One of the most unforgettable political moments of 2012 happened at the Republican National Convention, and it wasn't because of a politician — it was because of a celebrity.

No one can forget Clint Eastwood's odd ramblings to an empty chair, dubbed "Invisible Obama." 

This time around, the GOP has a different assortment of celebrities to bolster its presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump. Scott Baio and Antonio Sabato Jr. spoke Monday night, and several other reality TV stars are scheduled to appear.

Trump has found support among many celebrities, in addition to politicians and pundits — like Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter — though many aren't necessarily making their way to Cleveland this week for the RNC. Fox News reports that Kid Rock, Dave Navarro, and Mark McGrath are all scheduled to play, but it's unclear which other famous faces will be seen.

Here are 30 celebrities and entertainment figures, from Mike Tyson to Kirstie Alley, who are showing their support for Trump, whether in Cleveland or elsewhere:

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Scott Baio

The "Happy Days" and "Joanie Loves Chachi" star has previously said he likes how Trumps communicates. ("He speaks like I speak," he told FoxNews’ Judge Jeanine Pirro.) Baio is also one of the few celebrities who's on the docket to speak at this year's RNC. 

In his speech on the convention's opening day, Baio said, "We need Donald Trump to fix this. Is Donald Trump a messiah? No, he’s just a man, a man who wants to give back to his country, America, the country that has given him everything.

"Hillary Clinton wants to be president for Hillary Clinton. Donald Trump wants to be president for all of us,” he added. “So, of course, let’s make America great again, but let’s make America, America again."

Antonio Sabato Jr.

The reality TV star and former Calvin Klein model also spoke at the RNC on Monday night. "Trump is for unity," Sabato Jr. said in his speech.

"Donald Trump belives in one America with liberty and justice for all," he continued. "Having secure borders, protecting our citizens — none of this is hateful. This is the responsibility of the government, and it's the right thing to do. Donald Trump will get it done and put us back on the right track."

Omarosa Manigault

Anyone surprised? One of the most famous "Apprentice" alums is not only a supporter of her former reality-show host, but she has also been named Trump's director of African-American outreach.

"Donald Trump really has an incredible vision for this country," she told MSNBC in the same interview that revealed her title change.

Omarosa has also been vocal in defending Trump's stance on women.

She told CNN, "Donald Trump does not have a woman problem... Yes, he's said things off the cuff, but to take them and use them and try to apply them to all women, just because he doesn't like Rosie O'Donnell, doesn't mean he hates all women."

Olympic figure skater Tara Lipinski is working on a potential drama series for Hulu.

The project is in its very early stages and currently has a script commitment from the streaming video service, an individual with knowledge of the project told Business Insider.

Lipinski, who won the gold medal in figure skating at the 1998 winter Olympics in Nagano, is serving as an executive producer alongside producer Michael Shamberg ("Into the Badlands") and writer Jonathan Igla ("Mad Men").

The project will follow a group of men and women in their teens and 20s and the sacrifices they and their families are willing to make to compete in the Olympics.

"I want to paint an authentic picture of the highs and the lows and the price that some people pay to be part of this world," Lipinski, 34, told Deadline, which broke the news of the project. "For over a decade now I’ve been trying to find the appropriate medium, and the right people, to capture the behind-the-scenes life of figure skaters."

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Donald Trump's youngest daughter, Tiffany, will take the stage on Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.

Unlike her older half-sister, Ivanka, 22-year-old Tiffany has avoided the spotlight throughout her father's controversial campaign. She's been present at multiple Trump events and has been interviewed alongside her siblings, but hasn't yet given an individual speech.

That's about to change. Before she officially steps into the campaign, take a look at what we know about the potential first daughter.

1. She's the only daughter of Donald Trump and Marla Maples. Tiffany is Donald Trump's only child by his second wife, actress Marla Maples. She was born in New York but grew up in Los Angeles, raised primarily by her mother. Tiffany has said that they have a "very close" relationship.

Trump and Maples, whose relationship began while Trump was still married to his first wife, Ivana, were married from 1993 to 1999.

2. She's an Ivy League graduate. This May, Tiffany graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where she studied sociology and urban studies and was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Donald Trump also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania — he earned a degree from the Wharton School of Business in 1968. Tiffany is the third Trump child to attend the school.

3. She's dabbled in modeling. This February, Tiffany made her New York Fashion Week debut, modeling a navy double-breasted blazer by her friend, Just Drew designer Andrew Warren. She's also interned at Vogue.

4. She once wanted to be a pop star. When she was 17, Tiffany recorded a single, "Like a Bird," and told Oprah Winfrey that music was a "big passion" and that "we'll see in a couple of years if I want to take it to the next level as a professional."

5. She has done several fashion internships. Tiffany has interned at Vogue and at Aeffe, the Italian fashion group that owns Alberta Ferretti, Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti, Moschino, and Pollini.

6. She's part of the "Rich Kids of Instagram." Tiffany's often spotted on Instagram with a group of wealthy young socialites, nicknamed the "Rich Kids of Instagram."

Her friends include Andrew Warren (son of a New York real-estate investor), Harry Brant and Peter Brant Jr. (sons of media mogul Peter Brant), Gaia Matisse (great-great-granddaughter of Henri Matisse), and EJ Johnson (son of Magic Johnson).

7. She has a boyfriend. Tiffany has been dating a Penn student named Ross Mechanic for several months, according to their Instagram accounts. He even attended the first night of the Republican National Convention.

Ross is a rising senior studying computer science, and is interning at CADRE, a startup founded by Tiffany's brother-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Ross is the son of Jonathan Mechanic, a wealthy New York real-estate lawyer. The Daily Mail has reported that Ross and his family are registered Democrats.

8. She supports her father's presidential campaign. "He's true to himself," she told ABC last year. "And he speaks in a way that the average person can understand. I think that's refreshing for everyone."

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On Tuesday, Twitter announced that it would allow anyone to apply to be verified on the social network, giving people a concrete way to submit their information for review in the hopes of receiving the tiny "Verified" checkmark on their profiles.

This doesn't mean that Twitter has changed its criteria for verifying profiles, but it's creating a more formal process for consideration and review.

How Twitter chooses which accounts get verified has long been a source of great mystery, with the social network tending to verify celebrities and other figures in the public eye at a seemingly random pace.

Twitter says that there are now almost 187,000 verified accounts, compared to 310 million monthly active users as of March 31.

Because verification is so rare, getting that checkmark added to your profile has become a status symbol of sorts. The original intent of a verified profile, however, was to show that a profile has been verified by Twitter's staff to be legitimate so it's not confused with fan or parody accounts.

Here's what a verified account looks like:

Twitter still stipulates that it approves "account types maintained by users in music, acting, fashion, government, politics, religion, journalism, media, sports, business, and other key interest areas," encouraging people to apply "if you believe your account is of public interest."

To submit a Twitter profile for potential verification, you'll need:

• A verified phone number
• A confirmed email address
• A bio
• A profile photo
• A birthday (for accounts that are not company, brand, or organization accounts)
• A website
• Tweets set as public in the tweet privacy settings

You can head over to Twitter to submit an application here.

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It's been nine years since Matt Damon last played former CIA assassin Jason Bourne. The role proved Damon could be not just an action star, but also the face of a hit worldwide franchise. Damon now returns to the character in the much-anticipated "Jason Bourne" (in theaters July 29), and he's arguably in the best shape of his life.

A big part of that is thanks to trainer Jason Walsh, who has been working with Damon since the actor played a chiseled ex-criminal in the 2013 sci-fi film "Elysium."

Damon has continued to work with Walsh because of his training methods, which are dedicated more to creating an athletic physique than getting super-buff. That suited Damon, 45, as he was dealing with ailments when they first met.

"He had issues with this lower back and shoulder," Walsh recently told Business Insider of getting to know Damon. "He had heard that I'd corrected injuries with people who had been living with injuries and pain for a long time so in a couple of weeks I helped him out with his shoulder injury and soon after we got his back cleared up and he was 100-percent feeling great so we continued from there."

Walsh didn't hear from Damon for a year after "Elysium" wrapped, but then he got a call from the actor, who said that he booked three movies in a row and needed Walsh's talents.

Those movies were "The Martian," "The Great Wall" (opening in early 2017), and "Jason Bourne."

In September of 2014, they got back to work to get Damon in shape for the films.

"My biggest thing with Matt is making sure his foundation is solid, and that means he has mobility, flexibility, and overall strength," Walsh said.

"Bourne" was the final film of the three to be made, so by then Damon was in great shape. But director Paul Greengrass told Walsh that, this time around, the look Damon needed to play Bourne was of someone both mentally and physically distraught.

This led to a simple plan for Walsh's training of Damon for "Jason Bourne."

"I just kicked the s--- out of him without breaking him," Walsh said.

Leading up to filming and during production, Walsh had Damon work out on a VersaClimber, which is a piece of cardio equipment that works out the entire body as you pull up and down with your arms and legs in a standing position (almost like climbing a mountain, but doing it much faster).

In this Instagram video, Damon (on the left) can be seen working out on the machine alongside Walsh during filming of “Jason Bourne.”

“If you could see his face after that one, it was fantastic," Walsh said of the video. "He literally sat down next to the wall and looked like he was about to chuck."

Workouts with the VersaClimber that Walsh came up with included seeing how fast you can get to 200 feet or going as fast as you can for one minute. (Walsh, who's also trained Bradley Cooper and Justin Timberlake, among other stars, gives VersaClimber classes known as Rise Nation. He has two locations in Los Angeles and one coming soon to New York City.)

But that wasn't all. Walsh also incorporated daily workouts like:

- 100 sit-ups
- 300 push-ups
- Squats (50 reps)
- Squat jumps (50 reps)
- Pull-ups with 35 pounds strapped to waist
- Single-leg squats with 125-pound dumbbells in each hand
- Sled push and pulling

Along with Damon's chef giving him around 2,000 calories a day during shooting, Walsh also cut back Damon's water intake. Nearing dehydration showcased his body's glamour muscles.

"You start off drinking quite a bit of water the week leading up to shooting," Walsh said. "And then you start cutting back around two days before a specific shooting day, and then on the day [of shooting] you don't have much water in your system."

This method was used while shooting the boxing scene that's been showcased in the "Jason Bourne" trailers, in which Damon knocks out his opponent with one quick punch.

Walsh said that when a photo of Damon shirtless on the "Bourne" set hit the internet and instantly became a trending topic, he couldn't have been prouder.

"He worked his a-- off," Walsh said. "A lot of people don't know what it's like to work that hard and work that long, we had been working out for a year and a half straight! I'm really proud of him."

But every person has their breaking point, and Damon's came when "Bourne" wrapped.

"The day of wrapping there was a large pizza waiting for him," Walsh said.

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At just past the halfway point of 2016, it's safe to say this has already been an exceptional year in music.

Surprise album releases from Beyoncé and Radiohead electrified the industry this spring, and Drake's "Views" has been a massive hit on the charts since its release in April. 

As I scrolled through my own music library, though, revisiting which albums grabbed me the most in the first half of 2016, none of those three acts actually made it on to my list of favorite LPs.  

Read on to see which albums made my top 10: 

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10. Kendrick Lamar — "untitled unmastered"

Despite being a collection of throwaway tracks from his 2015 masterpiece “To Pimp a Butterfly,” Kendrick Lamar’s “untitled unmastered” plays remarkably well as one cohesive body of work. The album came into being after fans (most notably LeBron James) clamored for studio versions of Lamar's outstanding series of “Untitled” performances on late night television — tracks which now rank among the rapper’s best work. Perfectly imperfect in its execution, this project further demonstrates the singular vision and artistic genius of Kendrick Lamar. 

Standout Tracks:  "untitled 03,""untitled 06,""untitled 08"

9. Andrew Bird — "Are You Serious"

Andrew Bird, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, released his most accessible album to date with this year's "Are You Serious." Focusing his eccentric lyrics and eclectic sounds into traditional pop-song structures, Bird produced some of his strongest melodic work to date on this album. Simultaneously inviting, challenging and altogether well-wrought, "Are You Serious" is an elegant addition to Bird’s accomplished and prolific catalog of music.

Standout tracks:"Capsized,""Roma Fade"

8. dvsn — "Sept. 5th"

The debut album from an alternative R&B group that consists of Paul Jeffries (aka Nineteen85, the producer of Drake's mega-hits "One Dance" and "Hotline Bling") and singer Daniel Delay, dvsn's "Sept. 5th" is a refreshing and sonically compelling body of work. Delay's falsetto and melodic sensibilities flow seamlessly with Nineteen85's diverse soundscapes of guitars, synthesizers and heavy bass. Following in the footsteps of The Weeknd, Drake, and other successful Canadian pop acts, dvsn manages to incorporate and transcend its influences on this wholly original debut. 

Standout tracks: "Try/Effortless,""With Me"

It's been 14 years since Vin Diesel portrayed the extreme sports spy Xander Cage in "xXx" (and 11 since the failed Ice Cube-led sequel "xXx: State of the Union"), and now that Diesel has been flying high in the action genre with the "Fast and Furious" movies, Paramount has decided to dust off the franchise and bring Diesel back in a third movie, "xXx: Return of Xander Cage."

The first trailer has gone live, and get ready for lots of explosions and Diesel skiing through jungles and skateboarding down curvy hills to save the world once again.

Samuel L. Jackson returns to the franchise, and it has also locked down "Orange Is The New Black" star Ruby Rose (action icon from Thailand Tony Jaa also stars, so get excited for that). 

The movie opens January 20, 2017.

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It's rather astonishing that in six years of a reality competition show, only one major meltdown has occurred on "The Great British Bake Off."

By American reality TV standards, it's unheard of. Which is perfect because "The Great British Bake Off" is nothing like what you'll see on American reality TV.

"The show is sort of the opposite of everything that television is meant to be," executive producer Richard McKerrow told Business Insider. "There’s a basic, real kind, goodhearted nature which is at the center of the show."

"I think unfortunately, a lot of television, whether it’s in America or Britain, has a poor notion of the audience," he said. "They think they know what the audience wants. Let’s spoonfeed them reality shlock, and it’s just sort of the lowest common denominator and in a way that’s why a lot of television is struggling."

"The Great British Bake Off" certainly isn't struggling. In fact, it's thriving — so much so that its fifth season finale beat the 2014 World Cup final match in ratings by 1.4 million viewers.

How could a baking competition beat one of the biggest matches of the year? Let's break it down.

First, you might be confused about the name. On BBC, the show is called "The Great British Bake Off," but on PBS, it's called "The Great British Baking Show." McKerrow had a simple explanation:

"It’s because Pillsbury has the trademark," he confirmed.

There have been a total of six seasons of "The Great British Bake Off," but only the last three have aired on PBS as the first three seasons of "The Great British Baking Show." That's the complex stuff, but now it gets simple.

Hilarious and innuendo-loving British comedy duo Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins host the 10-week competition between 12 amateur bakers who are competing for nothing other than the glory of triumph and a fancy cake stand. There aren't any prizes hidden in the big white tent that the competition is held in on various grand British estates. They also vie to be each week's Star Baker, a title that means you were the best for the one week but doesn't necessarily guarantee you are safe the next.

Although, if you are Star Baker, you get a nice little toy sheriff's star to wear for the weekend. The badge almost goes entirely unnoticed.

Judges Paul Hollywood, an artisan baker, and Mary Berry, a beloved cookery writer, assess the bakers' skills after three challenges:

• The signature bake: The contestants are given a specific bread, cake, pudding, etc. to bake, but they are allowed to design and complete the recipe on their own accord and with their own flavor choices.
• The technical bake: The judges assign a more difficult recipe for the bakers to follow, though certain aspects are left out, such as the oven temperature or desired texture of the batter. 
• The showstopper: The bakers go all out in attempting to impress the judges with their creative and technical skills. Consider this when amateurs try to be a little like Buddy Valastro of "Cake Boss" or Duff Goldman of "Ace of Cakes." 

Probably the most raved about showstopper came from "Bake Off's" sixth season, when contestant Paul baked a fabulous "Bread Lion," seen below.

Even when nothing is technically at stake, the show is profoundly dramatic and entertaining — more so than cooking, McKerrow said.

It might be puzzling to think that baking can be dramatic, but watch an episode and you'll be on the edge of your couch waiting to see if the pattern turned out right or if the Swiss roll has enough layers. It's somehow very intense.

One key component of the drama is the way "Bake Off" is filmed. McKerrow described his team's style as "documentary sensibility."

"The frame of the program is artificial but what we’re about is it being completely real, not fake," he said. "It’s almost set up and plays out as proper reality rather than contrived reality. ... Then in the edit, you’re really treating it like a drama."

That's where McKerrow's "crumb cam," the close-up on the dishes, and that lovely string quartet comes into play. Are there any other reality programs that sound like a ballet or classical orchestra concert? Didn't think so.

"I sometimes watch it and it’s like endless foreplay," he said laughing. "I think great television has to be simple but then within that, all the complications can play out."

"Bake Off" also receives high marks for how, well, pleasant it is. The judges aren't like Gordon Ramsay, who screams and curses at his contestants on "Hell's Kitchen." Instead, they're more like teachers. They carefully explain that a certain pastry needs to have a golden crust or that the dough must be kneaded in a certain way to turn out properly.

They still honestly say if something is dry or has an infamous "soggy bottom," but they do so in a uncruel manner. 

"Paul and Mary, they’re delighted in the first place that people are baking, and they want to encourage them and make them better and help them develop their baking skills," McKerrow said. "You know if a teacher is cruel and strict and shouts at your students, it’s not the best way to learn and to improve."

But the education isn't solely learned by the contestants. Viewers too pick up on some tricks of the trade and come to understand how a proper macaron should look.

"We’re time poor so I’m only going to watch something if I learn from it and yet I also want to be entertained, so it’s trying to get that balance between programs which have real content where you feel like that was an hour well spent ... [and] feeling like you’re entertained," McKerrow noted.

The hour is also splendidly spent because no baker is trying to tear down a fellow contestant, unlike the common antics on "Cutthroat Kitchen" or just about any other American reality TV show with the "I'm not here to make friends" model.

The grandmas, photographers, doctors, single dads, young students (and even one body builder) aren't the typical competitors seen on TV.

"We took a decision early on that the bakers, they don’t leave their job for four weeks to come and shoot this series. They stay in their real life and their jobs," McKerrow said. "We shoot it every weekend because we figured then we’d just be getting people who want to be on television, and we’re not interested in people who want to be on television. We’re interested in people who want to bake. So again, it’s about making it much more real."

If McKerrow had to describe the show with one pastry, he chose a "proper" British Victoria sandwich: "creamy, fruity, [and] a family pleasing classic that seems straightforward but actually with the slightest error, can break your heart."

It also happened to be the first technical challenge from the show.

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Trevor Noah thinks the Republican National Convention speakers are peddling fear.

"[Monday night's] official theme was 'Make America Safe Again," he said of the Republican National Convention's first day on Tuesday's episode of
"The Daily Show."

"But to us, the theme really felt like 'Make America Fear Again,' because that's what all the speeches were about."

The "Daily Show" host then played a montage of clips from the speeches to illustrate Noah's point. There was actor Scott Baio warning that "all the things that we hold dear are being attacked every single day." And Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell warning, "Your war is here." Also, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani yelling, "Terrorists who are going to come to Western Europe and come here and kill us!"

"You guys are acting like America is Westeros and winter is coming," Noah said, referring to the plot on HBO's "Game of Thrones."

He then continued, "It was terror, speech after speech screaming about everything that will kill us. Forget 'Make America Safe Again,' after that I just wanted to make my underpants dry again."

A perplexed Noah then presented statistics on how crime has declined from 20 years ago, and wondered how Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. could celebrate that the policeman initially charged with killing Baltimore's Freddie Gray was acquitted of all charges.

"Don't get me wrong," Noah said. "I'm not saying no one has the right to be afraid. I'm not even saying feelings are inconsequential. You can not complain about America being afraid, though, when you are the same people frightening it."

Watch Noah's take on the RNC below:

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On "Mr. Robot," Rami Malek's starring character, Elliot Anderson, has a lot going on.

To help alleviate the stress from his everyday anxiety about social interaction and from his involvement in an underground hacking organization that wants to take down the evil corporate world, Elliot turns to snorting morphine.

"Yeah, I crush up pills and snort them all the time," Malek joked on "Late Night with Seth Meyers." "The props person gives me whatever she thinks I need for the day — an upper, a downer, whatever. I take what I can get."

Of course, it's actually just a vitamin-B pill, but even so, doing several takes took its toll on the "Mr. Robot" star, so the show built Malek a vacuum to hide in his sleeve that allowed him to avoid snorting the fake drug.

Malek said, laughing:

"And no one really knew that I had this, so I would sit there the first day it came in with the crew and just like line up these huge rails of vitamin-B pills. And they didn't know, so they'd be looking at me like, 'Dude, what's wrong with this guy?'"

Malek also spoke with Meyers about his now famous haircut and filming in Chinatown.

Watch the full clip here:

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A complaint filed by the US government is seeking the civil forfeiture of rights to the Martin Scorsese Oscar-nominated movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” as part of assets allegedly stolen from Malaysia.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, federal authorities are targeting more than $1 billion in assets allegedly diverted by officials in the country through an investment fund and then into shell companies.

According to a complaint filed in California federal court on Wednesday, $64 million of the funds allegedly went to the production company Red Granite Pictures, one of the production companies behind “The Wolf of Wall Street,” THR reports. Red Granite’s CEO is Riza Aziz, the stepson of Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak. 

The complaint also alleges that money also went into Beverly Hills and New York City real estate, purchases of Van Gough and Claude Monet artwork, and a Bombardier jet, THR reports.

The payments that went into “The Wolf of Wall Street” production allegedly include $3.9 million to Scorsese’s company Sikelia Productions, $48 million into the movie’s payroll, $4.1 million to a special effects company, $2.5 million to the Screen Actors Guild and approximately $80,000 to a yacht charter company.

The star of the movie, Leonardo DiCaprio, isn’t mentioned in the complaint by name, according to THR, but it does mention “Hollywood Actor 1” during his Golden Globe acceptance speech thanking “Joey, Riz, and Jho,” referring to DiCaprio’s speech after winning best performance by an actor for the “Wolf” role in 2014 where he thanked Red Granite principals Riza Aziz, Joey McFarland, and Jho Low.

According to an April Wall Street Journal story, Aziz and McFarland built a relationship with DiCaprio during filming of “Wolf” as they gave the actor Marlon Brando’s Oscar for best actor for “On the Waterfront” as a birthday present. It was acquired for around $600,000 from a New Jersey memorabilia dealer, according to The Journal.

THR reports that Low is accused in the complaint of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars into the US to acquire a “substantial interest” in music giant EMI Music Publishing Group. The government is also seeking assets from song publishing divisions of EMI.

Aziz allegedly sent $238 million from the Swiss account with nearly $100 million going into property and funding Red Granite, the THR report says.

Read the press release sent out by the department of justice on the matter. 

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As Third Eye Blind played at a charity show in Cleveland, Ohio, on Tuesday night, the rock band seized on the opportunity to speak out against the conservative policies promoted by the Republican National Convention, which was taking place a mile down the road at the time.

According to Billboard, fans in the crowd at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum show greeted the band's singer Stephan Jenkins with boos as he lectured the crowd on how he "repudiates" the current Republican agenda.

Jenkins responded to the crowd by saying, "You can boo all you want, but I’m the motherf---in' artist up here," before continuing to rip into a number of conservative issues. 

As the band played one of their signature hits, 1998's "Jumper," Jenkins explained how the song — which he described in 2009 as being about a gay friend who killed himself by jumping off of a bridge — ultimately reflects his wish that the GOP would incorporate people “like [his] cousins who are gay into the American fabric."

Afterward, Jenkins reportedly took another jab at conservative audience members when he told the crowd to "Raise your hand if you believe in science."   

Many of the show's attendees took to social media to voice their displeasure with the band's performance. When one fan tweeted at the band that she had "never been more disappointed," the group's official Twitter account responded with one word: "good." 

After the show, the band's sound mixer tweeted that he was "happy" to have participated in a "troll of the RNC."

Jenkins has a long history of speaking out against Republicans. Last year, in an interview with Rolling Stone, the singer criticized Marco Rubio and the field of Republican candidates for denying climate change.

In 2012, Third Eye Blind turned down an opportunity to play at that year's Republican National Convention. Jenkins then wrote an op-ed for The Huffington Post titled, "Why We Aren't Playing at the RNC," in which he berated the Republican Party as being an entity "dedicated to exclusion."

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Supermodel Miranda Kerr and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel are engaged — and the soon-to-be-newlyweds announced the big news with (what else?) a Snapchat filter.

The couple have been dating for one year, though they were friends before their relationship began, US Weekly reports. Kerr posted the news today on her Instagram and in a Snapchat story. 

 "They are extremely happy," a rep for Spiegel told the Daily Mail. 

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Star Trek is arguably the greatest science fiction television series of all-time — if for no other reason than its lasting influence on the genre.

But the franchise has also seen a solid run on the big screen.

And so, in honor of the thirteenth movie installment — "Star Trek Beyond" — hitting the theaters on July 22, we ranked all the Star Trek movies from worst to best.

12. Nemesis

"Nemesis" came out right in between the Voyager and Enterprise shows, at a time when everyone was feeling pretty burnt out from mediocre Star Trek overexposure. The movie also wasted its star talent by not giving much attention to the fan-favorite characters. 

Two of the actors, LeVar Burton and Marina Sirtis, also once said that the director of the movie, Stuart Baird, had never actually seen a single episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."

As a fun note, the main bad guy was played Tom Hardy.

Memorable quote:

Data: It appears to be a robotic arm.

Worf: [Sarcastically.] Very astute.

11. The Final Frontier

"The Final Frontier" was, honestly, pretty dull: there's not that much suspense, the plot is pretty disjointed, and the jokes lacked the usual Star Trek spark.

Memorable quote:

[Kirk goes to hug Spock.]

Spock: Please, Captain. Not in front of the Klingons.

10. Into Darkness

This movie is basically a microcosm for everything wrong with Star Trek movies: it seems like the people who made the film are not quite sure whether they should court the hardcore Star Trek fans or they should pander to the action movie lovers.

Also, as George Takei, who played Sulu in the original series, noted, it might've been more interesting to see Benedict Cumberbatch as a new character, rather than as Khan.

Memorable quote:

Bones: Don't agree with me, Spock. It makes me very uncomfortable.

Spock: Perhaps you, too, should learn to govern your emotions, Doctor.

There's a new power couple in Los Angeles.

On Thursday, supermodel Miranda Kerr announced that she's engaged to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel — and to do it, she used Bitmojis from Bitstrips, which Snapchat just bought.

The Australian supermodel started dating the 26-year-old CEO a year ago. Here's how the two fell so quickly for each other:

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The power couple first met at a dinner for Louis Vuitton in Los Angeles and became friends. 'We were really good friends for a long time before we started dating,' Kerr told The Sydney Morning Herald.

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In 2007, Kerr was the first Australian to become a Victoria's Secret Angel and was among the world's highest-paid models. Now she's working on creative projects like jewelry lines and just launched a handbag collection in Asia.

The 33-year-old Kerr was once married to Orlando Bloom and had a son, Flynn. Spiegel had to wait at least six months to meet him, per Kerr and Bloom's rules, but 'things are going well,' Kerr said. 'We're just a modern family now.'

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It's not exactly a secret that Victoria's Secret heavily Photoshops its ads.

The company is often guilty of egregious Photoshop fails that border on comical, from missing body parts to mysteriously-shaped waists (as pictured right).

But beyond the occasional laugh-inducing blunder, just how much does the company alter its models images?

A Victoria's Secret Photoshopper, who went by "Sarah," recently divulged some of her secrets to Refinery 29, revealing that what women see in photos is not often what photographers see in the studio.

That starts with padding women before they even take the photos.

"If you hold up the bathing suit in your own hand, it’s so heavy because they have all this s*** sewed into it." Sarah said to Refinery 29. She also said that the women often wore padded bras underneath bathing suits.

That all might change now, though; the company has been selling bralettes as a natural look takes hold in the fashion world. 

Sarah also told Refinery 29 that the models usually wear hair extensions, too. "I don’t think I ever was on a shoot with a model that had real hair," she said.

And if the model's proportions look unrealistic, that's because they probably are. Sarah told Refinery29 that the photos are heavily altered — and sometimes body parts are even swapped out for other people's respective body parts.

Interestingly, though, the models are often made to look curvier than they actually are.

"Models are thinner than you actually think they are, and we retouch them to look rounder," she said.

For the full Refinery 29 article, click here.

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A major CEO in the video game world has seen Nintendo's new console, codenamed "NX."

The verdict? It's "really great."

According to a transcription by IGN, Yves Guillemot, the CEO of Ubisoft, which makes games like "Assassin's Creed" and "Watch Dogs," said the following during an earnings call with investors:

"What we have seen is really great. We think having a new machine coming is going to help the industry to continue to grow, and to take lots more casual players back to the industry."

Ubisoft is currently developing "Just Dance 2017" for the NX, so its developers have certainly spent a good amount of time with the console (in one form or another) already.

Unsurprisingly, Guillemot's comments indicate that the NX, whatever it may be, will likely attempt to emulate the success of the wildly popular Wii console, which succeeded largely because of its appeal to casual and hardcore gamers alike.

That's because Nintendo's current console, the Wii U, has not sold nearly as well as was initially expected. In four years, it's only sold about 13 million units — this was quite a disappointment for everyone at Nintendo, especially since some expected it would sell 100 million units.

If 13 million sounds like a lot, compare it to the PlayStation 4, which has sold 40 million units since its launch in 2013. That's a full year after Nintendo released the Wii U.

But Nintendo seems to be taking the Wii U's failure to heart: All signs are pointing towards the NX being a major change — it might even have old-school cartridges instead of discs.

This isn't the first time someone at Ubisoft has spoke highly of the upcoming console, either. In late June, Alain Corre said, "We have done a lot of products and successes with Nintendo in the past, and we believe that the NX will recapture a lot the lapsed Wii players. So we will see when they release it, but we are confident.”

We're just ready to finally see what this thing looks like. Please, Nintendo?

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"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling has made it clear that she thinks Donald Trump is worse than her villain Voldemort, so she would probably be glad to hear her readers think so too.

A new study from a University of Pennsylvania professor found that those who have read about the famous boy wizard have an unfavorable view of the Republican presidential nominee.

It only gets worse for The Donald because opinions drop even more if people have read all seven books.

The study, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Donald," was written by Diana Mutz, a professor of political science and communication. It will appear in a special 2016 election issue of "PS: Political Science and Politics."

Mutz polled a nationally representative sample of 1,142 Americans in 2014 and again in 2016 and asked them, among other things, to rank their feelings toward Trump on a 0 to 100 scale. The study found that each "Harry Potter" book read lowered participants' thoughts on Trump by about two to three points.

The study noted that party affiliation did not affect whether a person had read the "Harry Potter" novels.

"Because Trump's political views are widely viewed as opposed to the values espoused in the 'Harry Potter' series, exposure to the Potter series may play an influential role in influencing how Americans respond to Donald Trump," Mutz wrote in the study.

For example, Harry Potter and his cohorts are against the enslavement of house elves and privilege given to pure blood wizards, while Trump has made comments that some minority groups find racist and offensive.

The study also collected data about the "Harry Potter" movies but said they do not predict opinions on Trump. It's not clear why not, but the study speculates it may be because Republicans were less likely to watch the films than Democrats, and because the books delve more into characters' dispositions than the movies.

"Throughout the series, love and kindness consistently triumph over aggression and prejudice. It's a powerful positive theme, and thus not surprising that readers understand the underlying message of this storyline, and are moved by it," Mutz said. "Harry Potter's popularity worldwide stands to make a difference not just in the U.S. election, but in elections across Europe that involve aggressive and domineering candidates worldwide."

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The internet went crazy in June when the screenwriter of cult classic “Idiocracy,” Etan Cohen, told Buzzfeed that he and the movie’s director Mike Judge (creator of “Silicon Valley”) were making fake anti-Donald Trump political ads. The ads would feature the movie’s over-the-top president, Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho, played by Terry Crews.

But on Wednesday, Crews told Business Insider that the ads are no longer being made.

“It was killed,” said Crews, as he promoted an episode of Travel Channel’s “Celebrity Adventure Club” that he's featured in. “Etan Cohen went out and said we were making anti-Trump ads, but we weren’t. I'm not anti-Trump, I'm not anti-Hillary [Clinton]. I'm not pro anybody.”

This all stems back to February when Cohen compared the presidential debates to "Idiocracy":

The tweet became a trending topic and was reported on all over the internet. According to the Buzzfeed story, this motivated Cohen to reach out to Judge and they decided to come up with ads satirizing Trump.

But Crews said the plan to was to make fun of everyone, not just Trump.

“We were literally going to show a cage match between Camacho, Hillary, Trump, [Ted] Cruz, all those people [running for president]," he said. "It was going to be funny. But when you make it an anti-Trump ad what's funny about that? Now you killed the comedy. When you have totally picked a side, that’s not funny anymore. So I thought he killed it. Even Mike said it, he was like, 'Dude, I don't know what possessed him to call them anti-Trump ads because that's not what they were.’”

Crews admits he’s been hearing the comparisons of Trump and his Camacho character since Trump announced he was running for president. And though he can see it, especially when compared to Trump's dramatic entrance on the opening night of the Republican National Convention — “At the convention I was like, ‘This is a Camacho opening!’”  — he doesn’t want to be used as a tool for the people who do not support Trump.

“I’m not your gun,” he said. “That’s the clear message I’m trying to send.”

And when asked who he plans to vote for Crews replied: “That’s my private decision. And people are angry, I’m just like I’m not getting into that. I’m not that dude.”

Business Insider reached out to Judge and Cohen’s reps for comment, but have not received a response.

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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have been best friends for decades, but the duo has only managed to write one film together.

That film was the critically acclaimed "Good Will Hunting," which won Damon and Affleck an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and launched their careers.

So it's not exactly an easy thing to follow.

But in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit, Damon said it hasn't been plausible for quite some time.

"The big issue is time for us," he said. "We have a company together so we work on a lot of projects together, but to try to carve out the time is really tough. I mean we both have a whole mess of kids now, and these other days jobs. He's directing all the time and I'm off working with these other directors."

He also noted that the now A-list stars were unemployed while writing "Good Will Hunting" and weren't on any sort of deadline. But Damon offered a glimmer of hope for those waiting for another Affleck-Damon screenplay.

"So I would never say never because I would absolutely love to write with Ben again, and I'd love to collaborate with him on anything, he's brilliant," he said.

Of course, that would mean Affleck would have to stop giving himself the best roles in his films, Damon joked about once again.

You can read the full AMA over on Reddit, in which Damon says Julia Stiles smells like "happiness" and that he "never quite understood" his "cameo" in Trey Parker and Matt Stone's "Team America."

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