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 Comedy CentralThat Donald Trump has a tendency toward pettiness is hardly surprising to those who have been paying attention to the former president's antics in recent years. (See Exhibits A, B, C, D, and E.) But a late-night outburst on Wednesday attacking Bill Barr has The Daily Show correspondent and this week's co-host Jordan Klepper declaring the former president the official "King of Pettiness."
Though Trump spent most of Thursday in a New York City courtroom (again) for his hush money trial, Klepper's co-host Ronny Chieng said that it wasn't all bad news for the former president. "After months of calling him unfit for office, Trump's former attorney general Bill Barr said he's voting for him anyway," Chieng shared. "And Trump responded with as much grace as you'd expect."
Just after 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Trump
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A tiny group of lawmakers huddled in private about a year ago, aiming to keep the discussions away from TikTok lobbyists while bulletproofing a bill that could ban the app.
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 AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden signed a bill Wednesday that is likely to result in a nationwide ban of TikTok.
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate voted in favor of the bill, which will require the company to part with its parent company, ByteDance, within a year or risk becoming illegal in the U.S.
The president's signing of the bill is a veritable death sentence for the app, as ByteDance has made no indication it intends to part with its social network baby. Now, the company has 270 days, or roughly nine months, to change its position, a deadline which Biden can extend by 90 days if he so chooses.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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