S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 9
S.E. Cupp: Cuomo throws the book at New York
New Yorkers have yet another reason to feel betrayed by their governor, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo is set to receive a galling amount of money — $5.1 million — for a book he wrote touting his leadership during the global pandemic. “American Crisis: Leadership Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic” was published...
S.E. Cupp: Tale of Liz Cheney, Kevin McCarthy and Donald Trump
The woodshed: It’s a popular place in politics, meaning somewhere you metaphorically go when you’ve done something bad. Parties go there when they lose big elections. Presidential advisers are sent there when they mess up. In 2010, Gen. Stanley McChrystal was summoned to the woodshed by President Barack Obama over...
S.E. Cupp: Enough of Andrew Cuomo’s gaslighting
Any New Yorker alive in the 1980s knows the reference “Teflon Don.” It was well-earned by Gambino family mob boss John Gotti, famously acquitted in three high-profile trials in that decade. The Teflon wore off, however, in 1992, when he was finally convicted of five murders, conspiracy to commit murder,...
S.E. Cupp: Tucker Carlson’s disgusting new low
I can say this because I know: There’s some seriously dangerous, high-level trolling going on in right-wing media. Having come from this space — I used to be a Fox News regular, a guest on outlets like Newsmax, an employee at The Blaze, and a columnist at The Daily Caller,...
S.E. Cupp: Pot meets kettle in Republicans’ outrage war over Maxine Waters
The blaring, all-caps headline at the top of the Fox News website last Tuesday morning said it all: “DISRESPECT FOR JUSTICE: Rep. Waters responds after Chauvin trial judge says her controversial remarks may derail possible verdict.” The top story on Fox the first morning after the jury in the Derek...
S.E. Cupp: Matt Gaetz, nonconsensual porn and you
Whether you consider them a tribute to body positivity and sexual liberation or a sign of civil and social decline, they are inarguably a hallmark of the modern era: nudes. Thanks to the internet and social media, the advent of easily shareable nudes, or sexually explicit photos and videos, has...
S.E. Cupp: To cover or not to cover Trump?
“Please stop covering the crazy stuff out Trump’s mouth (sic). The nightmare is over. Please #CNN, #NBC, #CBS, #ABC.” That’s just one of probably thousands of similar tweets in recent months imploring the media to just ignore the former president and, to invoke a Bush-era mantra, move on. I’m here...
S.E. Cupp: Politics aside, humane plan needed now for migrant children alone on the border
After facing weeks of pressure from Republicans and Democrats, the Biden administration finally released photos and videos from inside two Texas detention centers where unaccompanied children are being held. An ABC News report of the government-sanctioned video describes the conditions as “crowded but orderly,” and boasts of shelves “stocked with...
S.E. Cupp: Andrew Cuomo dusts off Bill Clinton’s abuse playbook
The case against Andrew Cuomo just keeps getting worse. There are now seven women who have accused him of sexual harassment or inappropriate touching. According to an attorney for one of his accusers, there are more to come. New York lawmakers, including both U.S. senators, have called for him to...
S.E. Cupp: What happened to empathy? Meghan Markle’s detractors sound like jerks.
I’ve never been much of a royal watcher. From the horrible tragedies to the fantastical weddings, it was all a saga I hadn’t spent much time studying. I’ve been told by more than one person that I must watch “The Crown” to get the gist. So when I tuned in...
S.E. Cupp: Elite pedigrees are normal for the right’s phony populists
If you were surprised to learn there are scores of secret diners dotting the American heartland, where teachers and construction workers sit down to have regular-Joe conversations over bacon and eggs about the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,...
S.E. Cupp: GOP knows exactly where it’s headed
It’s that time of year again. This week, CPAC — the Conservative Political Action Conference founded in 1974 — will lay siege to Orlando instead of Washington, D.C., amid a global pandemic that has, as of this week, taken a staggering 500,000 American lives. Hopes of mask-wearing and social distancing...
S.E. Cupp: The new nihilism — actually, almost everything matters
“Nothing matters.” It’s a popular and versatile phrase that can be reassuring, a reminder that despite how overwhelmed you feel, nothing matters so go ahead and enjoy that fourth doughnut. It also can be discouraging, lamenting the feeling that while a precious few are attempting to keep order, the great...
S.E. Cupp: Impeachment matters, even without conviction
The fact that President Trump wasn’t convicted doesn’t mean the impeachment trial in the Senate was unimportant. In fact, it was absolutely crucial. Here are five reasons why. Accountability. What happened in the wake of the November elections was likely a crime. The president of the United States and his...
S.E. Cupp: Bitter, partisan reactions to AOC are proof American politics has lost its way
Last Monday night, nearly a month after Trump-supporting insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol looking to overturn a democratic election and, in some cases, kill U.S. lawmakers, New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to Instagram Live to share her harrowing account of that day. Traumatized not only by the close encounter...
S.E. Cupp: After Trump, a chance to refocus
Five years ago, after teasing a potential run for the White House for years, Donald Trump descended down a golden escalator, and from that moment on, the news cycle was predominantly his. Trump hijacked our collective attention span and held it hostage for the duration of his presidency, subjecting Americans...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans, was it worth it?
Donald Trump has joined a kind of losers club, becoming one of only five presidents since 1900 to fail in his reelection bid. Herbert Hoover, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush, whatever we think of their presidencies now, were all given the boot by voters who said, erm...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans who follow Trump have betrayed their philosophy
Among the many atrocities Donald Trump heaped upon the United States in four short years, — a grotesque child separation policy that’s orphaned more than 600 kids, an increase in white supremacist and anti-Semitic threats and attacks, an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol that left five dead — one is...
S.E. Cupp: New Year’s resolutions from Josh Gad, Andrew Yang and others
What a year. Thankfully one of the weirdest and wildest in modern history is drawing to a close, bringing a new sense of optimism about the coming year. Or so I thought. Every year, I solicit New Year’s resolutions from friends, colleagues and newsmakers. This year, I expected big things:...
S.E. Cupp: What will this year look like a century from now?
Finally, we can say it: 2020 is almost over. Good riddance. As we look to finally bring a close to this annus horribilis, America will be living amid the detritus for years — a devastating economic downturn, a generation of students behind in education, the collective psychic trauma of prolonged...
S.E. Cupp: Lifesaving women threatened by lowlifes
“Burn in Hell.” “Get murdered.” “We’re coming for you.” Those are just some of the messages that 69-year-old grandmother and retired teacher Joyce Warshaw received. That’s all because, as mayor of Dodge City, Kan. — a city of just over 27,000 steeped in Wild West frontier history — she eventually...
S.E. Cupp: Jim Banks’ mask outrage is outrageous
As famous a phrase as it is, it’s unlikely that some fastidious but oblivious boatswain actually spent any time rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as it was sinking to a watery grave in 1912. But the idea has come to illustrate an utterly pointless, wasteful and insignificant endeavor...
S.E. Cupp: Celebrities, stop partying like arrogant buffoons
It has long been a fashionable and celebrated pastime in Republican circles to mock Hollywood celebrities for their elitist, superficial and often silly proclivities, their inability to relate to average Americans and the belief that rules don’t apply to them. Hollywood is in fact a reviled category of people for...
S.E. Cupp: Experience makes a comeback with Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden has begun to piece together his Cabinet, and the early announcements reveal an administration that prizes diversity and familiarity, but more vitally, experience over blind loyalty. Needless to say, that is very refreshing and reassuring. My blood pressure already has begun to drop. The last four years...
S.E. Cupp: Vengeance? No. Consequences? Yes. How to handle the post-Trump era
Much has been written about the art, ethics and prudence of revenge. It’s possible Jerry Seinfeld put it best. In an episode aptly titled “The Revenge,” Seinfeld tells George Costanza, “The best revenge is living well.” To which George dismissively scoffs, “There’s no chance of that.” The topic of revenge...
