SATURDAY: Trump never fails to say "Hussein!"

SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 2026

A tool pretends to explain: The meltdown came from various directions in the course of this past week. 

In one venue, the meltdown started with a set of video clips. The clips were aired at the start of a segment on Thursday's edition of The Five.  

As you know, The Five is the most-watched program in American "cable news." As you can see by clicking this link, the segment to which we refer started with these video clips:  

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/22/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you ever heard of him?   

PRESIDENT TRUMP (6/4/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (7/22/25): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him?

PRESIDENT TRUMP (1/27/26): Barack Hussein Obama. Have you—have you heard of him?   

The dates were included as the four clips played. The point of this otherwise pointless presentation was obvious.  

President Trump can't seem to stop talking about Barack Obama. During the segment in question, Jesse Watters was the first messaging agent to state his view about this situation. 

He quickly offered an explanation for President Trump's behavior:

WATTERS (6/25/26): Trump talks a lot. He says a lot of things. So yeah, he’s gonna mention Barack Hussein Obama. 

Part of that is just, he likes to say "Hussein."  

President Trump just likes to say "Hussein," this simpering man boy said!

Let's state what's blindingly obvious. There's a reason why the sitting president always includes the former president's middle name.  Also, everyone knows what that reason is. 

In reality, everyone knows why Trump always says "Hussein."  As Watters tried to move to his next point, Jessica Tarlov interrupted and asked an obvious question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): But the other part of it—

TARLOV:  Why does he like to say "Hussein?"

Why does he like to say "Hussein?" With that, the die had been cast.  

In the past, we've described the programming of the Fox News Channel as an assault on the very possibility of continuing the American project, such as that project has been.  The idiocy of Watters and his towel-snapping partner, Greg Gutfeld, is a major part of the frontal assault waged by this corporate entity.

What shape will that practiced idiocy take at a moment like this? Below, you see the way Watters responded to Tarlov's question:

WATTERS (continuing directly): Cause it’s funny that the president’s middle name was Hussein. You don’t think that’s hysterical?

TARLOV: No, I don’t. 

WATTERS: OK, OK! It was the name of the dictator—

TARLOV: I think it’s interesting in the context of saying that he’s a Muslim. Which is why he says it, so that people still think that he’s a Muslim.  

GUTFELD: It's so problematic.   

Stating the obvious, everyone knows that's why Trump keeps saying Obama's middle name. Everyone except the corporate tool Watters, who's paid fantastic sums, by the Murdoch empire, to recite the corporation's agitprop and to play the fool in this way.   

Jesse Watters stepped forward this day to play the fool again! In his view, why does President Trump keep saying "Hussein" whenever he mentions President Obama?   

According to the corporate messaging agent, President Trump likes to say "Hussein" just because it's funny! It's just funny that President Obama shares a name with Saddam Hussein, this simpering idiot said. 

Needless to say, that isn't what Watters actually thinks. Surprised by the rare interruption from Tarlov, he struggled to keep his practiced idiocy on the winning side of the street.   

We're sorry, but Barack Obama isn't a Muslim! (As everyone knows, millions of good, decent American citizens actually are.)  

Still, the sitting president wants to float that possibly scary suggestion. Everyone, including Watters, knows that's why the sitting president does what he constantly does.

Stating the obvious, Watters knows why President Trump does what he constantly does. He also knows that that is why the "news channel" which employs and scripts him opened that grisly segment with four ululations of "Hussein" by the sitting president.   

As Thursday's segment proceeded, Watters attempted to recover, in a way we won't describe. It ended with the little mutt Gutfeld extending his twice-daily practice of undermining the possibility of the American project, such as it has been:   

WATTERS: I don’t know what he is. I don’t care what he is. He’s probably an atheist.

TARLOV: You know what he is!

WATTERS: He is, I know. He’s retired.  

GUTFELD: No god-fearing person would eat a dog.  

That's what the second mutt said!   

Watters and Gutfeld are the two leading players at today's Fox News Channel. They co-host (and dominate) The Five, the nation's most-watched cable news program.  

Jesse Watters Primetime (8 p.m.) is the nation's second most-watched "cable news" show. Gutfeld!, which airs at 10 p.m. (that's 7 p.m. out on the coast), is #4 on the national list.  

Regarding Watters himself, let us briefly say this. It's amazing to see how far the clown-adjacent propagandist has fallen, distinguished ancestry-wise:

Jesse Watters   

Jesse Bailey Watters (born July 9, 1978) is an American conservative political commentator and television program host on the Fox News cable television network. He frequently appeared earlier in his media career on The O'Reilly Factor, the political talk show hosted by commentator/moderator Bill O'Reilly... 

[...] 

Watters was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Stephen Hapgood Watters, a teacher, and child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey Jr., publisher of Better Homes and Gardens magazine. His maternal great-grandfather was another Morton Bailey, publisher of the prominent longtime magazine The Saturday Evening Post; his maternal great-great-grandfather was Morton Shelley Bailey (1855–1922), a lawyer, politician, state senator, and district judge in Colorado, later serving as an Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Watters' paternal grandfather, Franklin Benjamin Watters, was a cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Newington, Connecticut, and a professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School...

Watters has Irish ancestry on his father's side. Watters is named after his mother's great-grandfather, Jesse Andrew Burnett, an associate chief justice of the Kansas Supreme Court in their state capital of Topeka, Kansas. 

Reversion to (well below) the mean has taken place with remarkable speed within this particular family. The leading authority also includes a lengthy section concerning this peculiar fellow's peculiar views regarding the various ways boys and girls should correctly behave:   

Comments on masculinity

Watters criticized former President Joe Biden for licking ice cream in public as "a grown man." He has instructed men on how they should wave and belittled those who grocery shop with their wives. In September 2024, Jesse Watters was criticized for comments he made on The Five regarding Tim Walz, the Governor of Minnesota and a running mate of the US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who had shared a photo of himself drinking a milkshake with a paper straw. Watters mocked the image as an example of Walz's lack of masculinity because he used a straw, which he claimed made women not like Walz, because women like masculinity. He said that asking for a "vanilla shake" instead of a "vanilla ice cream shake" also makes men look weak...

In March 2025, Watters listed his "five rules for men" on The Five – don't be that serious, just be funny; don't eat soup in public; don't cross your legs; don't drink from a straw, and don't wave simultaneously with two hands because men wave with one hand, not both hands at the same time. He added that one of the reasons you don't drink from a straw is the way your lips purse, which is very effeminate... 

And on and on from there. Gender rules without end, amen. This idiocy never stops.

In fairness, full disclosure:

Sometimes, Watters seems to be lapsing into his "I'm just a silly dimwit" comedic persona when he makes these inane observations. On balance, though, we get the impression that he really believes this idiocy, which he routinely traffics.   

Returning to Thursday's segment:   

Everyone knows why President Trump never fails to say "Hussein." Also, everyone knows why the Fox News Channel opened Thursday's segment with those video clips.   

Like President Trump, the bosses believe their audience is dumb enough to be swayed by such messaging. We know of no sign that this belief is wrong. 

A downfall started in earnest this week. Starting on Monday, we'll be discussing that latest menacing assault on the American project.  

For today, one final point:   

Who is most at fault as this latest assault takes shape? Their names are legion, and their names are Blue. 

They're the overpaid stars who work for the New York Times, for MS NOW, and also for the Atlantic. They refuse to report or discuss the potent behavior which occurs on the Fox News Channel. 

Their own corporate checks are spending real good. To a man, to a woman, they have agreed to avert their gaze. They have agreed not to speak.

Also this: For a report on that segment by Mediaite, you can just click here.

RACE: The termagants say she's really a man!

FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026

They slime the first lady—of France! Is the UFC's Josh Hokit a racist? 

Asking a slightly different question, was his pitiful statement on June 14 a racist act? 

We don't know much about Josh Holit. For that reason, we aren't sure how to answer your questions.  

Who the heck is this person, Josh Hokit? We direct you to these elements from the thumbnail account offered by the leading authority on the person in question:  

Josh Hokit   

Joshua Seth Hokit (born November 12, 1997) is an American professional mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). He formerly competed in Bellator MMA. As of June 20, 2026, he is #5 in the Meta UFC heavyweight rankings.

Prior to competing in MMA, Hokit was an All-American wrestler, and played American football as a tight end and fullback in college football, at Fresno State. 

[...]  

Hokit has a history of controversial remarks during post-fight interviews, dating back to his tenure in Legacy Fighting Alliance (LFA). Following wins in LFA, Hokit made several controversial remarks, including labeling former first lady Michelle Obama "a man" and criticizing the participation of transgender women in sports, stating that they "belong" in the octagon with him "because you need to get your ass whooped."

This pattern continued following his TKO victory at UFC 324—the first UFC event to be streamed live on Paramount+—where Hokit responded to the idea of "losing in a fist fight" by stating, "N-word, please." During the same interview, he called out Waldo Cortes-Acosta, labeling him a "deadbeat father not to one kid, but to nine," and concluded by stating, "And P.S., Brittney Griner is a man."

The UFC 324 remarks drew laughter and cheers from the live crowd; post-fight interviewer Joe Rogan responded while laughing, "Brittney Griner catching strays. She doesn't deserve that." However, the interview was widely criticized by media outlets, and Dana White, CEO of the UFC, later expressed disapproval...

In a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan following Hokit's win at UFC Freedom 250, [Hokit] commented, "Now listen, Alex Pereira, I'm going to chama on your mama, and lastly, Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?" Dana White later condemned the remarks.

Somehow, Rogan always seems to be on hand when this conduct occurs. Rogan, an influential podcaster, can be numbered among the many strange fruits which have emerged from the ongoing "democratization of media."   

At any rate, the leading authority thereby offers a first draft of history regarding Hokit's attitudes and behaviors. As a source, the authority links to an opinion piece by Brian Bell at the OutSports site:

Even UFC’s Dana White didn’t like Josh Hokit’s transphobia at ‘UFC 324.’

The UFC’s debut on Paramount+ Saturday night gave the MMA promotion’s new broadcasting partner a speedrun of the peaks and valleys inherent to the UFC experience.

“UFC 324” saw a major fight pulled due to injury, a prelim fight pulled due to betting irregularities, another prelim fight cancelled after a fighter collapsed after weigh-ins, an action-packed main event that saved a fairly lackluster main card, UFC CEO Dana White seemingly throw his injured heavyweight champion under the bus during the post-show presser and the emergence of the UFC’s latest up-and-comer who substitutes try-hard transphobia and racism for having a personality.

[...] 

Hokit the fighter put forth an exciting fighting style infused with a level of brashness that is like catnip to fight fans, capping things by giving Freeman the middle finger and walking away as the referee stopped the fight. It was just what the stagnant UFC heavyweight division needed: a younger, undefeated fighter with an edge in how he fights.

Then, Hokit threw all of that in the dumpster when Joe Rogan interviewed him after the fight.    

Bell continues from there. He accuses Hokit of racism, but Hokit also stands accused of a second form of bigotry. Right there in the headline atop this piece, he stands accused of transphobia. 

Full disclosure:  

At this site, we discussed Hokit's pitiful conduct on the White House lawn the next day, on Monday, June 15. For whatever reason, Nicolle Wallace skipped the topic in her two-hour Deadline: White House program that day.   

On Tuesday, June 16, Wallace discussed the UFC event with Maya Wiley and two other guests on Deadline. By then, it was clear that a consensus interpretation was forming within elite Blue America—a consensus which held that Hokit's behavior that night was an example of racism.   

We're prepared to admit that we were surprised to see that consensus take shape. If memory serves, that interpretation hadn't occurred to us until we saw it emerge.

That interpretation hadn't occurred to us. In large part, that's because we try to monitor the primetime, "cable news" Gutfeld! program on a regular basis.  Also, because we have a passing acquaintance with the lunacy of the MAGA underworld, as chronicled in this news report from last December:

‘Brigitte Macron Does NOT Have a Penis!’ Piers Morgan Gets Heated With Candace Owens Over Claim French First Lady ‘Pees Standing Up’   

Piers Morgan became heated with Candace Owens during an interview on Wednesday after Owens insisted that French First Lady Brigitte Macron was secretly a man with a penis who “pees standing up.”

After Morgan accused his guest of “weaponizing deliberate lies for money,” Owens claimed, “Brigitte Macron has a penis. I really want you to know that, Piers.”

“No, Brigitte Macron does not have a penis!” shouted Morgan.  

“Brigitte Macron has a penis. I’m sorry,” replied Owens.

Sad.

Pathetically, the discussion continued from there. Owens, a high-profile player, is also numbered among the strange fruits of the democratization of media.

If you watch the (heavily watched) Gutfeld! show, you know that the termagant host of that transgressive program routinely traffics in insinuations to this effect:   

Michelle Obama is secretly a man, and Barack Obama is gay.   

That said, you've also seen him trash the AFT's Randi Weingarten as a man with a great deal of frequency. It's one of the many plays in his long list of standard insults

Beyond that, you may have been watching on the night when the Fox News kingpin and his guests devoted an entire segment to Candace Owens's insistence that Mme. Macron is a man. In short, you're aware of the fact that, within the MAGA universe, a great many people, Hokit apparently included, are deeply invested in cries and whispers about the existence of people who are transgender. 

(In fairness to that Gutfeld! panel, they explicitly decided that night that Owens is mentally ill.) 

Within this flailing universe, the French first lady is said to be a man. So is our own (very popular) former first lady.   

In the disordered halls of the Gutfeld! show, Weingarten is also a man. Two of these women are white. One of these women is Black.   

In our view, the disorder displayed on the Gutfeld! program is relentless and never-ending. It's astounding to see Blue America's journalistic elites refuse to report the highly unusual conduct which is the lifeblood of this influential "cable news" program.

We try to stay away from standard verbal bombs at this site, but any sane person could see that the very strange host of this disordered program seems to be misogyny-adjacent.  As with much of incel and manosphere culture, an undisguised contempt for women seems to animate his show.

That said, there's nothing which seems to disturb the show's host more than the idea that transgender people really exist. 

At this site, we rarely see the host behave in ways which suggest a racist orientation. His contempt for women is unmistakable—but more than anything else, he's enraged by current Blue American views concerning transgender issues.  

We're saddened by the strange behavior of this furious, 61-year-old man. But largely because we monitor his show, it had never occurred to us that his persistent jibes at Michelle and Barack Obama should be regarded as racist: 

To appearances, it's contemporary gender issues which trigger the ugly fury to which he gives voice each night. He suggests that a lot of people are gay, and that several women are men.

After Hokit's stupid performance, the power elite in Blue America turned to "racism" as its instant interpretation. Provisionally, we think of what Shakespeare once jotted:  

 There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

We also think of the somewhat younger Dylan, on one of the albums where major parts of his earlier attitude had plainly seemed to darken. We don't recommend the contempt which was voiced in this song, but we do recommend the larger suggestion:   

Ballad of a Thin Man

[...]   

You’ve been with the professors
And they’ve all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You’ve been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books
You’re very well read, it’s well known

But something is happening here
And you don’t know what it is 
Do you, Mr. Jones? 

We don't recommend the fury. We do recommend the idea that lurks all through that song.

Is it possible? Is something happening in MAGA America that our Blue elites don't understand? Do they fail to understand what's happening here because they haven't been willing to pay attention to what's actually goin' on?

We'd say that's a real possibility, and we'd say it's politically dangerous.  

When Hokit staged his pathetic performance, Blue elites turned to racism as the explanation. Is it possible that we're enabling our own tribal demise when we insist on familiar themes which may no longer capture what's happening?   

In our view, we Blues were possibly failing to keep up with the times when we insisted on the "racism" explanation. We've had a similar reaction to the way official Blue America has reacted to those recent Supreme Court decisions about congressional districting procedures.

Next week, we'll return to those decisions. In closing today, we'll say this:  

In his final interviews, the late Barney Frank seemed to suggest that Blue America has moved in ways which haven't been politically wise concerning transgender issues—in ways which the larger society wasn't prepared to understand or accept.

Transgender panic—transgender loathing—lies at the heart of a great deal of MAGA fury. So does "masculinism," the latest form of pushback against modern feminism.

Is there something happening here which Blue elites may not understand? And when we fall back on familiar theories which may not be accurate, is it true that thousands of wavering MAGA adherents decide to hang onto their wings?

THURSDAY: Navarro wants to lock him up!

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

Every know-nothing a king: Where did Covid-19 come from? What was the origin of the virus?  

On Tuesday night, the Fox News Channel assembled a group of specialists to discuss such matters on Gutfeld!   

Except wait a minute—actually, no! This was the gaggle of experts which loudmouthed on the first segment of that evening's show:  

Gutfeld!: June 23, 2026
Joe DeVito: comedian
Kat Timpf: comedian
Greg Gutfeld: host
Brian Kilmeade: co-host, Fox & Friends
Tom Shillue: comedian

Three comedians, plus one Fox "friend!" With an expert panel like that on hand, how could the analysis go wrong?   

In yesterday afternoon's report, we suggested that the analysis had perhaps gone very wrong. The following morning, on Fox Business, Peter Navarro discussed the same topic, seeming to channel the various points the comedian/experts had elucidated the night before.

For David Gilmour's report, click here. Here's part of what Navarro said on Mornings with Maria:   

NAVARRO (6/24/26): The American people need to de-canonize "Saint Fauci." 

What we know very clearly is that Fauci played God. He basically gave money to the Wuhan lab for the express purpose of using gain-of-function research to create a deadly virus for the purpose of then creating vaccines to kill the virus. 

How did that go, Anthony?   

And then, when that thing leaked from the lab, he conducted a misinformation campaign, using some of the most prestigious academics in the world, to insist that it wasn’t from the lab, it was the zoonotic theory – from nature. And the biggest lie of omission was the fact that he funded the virus to begin with.

One million Americans died, millions worldwide! He needs to be held accountable.  

It almost seems like Navarro is getting his stuff from comedian Tom Shillue!

Full disclosure! We know of no reason to believe that any of Navarro's accusations are accurate. According to the leading authority, Navarro's performance with respect to Covid in real time proceeded along like this:  

Peter Navarro

[...]  

On March 27, 2020, [President] Trump appointed Navarro to coordinate the federal government's Defense Production Act policy response during the coronavirus pandemic. In this position, Navarro promoted domestic production of coronavirus-related supplies in addition to a general nationalist agenda...

In February 2020, biologist Steven Hatfill became Navarro's advisor with regard to the coronavirus pandemic. Hatfill was a strong promoter of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID, even though the drug's effectiveness was unproven. By April, Navarro, and the president himself, were touting the drug as a lifesaver. Navarro clashed with Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, over whether the administration should promote the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the virus. In July 2020, Navarro touted a widely criticized study as showing that hydroxychloroquine was an effective coronavirus treatment; public health experts pointed to limitations with the study and to the fact that multiple randomized controlled trials failed to conclude that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment.

In May 2020, Navarro criticized stay-at-home orders, arguing that the COVID-19 lockdowns would kill "many more" people than the coronavirus. He frequently referred to the virus as the "China virus" or the "CCP virus" and, in May 2020, accused the Chinese government of sending Chinese citizens to other countries to "seed" the virus. In July 2020, USA Today published an editorial by Navarro under the headline "Anthony Fauci has been wrong about everything I have interacted with him on," after which White House officials disavowed Navarro's attacks. Under criticism for the editorial, the newspaper later published an apologetic statement that read, in part, "several of Navarro's criticisms of Fauci – on the China travel restrictions, the risk from the coronavirus and falling mortality rates – were misleading or lacked context. As such, Navarro's op-ed did not meet USA Today's fact-checking standards."   

You know—basic stuff like that! On a topic which may be easier to assess, Navarro soon moved on to such brilliance as this:  

In October 2020, two weeks before the presidential elections, Navarro's office in the White House had begun preparing allegations of election fraud. In December 2020, Navarro published a report alleging widespread election fraud. The report repeated discredited conspiracy theories claiming election fraud, including allegations that had been dismissed by the courts and Trump's own election security task force...

On January 2, 2021, Navarro, along with Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows, participated in a call with Georgia election officials in which Trump urged them to overturn the results of the election. During a January 2, 2021, appearance on Jeanine Pirro's Fox News program, Navarro asserted, "[t]hey stole this and we can prove it," and falsely asserted Joe Biden's inauguration could be postponed to allow for an investigation.  

"We can prove it," the firebrand said. More than five years later, no one has even tried to present evidence in support of this never-ending inflammatory claim.   

For ourselves, we'd be very slow to assume that Navarro is right about anything regarding Covid. We can think of zero reason to assume that Gutfeld's panelists knew what they were talking about in their astonishing presentation on Tuesday night.

Three comedians, plus one "friend!" It never seemed to occur to Gutfeld that it might be a little bit strange to drag a group of comedians out to issue inflammatory claims about such a difficult technical matter. He made no attempt to examine a basic question:  

Do these mutts have ANY idea what they're talking about? Why should anyone think that they do?

On the one hand, this is a description of the present-day Fox News Channel at work, operating in a world where they get a total pass from Blue America's high-end mainstream news orgs.   

Also, this is the "democratization of media" in full flower, with every potty-mouthed non-specialist nitwit now fashioned as a king.   

What happened on Gutfeld! was simply astounding. Also, did you hear the one about the way the women of The View resemble a bunch of whales?

RACE: Our nation's dead souls have been pimping this swill...

THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 2026

...for a very long time: In our own view, Greg Gutfeld, 61 years old, is a person who needs some help.  

We'd even say the fellow deserves some help, along with all members of struggling / suffering humanity.   

We'd say the fellow needs some help because we watch his primetime imitation of a "cable news" program on the Fox News Channel. With apologies for posting his words again, we'd say a grubby little mutt like this could plainly use some help:   

GUTFELD (6/23/26): In economic news, Nancy Pelosi's net worth is down $8 million. 

Worse, her boobs are down nine inches.  

PHOTO: [Pelosi in bathing suit]   

Remarkable! When a 61-year-old fellow offers such jokes, we'd say he's badly in need of help, as are the corporate cretins who pay him $9 million per year to go on TV and behave like that.  

(Blue America's stars refuse to discuss this behavior—Rachel and Lawrence and all the rest. This is the nation-devouring garbage they too have apparently chosen.)   

We'd say he could use some help. We'd also make that assessment based on Neal Gabler's report.

Gabler's report appeared in The Nation—in October 2012! The squalor of an ailing person like Gutfeld has been with us for a long time:

What’s Behind the Right’s ‘Obama Is Gay’ Conspiracy

You probably know by now that President Obama is a Muslim who professes socialism and that he was born in Africa, which makes him ineligible to occupy our highest office. But here is something you may not know: Obama is gay. Not only is he gay; he frequented gay bath houses in Chicago along with his former chief of staff and current Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel. And not only did he frequent those bath houses; he was under the influence of a “transgender nanny” when he lived as a boy in Indonesia... 

And on and on from there. 

The sickness was already quite widespread as of 2012. Gabler's third paragraph went like this:

Citing a remark by Fox News host Greg Gutfeld that “Obama is now out of the closet” after the president announced his support for gay marriage, former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum blogged at the Daily Beast, “You cannot ‘get’ Gutfeld’s joke unless you ‘get’ that a large part of his audience ardently believes that Obama is in fact gay, that his marriage is a sham, and that Mrs. Obama leads a life of Marie Antoinette–like extravagance to compensate for her husband’s neglect while he disports himself with his personal aides.”  

In the minds of many under-developed souls, Barack Obama, the sitting American president, was already gay! On the brighter side:

Based on Frum's remarks about Gutfeld's "joke," it may be that Michelle Obama wasn't yet being scored as a man.   

(As we noted yesterday, that second soul-draining theme may have started with Joan Rivers in 2014. At the very least, it got a wide airing there.)

Was Gutfeld just kidding—was he just speaking metaphorically—when he made the quoted remark? If so, he's truly come a long way! Here he was, sharing his marvelous humor, on his primetime "cable news" show in April of last year:   

GUTFELD (4/10/25): And finally, Michelle Obama openly admitted that she and Barack sleep in separate bedrooms. 

Here's how it works. She sleeps downstairs, and he likes men.   

The former president likes men! Surrounded by panels of defectives—knowing that no Blue American star will ever say boo about his behavior—the creepy crawler sustains this messaging on a regular basis. 

He messages millions of people each night. Along the way, a second bit of messaging had already been folded in, and his audience knew what it was: 

GUTFELD (2/21/25): Divorce rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.  

Hopefully, they can settle it like men. 

AUDIENCE: [Laughter, applause]  

GUTFELD: Terrible! It's terrible that you would applaud that!

The studio audience knew what the termagant was saying. Hiding behind one of his several beards, the cowardly fellow pretended to scold them for applauding his pitiful slime.  

In our view, this cable star could use some help, as could our failing nation. On our third most-watched "cable news" program—his ratings dwarf those of MS NOW—the creeper continues to toy with this bit of twinned messaging:

 Barack Obama is secretly gay. Michelle Obama's a man.

This deeply strange man and his cast of defectives routinely traffic those messages, along with a long, extremely ugly list of other themes. 

As a manifest nutcase, he can't stop talking about the way [NAME WITHHELD] likes to shove gerbils up his asp. He pictures Joe Biden in his grave. And several women, not Michelle Obama alone, are said to be secretly men.

Absent help, this seems to be the best this manifest nutcase can do. Suzanne Scott makes money off this. Rachel and Lawrence and David French all refuse to report and discuss it. 

(Bret Stephens doesn't seem to watch Fox. Nicolle Wallace keeps her mouth shut too.)

Two Sundays ago, on June 14, a UFC fighter blurted it out, right there on the White House lawn. We'll guess that he doesn't know any better, but here's what he happily screamed:

"Michelle Obama is a man! Am I right, America?"

No, you can't get dumber than that. But waste meat like Gutfeld will try, enabled by willing panelists.

"Michelle Obama is a man," the hapless UFC fighter screamed. Perhaps because of the venue in question, Blue Americans finally complained. 

On Monday evening, June 15, Senator Warnock went on The Last Word and said the conduct was racist.  

"This is bigotry," the senator said. "This is evil come alive in the world."  

Senator Warnock is a good, decent person. So is Maya Wiley.  

On Tuesday, June 16, Wiley appeared on Deadline: White House. "Let me start by saying this," she told Nicolle Wallace. "This is racist."

"It's bigotry," she later said. "And it must be called out for that."   

The moral and intellectual squalor in question has been underway for a long time. But is it clear that it's mainly racist? Is it clear that it's racist at all? 

Is it clear that this squalor is based upon race? And is it possible that we Blues may be hurting Blue prospects—in this and perhaps in other circumstances—by insisting on that potent theme?   

Something's happening here, Dylan famously said. Are we sure that we know what it is?

Tomorrow: At the tender age of 13, she was described as a dog