A couple of weeks ago, on February 25, CNN’s Have I Got News For You comedian Michael Ian Black claimed on the similarly named Have I Got News For Your Ears podcast that in 20 years, serial killer John Wayne Gacy will have a higher approval rating than President Trump. Black began his wild, Jimmy Kimmel-esque diatribe by declaring, “His legacy is he's going to be—” Before Black could finish, co-producer Jim Biederman interrupted to claim, “The most corrupt president ever in the history of this country.” Black, however, resumed by taking it one step further, “I think the most reviled American who ever lived.” Black then wondered, “Like is there, is there one that will be remembered worse?”   A couple of weeks ago, CNN's Michael Ian Black said on the "Have I Got News For You" podcast, "His [Trump's] legacy is he's going to be I think the most reviled American who ever lived...If you look at the favorability ratings in 20 years, Trump will be lower than [John Wayne]… pic.twitter.com/dGPPWRAvbG — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 11, 2026   Co-producer Jodi Lennon thought the idea seemed fair, “Oh, who's the second? Who’s the second in the list?” as Biederman suggested Gacy might be worse. Black stuck with his original idea, “I don't think so,” and after another interjection from Biedermann, continued, “If you look at the favorability ratings in 20 years, Trump will be lower than Gacy, because Trump did much—Trump destroyed so many more lives in Gacy. According to Black, Trump’s strike on drug boats make the analogy appropriate, “What's Gacy’s body count? 60? I mean, Trump blows up that many in a boat on the weekend.” After the trio expressed shock that, in the words of Biedermann, “they've killed a hundred people,” Lennon lamented, “Everything's so hard to keep track of.” That led Black to do some self-promotion, “That's why shows like, Have I Got News For You exists.” That actually raises an interesting question for CNN: Is this the kind of intellectual rigor that you are proud to put on the air? Or would CNN staffers rather just whine about Scott Jennings? Here is a transcript for the February 25 show: CNN Have I Got News for Your Ears 2/25/2026 MICHAEL IAN BLACK: His legacy is he's going to be— JIM BIEDERMAN: The most corrupt president ever in the history of this country. BLACK: — I think the most reviled— JODI LENNON: Yeah. BLACK: American who ever lived. BIEDERMAN: Not just president. BLACK: No, American. BIEDERMAN: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. BLACK: Like is there, is there one that will be remembered worse? BIEDERMAN: John Wayne Gacy? LENNON: Oh, who's the second? Who’s the second in the list? BLACK: I don't think so. BIEDERMAN: You think Gacy is going to be below? BLACK: If you look at the favorability ratings in 20 years, Trump will be lower than Gacy, because Trump did much—Trump destroyed so many more lives than Gacy. LENNON: Yeah. BLACK: What's Gacy’s body count? 60? BIEDERMAN: Yeah, something—not even that. BLACK: I mean, Trump blows up that many in a boat on the weekend. BIEDERMANN: That's right. BLACK: That's what he's doing. BIEDERMAN: I heard a weird—that they've killed a hundred people. BLACK: Over a hundred. BIEDERMAN: Over a hundered. LENNON: Everything's so hard to keep track of. BIEDERMAN: Well, you know— BLACK: That's why—that's why shows like Have I Got News For You exists. 

President Donald Trump, committed to toppling Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie (R), is traveling on Wednesday to the congressman's district to support his Republican challenger Ed Gallrein at Hebron's Verst Logistics packaging facility.Bad bloodMassie first drew the president's ire in a big way in 2020 when he delayed Trump's $2 trillion COVID relief package.Although the antagonism between the two men apparently subsided — Trump endorsed Massie in 2022 and characterized him as a "first-rate Defender of the Constitution" — their detente proved short-lived.It certainly did not help that Massie backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 Republican presidential primary; voted against Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act; criticized the president over his administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files; and publicly opposed the current and previous U.S. military actions against Iran; or that the president, in turn, branded Massie's Trump-voting wife a "Radical Left 'flamethrower'" and repeatedly called for the congressman's removal both from office and the GOP.Trump allies are also behind the political action committee that has spent over $1 million on anti-Massie ads in Massie's 4th congressional district.Trump's championOn Tuesday, Trump once again identified his champion in the campaign to unseat Massie: Ed Gallrein, a farmer and Navy SEAL combat veteran whose website notes that he's "fighting for President Trump's and the Republican Party's America First Agenda."'Trump fans in KY-4 and across the entire Commonwealth also support my work.'While Trump originally endorsed Gallrein in October, the candidate officially filed to run on Tuesday.After saying that Massie — a lawmaker with a 86.53% lifetime Turning Point Action score and a 90.74% score this Congress — is the "Worst 'Republican' Congressman we have had in many years," Trump stated that "the person that will help us do the job, and do it right, is Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, Fifth Generation Kentucky Farmer, and American Hero, Captain Ed Gallrein, a true Patriot."RELATED: Trump holds off on Texas Senate endorsement to pressure GOP to deliver on 'No. 1 priority' legislation: Report Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty ImagesTrump urged individuals thinking about running against Massie to "rally behind Captain Ed Gallrein, the Candidate who is, far and away, best positioned to DEFEAT Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie."The president noted in a separate post hours before making the trip to Kentucky, "Massie, who is running against a great American Patriot in the Kentucky Primary, will hopefully lose BIG."Blaze News reached out to Massie's office for comment but did not receive a response by deadline.Massie claimed in an X post ahead of Trump's visit that interlopers may discover "Trump fans in KY-4 and across the entire Commonwealth [who] also support my work in the Epstein files, reigning in spending, ending forever wars, draining the swamp, and food freedom!"The congressman also released an attack ad this week, amplified by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), that portrays Gallrein as a fair-weather friend who abandoned Trump and left the GOP just after the president secured the Republican nomination in 2016.The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the voter registration cards referenced by Massie indicate that Gallrein changed his voter registration from Republican to independent on May 18, 2016 — around the same time Trump won the GOP nomination.Gallrein reportedly registered as a Republican again in June 2021, when he decided to launch his unsuccessful campaign for the Kentucky Senate.Gallrein's spokeswoman Alexandra Wilkes told the Enquirer that Massie, not Trump, prompted his flight from the Republican Party."Ed briefly changed registration out of frustration with the broken system Congressman Massie created in his district, which hurt the Republican Party, and he is proud to stand with President Trump and true conservative Republicans," said Wilkes.As of midday Wednesday, the prediction market Kalshi put Massie's chance of securing the Republican nomination at 58% and Gallrein's chance at 43%.Massie faced two challengers in the 2024 GOP primary for Kentucky's 4th congressional district and secured 75.9% of the vote. He went on to net 99.6% of the vote in the general election.The primary election takes place on May 19.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Stabbing suspects are seen laughing and smiling on surveillance video apparently after they ganged up on a lone victim in a Maryland mall restroom.Montgomery County Police in a Monday news release said a male victim around noon Feb. 4 entered the Wheaton Mall in the 11100 block of Veirs Mill Road and went to a restroom.'And you wonder why I need a 30-round magazine?'While inside the restroom, police said seven suspects armed with knives approached him, assaulted him, and stabbed him in the arm before leaving the scene.The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries and received medical treatment at an area hospital, police said.Police said they are looking for five unknown Hispanic juvenile males and two unknown black juvenile males; authorities are calling the incident a first-degree assault.Police released video below showing surveillance clips of the suspects in the mall. One clip shows the suspects entering a restroom and then running out of the restroom and down a hallway. A subsequent clip shows some of the suspects smiling and laughing as they walk down what appears to be the same hallway.RELATED: Blaze News original: 19 nauseating times cowardly thugs ganged up on — and savagely beat up — lone victims Police said those with information regarding the suspects or this crime are asked to visit the Crime Solvers of Montgomery County website at www.crimesolversmcmd.org and click on the “www.p3tips.com” link at the top of the page or call 1-866-411-8477.Police added that a reward of up to $10,000 is being offered for information that leads to the suspects' arrest, and tips may remain anonymous.A number of commenters under WJLA-TV's Facebook post about the incident posted rather pointed reactions:"They won't be smiling for long," one user declared."This is why I go NOWHERE without my legal semi-automatic hole puncher," another commenter said. "This story would have read very different[ly] with a few obituaries and some shiny personalized bracelets for the rest. Sharing is caring.""And this is why I stay strapped," another user noted."And you wonder why I need a 30-round magazine?" another commenter offered."That's why we carry our guns and MUST use them at times like this ... stopping threats, teaching lessons to filthy criminals, [deterring] crime, and protecting ourselves," another user said. "It's time We The People make it like the good [old] days.""That’s when you draw your pistol and tell them about the lack of wisdom in bringing a knife to a gunfight," another commenter stated.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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