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S.E. Cupp: Dems still hiding from Biden cover-up
“He totally (expletive)ed us.” It’s rare to hear a political party operative speak this way about one of his own. It’s almost unheard of to hear a well-known campaign adviser like David Plouffe speak this way on the record about the former president of the United States, Joe Biden. Especially...
S.E. Cupp: What did Democrats do in their first 100 days?
This week, President Trump’s second term turned 100 … days, that is. And to mark the occasion, he held a rally in Michigan where he touted what he thinks of as his biggest accomplishments — tariffs, deporting alleged gang members to El Salvador and his creation of the Department of...
S.E. Cupp: Hegseth ‘reform’ has the Pentagon in shambles
Pete Hegseth came in hot. The tatted-up warhawk who’d spent the past seven years as a “Fox & Friends” weekend host was on nobody’s short list for Defense secretary when incoming President Trump made him his pick to lead the largest organization in the world. His lack of experience running...
S.E. Cupp: Trillions of reasons why Trump caved on tariffs
Our long national nightmare is over. Or is it? After the longest week of economic uncertainty and peril Americans have endured in a long time, President Donald Trump finally caved and announced a 90-day pause on his ham-fisted, hairbrained, ill-advised and ill-conceived trade war with the world. The 10% baseline...
S.E. Cupp: No on-the-job training for national security
“Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he’s a good man.” This was the president of the United States’ defense of his national security adviser who’s embroiled in a humiliating, alarming and downright unfathomable breach of security — and confidence. In case you missed it, “Signalgate” is the latest controversy...
S.E. Cupp: Donald Trump’s 3rd term ‘jokes’ are serious
Back in 2020, while Donald Trump and Joe Biden were locked in a close race for the White House, some of us who’d covered Trump for years were ringing alarm bells that, if he lost, he would not go quietly. To us, this was more than obvious. In 2016, he’d...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s Fifth Avenue scenario has finally arrived
It was January 2016, with just two weeks before the Iowa caucus. Then candidate Donald Trump delivered to a Christian college audience what would become the line of his political career: “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose voters, OK?” Since...
S.E. Cupp: Welcome to the Musk era of unchecked conflicts
When the computers arrived at City Hall in January 2002, they were the talk of the town. Known as “The Bloomberg,” the system of flat-screen terminals used to crunch real-time market data made famous by their namesake mogul Mike Bloomberg, were sent to populate the new mayor of New York...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans’ disregard for laws might be fatal
It’s a favorite saying of the American right when advocating for stricter immigration laws: “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” It’s usually attributed to Ronald Reagan, the Republican hero who was nearly unimpeachable in his patriotism and his commitment to conservatism. The same Reagan whose...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s Insane Clown Posse cabinet
It’s been only two weeks, but with every passing day of President Trump’s second term, Mike Judge’s 2006 masterpiece, “Idiocracy,” becomes a more and more prescient and embarrassingly accurate prediction of what the American government might one day look like. In Judge’s scathing prophecy, the near-collapse of Western civilization and...
S.E. Cupp: Autism families — keep RFK Jr. away from our kids
“(H)ead-banging, football helmet on, non-toilet trained, nonverbal.” This is how President Trump’s pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has described the millions of Americans who are on the autism spectrum. He was talking to fellow conspiracy trafficker and mega-podcaster Joe Rogan in...
S.E. Cupp: Where is the Democratic Party’s Ronald Reagan?
With all the attention deservedly on President Trump and what he intends to do with his defiant return to the White House, there’s a more than good chance we’ll spend the next four years consumed once again by all things Trump. There’s already been a dizzying amount: a giant raft...
S.E. Cupp: Sham Hegseth hearing shows standards are gone
Oh, how far we’ve fallen. On Tuesday, the Senate began its confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet, starting with one of his more controversial picks, “Fox & Friends Weekend” host Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary. The roughly four-hour performance was an utter waste of time, having accomplished nearly nothing...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s obsession with changing maps is old hat
“He wants to be a builder like the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel, so large that the skyline is his profile.” That was a New York Times editorial from 1985. Then, President-elect Donald Trump was merely a real estate developer, looking to make his mark on a city that was...
S.E. Cupp: The press must resist Trump’s bullying lawsuits
In his first week as a federal judge, Murray Gurfein was assigned the biggest case of his life. He’d just been nominated to the Southern District of New York by President Richard Nixon in April 1971, and confirmed by the Senate in May when the Pentagon Papers case landed on...
S.E. Cupp: With Assad out, what we must do help save Syria
This was a long day coming, and frankly one I never thought I’d see. Thirteen years ago, Syria’s Bashar Assad unleashed a reign of unmitigated terror on his own people, in response to protests of his inhumane Ba’athist government. Over the course of the civil war, he unabashedly committed the...
S.E. Cupp: Selfish Biden has given us four years of Trump
It’s been a rough go of it for those of us still clinging to antiquated notions that with leadership and power should come things like honesty, integrity, morality and expertise. But these long-gone vestiges of a forgotten America, one in which criminals don’t get to be president and sex offenders...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s bad cabinet picks won’t help his voters
While Democrats continue to wring their hands over what went so seriously wrong in 2024 — and there are many complicating factors — there’s one simple truth about it all: Donald Trump listened to voters better than Joe Biden and Kamala Harris did. On the economy, immigration and crime, Trump...
S.E. Cupp: Dems blame everything but themselves for losing
It’s tough sledding for Democrats, as they try to wrap their heads around Donald Trump’s improbable-but-also-foreseeable sweep of all seven swing states and winning the popular vote. This wasn’t supposed to happen, after all. Democrats genuinely believed — as they did in 2016 — that Trump’s many odious qualities would...
S.E. Cupp: Trump election victory shows how Harris and Dems failed to reach voters on pocketbook issues
For millions of Americans, Wednesday was a very dark day. An incomprehensible day. A day many thought would never come. I’m deeply disappointed, too. After everything we know about Donald Trump, and everything he’s already put this country through, how is it possible we’re choosing to do this to ourselves...
S.E. Cupp: Will GOP cross the Hitler threshold for Trump?
It’s been 41 years since President Ronald Reagan gave his famous “Evil Empire” speech. It was 1983, the height of the Cold War, and Reagan spoke passionately about the “focus of evil in the modern world” that was the Soviet Union. He rejected arguments of false equivalence between the U.S....
S.E. Cupp: Trump hoodwinks women with false and empty pledges
“You just ban it. The president bans it. You just don’t let it happen. Not a big deal.” That line from former President Donald Trump at a Fox News town hall this week was met with an eruption of applause and cheers from the all-female audience. They were clearly thrilled...
S.E. Cupp: Ignore the election noise; the swing voters are
With less than four weeks until Nov. 5, the inundation of election news — and, more importantly, non-news — is at a fever pitch. From a bombardment of election ads — especially in swing states — to a dramatic parsing of every word out of former President Donald Trump and...
S.E. Cupp: The futility of the Walz/Vance nice guy debate
The reviews are in, and America overwhelmingly approves. Voters and viewers had very positive things to say about the vice presidential debate in New York City on Tuesday night. What was expected to be a contentious sparring match between former President Donald Trump’s running mate Ohio Sen. JD Vance and...
S.E. Cupp: Eric Adams trying out Trump’s playbook
It’s the go-to play nowadays. If you’re a politician collared for alleged crimes, feign indignation, call it a “conspiracy,” blame the “corrupt” Department of Justice and refuse to resign. New York Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted on five federal charges related to 2021 campaign contributions, wire fraud and bribery....


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