Journalism’s Hottest Mess
Plus: Trump cancels hurricanes, Maddow honors Dick, and Biden slouches toward the grave
It’s Friday, November 21, 2025
Donald J. Trump delivered a rousing speech this week at the McDonald’s Impact Summit in Washington, D.C. He bragged about being the “very first former McDonald’s fry cook ever to become president of the United States.” It’s a remarkable achievement. He should be proud, especially given that his hapless opponent, Kamala Harris, lied about working there to pay her way through college.
Like many of the president’s notable orations, the speech meandered at times. “I said, ‘Why is the Gulf of Mexico called the Gulf of Mexico?’ I said, ‘We’re changing the name.’ And now it’s the Gulf of America. Has nothing to do with McDonald’s, but maybe it does,” Trump said. “I wouldn’t say I made a lot of friends in Mexico, but they still like me.”
It might not have anything to do with McDonald’s, but we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America has been a stunning success worthy of a Nobel Prize. Widely mocked at the time by unpatriotic journalists who refused to acknowledge the new name, Trump’s historic rebrand has discouraged hurricanes from f—ing around in the gulf. There’s no telling how many American lives and livelihoods he’s saved.
Meanwhile, a bunch of climate freaks gathered in Brazil for a U.N. conference. After insisting for years that climate change was responsible for deadly hurricanes, they’ll probably just blame climate change for the lack of deadly hurricanes this year. They’ll never accept the truth: that even the weather is no match for American strength. No one actually cares about these climate summits, but this year’s event has been a veritable carnival of elite hypocrisy.
First, U.N. officials bulldozed huge tracts of the Amazon rainforest to build a highway to the conference grounds. They needed to accommodate all the dignitaries and celebrity activists traveling via private jet. Now they’re complaining that there aren’t enough air-conditioning units to “safeguard the well-being of delegates and personnel” who are just trying to save the world by making it illegal for other people to enjoy air-conditioning and other modern conveniences. With all due respect, they can just open a window and go f— themselves.
Happy Birthday, Sleepy Joe: America’s worst living president turned 83 on Thursday. It’s as good a time as any to remind ourselves that up until June 28, 2024, every elected Democrat not named Dean Phillips was insisting with a straight face that Joe Biden should be the president right now—curled up under a blanket in the White House basement getting treatment for the cancer he just found out about.
Trump is 79. Unlike Biden, his brain isn’t made of putty, and he still possesses superhuman stamina. But he’s clearly lost a step when it comes to coining catchy nicknames for his enemies. It’s been almost a decade since Trump debuted “Crooked Hillary.” It was like Paul McCartney crooning “Yesterday” on The Ed Sullivan Show. This week, Trump continued to lash out at former ally Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.), or as he put it: “Lightweight Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Brown (Green grass turns Brown when it begins to ROT!)… .” Come on, man. No one expects you to still be cranking out once-in-a-generation hits, but that’s just trash. Be better!
Happy Trails, Dick Cheney: Rachel Maddow attended his funeral on Thursday. The mainstream media lavished praised on the man they once violently denounced as a treasonous war criminal—literally the deformed bastard child of Adolf Hitler and Satan himself. They praised him not for helping America recover from 9/11 and killing lots of terrorists, but for criticizing Trump. We’re just glad he lived long enough to see our B-2s bomb Iran. Rest in power, king.
READ MORE: Vice, Virtue, and Victory: Dick Cheney, RIP
Warm and Nuzzi: It was a big week for sloppy drama in the field of journalism. Olivia Nuzzi, the former New York magazine reporter who had an allegedly non-physical affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was engaged to fellow journalist Ryan Lizza, is about to release a book about her—and America’s—downfall. The New York Times wrote a fawning puff piece, and Vanity Fair, which recently hired Nuzzi, published a painfully overwrought excerpt from her book.
Lizza, her scorned ex-fiancé, fired back with a painfully overwrought Substack post about how he found out about Nuzzi’s affair...with former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford. (Before that, she dated the notorious psychopath Keith Olbermann when she was 21 and he was 55.) Lizza recalled finding one of Nuzzi’s illicit love notes. “If I swallowed every drop of water from the tower above your house,” she had written Sanford, “I would still thirst for you.”
Nuzzi wrote a profile of Kennedy during the 2024 campaign. She also reported on Sanford, who briefly ran for president in 2020. It’s not a great look, and it raises some troubling questions.
Even more troubling was the revelation that Nuzzi was once an aspiring teen pop star. When she was 16 years old, Nuzzi, aka Livvy, wrote and recorded a trashy pop song titled “Jailbait.” It is as cringe as it sounds: “Bad things happen to those who (pray) prey / A basic instinct to die another day / Sixteen will get you twenty, lust criminally /
Irresistible, that’s why they call me... / Jailbait, I’m jailbait.”
Still more troubling are the songs Livvy recorded as an adult while shacking up with leathery politicians. The following tracks, uncovered as part of an exclusive Free Beacon investigation into her musical career, have never been publicly released—until now.
“Thirst”
“Give Me The Worm”
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Constituent Services: Congress finally voted to release the Jeffrey Epstein files, and Democrats are already disgracing themselves. They rallied behind their colleague, U.S. Virgin Islands delegate Stacey Plaskett (D.), after she was exposed for texting the notorious pervert during a House committee hearing. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D., Md.) and others parroted Plaskett’s absurd excuse that she was merely chatting with “one of her constituents.”
Right, and Bill Clinton was just checking in on his “former constituent” aboard the affectionately nicknamed “Lolita Express” while offering tips to “future voters.”
Freak Show in Manhattan: Having just elected a communist mayor, Democrats in Manhattan will soon get to vote in the primary to replace outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), widely regarded as the worst-smelling member of Congress. “Yeah, he smells,” a House Democrat told the Free Beacon. “I don’t know what he does. Maybe he doesn’t take a bath, I don’t know what it is.”
The race to succeed Nadler is shaping up to be a real freak show. Jack Schlossberg, the “obviously disturbed” scion of Hitler apologist Joseph Kennedy, launched his campaign last week. Cameron Kasky, a 25-year-old child activist who wants to abolish ICE, is also running. George Conway, the disgraced Lincoln Project cofounder and grown man who has posted more than 170,000 times on X since joining the platform roughly 5,000 days ago (you do the math; it’s disgusting), may enter the race as well. Have fun!
What Not to Say When Running for Congress: First of all, don’t have a ridiculous made-up name like Aftyn Behn. She is the Democratic state legislator running for Congress in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes a large chunk of Nashville. Most politicians who want to represent Nashville in Congress would never go on a podcast and talk about how much they “hate the city” and “all of the things” that normal people like about it. Behn evidently did not consider this before launching her campaign. Good luck!
Exclusive Interview: We tracked down the demonic entity that allegedly attacked Tucker Carlson in his sleep and left bloody “claw marks” on his ribs. We wanted to know if Tucker was telling the truth, or if it was all a big misunderstanding. We refuse to hear just one side of the story, especially when the powers that be are constantly insisting that certain ideas are off limits. In any event, it was a fun conversation and the feral demon had a lot of interesting things to say, mostly about the Jews. Read the whole thing here.
Fired Teen Vogue Staffer Explains Why Firing Was Justified: It was certainly not they/their’s intention, but Lex McMenamin, aka “Comrade Teen Vogue,” gave a great speech outlining why the magazine deserved to be shut down. McMenamin, the former politics editor, lamented that they/them was the “only trans staffer,” and said one of her “proudest memories” was “having leadership that was women of color.” The world desperately needed a media outlet willing to “speak truth to power” and “resolutely clarify what is happening in the world, from Palestine to trans rights, campus organizing, you name it.” In other words, all things teenagers should care about.
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