Father of the bride goes MAGA during wedding speech
"He chose the orange man over his own daughter."
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One father of the bride promised he wouldn’t get political during his wedding speech, but yanked out his MAGA hat anyway, a man tried to dine-and-dash with a fake $1,000 bill in Missouri, and a woman went viral for picking up her wedding flowers at McDonald’s in a not-so-legal way.
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“Crossing boundaries at my wedding”: Bride’s father wears MAGA hat during wedding speech against her wishes
A woman went viral online after showing viewers how her “narcissistic MAGA father” tried to steal the spotlight at her wedding.
The clip gives a glimpse of Raspor’s father as he prepares to make a speech. He had promised his daughter he wouldn’t mention politics, but found a cheeky—and controversial—way to push the envelope. As of Friday, the video highlighting her father’s antics had racked up more than 1.2 million views, drawing reactions from viewers curious about just how her dad crossed boundaries.
“We are going to expose you”: Dine-and-dasher who paid with $1000 bill gets shamed into returning with real money
A Missouri restaurant successfully tracked down the money owed to them after shaming a dine-and-dasher who left them a $1,000 bill. The local man, who fled in his luxury car, returned to the scene of the crime after the establishment posted his face on their Facebook account.
“Ballin’ on a McBudget”: DIY bride claims she clipped her wedding flowers from McDonald’s
Wedding floral arrangements can be surprisingly pricey, even when trying to lower costs by picking less-expensive blooms. One bride on TikTok took matters into her own hands (and gardening shears) by clipping hydrangeas from a bush in a McDonald’s parking lot.
🕸️ Crawling the Web
🗯️ Musician Grimes faced swift backlash for including a small image of late conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the collage of her latest album’s art.
⚰️ A funeral meant to honor a man who died by suicide took an unsettling turn after his best friend realized the “handwritten” tribute song and obituary were AI-generated.
🥤 The internet is rife with conspiracy theories, the latest of which to hit the mainstream is that Mountain Dew flavors lead to disaster.
👩🏫 A high school teacher and TikToker filed a police report after a student filched a rather valuable Hello Kitty Funko Pop from her desk.
🎞️ Both sequels to The Simpsons Movie and A Minecraft Movie will release on the same date in 2027. Will it be the next “Barbenheimier”?
🫵 A birthday reenactment of *that* infamous Real Housewives of Beverly Hills dinner fight in Amsterdam was so legit, even Bravo weighed in.
🔥 Hot on the Dot
This was the most-read story on the Daily Dot yesterday:
➤ Airports across North America hacked to play pro-Palestine, anti-Trump messages
Of course they will blame this on Trump.