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Liberation Day for Hollywood starlet.
Unfair trade is dead, and Hooters is alive (for now).
Journalists demand to be taken seriously (without cause).
True courage: Liberal white woman boycotts grad school.

It’s Friday, April 4, 2025

Democrats and their media sycophants want you to think tariffs are the only thing happening in the world right now. It’s true that President Donald Trump proclaimed April 2 as “Liberation Day” for the American people, and the White House announced a series of trade fairness measures that will either Make America Great Again or give Democrats an easy issue to run on that allows them to reclaim power without ever really reckoning with the fact that their party has gone insane. In any event, this obsession with tariffs (and the alleged decline of the stock market) reveals yet again that Democratic politicians and mainstream journalists are hopelessly out of touch with normal Americans.

2 big things: The New York Times put out dozens of doomsaying articles and op-eds this week about Trump’s tariffs, but the paper hasn’t published a single word about what might be the best piece of news since Nov. 5, 2024: Sydney Sweeney, the well-rounded (and MAGA-affiliated) Hollywood starlet, is single again after breaking off her engagement with some dude named Jonathan. This is a massive development, one that never would have happened on Joe Biden’s watch. The so-called paper of record’s refusal to cover Sweeney’s “liberation day” suggests an astonishing level of contempt for the American people, and especially for the hopes and dreams of male voters who are (not surprisingly) abandoning the Democratic Party in droves. The Washington Free Beacon is ready and willing to fill that void. Enjoy!

The tariff question no one’s asking: How will Trump’s new trade policies affect Hooters? The iconic casual dining chain, known for its admirable commitment to male camaraderie, female empowerment, and the color orange, filed for bankruptcy this week but plans to stay in business after selling its company-owned restaurants to a group of franchise operators. Once again, the Times has failed to meet the moment. Its reporting on this issue of direct concern to millions of hardworking Americans—and to all who claim to care about body positivity—has been perfunctory at best. According to the Times, the “most relevant” Hooters story on its website is an op-ed by a self-described “bicoastal effete” about all the dads who supposedly patronize the storied franchise with their gay sons.

The Free Beacon, by contrast, has always treated our normal American readers with the respect they deserve. You’re welcome.

Fun fact: CNN anchor Jake Tapper once worked for a public relations firm that represented Hooters in the 1990s, around the same time he went on a date with Monica Lewinsky. Talk about peaking too early.

Media malpractice: The Sydney Sweeney/Hooters scandal was hardly the only example this week of shoddy journalism and liberal bias in elite media organizations.

• NBC News published a truly baffling story about how the great-granddaughter of Willis C. Hawley, the congressman who coauthored the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, was not a fan of Trump’s trade policies. She’s a 70-year-old retired nurse who voted for Kamala Harris, so no shit.

• Politico used an absurd caption—”How Trump Loses Gen Z”—in its Playbook newsletter to frame Attorney General Pam Bondi’s announcement that federal prosecutors would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione if he is convicted of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. It’s true that many Gen Z morons, whose brains have been irredeemably ravaged by smartphones and social media, tell pollsters they support Mangione and think Thompson’s murder was justified, which is why they shouldn’t be allowed to vote when Trump runs for reelection in 2028.

• CBS News journalist Leslie Stahl asked Keith Siegel, a Jewish American held hostage by Hamas for nearly 500 days, if the terrorists deliberately “starved” him or if “they just didn’t have food.” Siegel, who also described being violently beaten by his Hamas captors, was forced to explain that the terrorists “would often eat in front of me and not offer me food.”

• The Daily Beast published a whinging review of the Glengarry Glen Ross revival on Broadway starring Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Burr, and Michael McKean. The author, Tim Teeman, complained about the “degrading” and “painfully offensive” language of the characters—a group of miserable real-estate brokers in 1980s Chicago—and condemned the audience for its “literal laughter” at a time when the “rights and identities of minorities and the marginalized are under sustained attack.” Teeman went on to imply that the play’s author, David Mamet, should have included some scenes in which the “characters that say these words [are] cautioned or castigated or proven wrong,” which sounds absolutely riveting. Angsty liberals said the same thing about Clint Eastwood and Gran Torino back in 2008. They must not realize how obnoxious they sound to normal people.

• The White House Correspondents’ Association is reportedly considering a Civil Rights-era “sit-in” to protest the Trump administration’s decision to take away their assigned seats in the White House briefing room. The White House is seeking to disrupt the traditional seating chart, which gives preference to established liberal outlets (and Fox News). If the White House doesn’t back down, the embattled journalist could make a scene by sitting in their old seats and refusing to leave. This is a great idea that would definitely rally the American people to their cause, if you can call it that. Just make sure the cameras are rolling when the journos are forcibly evicted and hauled off to Guantanamo.

Biden death watch: White House aides started planning back in 2023 for the possibility that Biden could die in office or be otherwise incapacitated due to his failing brain. That’s according to Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House, one of several books coming out this spring about the efforts to cover up Biden’s obvious decline. This timeframe is consistent with other reporting that wasn’t published until after Biden withdrew from the election. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post revealed in his latest book, published two weeks before the election, that Democratic donors were shocked by the “troubling signs of decline” Biden exhibited during a series of fundraisers in June 2023, one year before his infamous debate. That is also when, according to the authors of Fight, Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell of California “first became concerned about Biden’s mental acuity” after the president failed to recognize him at the annual White House picnic. Cool, thanks for letting us know!

EXCLUSIVE: The Most Explosive Revelations From Jake Tapper’s New Book About Biden’s Decline

Obnoxious liberal white woman of the week: Tim Walz’s daughter, Hope Walz, went on TikTok to announce her courageous decision not to attend the allegedly prestigious graduate school she applied to (probably Columbia) because she is a “privileged white woman” who refuses to patronize institutions that “do not support students and the right to protest and speak out for their communities” and foreign terrorists organizations. No one cares.

Financial advice of the week: If you haven’t already filed your taxes, please bear in mind the following information, courtesy of the IRS: 1) All bribes must be reported as income, and 2) you can claim your child as a dependent even if they’ve been kidnapped (by someone other than a family member).

Quote of the week: “I am not a clown, stupid,” said the deranged Florida man wearing a Ronald McDonald costume as police wrestled him to the ground.

Photo of the week: The aforementioned Florida man.