Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded after dozens of memes flooded X with potential new jobs or responsibilities that President Donald Trump might ask him to take on. “I do not normally respond to online rumors but feel the need to do so at this moment,” Rubio said in his own X post. “I will not be a candidate for the currently vacant HC and GM positions with the Miami Dolphins. While you never know what the future may bring right now my focus must remain on global events and also the precious archives of the United States of America. Thank you.” Rubio, who is currently the acting National Security Adviser in addition to holding the top post at the United States Department of State, was responding to memes suggesting he’d be put in charge of everything from the state of Minnesota to the nation of Venezuela. One post suggested Trump would ask Rubio to cover his shift at McDonald’s, referencing the president’s wildly successful 2024 campaign stop. Rubio after learning that he has to cover Trump’s shift at McDonald’s. pic.twitter.com/Pj3tcpPWDH — Make America Meme Again (@meme4USA) January 6, 2026 After an interaction between the Department of Homeland Security and a Hampton Inn refusing service to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents — an interaction that quickly caused Hilton Hotels to cut ties with the franchise in question — several memes suggested Rubio would be tapped to run the hotel chain. “What shall we do with a Russian tanker, What shall we do with a Russian tanker, What shall we do with a Russian tanker, Early in the morning?” another post read, showing Rubio in pirate garb with a parrot on his shoulder. ? “What shall we do with a Russian tanker, What shall we do with a Russian tanker, What shall we do with a Russian tanker, Early in the morning?” ? https://t.co/nAY0AUZnbi pic.twitter.com/3uZkftPGbK — Benedict Spence (@BenedictSpence) January 7, 2026 A “Lord of the Rings” themed post put Rubio in the place of Frodo Baggins, tasking him with returning the One Ring to the fiery pit of Mordor. “The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came. One of you must do this.” pic.twitter.com/RjMyefa4pF — Elwë Singollo ❄️??‍♀️ (@Strangeland_Elf) January 6, 2026 “Trump’s about to disclose aliens and he’s sending Rubio to negotiate,” another posted. My contribution – Trump’s about to disclose aliens ? and he’s sending Rubio to negotiate. pic.twitter.com/PiFBhwg5FL — Rizwan Virk (@Rizstanford) January 7, 2026 And more … Rubio realizing he has to be the Governor of Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/HPQ3uJ2u90 — Kyle Tibbitts (@KyleTibbitts) January 6, 2026 Rubio realizing he’s going to be president of Venezuela, governor of Cuba, and the Shah of Iran. pic.twitter.com/wh5S2gpIi9 — Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) (@antoniogm) January 3, 2026 Would you consider being OC with the @Lions ??? We need someone with the huevos to match Dan Campbell!#OnePride https://t.co/cAUey7MGnF — Rep. Bill Huizenga (@RepHuizenga) January 8, 2026 Rubio Leaves Open Possibility of Becoming Miami’s Next QB https://t.co/DRuVKNCDbl — Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) January 8, 2026 So you’re saying there’s a chance. https://t.co/S1aPEVkecV pic.twitter.com/1Qq8jzQsS9 — Tim Murtaugh (@TimMurtaugh) January 8, 2026 Can you coach the @AtlantaFalcons? https://t.co/hZl6btWxAW — House Judiciary GOP ?????? (@JudiciaryGOP) January 8, 2026 Fox News anchor John Roberts responded to Rubio, noting that he’d only ruled out jobs with the Miami Dolphins and suggesting he might be entertaining any number of others. “You will note that he did not dispel rumors that he is a candidate for: Ravens head coach, President of Venezuela, Shah of Iran, President of Cuba, Prime Minister of Greenland, Governor of Minnesota,  CEO of Hilton Hotels,” Roberts posted. “Ruling out a job with the Dolphins doesn’t end the speculation …” “I think we should probably make Rubio president in 2028 just to limit his power,” Abby Libby posted in response to the memes.

Harvey Weinstein was back in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday morning to assess where he stands in his legal battles as another trial looms on charges of third-degree rape. The charge stems from an allegation made by Jessica Mann, a former aspiring actress, who claimed Weinstein raped her at a New York hotel in March 2013. Weinstein has denied that claim. Weinstein’s lawyer Arthur Aidala told Judge Curtis Farber that the 73-year-old is considering pleading guilty to that rape charge to avoid another trial, reports NBC News. The trial would begin on March 3 if Weinstein can’t reach a plea deal, and Mann would likely testify against the disgraced Hollywood mogul again. “I understand that your client wants additional time to think about it,” Farber told Weinstein’s lawyer in the courtroom Thursday. At the end of the hearing, Weinstein, who appeared frail in a wheelchair, spoke directly to the judge, admitting no wrongdoing. “I admit my moral failings, I was unfaithful and acted wrongly,” Weinstein said. “But I have never assaulted anyone.” Weinstein was found guilty of third-degree rape of Mann in early 2020, but that ruling was overturned in 2024 by a New York state appeals court. Weinstein was then retried on the same case last year, but the jury failed to reach a verdict. However, the jury did find Weinstein guilty of a first-degree criminal sexual act based on the claims made by a production assistant on the Weinstein-produced “Project Runway.” Miriam Haley said Weinstein forcibly performed oral sex on her in 2006. The mogul was acquitted of criminal sexual assault against former model Kaja Sokola. Judge Farber threw out Weinstein’s request for a new trial in the Haley case after the defense claimed two jurors said they were pressured to convict Weinstein. The judge said, “The Court’s response to the jurors’ complaints appropriately balanced the competing interests of investigating the allegations while avoiding any unnecessary taint of the deliberating jury,” per ABC News. Thursday’s appearance addressed Weinstein’s web of cases. Now, he will remain in custody at Rikers Island in New York City as he weighs his options regarding entering a guilty plea to the rape charges involving Mann. Related: Deadlocked Jury Throws Harvey Weinstein Retrial Into Chaos After Partial Verdict

Former late night host Conan O’Brien shared words of warning for comedians who do nothing but bash President Trump, saying they are “just screaming” and need to try harder to come up with “funny” material. “I think some comics go the route of, I’m going to just say ‘F Trump’ all the time and that’s their comedy. And I think, well now … you’re being co-opted because you’re so angry,” O’Brien said during an interview with the Oxford Union on Tuesday. He added, “You’ve been lulled. It’s like a siren leading you into the rocks. You’ve been lulled into just saying ‘F Trump. F Trump. F Trump. Screw this guy.’ And I think you’ve now put down your best weapon, which is being funny, and you’ve exchanged it for anger.” “And that person or any person like that would say, ‘Well, things are too serious now. I don’t need to be funny.’ And I think, well, if you’re a comedian, you always need to be funny,” O’Brien went on. “You just have to find a way. And you just have to find a way to channel that anger into a way … because good art will always be a great weapon, will always be a perfect weapon against power. But if you’re just screaming and you’re just angry, you’ve lost your best tool in the toolbox.” The late night alum said it’s “tricky” for comedians to tackle politics. “I have very strong political feelings and views, but my comedy is something that I don’t have that kind of control over, in a way,” O’Brien said. “There’s so much of what I’ve done in my life that’s impulse.” Last August, following the announcement that “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert was being canceled, O’Brien predicted that late night television in its current form would soon “disappear.” “It’s all electrifying a new generation of viewers,” the longtime host continued. “Yes, late-night television, as we have known it since around 1950, is going to disappear. But those voices are not going anywhere. People like Stephen Colbert are too talented and too essential to go away,” he said at the time, as The Daily Wire previously reported.

The Left’s response to the incident in Minneapolis where an ICE agent shot an anti-ICE protester whom he believed was targeting him with her car is unhinged. Insane. Totally nuts. Mayor Jacob Frey put out a statement, saying, “I’m aware of a shooting involving an ICE agent at 34th Street & Portland. The presence of federal immigration enforcement agents is causing chaos in our city. We’re demanding ICE to leave the city immediately. We stand rock solid with our immigrant and refugee communities.” Insane and ridiculous. Federal law enforcement can’t do its job because you have incentivized people to obstruct them, and your solution is “the feds need to leave,” “ICE needs to leave”? Obstructing federal law enforcement in the enforcement of law is a crime. Frey is a disaster area and has been a disaster area for years. He held a press conference and told ICE to “get the f*** out of Minneapolis.” “We do not want you here,” he continued. “Your stated reason for being in this city is to create some kind of safety, and you are doing exactly the opposite. People are being hurt. Families are being ripped apart. Long-term Minneapolis residents that have contributed so greatly to our city, to our culture, to our economy are being terrorized, and now somebody is dead.” He’s an insane person. What he’s saying here is crazy. You guys keep saying over and over and over again that ICE agents are the bad guys, and then people attack ICE agents. We’ve had over 100 reported ramming incidents over the course of the last year in which people have tried to run over ICE agents or hit them with their cars. And Jacob Frey is saying that the problem here is ICE doing its job? That is nuts. Again, stopping law enforcement from doing its job is borderline criminal activity. ICE’s job is to enforce the law. Obstructing the law is what causes chaos and distress. But Frey declared, “They are not here to cause safety in this city. What they are doing is not to provide safety in America. What they are doing is causing chaos and distrust. They’re ripping families apart. They’re sowing chaos on our streets and in this case, quite literally killing people.” This is crazy. It’s crazy. It’s going to get more ICE officers killed, as well as people who assault ICE officers and federal law enforcement. He is creating an incentive structure that justifies violence against law enforcement. It’s not just Jacob Frey. It’s also the ridiculous, corrupt governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, who came out in the aftermath and talked about the patriotic duty to protest, which is a wink, wink, nod, nod at people who have been getting up in the faces of ICE agents. “I want Minnesotans to hear this from me. The desire to get out and protest and to speak up to this administration of how wrong this is, that that is a patriotic duty at this point in time…” he said. It’s a “patriotic duty at this point in time?” Not only that, he says that he is going to somehow activate the Minnesota National Guard to protect Minnesotans from ICE. That’s not legal. Using state law enforcement to obstruct federal law enforcement is a textbook definition of insurrection. “My primary responsibility as governor is the protection of the people of Minnesota. And you can be assured, whether it’s the State Patrol or whether it’s the National Guard, their deployment is there to protect Minnesotans from whatever it is; if it’s an act of nature, if it’s a global pandemic or in this case, if it is a rogue federal agent,” he asserted. I’m just wondering, how do you propose to use the National Guard to stop “rogue federal agents,” especially when that federal agent appears to have acted within the boundaries of the law? Waltz then suggested to Minnesotans that the move must be made to stop President Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act, implying, “Don’t riot, because if you do, Trump is going to send in more force.” That’s true, but he doesn’t say, “Don’t riot because rioting is wrong,” he says, “Don’t riot because it might lead President Trump to execute legal rights.” “Minnesotans, don’t take the bait,” he said. “Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and the decency of this state. And let this investigation play itself out.” “To Americans who are watching this, if you’re in Portland or you’re in LA, or you’re in Chicago or you’re wherever they’re coming next, stand with us,” he said. “Stand with us against this.” Last night, Jimmy Kimmel, the man who is the apotheosis of bad taste, came in from left field in order to encapsulate the radical Left’s take on this situation. He never misses when it comes to missing. Kimmel decided to up the ante by suggesting that the president of the United States would like to murder you. “I know what they’re doing. They’re trying out a new slogan: Donald J. Trump is going to kill you,” he said. “This maniac, he isn’t just killing people overseas. An ICE agent today shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old woman during an ICE operation in Minneapolis. They’re there under the guise of protecting us.” This is insane — and dangerous. When you go around saying the president of the United States is legitimately trying to murder people, and then you link that to this ICE shooting, you’re putting a target on the back of the people that you’re talking about. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said, “But we have now seen and what we are seeing is that ICE is not just becoming an anti-immigrant force in this country. It is becoming an anti-civilian paramilitary organization. People are getting taken off of the streets for exercising their free speech rights.” It’s an anti-civilian paramilitary organization? Why are people attacking it? Maybe it’s because you keep saying that over and over. You’re going to get people killed.  What’s sad about this is that Jacob Frey predicted this back in December. He suggested that someone was going to get seriously injured or killed. He was right, but that’s because the Left keeps lying about what ICE does. “I am increasingly concerned because of the chaos that is being caused by these ICE agents, that somebody is going to get seriously injured or killed, whether that is an ICE agent or a community member, we all know the tinderbox that could explode,” he predicted. Perhaps he should stop creating more tinder for the tinderbox. That might be one of the solutions he could think about. Scott Olson/Getty Images But this is what the Left has created: a climate in which you are supposed to go and stop ICE agents from performing their basic law enforcement function. That leads exactly to these sorts of confusing, difficult, and deadly situations. That’s what leads to all of this. The Left bears absolute culpability for raising the ante over and over and over again by calling law enforcement officers the “enemy.” There is some dark irony to the fact that two days ago was January 6, and all we heard about from Democrats in Congress was that “federal law enforcement are the best among us and must be protected,” and January 6 was proof that you should never assault an officer. I agree with that, but where’s the consistency? You also shouldn’t do it when it comes to assaulting ICE officers. Or hitting the gas when an ICE officer is in front of your car. So Democrats are back to “federal law enforcement are the bad guys.” Federal law enforcement are the people who have to be “stopped at all costs.” They’re an “anti-civilian paramilitary organization.” This is insane. People will get killed. It will be ICE officers and people who attempt to impede ICE officers in their function of the law and try to hurt them. Stop ramping it up. Stop it. Stop it right now. It is a true act of malicious horror to do what the Left has been doing with regard to impeding ICE operations or other law enforcement operations, and suggesting that the men and women of ICE are the enemy. It leads to precisely this sort of situation.