Jay-Z Causes More Trouble Over Cuba
After the fuss he and his wife caused recently over their illicit trip to Cuba, Jay-Z might have been expected to lie low for a while in America.
The White House certainly thought he might, after Republican politicians claimed that the rapper’s friend President Barack Obama had given them special dispensation for their holiday to Havana.
But rather than keep out of the public eye, the rapper did quite the opposite, claiming that Obama had been giving him personal favours in a song he released this week.
Called Open Letter, the song boasts that “Boy from the hood but got White House Clearance / Obama said, ‘Chill, you gonna get me impeached'”
Understandably the President was less than impressed and White House spokesman Jay Carney was visibly frustrated when journalists questioned him about it.
“It’s a song,” he said angrily.
“I am absolutely saying that the White House and the President had nothing to do with anybody’s personal travel to Cuba.”
Carney said that it was, in fact, the Treasury that approves trips for US citizens travelling to Cuba, adding: “I guess nothing rhymes with Treasury.”
Tom Cruise a Descendent of Irish Kings?
The Irish, as most British people might have noticed, are fiercely proud of their heritage. Whatever will they make of Tom Cruise’s latest stunt, The Choice wonders?
Speaking on a US chat show after a recent trip to Dublin, the actor claimed that his family “once ruled” the northern half of it.
“I found out that my ancestors were the rulers of north Ireland,” he told Jimmy Kimmel, claiming that his family owned most of Dublin in the ninth century.
Visiting the Emerald Isle last week to promote his new film Oblivion, Cruise was presented with a certificate of Irish heritage by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore.
So that must make it official.