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Kanye West. The way things are going on public platforms these days, you simply never know.

Stacey Dash’s days with Fox News are over and her controvers­ial claim to fame is fast fizzling out.

The former actress refuses to see colour and reckons Black History Month and BET are examples of double standards. She thought she’d make fun of transgende­r people in the process and is not sorry for her comments on air. Sadly, she will continue to tweet.

Trump is here

Anti-Trump fever gripped the divided nation of America as The Donald’s inaugurati­on inched closer and closer like an ending of sorts. It appears, though, that all the protests and incisive #WomensMarc­h placards in the world couldn’t keep their new president away and winter at bay. That didn’t stop them from trying.

From Beyoncé and U2 to Steve Wonder and Sheryl Crow, every musician with a career took the moral high ground and snubbed offers to perform at Trump’s pageant.

Singer Chrisette Michele wasn’t going to be the one to turn down a job and she was the lone black voice performing at the inaugurati­on, much to black America’s collective “WTF? What are you doing, girl?”

She joins the troubling list of celebritie­s who’ve appeared on our timelines pictured as besties with Trump.

On his first day in office, Trump pulled one hell of a throwback out of his hat of backward tricks. He signed an anti-abortion order and reinstated a ban on United States funds promoting abortion.

The cruel joke here is on those who believe that the new president of the US is pro-life by any stretch of the imaginatio­n.

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Photo: Alon Skuy/The Times/Gallo Images

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