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S.E. Cupp: Trump just can’t deliver on any of his promises

There’s nothing Donald Trump believes in more than his own power of persuasion. From “The Art of the Deal” to Trump Steaks to his foray into politics, Trump’s North Star has always been his confidence that he can convince anyone of anything. Remember, simply by assuming the office of the...
S.E. Cupp: Musk’s rise and fall was pitiful and predictable

He shot onto the political scene seemingly out of nowhere. But Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, made his presence known in short time. After acquiring Twitter in 2022 and wading into the controversial politics of free speech and misinformation, Musk’s first big move was to dump more than $50...
S.E. Cupp: Trump and the GOP have abandoned conservatism

On Thursday morning, a gleeful GOP celebrated the passing of President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” by the House. It didn’t come easy — there were a few dissenters — but eventually, fear of Trump’s retribution likely pushed it through. But it’s a Pyrrhic victory, if a victory at all, and...
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: The Democrats must start running now for 2028

Among the many problems Democrats faced in the 2024 election — former President Joe Biden’s obvious decline, a rejiggered ticket at the 11th hour, a slumbering economy and a border crisis that Dems took too long to acknowledge — was their terrible timing. When Biden won in 2020, it was...
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 Government...
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: Happy Liberation Day? More like tariff doomsday.

Here’s a nice trick for the misanthropic: Mention “import substitution industrialization” at the next dinner party you attend, and watch eyes glaze over and bodies slowly depart your general area. Talking economic theory isn’t usually exciting. And talking trade theory, including the supporting theory for tariffs, even less so. But,...
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: Trump was awful, but Elissa Slotkin hit a homer

It was as predictable as a rom-com — just as surely as you knew they’d end up together, we knew how President Trump’s first speech to Congress was going to go. It was full of Trumpisms — partisan jabs, personal attacks, absurd exaggerations, outright lies and lots of self-flattery. It...
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...

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