S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 3
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...
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...
