S.E. Cupp Columns category
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s Greenland folly hated by voters, GOP
“We cannot live our lives or govern our countries based on social media posts.” That’s what a European Union official, who was directly involved in negotiations between the U.S. and Europe over Greenland, said after President Trump’s announcement via Truth Social that we’ve “formed the framework of a future deal...
S.E. Cupp: A tale of 2 Trumps — Iran and Minnesota protests
“Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled (sic) all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.” It’s...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s ‘America First’ is now just imperialism
In early 2025, before Donald Trump was even sworn into office, he sent a plane with his name in giant letters on it to Nuuk, Greenland, where his son, Don Jr., and other MAGA allies preened for cameras and stomped around the mineral-rich Danish territory that Trump had been casually...
S.E. Cupp: Damage from Wiles interview could be far-reaching
Susie Wiles has a reputation. Ask anyone in Washington and words like “strategic,” “disciplined” and “skilled” come up. She’s widely held to be one of the most effective tacticians in modern politics. She’s also known for her low-key, low-drama energy, preferring to remain behind-the-scenes as opposed to preening for cameras...
S.E. Cupp: Donald Trump is becoming Joe Biden version 2.0
In the year since Democrats lost the 2024 election, with Donald Trump beating then-Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven swing states, they’ve struggled to admit exactly what went wrong. It wasn’t one thing. For starters, President Biden got precipitously older in the last two years of his presidency, often...
S.E. Cupp: This really may be the political end for Trump
Over years and years of covering politics, the last decade of which has been spent covering Donald Trump specifically, I’ve learned you can never really count him out. It’s been a painful, exhausting, and deeply disappointing lesson, but an important one nonetheless. He keeps on keeping on. The things I...
S.E. Cupp: Can MAGA go any lower defending Donald Trump?
I remember it well. It was Oct. 7, 2016, a Friday. That afternoon The Washington Post dropped a bombshell, the perfect October surprise, just a month before the presidential election. Earlier in the week, Hillary Clinton had been hammering Donald Trump on the news that he may not have paid...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s Epstein mess keeps getting worse
First, he said the late sex-trafficking pervert Jeffrey Epstein was “terrific.” Then he “wasn’t a fan of his.” First, he wanted a “full investigation.” Then it was nothing more than a “hoax” and a “scam.” The 180-degree turn by Donald Trump on Epstein over the years has been a saga...
S.E. Cupp: Zohran Mamdani’s rise from nowhere to City Hall
One of the wildest and most dramatic New York City mayoral elections in modern history finished with the flare of a presidential race and with the national attention to match. “Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through...
S.E. Cupp: Donald Trump isn’t joking about a third term
Believe him. Almost a year ago to the day, The New York Times ran a special editorial just before Donald Trump would win the presidency again. They used a full page to print out in giant, boldface, all-caps the following missive: “Donald Trump says he will prosecute his enemies, order...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s excesses enrich only him, not Americans
The White House is full of so much rich history and tradition — it helps tell the story of America itself. And it’s an incredibly impressive and intimidating venue for facilitating international diplomacy. President Trump understands the value of first impressions, even (and especially) if they’re not painting an accurate...
S.E. Cupp: NYC mayoral debate anything but decisive
It’s a generous tip. It’s the stage name of a Tanzanian musician. It’s the increase in U.S. retail coffee prices in the past year. It’s also the portion of New York City’s registered voters who turned out for the mayoral Democratic primary back in June. That’s right — just more...
S.E. Cupp: The politics of Donald Trump’s war on cities
A masked, federal agent in combat uniform leans out the passenger window of a Jeep and points a military rifle directly at the face of a U.S. citizen in Chicago, simply for recording him. It should send a chill down every American’s spine. President Trump’s revenge on America’s liberal cities...
S.E. Cupp: MAGA says no to Trump and Kennedy’s junk science
The scene would have been comical if not so frightening. President Trump stood at the White House podium, addressing a room full of reporters. “First, effective immediately, the FDA will be notifying physicians that the use of … ah-said-a … well … let’s see how we say that.” As he...
S.E. Cupp: In NYC, Zohran Mamdani makes politics fun
As a journalist and political commentator, I’ve covered politics for nearly 20 years — presidential elections, midterms, state and local races, even international elections. It used to be fun. There was the horse race, a colorful cast of characters, the debate over ideas and policies, all occasionally punctuated by a...
S.E. Cupp: Kirk assassination shows that America is broken
Charlie Kirk was in the middle of a college campus, as he had probably been hundreds of times before. He was surrounded by a mix of supporters and critics of the influential MAGA youth leader. The large, all-caps block writing above his head read, “PROVE ME WRONG.” Kirk’s project was...
S.E. Cupp: It’s Trump against America and Americans now
It had a slightly more noble sound to it in 2023, when then-former President Donald Trump made the lofty but creepy promise to a friendly MAGA crowd at CPAC. “In 2016 I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for...
S.E. Cupp: Cracker Barrel’s total surrender to the attack
On the surface, it looked like a marketing disaster: Beloved American restaurant chain serving up simple Southern favorites in unpretentious general store environment “loses $143 million in market value after woke brand fiasco.” Indeed, it has not been a great news cycle for Cracker Barrel. But after announcing a major...
S.E. Cupp: Trump wrecks the crucial U.S.-Canada partnership
In June 1999, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s vulgar and hilarious animated series “South Park” came to the silver screen. “South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut” followed Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny as they sneak into the R-rated film “Asses of Fire” starring fictional Canadian comedy duo “Terrance and Phillip.”...
S.E. Cupp: Trump BLS pick is partisan, unqualified and MAGA
If you haven’t been following the saga at an unassuming government agency known as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, boy have you been missing out. To catch you up, President Trump recently fired Erika McEntarfer, who’d been appointed by former President Joe Biden to head the agency that, among other...
S.E. Cupp: To Trump, ‘truth’ is only what he wants it be
You know the old philosophical question: “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Well, in President Trump’s America, the answer would depend on whether or not he wanted it to. In a world where the only “truth”...
S.E. Cupp: The Democratic Party has to grow up and go young
With all eyes on New York City’s mayoral race, Democrats are hoping, wishing, praying that Zohran Mamdani is the proverbial canary in the coal mine. With the party in a state of total disarray and weakness — a whopping 63% of voters have an unfavorable view of Democrats, and a...
Letter to the editor: Cupp’s anti-Trump campaign
In her continuing campaign to diminish Donald Trump, S.E. Cupp wields her verbal knives, saying he “is a convicted criminal, an adjudicated sexual abuser and an ignoramus” (“We are obsessed with Coldplay’s kiss cam couple,” July 25, TribLive). Wow! She concludes by saying that he is incompetent. Not so. Since...
S.E. Cupp: We are obsessed with Coldplay’s kiss cam couple
By now, you’ve definitely seen it — the viral video of Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot in the canoodle heard ’round the world. The two were at a Coldplay concert outside Boston, and they were caught on the jumbotron kiss cam at the exact worst moment, with their arms wrapped...
S.E. Cupp: Sorry, Jeffrey Epstein isn’t going to destroy MAGA
For all of his high-profile connections to presidents, moguls and royals, Jeffrey Epstein probably couldn’t have imagined just how politically important he would one day become. The long-deceased convicted sex offender and pedophile is at the epicenter of a seemingly seismic blowup inside MAGA, in which splintering factions are now...
