S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 3
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....
S.E. Cupp: Fear, death threats and Trump’s violent rhetoric
She’s nervous. But she’s got three kids at home, and in this economy, it’s a job, and she needs it. She didn’t know just how dangerous it would be, though. And now, as the big day gets closer and closer, she’s just hoping to survive it. She was prepared for...
S.E. Cupp: Harris tricks Trump into following her script
After months of following the many twists and turns of this presidential election, we’ve all been zooming in on some very particular voters who will ultimately decide who wins in November. It’s the undecided, moderate and independent voters in seven swing states who are going to be the difference between...
S.E. Cupp: A debate that could actually turn the election
Believe it or not, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump will meet next week in Philadelphia — for the first time. That’s right — Harris, who entered the U.S. Senate at the same time that Trump entered the White House, who had breakout moments during her cross-examination...
S.E. Cupp: Glitchy streams, migrant memes and stupid themes — Trump’s playbook is a mess
On Monday afternoon, former President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, was on Fox Business discussing the state of Trump’s campaign with former Trump adviser Larry Kudlow. Conway was pointed in criticizing Trump’s attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, which have centered on everything from her intelligence to her...
S.E. Cupp: Is Harris Walzing her way into the White House?
It’s likely many people turned on their television sets or scrolled through social media on Tuesday morning and said, “Who?” Tim Walz, the second-term governor of Minnesota who burst onto the scene over the past few weeks while campaigning for Vice President Kamala Harris, has officially become her running mate....
S.E. Cupp: It fits well. All the president’s men …are weird.
“Weird.” It’s the new Democratic talking point being used to describe former President Donald Trump and his newly minted running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. It was first used by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the wake of newly surfaced Vance videos in which he calls Democrats “childless cat ladies”...
S.E. Cupp: Trump campaign’s panic at the disco with Harris
After what was, by all accounts, a resoundingly successful Republican National Convention, the party appears to be over for former President Donald Trump and the GOP. The weeks leading up to the RNC were good for Republicans. Very good. President Biden had suffered through an agonizing and, some would say,...
S.E. Cupp: Trump wants to win. And that should scare Biden.
In many ways, the selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance as former President Donald Trump’s running mate is odd and seemingly impolitic. After all, Vance is another white guy from a state Trump won twice and is sure to win again — hardly a value-add. He’s brash and often unlikeable....
S.E. Cupp: Democrats, Republicans and the death of common sense — we’re stuck with Biden and Trump
Common sense. We all know what it means, but common as it is, definitions and ideas of it have changed over centuries. Aristotle connected common sense directly to the senses, and the ways in which we use different tastes, colors, feelings, smells and sounds to collectively perceive and categorize things....
S.E. Cupp: Biden’s poor debate was so infuriating
This last week of June 2024 will go down in history as one of the most consequential in American politics. June 27, in particular will go down as one of the most consequential debates in American elections — perhaps even more so than Nixon/Kennedy, or Lincoln/Douglas. That’s because the CNN...
S.E. Cupp: Biden replacement theory — fact or fever dream?
The presidential election is less than five months away, and the Democratic National Convention that will officially nominate sitting President Biden is exactly two months away. You’d think by now, and with these events fast-approaching, we’d have finally moved through the stages of grief to acceptance that Joe Biden, for...
S.E. Cupp: The ripple effect of overturning Roe v. Wade
It’s nearly two years since the conservative Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the decision that had protected access to abortion for nearly 50 years, sparking a seismic series of events in American political history. And if overturning Roe was indeed an earthquake, the aftershocks have been never-ending, although a...
