Clay Aiken

This week, Trump gave what might be his worse press conference in the history of his administration. While we have every confidence that he can and well do an even worse one, leaping to the defense of Nazis in Charlottesville is pretty bad. Even for him.

We don't think that the majority of his supporters care. Maybe they're just so full of spite that they want to see Trump cut off America's nose to spite Obama's face, or maybe they really don't know any better.

In honor of its final season kicking off, American Idol brought back a few fan favorites on its Wednesday night premiere.

Clay Aiken was not one of them. And we have a feeling he won't be making an appearance on the show that made him famous any time soon, either.

The following 25 stars are decidedly not keeping it real.

At least not on the occasions where they underwent some form of plastic surgery.

Clay Aiken has come in second once again.

The artist-turned-politician, who finished second to Ruben Studdard on American Idol, lost his North Carolina Congressional race last night.

Sorry, Kim Kardashian.

Tough break, Kate Upton.

Singer Clay Aiken is clinging to a slim lead early Wednesday in his bid to become the Democratic nominee for his U.S. House district in North Carolina.

The American Idol runner-up is leading former North Carolina Commerce Secretary Keith Crisco by 369 votes with more than 99 percent of the vote counted.

Someday, the following list will not be necessary.

Someday, celebrities will not need to make any sort of official announcement regarding their sexuality because, quite simply, no one will care and society will be fully accepting of all orientations.

Clay Aiken has made the rumor into a reality:

He is running for Congress in North Carolina.

Ten and a half years ago, Clay Aiken rose to fame by winning America's votes. In 2014, he may try to court them again, this time at the ballot box.

Only one district of North Carolina will decide the winner of this contest, though, if he decides to enter it: Clay is considering running for U.S. Congress.

Next year will mark a decade since Clay Aiken finished second on American Idol.

But the singer - who is off on a new holiday-themed tour - doesn't expect the show to honor this 10th anniversary via any kind of performance invitation, not considering the path Aiken believes Idol has headed down.

John Rich and Clay Aiken missed each other on Celebrity Apprentice, with the country singer taking the title one season and the former American Idol finalist finishing second a year later.

And that's too bad because we can only imagine what fireworks may have exploded if these artists had actually done battle on national television.