{"id":95010,"date":"2026-04-26T22:39:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=95010"},"modified":"2026-04-26T22:39:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:39:18","slug":"cho-griffin-and-madonna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2026\/04\/26\/cho-griffin-and-madonna\/","title":{"rendered":"Cho, Griffin and Madonna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Margaret Cho <\/strong>made a not-particularly startling revelation \u2013 Donald Trump tried to get her to compete on <strong><em>The Celebrity Apprentice<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cI was asked several times to be on it, season after season, and they kept saying, \u2018Well, Donald Trump really loves you.&nbsp; Please come on,\u2019 and I just had a bad feeling about it.\u201d&nbsp; She didn\u2019t completely boycott the show \u2013 she showed up during the 2010 season to assist pal <strong>Cyndi Lauper <\/strong>in a challenge.&nbsp; But, it didn\u2019t end there.&nbsp; In 2016, Cho heard from Trump\u2019s lawyer, <strong>Michael Cohen<\/strong>.&nbsp; \u201cHe somehow got my email and was really begging me to become part of the campaign.&nbsp; And I\u2019m like \u2018That\u2019s insane.\u2019&nbsp; I\u2019m a lifelong Democrat.&nbsp; Why would I back somebody that I didn\u2019t know anything about?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathy Griffin <\/strong>waded into political waters by making a revelation of her own.&nbsp; \u201cI donated $10,000 to the <strong>Eric Swalwell <\/strong>campaign last November and today <em>Team Swalwell <\/em>gave me the 10K back!!!&nbsp; I want you guys to know that I turned right around and gave that same $10,000 to <strong>Amy Goodman <\/strong>and @DemocracyNow.&nbsp; You want legit, tried and true independent, NON CORPORATE journalism, keep up with @democracynow, and Amy Goodman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-568\" src=\"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/colorbar1.gif\" alt=\"colorbar1\" width=\"500\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>In a late-breaking diva moment, <strong>Madonna <\/strong>showed up at <strong><em>The Abbey <\/em><\/strong>in WeHo to celebrate owner <strong>Tristan Schukraft<\/strong>\u2019s birthday.&nbsp; She had on one of those outfits worn in competition by <strong>Tara Lipinski <\/strong>(or was it <strong>Johnny Weir<\/strong>?&nbsp; I get them confused all the time).&nbsp; \u201cHello, children, mutha is here to save you,\u201d she said from the DJ booth.&nbsp; \u201cAre you ready to dance for me?&nbsp; Come on, meet me on the dance floor.&nbsp; Alright, let\u2019s go gays, come on.&nbsp; Don\u2019t let me down, gays.\u201d&nbsp; Then she sang, danced, served a few drinks, emptied a few ashtrays.&nbsp; You know, the usual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Cho made a not-particularly startling revelation \u2013 Donald Trump tried to get her to compete on The Celebrity Apprentice.&nbsp; \u201cI was asked several times to be on it, season after season, and they kept saying, \u2018Well, Donald Trump really loves you.&nbsp; Please come on,\u2019 and I just had a bad feeling about it.\u201d&nbsp; She<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95011,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95010\/revisions\/95011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}