S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 10
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...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s post-election meltdown typical and pathetic
The front page of The New York Times on Nov. 11 probably hit him hard: “Election Officials Nationwide Find No Fraud.” This one, in the formerly friendly New York Post, probably hit him even harder: “Biden’s popular vote lead over Trump grows to more than 5 million.” By all accounts,...
S.E. Cupp: We simply cannot take 4 more years of this
The last election in 2016 feels simultaneously like it was yesterday and 100 years ago. Weren’t we just here eyeing polls that told us Donald Trump was certain to lose? As we look to the election and what the next four years could bring with our vote for president, it’s...
S.E. Cupp: Biden will follow science — and that’s not the insult Trump thinks it is
He meant it as a threat. At a Nevada rally earlier this month, President Trump promised his supporters that if former Vice President Joe Biden is elected, “he’ll listen to the scientists.” It says a lot that Trump believed — and is likely correct — that his followers would disapprove...
S.E. Cupp: Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination may supercharge Democratic turnout
After the Senate’s hearing to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the timing of her nomination — just a week and a day after the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and weeks before a presidential election — has enraged Democrats in Congress and many Democratic voters....
S.E. Cupp: What kind of man is Donald Trump?
Ask any heterosexual woman and she’ll tell you she has dated at least one loser at some point. If we’re paying attention, we learn to pick up on cues that help us avoid making the same mistake again, like the guy who yells at Uber drivers or the one who...
S.E. Cupp: Anti-Catholic attacks on Amy Coney Barrett will help get Trump re-elected
“Trump’s likely RBG replacement, Amy Coney Barrett, is a Catholic extremist with seven children who does not believe employers should be required to provide healthcare coverage for birth control. She wants the rest of American women to be stuck with her extreme lifestyle.” That’s a now-deleted tweet from a documentary...
S.E. Cupp: Trump exploits liberal hypocrisy to justify his stupid decisions
Last week, President Trump made the absolutely asinine decision to hold two indoor rallies at a time when covid-19 has killed more than 197,000 Americans. The first, a rally at an XTreme Manufacturing facility in Nevada, packed in 5,600 people, mostly maskless with no social distancing requirements, earning that company...
S.E. Cupp: Are we prepared for Trump’s refusal to accept election results?
“We have to win the election,” President Trump told a crowd of sometimes maskless supporters in Oshkosh, Wis., back in August. “(M)ake sure your vote gets counted. Make sure, because the only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged.” Did you get that? The...
S.E. Cupp: Vote Biden, and make the presidency boring again
I heard a strange rumor recently that there are people out there, far, far away, who don’t spend the majority of their time thinking about politics. Instead of obsessing over tweets, binging on cable news 24/7, and pulling their hair out over the all-caps STATE OF OUR NATION, they’re —...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s convention should worry the left
Will we ever learn? In the wake of 2016, many on the left, in the media and certainly on blue-check Twitter, were caught off guard by Donald Trump’s unfathomable win. I count myself among the surprised. Over the past four years, however, we’ve seen over and over again that Trump’s...
S.E. Cupp: I’m voting for Biden because he’s a good person — and why that matters
On the Democratic National Convention’s second night, Joe Biden’s wife, Jill, took America inside her longtime marriage to the presidential nominee. These things usually strike me as schmaltzy and inauthentic — pre-packaged montages about political leaders and their families, their personal trials and triumphs, their “normal” lives, old photos of...
S.E. Cupp: The unbelievable, totally believable return of Bill O’Reilly
If we women weren’t already so jaded about the way powerful men are excused for their bad behavior, this might seem totally unbelievable. Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox News host who was accused by multiple women of sexual harassment and ultimately reached legal settlements with at least six worth a...
S.E. Cupp: My vote for Biden hinges on his veep pick
The job of the vice president hasn’t gotten much respect over the years. Benjamin Franklin is rumored to have suggested that the title be renamed “His Superfluous Excellency.” Vice President John Nance Garner — aka, “who?” — said the role “is not worth a bucket of warm spit!” Even “Hamilton,”...
S.E. Cupp: Will ‘healthy’ schools be traumatic?
August is usually when we try to get one final vacation in, find fun ways to beat the heat and take our last licks of summer. But this year, August is different. For those of us who have school-age children, the potential return to class hangs over us; we count...
S.E. Cupp: Kanye needs help, not a public platform
Back in October 2018, music and fashion mogul Kanye West took a trip to the Oval Office, ostensibly to discuss criminal justice reform with the president. What happened instead was a three-ring circus in front of rolling cameras and millions of television viewers at home. West veered from one unrelated...
S.E. Cupp: No, we shouldn’t cancel ‘Hamilton’
Like thousands and thousands of others, I spent 2½ hours watching the streaming version of “Hamilton” on Disney+ with my family for the first time. I was gobsmacked. I had a hunch that I’d like it — I’m a fan of most musicals and, until recently, a regular theatergoer. But...
S.E. Cupp: Trump endangering his own voters
If you’re a white supremacist, racist or just feeling insecure about your status as a white man in America, the president of the United States sure wants you to know, he’s got your back. Over the past few weeks, President Trump has stoked racial divisions by making steady, clumsy and...
S.E. Cupp: Can Hollywood entertain us again?
As we slowly start to test the waters of reopening the country after months of pandemic shutdowns, we’re getting a much-needed taste — albeit in bite-sized portions — of life as we once knew it. Restaurants, stores, salons and small and socially distant gatherings are returning to our weekly routines,...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s salvation can only come from his playing on fear
There are endless reasons to believe President Trump will be unceremoniously kicked out of the White House in November after a four-year experiment in utter lunacy. The most compelling is this administration’s flagrant incompetence in the hands of one of the worst managers in political history. From bumbling a global...
S.E. Cupp: Trump wants to ride chaos into November
It’s easy to forget, with the unending cavalcade of life-altering news, that we are deep in the midst of an election year. There are just 146 days until Nov. 3, and it’s shaping up to be one like no other. Around this time in 2016, Hillary Clinton had secured President...
S.E. Cupp: White, privileged should open their ears to black pain
It’s only been a little about two weeks since the death of an unarmed black man named George Floyd in Minneapolis, and yet it feels like a year’s worth has happened. American cities and churches burned. Peaceful protesters tear-gassed and shot at. Stores and small businesses destroyed and looted. Journalists...
S.E. Cupp: Trump’s indecent attacks on the dead
“Punch up, not down.” Whether in comedy or politics, the consensus precept has provided helpful parameters in which to acceptably swing at rivals or targets. The idea is, pick on someone your own size. I can think of no better — meaning worse — example of punching down than one...
