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Ben Shapiro said Donald Trump is the only President brave enough to keep his promises and he got ratio’d right back into irrelevance

13 April 2026 @ 2:57 pm

Ben Shapiro crawled out from under the podcast studio where he lives to make an appearance on Fox News and we’re all now thinking about Donald Trump’s private parts because of it. Shapiro was defending the US President on the air when he made an audacious claim about Trump’s ability to deliver on promises. Here […] The post Ben Shapiro said Donald Trump is the only President brave enough to keep his promises and he got ratio’d right back into irrelevance appeared first on The Poke.

Someone asked people to be ‘brutally honest’ about what America is better at than anyone else and these 17 answers really didn’t hold back

13 April 2026 @ 2:44 pm

It all started when @Luv_Xcuses asked this over on Twitter. Be brutally honest, what’s one thing Americans are simply better at than the rest of the world?? — ★ (@Luv_Xcuses) April 12, 2026 Very possibly it was an attempt to bathe the United Stats in a little bit of love in the wake of all […] The post Someone asked people to be ‘brutally honest’ about what America is better at than anyone else and these 17 answers really didn’t hold back appeared first on The Poke.

‘What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve had recently?’ – 23 small but highly comical muddles

13 April 2026 @ 2:25 pm

Big misunderstandings can lead to big problems, as Donald Trump is finding after starting a war on a country he appears to know nothing about, but the smaller ones are more often than not just a bit comical. They’ve been chatting about this on the AskUK subreddit after iffyClyro asked this: ‘What’s the funniest misunderstanding […] The post ‘What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve had recently?’ – 23 small but highly comical muddles appeared first on The Poke.

The look on the face of this Fox News anchor as Donald Trump was wanging on about gas prices surely speaks for us all

13 April 2026 @ 2:12 pm

Usually, Donald Trump can head to Fox News for softball questions that lead to his trademark talking points. But only if Donald stays on script. This time, he flubbed his answer so badly, he accidentally revealed just how badly things are trending for Magas heading into the next election cycle. Fox News host Maria Bartiromo […] The post The look on the face of this Fox News anchor as Donald Trump was wanging on about gas prices surely speaks for us all appeared first on The Poke.

A Brit asked how to give her American boyfriend the ‘true UK experience’ and these 17 A++ suggestions will make you proud to be British

13 April 2026 @ 2:09 pm

Time now to return to the cultural divide, nay chasm, between the UK and the US after a British woman asked people for their tips on how to give her American boyfriend a ‘true UK experience’. Here’s the question sophietheadventurer put out to the good people of Reddit. ‘My American boyfriend is visiting the UK […] The post A Brit asked how to give her American boyfriend the ‘true UK experience’ and these 17 A++ suggestions will make you proud to be British appeared first on The Poke.

The infuriating marking of this child’s maths homework is a top drawer fail for the ages but not everyone was getting it

13 April 2026 @ 1:50 pm

Another day, another example of maths homework marking to get you all worked up. Here’s the question and teacher’s answer as shared by Math Lady Hazel over on Twitter. I can’t believe my eyes. ‍ pic.twitter.com/0cQhZBtyey — Math Lady Hazel (@mathladyhazel) December 19, 2023 Just in case that’s tricky to see in full … And […] The post The infuriating marking of this child’s maths homework is a top drawer fail for the ages but not everyone was getting it appeared first on The Poke.

Donald Trump was given a chance to walk back his comments on the Pope and his answer proved just how much of a stubborn child he is

13 April 2026 @ 1:41 pm

Donald Trump took to Truth Social to sound off on Pope Leo over the weekend. By his insanely low standard, that can almost be excused. Who knows, maybe he was just talking to himself in the mirror and accidentally pushed talk-to-text on his phone. And then accidentally pushed publish. (He does have fat fingers, after […] The post Donald Trump was given a chance to walk back his comments on the Pope and his answer proved just how much of a stubborn child he is appeared first on The Poke.

‘What’s something your partner does that annoys you but not enough for an argument?’ – 25 little quibbles that loom larger than they should

13 April 2026 @ 1:38 pm

Finding a relationship is very high on many people’s list of priorities, yet when we finally bag somebody we want to settle down with they turn out to be irritating in a variety of ways. And yet we still love them. Mostly. They’ve been discussing the sliding scale of partner irritation on the AskUK subreddit […] The post ‘What’s something your partner does that annoys you but not enough for an argument?’ – 25 little quibbles that loom larger than they should appeared first on The Poke.

This forensic rebuttal of Trump’s unfettered rant against Pope Leo just went wildly viral and should be put on prescription for Magas everywhere

13 April 2026 @ 12:55 pm

Even for seasoned Donald Trump watchers – yes, we are talking about us – the president’s attack on Pope Leo was quite something. Trump wasn’t happy that the supreme pontiff doesn’t share his enthusiasm for dropping bombs on people. So much so that he took to Hate, sorry, Truth Social to vent his spleen in […] The post This forensic rebuttal of Trump’s unfettered rant against Pope Leo just went wildly viral and should be put on prescription for Magas everywhere appeared first on The Poke.

Fox News’s Sean Hannity just wondered out loud if the Pope had actually read the Bible and these comebacks were all gospel

13 April 2026 @ 12:03 pm

As you will no doubt already be aware, the Pope and Donald Trump are having something of a set-to, Pope Leo being rather less keen on war than the American president. Trump’s no stranger to taking what most politely be described as the moral low ground, obviously, but even for him taking on the supreme […] The post Fox News’s Sean Hannity just wondered out loud if the Pope had actually read the Bible and these comebacks were all gospel appeared first on The Poke.