Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Names and faces
• Chrissy Teigen, John
Legend and President
Donald Trump were yelling at one another Sunday on Twitter over MSNBC’s coverage of criminal justice reform, which led to a profane hashtag referring to Trump. By Monday, that hashtag had spawned
— with no help from the three parties involved — a less profane one referring to Teigen:#fil thy mouthed wife .“When all of the people pushing so hard for Criminal Justice Reform were unable to come even close to getting it done, they came to me as a group and asked for my help,” Trump tweeted, promoting his support for a bipartisan 2018 legislative effort pushed by adviser Jared Kushner. “I got it done with a group of Senators & others who would never have gone for it. Obama couldn’t come close … .” Trump noted that when he signed the bipartisan bill many people were “profusely grateful.” Republicans, he said, deserved praise. Then his series of tweets launched in on Legend and Teigen. “Guys like boring musician johnlegend, and his filthy mouthed wife, are talking now about how great [criminal justice reform] is — but I didn’t see them around when we needed help getting it passed,” Trump wrote. Legend, of course, replied. “Imagine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody — ANYBODY — will praise you. Melania, please praise this man. He needs you,” Legend wrote. Trump apparently couldn’t or didn’t want to mention Teigen by name, which she noticed. “(T) agged everyone but me. an honor, mister president,” she wrote. In his tweets, Trump had tagged not only Legend but also CNN host Van Jones, who works with the Reform Alliance, and NBC Nightly News host Lester Holt, who hosted Life Inside, the MSNBC special that the president appeared to be reacting to. “(T)he absolute best part of his tweet is I literally didn’t speak in the special, nor was I mentioned. I’m cackling at the pointless addition of me,” Teigen tweeted. She then leveraged her 11.5 million followers and Legend used his 12.9 million to get the profane hashtag trending. The hash tag# filthy mouthed wife appears to have come later, as people seized on the phrase.
• David Lee Roth, the high-kicking lead singer of the rock band Van Halen is jumping to Las Vegas. The rocker will have a mini-residence at the House of Blues in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. He’ll be performing Jan. 8, Jan. 10-11 and March 18, March 20-21, March 25 and March 27-28. Tickets go on sale Saturday. Roth said in a statement: “A weekend with me is interactive way beyond just music. It starts with the best food on Earth. The fellas smoke their three cigarettes for the year and we all stay up way past our bedtime!” He’ll join a long list of artists with Vegas residencies that includes Britney Spears, Bruno Mars, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Aerosmith, Pitbull and Gwen Stefani.