Donald Trump is a full-fledged celebrity, having somehow gone from a guy who owned a bunch of buildings, to a guy who hosted a reality show, to a guy with a cameo in Home Alone 2, to a guy who costarred in a Bo Derek movie, to a guy running for president. But Trump is not the first—and probably not the last—celebrity to run for office. Here are some of his fabulous predecessors.

1. Clint Eastwood.

The Oscar-winning director of Million Dollar Baby and star of Every Which Way But Loose enjoyed his most famous political moment when he yelled at an empty chair and pretended it was President Obama at the 2012 Republican Convention. But Eastwood boasts actual political experience.

Driven by the desire to serve and to get those damn kids off his lawn, in 1986 Eastwood was elected mayor of the wealthy/artsy/seaside northern California city of Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1986 with 72 percent of the vote.

2. Clay Aiken.

Aiken didn't win American Idol—he was the runner-up to Ruben Studdard in 2003—but he was still one of the show's breakout stars. After a couple of hits, Aiken put music on the back burner, announced that he was gay, and adopted a second career as an activist for LGBT issues.

In 2014, he was the Democratic candidate for a House of Representatives seat for North Carolina. But once a runner-up, always a runner-up—Aiken lostto Republican incumbent Renee Elmers.

3. Roseanne Barr.

The sitcom star and comedian ran for the Green Party nomination for president in 2012. She announced her candidacy on The Tonight Show, along with unveiling her bumper stickers, like one saying, "Finally, a president who can't get the maid pregnant."

Barr promised some major economic reforms if elected, such as the elimination of taxes, student debt, and all money—in favor of a bartering system. (The Green Party ultimately nominated Jill Stein over Barr.)

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

When California governor Gray Davis was recalled in 2003 (only the second successful recall of a governor in U.S. history), a staggering 135 candidates competed to replace him. Because it was California, the ancestral homeland of celebrities, a bunch of famous people appeared on the ballot.

Among them were Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman, melon-smashing "comedian" Gallagher, and the last action hero himself: Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

Schwarzenegger jingled all the way to the governor's mansion and governed California until 2011.

5. A guy from The Real World.

Sean Duffy was on the 1997 season of The Real World. That was the one in Boston where they lived in an converted firehouse and that one cast member gave a kid a sip of wine and got in trouble for it.

Duffy was there, too, but unlike other reality show stars he actually pursued a career that wasn't 25 more reality shows.

He went to law school and was appointed a district attorney in his native Wisconsin in 2002. In 2010, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

6. Jerry Springer.

Before he was the host of The Jerry Springer Show, Jerry Springer led a life worthy of a Jerry Springer Show guest.

After working on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1968 (which ended when Kennedy was assassinated), Springer ran for Congress in Ohio. He lost, but in 1971 he won a spot on Cincinnati's city council.

He resigned the post in 1974 when he was busted in a prostitution sting. Take this pro tip from Springer: Never pay for a hooker with with a check. He was actually reelected anyway in 1975, and in 1977 he was elected mayor of Cincinnati.

In 1980, he ran for governor of Ohio and apologized for the prostitute thing in a campaign ad. (It didn't help, because he didn't win.)

7. Shirley Temple Black.

The legendary child star didn't much pursue a career in entertainment as an adult, choosing public service instead. She unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1967, but no matter. President Richard Nixon appointed her an ambassador to the United Nations two years later. She followed that up with stints as the American ambassador to both Ghana and the former Czechoslovakia.

8. One of the dudes from 98 Degrees.

After Nick Lachey and the one that won Dancing With the Stars,Justin Jeffre is probably the third-most famous member of boy band 98 Degrees (which in turn was the third-most famous boy band, after *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys).

After the boy band era ended in the early 00s, Jeffrie got into politics. He was apparently the Green Party candidate for mayor of Cincinnati in 2005, finishing in fifth place with 708 votes in the primary.

9.Waka Flocka Flame.

On April 20, 2015—that's 4/20, because he's a pothead—the "No Hands" rapper announced his candidacy for president. (He also bucked tradition and named his running mate right away: frequent musical associate DJ Whoo Kid.)

While his platform included such promises as banning dogs from restaurants and making school kids memorize his lyrics, he mainly just wanted to legalize weed.

10. Al Franken.

He was one of the original writers for SNL and was an infrequent performer on the show, too—he's probably best known for his self-help-addicted Stuart Smalley character.

A career of writing satire indirectly led to the Senate, with a stop in between writing political comedy books such as Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot.

In 2008, he ran for a Senate seat as a Democrat against Republican incumbent Norm Coleman. The election was so close a recount was required. Ultimately, Franken prevailed by just 215 votes and wasn't sworn in until July 2009, six months after all the other new senators.

11. Wyclef Jean.

As the front man for the Fugees, the Haitian-American singer/rapper made even casual fans of his music more aware of Haitian culture and politics.

After the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Jean was a big part of relief efforts and announced he wanted to run for president of the island nation. The Haitian government ultimately disqualified him.

For one, he didn't know French, the country's official language. Also, he wasn't a legal resident of Haiti, which is a pretty big requirement for the office.

On Friday, murder suspect Alonso Perez pulled off an impressive escape from an interrogation room at the North Las Vegas Police Department. Perez is accused of killing a man outside a Las Vegas McDonald's. That is very not cool. However, when the detective left the room, Perez managed to break free from his handcuffs and successfully escape through the ceiling. That's a little cool. And the whole thing was caught on security camera (which apparently no one was monitoring during this miraculous escape).

As the tape shows, it seems even Perez was astonished that he broke free from his handcuffs:

Perez was arrested again on the evening of Tuesday, September 6 after a four-hour standoff with police and FBI agents. The second time around, he did not have any tricks up his sleeve to evade capture.

Supreme Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un has just banned all sarcasm about himself or his regime, because he totally loves freedom of speech.

According to the Independent, functionaries were asked to disseminate the message: there will be no criticism of the leader in any conversation.

“One state security official personally organized a meeting to alert local residents to potential ‘hostile actions’ by internal rebellious elements,” a source in Jagang Province told Radio Free Asia’s Korean Service.

Wait, how can they tell if a resident is mocking the regime or being, like, totally serious when they say how great Kim Jong Un's new haircut is? Apparently, the Grand Pooh Bah himself has sussed out specific offending remarks, like a “A fool who cannot see the outside world,” a commonly used phrase in N. Korea that just might refer to the glorious leader himself.

Calling Kim Jong Un a fool doesn't seem so much like sarcasm as it does straight judgment, but maybe we can chalk up the confusion to the fact that Un has probably never had to experience criticism in person. In which case, will someone please explain to him that it isn't sarcasm when we say, "You're oppressing your people, idiot."

Page Six is reporting that Michael Jackson's teen daughter Paris may have gotten hitched to boyfriend Michael Snoddy, who was a pizza delivery guy up until this July. Okay, so he's technically a former pizza delivery guy—it's been reported that he quit his job a couple months ago to move into one of Michael Jackson's old mansions with Paris. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being a pizza delivery guy. You get to be around delicious pizza, drive around the neighborhood blasting music, and get paid for it. That ain't a bad gig.

Anyway, Snoddy has been spotted with a gold band on his ring finger for the past several weeks. The couple have also adopted a dog named Koa, who lives with Jackson and Snoddy in the very home Michael Jackson recorded "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" in. Nice going, Koa.

A source close to Paris also told Page Six that they two are trying to do the "happy family thing" and "refer to themselves as a family a lot." So yeah, although the nuptials are not confirmed, it sounds very serious.

Hopefully, Snoddy is working on finding a new job and not just mooching off of Paris's $8 million yearly allowance from her late father's estate. According to his Instagram, he is currently a drummer. No word on if that pays the bills.

Regardless, the couple does constantly post lovey-dovey Instagrams of each other and they seem very happy. Or maybe that is just what you do when you're two Millennials in a relationship, who knows?

Another day, another woman criticized for her clothing choices in the workplace. This time it's Jana Shortal, an anchor for St. Paul/Minneapolis' KARE11 News.

A columnist for the Star Tribune, C.J.—just C.J., like Madonna or Cher, just less cool—wrote in a column that's now been deleted that Shortal's clothing choices while reporting in the following clip were inappropriate.

C.J. wrote in her column:

She looked great from the waist up in a polka-dot shirt and cool blazer, but the skinny jeans did not work. I was among a number of media types who found them inappropriate and, given the gravity of the day’s subject matter, downright jarring.

If that wasn't enough, she went on to call her outfit disrespectful.

Being hip in skintight pants while discussing this story was unseemly, perhaps disrespectful. Many TV types keep a spare set of clothes around the station just in case what they are wearing isn’t appropriate for what they end up covering. Maybe Shortal doesn’t.

Keep in mind, Shortal's clothes had nothing to do with the story. C.J. chose to make the clothes the story, taking away focus from the grieving family of Jacob Wetterling, a young boy whose remains were finally found some 20 years after he was abducted.

Shortal went on to post on Facebook:

You made it about my pants.
You. You, whose name I will never write again.
You. You with the column I will not link to.
You. The bully with the keyboard who took this night, this story, and made into gossip about my pants.
Shame on you.
You suggest this: “I would think that hipness wouldn’t be a priority while covering one of the biggest, saddest stories in Minnesota history.”
You are at least correct on that.
It wasn’t.

I wore my clothes. The clothes it took me a very long time to feel comfortable in no thanks to the bullies like you who tried to shame me out of them.

Shortal is actually well known for her style. She wrote about her personal journey for the Star Tribune back in June in a piece called, "I'm a TV newswoman, and no thanks on the lady uniform."

Meanwhile C.J., whose Twitter bio includes, "Let's dish, baby!" is handling all this attention in the most mature of ways.

According to Jezebel, San Antonio based store Miracle Mattress decided to commemorate the 15th anniversary of 9/11 by having something called a "Twin Towers sale."

If you think that name is tasteless, just wait until you see what they did for the commercial to promote the sale.

The video was originally uploaded to the company's Facebook page, but was quickly taken down once people starting pointing out how absurdly f-ed up it was.

According toThe Dallas News, the video was lead by store manager Cherise Bonnano. Bonnano released a tearful apology to News 4 San Antonio.

"We're Miracle Mattress, we make miracles happen!" —an actual quote from the video.

The company's owner, Mike Bonnano, also released the following statement on the Miracle Mattress Facebook page:

Effective immediately, Miracle Mattress will review our entire marketing strategy to ensure a stringent approval process will be in place to stop this from ever happening again. We will also engage a personnel review to hold these employees accountable for their actions.

Miracle Mattress says that 30% of the sales this weekend will go to the 9/11 foundation, but at this point it seems verrrrrrry unlikely that anyone will be shopping at Miracle Mattress any time soon.

We can just picture Drake, head in hands from embarrassment, after seeing his dad, Dennis Graham, talk to TMZ about his love life. Even though we've seen example after example after example of a Drake/Rihanna romance, Graham says they're "just friends."

Side note: Of course Drake's dad is surrounded by a group of women!

When asked if he thinks the relationship between Drake and Rihanna will last, Graham responds,

There's no relationship, they're friends.

Sure, we totally believe Papa Drake. Because this is how friends dance.

And this is how friends hug.

Yeah, just friends.

You may think you're a savvy, cynical 21st Century human who knows damn well that the wedding your family just went into debt to put on was a bit overpriced, but you don't know the half of it. The explainer show Adam Ruins Everything took on the biggest lie in American romance—bigger even than the lies we tell ourselves about fixing our partners' personalities—weddings, and ruined the living **** out of it. Spoiler alerts: every aspect of it was dreamed up by ad men and jacked up to the highest price possible.

Tony Marrero was at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12 when 49 people lost their lives in that tragic mass shooting, and on Thursday he was a guest on Ellen, where he said that listening to Katy Perry's song "Rise" helped him deal with his pain and sadness afterwards. And since Ellen is a magical fairy godmother, she secretly arranged for Perry to come out and surprise Marrero. Good luck not sobbing as both Marrero and Perry burst into tears meeting each other.

Marrero called Perry "amazing" and that was before she told him that she wanted to help him achieve his dreams by paying for his first year of film school. So much hugging and so much crying—not a dry eye in the house. Hope you brought tissues.

Ladies, cancel your Tinders. You can achieve an orgasm without a man, woman or sex robot. You don't even have to remove your sweatpants to climax with these 9 surprising orgasm inducers.

1. Exercising

If this doesn't get you to the gym, nothing will. A 2012 study confirmed 40% of women experience Coregasms, or orgasms from exercise. (Well, 40% of women who exercise, anyway.) I've never been into fitness, but I do get a funny feeling when I watch this Jazzercise video of Alan Thicke singing "Sweaty and Hot."

2. Sleeping

Wet dreams aren't just for horndog teenage boys! Women can orgasm during the REM stage of sleep as well. Barbara Bartlik, M.D., a New York-based psychiatrist and sex therapist says, “These orgasms often accompany erotic dreams, but they also may occur during dreams of a non-erotic nature.” I haven't got off during any of my recurring tooth-loss anxiety dreams, but here's hoping.

3. Childbirth

A shocking 6% of women experience an orgasm during labor. It's pure science, says Christiane Northrup, a certified OB-GYN. When a baby is shooting down the birth canal, it's stimulates the exact same spots that would be stimulated for an orgasm. That's slightly awkward when your whole family's in the room, but you deserve it, Mom.

4. Haircuts & whispers

Ever got a haircut so good you had an orgasm? It's a real phenomenon called Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. ASMR is basically a braingasm that's triggered by anything from haircuts to YouTube videos of people whispering, tapping their fingernails or folding towels. Seriously, this towel folding video has over a million views.

5. Thinking

Meditation is good for relaxation, but did you know it can bring you pleasure as well? New York-based sex coach Barbara Carrellas says you can think your way to an orgasm without genital touch or stimulation. It's called "thinking off," and you can learn how to do it here:

6. Yawning

While under the influence of the anti-depressant Clomipramine, some patients reported having orgasms whenever they yawned. This really would have come in handy the time I dated that really boring guy who talked exactly like Forrest Gump.

7. Yoga

20% of women experience Yogasms, which is an orgasm from yoga, not severe stomach cramps after eating expired Activia. Yogasms do not come from stimulation or attraction to your instructor, but from the activation of pelvic floor muscles. This really puts the "OM" in OMG.

8. Horseback riding

Romance novels ain't no joke. Many women experience The Big O while horseback riding. If you have Equinophobia, aka fear of horses, you can apparently get this same erotic sensation from a bicycle, bus, motorcycle or bumpy train.

9. Eating lobster and getting compliments from hunks.

Ok, I made this one up, but I'm willing to give it a try.

A flock of conspiracy theorists knew Taylor Swift was trouble when she walked in, because she's a clone born from the DNA of a renowned satanist. Stay with me on this one.

With her particular pout, some people believe Swift bares an uncanny resemblance to Zeena Schreck LaVey, the daughter of the founder of the Church of Satan. So, the First Daughter of satanists.

A clip of LaVey on "Good Morning LA" back in the day has gone viral (because of the Swift resemblance, not because of a renewed interest in Satanism).

Twitter and Tumblr are on to this likeness, debating whether Swift is a clone, reincarnation, or relative of the satanic priestess.

Theorists are speculating that this cloning is part of a vast Illuminati plot.

The illuminati is known for doing this. They clone successful and influential people that will continue to carry out their sinister agenda for mankind ( keanu Reeves, mark zuckerberg, many other celebs) look into it.
The video #badblood itself has a lot of satanic symbols and messages. Here it shows "catastrophe" (swift ) kicked out the window by "arsyn" ( #SelenaGomez). Then it shows swift getting her body reconstructed making her superhuman or maybe immortal.
Hebrew #gematria word value for "zeena Taylor bad blood" is "identical twins" with a number value at "1330" which "33" is obviously associated with the illuminati. "Catastrophe" has an English #gematria word value of " devil horns" and "keanu Reeves" Coincidence?? "Arsyn" has a word value for "hexagram" and "funeral" ( swift appeared dead in the video ).

The theory has been around for a year, and the sheeple are just beginning to wake up.

But if Swift has made a deal with the devil, wouldn't that justbe another man she's orchestrated a relationship with?

Jessica Meir, NASA astronaut and comparative physiologist, tweeted a short video on September 9, accompanied by some text saying that she was entering a space equivalent zone for the first time in her career, an atmosphere so inhospitable that water boils spontaneously.

Luckily for scientist Jessica Meir, a random dude—whose bio mentioned "@SpaceCampUSA alum"—was on hand to correct her explanation, tweeting, "Wouldn't say it's spontaneous. The pressure in the room got below the vapor pressure of the water at room temp. Simple thermo."

You'd think Meir would know what she was talking about, what with being an astronaut and all, but the guy disagreed.

People on Twitter, however, weren't going to let his "actually" go, replying to his response with jokes, because mansplaining space to an astronaut is very funny.

Unfortunately, there will be no more chances to laugh at the mansplainer, as he's since deactivated his Twitter account.

But not before complaining about people being offended that he had the audacity to correct an astronaut at her job, tweeting: "Again, I forget how everyone gets offended by everything."

But before he went, someone was kind enough to explain the difference between "offended" and "amused" to him.

On Thursday, newly blond Kylie Jenner snapchatted her hand sporting a diamond ring from her boyfriend, Tyga, that has to weigh five pounds. She included the text, "If this is my promise ring, I wanna know what my engagement ring gonna look like."

Well, Kylie, I guess that depends on how much money you give Tyga to spend on it.

The ring showed up just one day after Jenner's brother-in-law, Kanye West, announced that he'd signed Tyga to his record label, G.O.O.D. Music.

Jenner bought Tyga a Bentley after his Ferrari was apparently repossessed in August, which is weird because earlier in the month he bought Jenner a Mercedes for her birthday. Last year he bought her a Ferrari, so giving each other cars seems to be fairly routine for this couple.

Maybe her engagement ring will just be a Lamborghini with a gold band attached to it.

Gilmore Girls is coming baaaaack! And Lauren Graham aka Lorelai Gilmore has confirmed what we all already knew: it's a *whispers* feminist show. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, she said she wants us to stop obsessing over who the main characters will end up with (Luke and Jess respectively, please God).

“[Rory and Lorelai’s] main strength, even if they believe in true love, is that they have themselves and they have each other,” Graham said. “The show is sneakily feminist in that it’s always been great for them to have love, but they’re also okay when they don’t."

She continued:

It’s why we sometimes bristle at: What team are you on?! It’s like: It doesn’t matter. Rory’s going to be great no matter what. And I think that’s an underlying message of the show, too.

Sure, it would be ideal if the show didn't have to "sneak" in their feminist message. But feminism is one of those things that you have to be subtle about, like coriander.

Alexis Bledel, who plays Rory, seems to agree. She said during the show's multi-year hiatus she was not pondering which dude Rory would date. “I didn’t even think about it!” Bledel told EW. “I was wondering what [Rory] had accomplished in her career. I wanted there to be a payoff after all her hard work.”

I think we can all agree this is an important message about female empowerment. And also Rory should choose Jess.

After a serious assault took place, British police sent out a map of the assailant's possible location in the hopes to find a witness that could put him in jail. That map had a strikingly familiar shape.

Ok so, that's a penis. And, according to one tweeter, it was a "giant red one." Ugh, the best kind.

Avon and Somerset Police take all inquiries seriously, and responded in kind.

So awesome they have free health care in England. In an effort not to cock it up again, police decided to heal their map, and changed it to this more healthy and ambiguous shape:

Maybe this is a less specific way to find a dangerous criminal, but at least no one has to look at that giant dick.

Air China apologized to frequent flyers and a huge chunk of the population for a straight-up racist "warning" in their in-flight magazine.

“London is generally a safe place to travel,” the magazine Wings of China told people who bothered to take it out of the seat pocket. “However, precautions are needed when entering areas mainly populated by Indians, Pakistanis and black people.”

Air China would likely advise its travelers to fear the MAYOR of London, Sadiq Khan, a Brit with Pakistani parents.

The airline decided to apologize for its fear-mongering about spooky ethnic minorities.

As a civil aviation tourist magazine, Wings of China has always been trying to present the local cultures and customs to our vast readers, and eager to exploit the beauty of the world along with our readers. The inappropriate expressions in the article are merely the mistakes made by the editors, and by no means represent the views of the magazine...We also would love to send sincere apologies via Air China to all the readers and passengers who feel uncomfortable because of this.

Take precautions when traveling to China, lest you run into the racist writer for the in-flight magazine. Or, don't make such generalizations at all.

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