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.

A new position will be created by the Justice Department to target fraud in Minnesota and across the country, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday. Vance said that a new assistant attorney general position out of the Justice Department would be formed to focus on fraud in Minnesota. The announcement comes as there have been allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota from fake daycare centers to other welfare fraud schemes. “To make sure that we prosecute the bad guys and do it as swiftly and efficiently as possible … we are creating a new assistant attorney general position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud,” Vance said at a press briefing. “Now, of course, that person’s efforts will start and focus primarily in Minnesota, but it is going to be a nationwide effort, because unfortunately, the American people have been defrauded in a very nationwide way.” ? @VP announces the Trump Administration will create a new Assistant Attorney General position who will have nationwide jurisdiction over the issue of fraud — focusing first primarily in Minnesota, then expanding nationwide. pic.twitter.com/QnU1pti7kM — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) January 8, 2026 Vance said the new position was part of the administration’s interagency efforts to go after fraud he said was present in states like California, Minnesota, and Ohio. “If you’re a young parent struggling to afford childcare in the United States of America, there are programs that we have to make it easier for your kids to get in daycare, for your kids to get in preschool,” Vance said. “Those programs should go to American citizens, not be defrauded by Somali immigrants, and others.” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said he welcomed the announcement from Vance. “Pres Trump/VP Vance’s announcement of a new Asst Atty General at Dept of Justice focused on fraud is GR8 NEWS 4 the American taxpayer Once Pres Trump selects his nominee I look fwd 2 overseeing their nomination,” Grassley posted on X. Allegations of fraud in Minnesota, especially perpetrated by Somali immigrants in Minneapolis, have been the focus of the Trump administration in recent weeks, with federal law enforcement surging to the area. Last week, the Department of Health and Human Services paused all childcare payments to the state of Minnesota while it investigated allegations that millions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled to fraudulent daycares across the state throughout the past ten years. Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler said last week that her team had identified around $400 million in loans that may have been fraudulently obtained through the Paycheck Protection Program and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program. As a result, 6,900 borrowers in Minnesota were suspended from participating in SBA loan programs and could face further punishment. In a larger move, the department also froze funding for programs that provide childcare and food assistance in California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and New York as officials probe whether the benefits are being illegally funneled to non-citizens. The specific programs being halted in those states are the Child Care Development Fund, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, and the Social Services Block Grant program.

The most recent season of Dancing with the Stars kept fans on the edge of their seats. We positively loved watching the contestants, particularly Robert Irwin and Witney Carson. Not only did they capture America’s hearts, but they also took home the coveted Len Goodman Mirrorball Trophy. To make the win even sweeter, Robert won the competition nearly 10 years to the day after his sister, Bindi Irwin, was crowned DWTS champ. We love Robert Irwin, and the whole family here in the States, but it looks like he’s officially headed back to work in Australia. @robertirwin See you at Australia Zoo. Can’t wait to be back ♬ Back In Black – AC/DC Robert Irwin Shared His Plans to Head Back to Australia on Social Media As much as Robert Irwin loved his time in the United States, a recent TikTok shows just how excited he is to return to Australia. He shared on TikTok that beginning January 8, he’ll be back at the Australia Zoo just in time for the school holiday. “It’s gonna be my first time feeding a crocodile in about… five months,” Robert Irwin joked. “What could possibly go wrong?” Robert set the video to AC/DC’s Back in Black just to give it a bit more pizazz. And of course, he ended with that same grin that had all the ladies swooning. Learning that Robert Irwin would be back in Australia made lots of people happy. “Omg!!! I’m literally heading to Australia now!!!! Woohoo!!!!” Someone wrote. “YAYYYYYYY- he’s finally coming home,” another person cheered. “That means.. I need to book my Australia trip asap,” a happy traveler remarked. Robert Irwin will be back in Australia just in time to make this fan’s birthday dream come true. “Jan 8th is my birthday! This is the best present I could ask for!!!,” They wrote. Robert Irwin is a treasure, and his smile is infectious. We’re excited to see what 2026 has in store for him. This story’s featured image is by Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage.

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