It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.
Dolly Parton has left an incredible legacy across the world for her music, philanthropy & the Imagination Library.
Thanks to her generosity & light, 306,352 free books have been delivered to families across Pittsburgh. We honor her lasting impact throughout the community.
A well-earned place among the greats.
The Penguins have named Marc-Andre Fleury, Larry Murphy, Jim Rutherford, and Jack McGregor to the Penguins Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.
I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.
My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.
Breaking News: Federal officials acknowledged in court documents that they canceled grants to states that didn’t vote for President Trump in 2024. https://t.co/FeH69OK3fq
The President is once again pushing a button to raise our prices and screw over Pennsylvania farmers and businesses.
Canada is our Commonwealth's largest trading partner — and these knee-jerk, reckless tariffs are hurting our economy, jacking up costs for Pennsylvania families, and closing off markets for our businesses.
I think about this all the time. The weakest people need a strongman. But the strongmen are always weak and broken themselves. They break things because they are broken. They are cruel because they are weak. We are living through an age of weak and broken men.
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
🚨 TRUMP’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE JUST DROPPED…AND IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT.
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s 927-page financial disclosure today. Here’s what a sitting U.S. President made in 2025:
💰 $635 MILLION from the TRUMP memecoin, while retail investors watched it crash from $74 to $1.68
💰 $594 MILLION from World Liberty Financial token and stablecoin sales, a crypto venture co-founded with his own sons
💰 $65 MILLION from selling equity in that same company
💰 $80+ MILLION in media settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and YouTube, paid to his own presidential library
Total crypto haul: over $1.4 BILLION. In one year. While serving as President of the United States.
His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office.
And while Trump pocketed $1.4 billion from crypto, the everyday Americans who bought his memecoin? They lost. 764,000 wallets ended up in the red.
This is the most corrupt presidency in American history. Period.