said there were ‘men’s jobs’ and ‘women’s jobs’ and this woman’s A++ takedown beat all-comers appeared first on The Poke.