S.E. Cupp Columns category, Page 4
S.E. Cupp: Trump abandons pro-lifers; they may abandon him
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference. It had been a very good five years for Republicans, starting with his election in 1980 and, for the first time in 28 years, a Republican Senate. He began by thanking the various groups in the room: the American...
S.E. Cupp: Whose voters like RFK Jr. more? It’s very clear.
As you might have noticed, the political class is in a bit of a frenzy, trying to intuit exactly whom Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quixotic campaign for president will hurt the most — President Biden or former President Donald Trump. I suppose it’s good news for the independent candidate and...
S.E. Cupp: Don’t use press jobs to rehab Trump’s flunkies
On the night of Dec. 5, 2020, Jocelyn Benson and her 4-year-old son had just finished decorating their Detroit house for Christmas. Just as he was sitting down to watch “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” Jocelyn heard a growing ruckus outside. The noises got louder and louder and eventually Benson...
S.E. Cupp: Donald ‘I’m Really Rich’ Trump needs a bailout
“Here’s the good news. I’m very rich.” That was 2015 Donald Trump, who spent much of that year bragging about his immense wealth as he mounted a then unlikely run for president. “I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far,” he said then. “Ross Perot...
S.E. Cupp: Biden and Trump are not treated the same
Welp, it’s official. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump — both of whom are unpopular and underwater in terms of favorability among Americans — are going to be our two major party choices for president. Congrats, America? On Tuesday night both Biden and Trump clinched enough delegates to...
S.E. Cupp: Nikki Haley tried to save the Republican Party
Nearly 10 years ago, Donald Trump rode down a gaudy, golden escalator from his high perch atop Trump Tower down to the masses to announce his run for president. That moment would dramatically change the trajectory of the Republican Party in America — for the worse, and maybe irreparably. That...
S.E. Cupp: Republicans have no solutions, just grievances
“That government is best which governs least.” That famous aphorism delightfully — and somewhat snarkily — illuminates what animated the Founders to form a democratic republic and break with the oppressive rule of the monarchy. Practically since the day America was born, there’s been a national debate over government’s role....
S.E. Cupp: What does Suozzi’s win mean? Not what you think.
In cable news, we practice the persuasive arts — and I’ll be the first to admit that we commentators have a penchant for hyperbole and a tendency to overstate. We especially like to do that with local and midterm elections like New York’s congressional special election. “What does it mean?”...
S.E. Cupp: The GOP is collapsing; so too could the country
“When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall.” The fall of the Roman Empire, aside from pre-occupying the minds of all modern American men evidently, is a cautionary tale for every advanced society, including ours. That may sound alarmist, but trust me — our Coliseum is already crumbling. One need only...
S.E. Cupp: Gullible MAGA believes Taylor Swift is a psyop
By now you’ve probably heard the shocking news: Taylor Swift, the billionaire mega-celebrity pop star, is actually a Pentagon psyop, or psychological operation, whose ultimate mission is to get President Biden reelected. Now that the singer’s beau Travis Kelce and his Kansas City Chiefs are going to the Super Bowl,...
S.E. Cupp: Stop deepfake porn’s assault on women
I honestly hadn’t thought about the image in a very long time, mercifully. It’s been 12 years since it first hit the internet, and I’m happy to say I — and everyone else — have moved on. But I was 33 years old when Hustler, the Larry Flynt smut rag,...
S.E. Cupp: It’s the money vs. the map for DeSantis & Haley
Anyone watching the Iowa caucuses results pour in Monday night could see very quickly that former President Donald Trump was going to walk away with a decisive victory. He won 98 of 99 counties, and was denied the 99th by only one vote. More than one cable news network called...
S.E. Cupp: The unseriousness of pro-Palestinian protesters
“I have a daughter in Brooklyn! Get the **** out of the way!” The exasperated driver, whose identity is as of yet unknown, had to finally get out of his car in Manhattan and scream at a group of more than 1,000 pro-Palestinian protesters who decided this week that the...
S.E. Cupp: Haley is failing to bank on Iowa’s independents
With less than two weeks to go until the Iowa caucuses, the 2024 presidential election just shot into high gear. Former President Donald Trump still overwhelmingly leads the Republican pack, despite the fact that he’s facing more than 90 criminal charges and four different indictments and may, at some point,...
S.E. Cupp: New Year’s resolutions for what’s ahead in 2024
Another year is closing, and with it comes some renewed optimism for a fresh start and some relief that we are leaving some sore spots behind. 2023 wasn’t an easy year for many of us. It was marked by war — in Ukraine and later in Gaza. With Hamas’ barbaric...
S.E. Cupp: What’s the point of debates anymore?
The year was 1980. The place was Cleveland’s Music Hall. The event was must-see TV. It was the second presidential debate, featuring Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, and it birthed a number of memorable moments. There was Reagan’s chiding line, “There you go again.” And his pointed question about Carter’s...
S.E. Cupp: November has been Nikki Haley’s takeoff month
Perhaps “Nikki-mentum” is too clumsy. And maybe “Haley’s comet” is too cute. But however you want to put it, there’s no denying Nikki Haley is having a great month. Despite a brief mid-month hiccup — where Haley offered up an ill-conceived and backlash-inviting social media ban on anonymity — the...
S.E. Cupp: Blame Trump for the fist fights on Capitol Hill
In San Francisco federal court on Tuesday, David DePape tearfully told a jury how he’d become radicalized by far-right conspiracy theories he’d devoured on YouTube podcasts. He’d listen all day, he said, ultimately coming to believe in the kind of baseless political quackery that’s come to define a wing of...
S.E. Cupp: On abortion, lessons not learned by Republicans
On Tuesday night, voters in a handful of important states gave us a crucial temperature check on the state of the union leading up to the 2024 presidential election — and it’s not good news for Republicans. In Virginia, the very popular Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin was hoping his party...
S.E. Cupp: The far left has a serious antisemitism problem
The headlines paint a troubling picture. “Liberals Need a Reckoning With Antisemitism.” “How the Democrats betrayed the Jews.” “The Left Faces a Reckoning as Israel Divides Democrats.” The conflict between Israel and Hamas, a terrorist group that barbarically murdered 1,400 innocent civilians in a surprise and coordinated attack on Israel,...
S.E. Cupp: The right is broken, and no one is fixing it
As I write this column, it has been more than two weeks, and the House of Representatives still doesn’t have a speaker. Even in times of peace and stability, this would be a troubling development inside a political body meant to, you know, solve problems. But these aren’t times of...
S.E. Cupp: Hamas massacres expose moral rot on campuses
“Hi y’all,” began the letter to other NYU students. Considering the topic, it was an odd and somewhat jarring salutation — cheerful, informal, chillingly indifferent. But the letter would soon turn from merely odd to downright grotesque. “Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life,” Ryna Workman, who...
S.E. Cupp: McCarthy Gaetz what he deserves and we all pay
“Bring it on.” “Just did.” These aren’t lines from a cheesy teen flick. They’re what two members of the United States House of Representatives said to each other before embarking on one of the dumbest, most self-destructive and utterly embarrassing kamikaze missions in modern American politics. On Tuesday, after threatening...
S.E. Cupp: Romney is a good man who was always a good man
The heartfelt eulogies poured in from both sides of the aisle after Utah Sen. Mitt Romney announced he would not seek reelection in 2024. Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that the Senate, the Republican Party and indeed the country are losing a good man, a decent man, one of the...
S.E. Cupp: Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s weak impeachment folly
This week, spineless House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in fear of being ousted from his precious leadership position by far-right hostage-takers like Florida’s Rep. Matt Gaetz and Georgia’s Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, caved to pressure to mount an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden — based on little more than conjecture,...
