Drew Kerr

Thoughts on Bill Maher’s interview with Billy Joel (golden opportunity if there ever was one):

1) He’s musically semi-illiterate.

2) He needs to shut up after asking a question.

3) You don’t tell Billy Joel what to do.

4) He’s very annoying.

It may seem this way to The NY Times but not anybody else I know — including me. As a matter of fact, all the Sunday morning talk shows were all over it.

Bizarre CNN segment — they said there was a highly viral video from Coldplay concert where somebody got caught on kiss cam but “couldn’t confirm”who it involved, so they just showed Chris Martin footage.

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron already confessed in a public statement yesterday afternoon!!

There should be an official ban on all articles that feature lists and have the words “so far” in their headlines.

We are halfway through 2025 and these have got to be some be some of the most wasteful click-bait-y laziest articles in the journalism universe.

What Trump tax bill?

Bloomberg reports this remarkable statistic that says a lot about how people are receiving news:

A 6/27 poll from Priorities USA finds that 48% of Americans haven’t heard about Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.

NYC’s mayoral race is shaping up to be a flat-out class war between the rich and everybody else.

If corrupt and incompetent Eric Adams is re-elected, most New Yorkers are going to be very angry at the system and who is running the show.

NYC’s mayoral race is shaping up to be a flat-out class war between the rich and everybody else.

If corrupt and incompetent Eric Adams is re-elected, most New Yorkers are going to be very angry at the system and who is running the show.

Nobody wants to visit Trump’s America. On my United flight from Berlin to NYC, at least one third of the seats are empty.

The NY Times’ illustration accompanying their erectile dysfunction article is as subtle as a sledgehammer.

On Chicago’s historical Alta Vista Terrace, you see beautiful row houses from the early 1900’s and this in one of the windows.

Get a load of this:

Barrons says the yields for long-term Apple debt are higher than the 10-year Treasury.

Apple has a better bond rating than the US.

“Kid Rock’s Big A-- Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse in Tennessee shuttered after employees not authorized to work in the U.S. failed to show up Saturday, and those who did turn up were told that any undocumented workers should leave to avoid being caught by ICE.”

I just received my first e-mail from a major NYC theater asking for a donation to make up for the pulled NEA funding.

“We were counting on this money, but the government’s action won’t stop us.”

It is hard to believe what is going on in our country. Stunning and sad.

When the NYT is obsessed with a movie, they never stop writing about it, as if it’s the only movie around. This past winter, it was “A Complete Unknown.” Every conceivable angle, like squeezing water from a stone.

Currently, it’s “Sinners.”

Trump vs China.

Trump blinked.

My NY Times phone alerts between 9 am and 10 am ET.

Senate vote for Rubio to become Secretary of State: 99-0.

Despite The NY Times’ 3,794 articles about “Severance” these past three months, many friends (including myself) found season two to be mostly an incoherent mess. #severance

I am incredibly bored with The NY Times finding a different Democratic politician every other week to profile or wrote a op-ed about how the Dems need to get in touch with real people.

It’s beating a dead horse already.

Each one is virtually the same.

Move on, please.

As a leadership communications trainer, this is not what I would call a firm, powerful response for a prime minister. If he’s going to be reacting on a regular basis to Trump behavior, he can’t call things “crazy.” He needs to have bite and wit.

Little Marco is LOOONG past that mark of self-respect.

I guess Rachel Zegler can’t be too “embattled,” Page Six, if she’s taking the lead on “Evita” in London’s west end.

“Donald Trump may as well be the president of Colombia University.”

— best line in this morning’s @hellgatenyc.com.

Can everybody — especially the media — start calling it “Trumponomics” now??

Overheard in front of Austin Convention Center: woman on her mobile phone…

“Why would you waste valuable SXSW time by working out?”

#sxsw

I’ve lost count of how many times Trump has threatened Hamas to release all the hostages “or else” since Election Day.

Not sure it’s crowded yet compared to the last mayoral race, when over 20 people were running by primary time.

Anytime a politician uses the word “concerned” on social media or an interview, a child goes to be hungry.

Why do so many Trump voters say “I never thought he would…” when he spent his entire first term doing many of those things that people thought he wouldn’t do!

They took one for the team.