CNN’s Kasie Hunt is no fan of Elon Musk, and she wastes no opportunity to make that clear to viewers. As fill-in host on CNN’s State of the Union, she fretted whether Elon’s new net worth subsequent to the recent SpaceX IPO was “a sign of American decline.” Watch as she teased the panel segment in those exact terms: WATCH: Noted @elonmusk hater Kasie Hunt of CNN frets over whether his post-SpaceX IPO net worth is "a sign of American decline" KASIE HUNT: Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire so, of course, a sign of American ingenuity. But are we also experiencing American… pic.twitter.com/dmK7S7gJ3D — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026 KASIE HUNT: Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire so, of course, a sign of American ingenuity. But are we also experiencing American decline? That’s next.  Her introduction to the panel segment was worse. Hunt questioned whether Elon’s new status is representative of a new Gilded Age, went straight to class warfare, and basically wishcast that Bernie Sanders now begin railing against trillionaires.  WATCH: CNN's Kasie Hunt frets that Elon Musk's newly added wealth is representative of a new Gilded Age, and calls on Bernie Sanders to now harangue trillionaires ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire. Think about that. We're living in a time… pic.twitter.com/ewSAmlva7H — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026 ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire. Think about that. We're living in a time when more and more people are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive in this economy. And Elon Musk has more money and more wealth than anyone in human history. (END VIDEO CLIP) KASIE HUNT: Absolutely eye-popping amount of money, the world's first trillionaire. The question that I keep coming back to is whether we in America are experiencing a second Gilded Age. The first one, of course, caused ultimately backlash that gave us the 40-hour workweek and a lot of our labor laws You are seeing on many sides of the aisle the divide between someone like Elon Musk, who has a trillion dollars, versus half of Americans who don't have $1,000 to patch a hole if their car hits a pot hole and they got to take it to the shop. What is the political ramification of this? I mean, I -- covering Bernie Sanders' campaign, Xochitl, he would rail against the millionaires and the billionaires, and now I guess he's going to have to add the trillionaires to the lineup, trillionaire, singular. The panel libs’ arguments were best distilled to: Elon has too much money, and is unduly influencing our political process. Scott Jennings finally shut that nonsense down, exposing the hypocrisy of such arguments: WATCH: @ScottJenningsKY exposes the hypocrisy of those who whine about Elon's wealth and activism while looking the other way as Soros, Hoffman, Singham et al do the same SCOTT JENNINGS: What does Elon have to do with any of that? Are you saying because Elon Musk exists and is a… pic.twitter.com/m1FjpxLEcx — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 15, 2026 SCOTT JENNINGS: What does Elon have to do with any of that? Are you saying because Elon Musk exists and is a wild success that that is somehow to the detriment of all the people you're mentioning? Elon is creating an environment where entrepreneurship, where success, where building is celebrated. The only reason anybody's mad about this, let's just be honest, is because he supported Donald Trump for president. If Elon Musk had never gotten involved in politics, had never supported Trump, he'd be getting ticker tape parades right now for building this amazing company and sending rockets into space. It's all political. And the people who should love Elon Musk are the ones who hate him, for that reason alone. XOCHITL HINOJOSA: But do you agree that one person should have control of American policy? That's what influence is. That's what money does. JENNINGS: He doesn't. BRAD TODD: He doesn't. HINOJOSA: He still -- he does. TODD: He invests in races and loses. He's like anybody else who donates money, like Reid Hoffman, like George Soros. (CROSSTALK) HINOJOSA: It's all about access to the United States. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: So you're mad that he supported a candidate who won. HINOJOSA: No, I'm just telling you, it's all about access. And it's not about just Donald Trump. It is about there are races all across the country where he has access on policy, like in Texas, like in Texas. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: Yes. Call me when you're mad about Alex Soros. Call me when you're mad about Soros. All of this, while predictable, was enabled by Hunt’s bad-faith frame. And it is to be expected when it comes to Elon Musk. The Elitist Media now fall all over themselves to try to downplay Graham Platner’s many scandals. They outright hid the Nazi tattoo until it was impossible to continue to do so, and now downplay the Totenkopf tat as “a Nazi symbol.” This wasn’t the case when Elon told the crowd at Trump’s inaugural rally that his heart was with them. Central to creating the Elon Nazi Salute Hoax: you guessed it. CNN's Erin Burnett and Kasie Hunt omit @elonmusk saying "I'm giving you my heart" after greeting the crowd, failing the "smear @elonmusk as a Nazi without saying Nazi so as to avoid another defamation lawsuit" challenge pic.twitter.com/3Pd0mHO7DE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 20, 2025 Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned segment as aired on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, June 14th, 2026: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)  ELIZABETH WARREN: Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire. Think about that. We're living in a time when more and more people are just hanging on by their fingernails to survive in this economy. And Elon Musk has more money and more wealth than anyone in human history. (END VIDEO CLIP) KASIE HUNT: Absolutely eye-popping amount of money, the world's first trillionaire. The question that I keep coming back to is whether we in America are experiencing a second Gilded Age. The first one, of course, caused ultimately backlash that gave us the 40-hour workweek and a lot of our labor laws You are seeing on many sides of the aisle the divide between someone like Elon Musk, who has a trillion dollars, versus half of Americans who don't have $1,000 to patch a hole if their car hits a pot hole and they got to take it to the shop. What is the political ramification of this? I mean, I -- covering Bernie Sanders' campaign, Xochitl, he would rail against the millionaires and the billionaires, and now I guess he's going to have to add the trillionaires to the lineup, trillionaire, singular. XOCHITL HINOJOSA: That's right. And our country is for innovation and success. I think where the big question is, is our economy working when we have just produced a trillionaire, but that there are 330 million people who are not there and falling further and further behind and with wages being stagnant? And I think that is the big question. The other one is one of access. Elon Musk is someone who gives money to politicians, et cetera. Now you have someone that has even more access and more power to influence American policies because of the money that he has. And I think that is what's extremely scary right now, is now he can give money to influence our election and also the policies that Congress put in place. And I think that is going to be a big problem in the next few years. SCOTT JENNINGS: So I love this Elizabeth Warren video. So you have a multi-millionaire sitting in the back of a limo screeching about someone who has just a little bit more money. It's a joke. HUNT: A little bit more money? (CROSSTALK) HUNT: A lot more money. (CROSSTALK) JAMAL SIMMONS: I take your point, but not a little bit. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: You believe that he has a trillion physical dollars? HINOJOSA: His net worth is -- obviously. (CROSSTALK) HUNT: It is not liquid. That is correct, Scott. It's not liquid. JENNINGS: And why is it not? Because he's building a company that employs thousands of people. And several thousand of them themselves have become millionaires. BRAD TODD: You know what perplexes me about Elon Musk is, most liberals in America care about -- they say, about climate change more than almost anything. Before Elon Musk introduced the Model S in Tesla of 2012, there had been 17,000 electric cars sold in a country of 300 million people. He literally invented the American electric car industry, as accepted by the customers. He saved the space program. Most Democrats say they love science. It's crazy to me that he's become the whipping boy, when he has single- handedly accomplished so many things that Democrats... (CROSSTALK) HINOJOSA: I'm from Brownsville, Texas, where SpaceX is. He has trashed our beach and our community. And the city of Brownsville, Texas, I am telling you. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: We couldn't get a rocket in the air until SpaceX. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: He rescued the astronauts. HINOJOSA: But I'm telling you, they are not picking up the materials at a beach where is -- that most people, lower income -- it is one of the poorest cities in the country. And now they can't go and enjoy their beaches, because you know what he's doing? He is trashing them. So don't give me this about climate change or anything else when a city like Brownsville, Texas, is hurting. SIMMONS: Yes. I'm not mad at anybody who makes money. This is America. People want to make money. What I'm mad about is people who don't get to make money, right? There are so many people in America... (CROSSTALK) HINOJOSA: But that's what I mean. It's like gas. HUNT: Great for Elon Musk sending rockets to space, right? The American dream, fine. SIMMONS: Yes. HUNT: But the difference between where and how these people live versus the way most Americans are currently experiencing life is very different. SIMMONS: Yes. And I think most Americans -- many of them celebrate Elon Musk making money. So they thought that was a very big deal. But, again, where I'm from in Detroit, Michigan, $40,000 household median income, that's not enough to really raise a family on. Women who are trying to raise money, 2 percent of women founders are the ones who get to raise money in the capital markets. Among black women, 0.34 percent of black women are raising money. Donald Trump made more money in crypto last year than all black founders combined raised for their companies. That is the kind of thing I think we've got to change in this country so that everybody gets to participate in this great American renaissance that you guys keep talking about. JENNINGS: What does Elon have to do with any of that? Are you saying because Elon Musk exists and is a wild success that that is somehow to the detriment of all the people you're mentioning? Elon is creating an environment where entrepreneurship, where success, where building is celebrated. The only reason anybody's mad about this, let's just be honest, is because he supported Donald Trump for president. If Elon Musk had never gotten involved in politics, had never supported Trump, he'd be getting ticker tape parades right now for building this amazing company and sending rockets into space. It's all political. And the people who should love Elon Musk are the ones who hate him, for that reason alone. HINOJOSA: But do you agree that one person should have control of American policy? That's what influence is. That's what money does. JENNINGS: He doesn't. TODD: He doesn't. HINOJOSA: He still -- he does. TODD: He invests in races and loses. He's like anybody else who donates money, like Reid Hoffman, like George Soros. (CROSSTALK) HINOJOSA: It's all about access to the United States. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: So you're mad that he supported a candidate who won. HINOJOSA: No, I'm just telling you, it's all about access. And it's not about just Donald Trump. It is about there are races all across the country where he has access on policy, like in Texas, like in Texas. (CROSSTALK) JENNINGS: Yes. Call me when you're mad about Alex Soros. Call me when you're mad about Soros. HUNT: All right, we clearly could go on for a while, but we're out of time.  

Another day, another comical display of hypocrisy from the ladies on ABC’s The View. On Friday’s program, moderator Whoopi Goldberg began a segment discussing a new poll showing shifts towards social conservatism among the American public, particularly the youth. Goldberg was especially concerned about the growth of religiosity in young men, mocking the idea with a faux-inspired voice: An article in The Independent points to factors like the administration's focus on Christianity and limiting access to contraception along with a sharp rise in young men finding religion. Wow. What would you make of this shift?   Whoopi puts on a mocking tone when introducing a segment about younger people becoming more socially conservative, such as women increasingly not wanting to get pregnant out of wedlock and men finding religion. pic.twitter.com/WNdCkOzD7M — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 12, 2026   Out of nowhere, she accuses young men of wanting to have total control over their wives, latching onto ‘the man-o-sphere’ and rebutting the hypothetical misandrist young men living in her mind: GOLDBERG: I think what they're talking about is because we've heard so many young men, we've talked about so many young men, they want their wives to cleave to them, and to do what they’re told- HAINES: It’s the manosphere. GOLDBERG: It’s the manosphere that wants their way, they want you to do what they want you to do. Now that ship has sailed. HAINES: Yes, it has. GOLDBERG: I don't think there's a lot of women who are going to tell you it's okay for you to make that choice for them. They'll say, I'll make that choice for me— HOSTIN: Correct. GOLDBERG: —but you cannot make it.” Ironic to be judging young men for their return to religion and then flippantly accusing them of misandry, given what Goldberg says about people being judgmental mere minutes later: But to judge somebody for their choice whatever choice that happens to be, if you're not paying their rent and you're not blood-related and you're not their mother, shut up! Shut up!   The View decry young men finding religion, giving their lives to God, and starting a family. They claim they just want subservient wives and that it's part of the evil "man-o-sphere." Whoopi tells those people to "shut up, shut up" and stop judging other for their life choices. pic.twitter.com/lq199AJQbO — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 12, 2026   If Goldberg were to listen to her own advice, she could “shut up” with her unfounded accusations against young men. Of course, Goldberg doesn’t really mean what she says about not judging. Her entire show revolves around judging people for what they do. What she really means is, “shut up” if you’re criticizing something she likes. Aside from Goldberg’s hypocritical comments on religion, the cast also delved into a discussion about fidelity, proving how out of touch they are with society in the process. In regards to that same polling showing an increase in disapproval towards adultery, The View cast said this: SARA HAINES: It's weird because, like, the part about, like, infidelity, people having affairs—  SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. Good point. HAINES: —doesn't really enter my mind anymore. Like—maybe that's sad, maybe it's not, I don't know, but that seems really basic these days. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, it's not even a deal breaker for politicians. HAINES: It's not. In fact, you can have five wives—I mean, not at the same time, not at the same time! But like— HOSTIN: Well, some places. HAINES: —you can just keep getting married and, like, no one cares.   Sara Haines ways "it's weird" that people disapprove so strongly about people having affairs. Alyssa Farah Griffin suggests "it not even a deal breaker for politicians" anymore. Haines says politicians could have 5 wives and she wouldn't care. pic.twitter.com/TtjBmCgufn — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) June 12, 2026   No one cares about affairs, apparently! However, this isn’t actually that strange of a take coming from The View. These are the same people who bragged about how easy it would be to cheat on their husbands. Of course they aren’t really concerned about adultery.  For the average person, however, it’s a shocking transcript. The strangest part about the segment is how confused the cast are about the stats. They can’t even imagine other people caring about cheating.  The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC The View June 12, 2026 11:15:06 a.m. Eastern WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Welcome back. Now, apparently, some feel that Americans are getting more socially conservative, according to a new Gallup survey. Results found that fewer people condone pregnancy outside of marriage and the use of birth control and even gambling. Gambling.  An article in The Independent points to factors like the administration's focus on Christianity and limiting access to contraception along with a sharp rise in young men finding religion. Wow. What would you make of this shift? (...) 11:17:12 a.m. SARA HAINES: It's weird because, like, the part about, like, infidelity, people having affairs— SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. Good point. HAINES: —doesn't really enter my mind anymore. Like—maybe that's sad, maybe it's not, I don't know, but that seems really basic these days. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: Yeah, it's not even a deal breaker for politicians. HAINES: It's not. In fact, you can have five wives—I mean, not at the same time, not at the same time! But like— HOSTIN: Well, some places. HAINES: —you can just keep getting married and, like, no one cares. (...) 11:18:21 a.m. GOLDBERG: My position has always been, listen, if that's what you want to do— SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: — that's what you want to do. It's not my business. I don't pay your bills. I don't know your kids. I don't know your life. HAINES: Correct. HOSTIN: Right GOLDBERG: Okay? So I'm not going to judge what you're doing. I don't like these polls because I think they are made to say what you want them to say. And I have to tell you that one of the things that I thought was really interesting is the sharp rise in young men finding religion. HOSTIN: Yeah, what's that about? GOLDBERG: Well this seems to— HAINES: Define religion. GOLDBERG: I think what they're talking about is because we've heard so many young men, we've talked about so many young men, they want their wives to cleave to them, and to do what they’re told- HAINES: It’s the manosphere. GOLDBERG: It’s the manosphere that wants their way, they want you to do what they want you to do. Now that ship has sailed. HAINES: Yes, it has. GOLDBERG: I don't think there's a lot of women who are going to tell you it's okay for you to make that choice for them. They'll say, I'll make that choice for me— HOSTIN: Correct. GOLDBERG: —but you cannot make it. And in terms of children, who can afford it? People can't afford, you know, these kinds of things, when they say the numbers are down—they're down for a reason! You don't always want—you don't know when you're going to get pregnant if you're lucky enough to get pregnant, but you want to think about, you know, where is this child going to be in ten years? HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: Am I going to be able to take care of it in ten years? And can I afford it? And sometimes you can't afford it and you do it anyway and you make it work. That's what our parents did. That's what a lot of parents do. But to judge somebody— HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG: —for their choice whatever choice that happens to be, if you're not paying their rent and you're not blood-related and you're not their mother, shut up! Shut up!

Last December, President Trump ordered that his name be added to the Kennedy Center, which was followed by Obama-appointed federal judge Christopher Cooper ruling that was illegal, that only Congress could alter the name. Trump’s name came down on Saturday, and former CNN screamer Jim Acosta displayed his deranged mind by comparing it to….the fall of the Berlin Wall. “This is a giant waste of time, and it’s a sign of what a petulant man-child he can be. But as we’ve been saying all night long and all day long, for that matter, this is very much like watching the Berlin Wall coming down. It is a sign that mankind, humankind can stand up against tyranny." This sounded like the worst mangling of a historical metaphor of 2026. People on X provided the right rebuttal: "I missed the time when people were SHOT DEAD trying to get into the Kennedy Center for 40 years. what a clown." And: "What an absolute disgrace to all those who suffered behind the Berlin Wall and those that fought to tear it down. These journalist need to live in communist countries for a few years and get their heads screwed on right. I swear!!!" After livestreaming all day and night trying to see Trump’s name being removed from the Kennedy Center building, Jim Acosta exclaims: “This is very much like watching the Berlin Wall coming down." "It is a sign that humankind can stand up against tyranny." Holy hell. Just… pic.twitter.com/ccHzWXtT48 — Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) June 14, 2026 Trump certainly could have denounced Acosta as a "petulant man-child" when he refused to give up the microphone as he yelled at the White House. But this is where the Trump-haters are, that they would assemble and stand around for hours to see Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center.  NPR reporter Frank Langfitt told the liberal "public" radio audience on Saturday night's All Things Considered there were "several hundred people in front of the white facade of the building. You know, it's along the Potomac, and they'd been there since Friday afternoon. Now, this was not a protest. They actually came to watch and witness." Then the people taking down the letters put up a tarp, and "the crowd got furious. People were screaming cover-up. They called the workers cowards. And I was talking to a woman named Mary Foltz. She's a nurse from Northern Virginia. And she said, hiding the act of taking down the president's name, from her perspective, was like a metaphor for the Trump administration." Foltz announced: "Like, there's lack of transparency, and that's just the epitome of it. This is a meme." Since they are in a mind-meld with NPR, the Kennedy Center watchers weren't identified as leftists. This is as close as Langfitt came: "Would there be accountability for the president? I met this woman, Krystal Brewer. She works for a social justice organization." Let's guess it's Sojourners, the religious-left group. 

The Elitist Media Sunday Shows continue to mostly run cover for Herr Oystergruppenfuhrer Graham Platner, doing the bare minimum if anything at all to make mention of the various scandals swirling around his candidacy. In fact, most of the shows went silent despite new revelations. The sole Sunday show to discuss the Platner allegations was NBC’s Meet the Press. In fairness, “discuss” is a heavy lift here. Host Kristen Welker asked pro forma questions and allowed her guests to dodge. Here is her exchange with House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries: Kristen Welker: Does Graham Platner have the character to be a US Senator? Hakeem Jeffries: How 'bout them Knicks? Meet the Press was the only Sunday show to address the ongoing Graham Platner scandals. KRISTEN WELKER: I want to ask you- the big news this week out of the… pic.twitter.com/xp23WO7elQ — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) June 14, 2026 KRISTEN WELKER: I want to ask you- the big news this week out of the Senate, Graham Platner winning his primary in Maine. Of course, he has faced allegations of being physically threatening to ex-girlfriends, which he denies, among other controversies which have followed him. Here is a campaign ad being run by Senate Republicans. Take a look. NRSC AD VOICE-OVER: Susan Collins doesn't have a Nazi tattoo, and she doesn't have an account on a notorious predator's paradise ad. Graham Platner did for years. And this was his profile picture. Oh Gosh. Please. Please. Get that off the screen. Anyway, Susan Collins: a senator we can be proud of. WELKER: Does Graham Platner have the character to be a U.S. Senator, Leader Jeffries? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: First of all, I thought you were going to say the big news of the week is the Knicks winning the NBA Championship…. WELKER: We’re gonna get to that, too. JEFFRIES: …for the first time in 53 years. I appreciate that. In terms of the Maine Senate race, listen. The voters of Maine are going to be the ones to decide what's in the best interest of the people of Maine. At this period of time, I'm just focused on making sure we take back control of the House of Representatives so we have a Congress that is a check and balance on an out of control Executive branch, consistent with who we were meant to be according to the Framers of the Constitution, as opposed to what we have seen house Republicans do, which is to serve as nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp for Donald Trump's extreme agenda. WELKER: Let me ask you though, Leader Jeffries- because under Maine's election laws, Democrats still have enough time to replace Graham Platner. Given all of the controversies he has faced, do you think they should replace Graham Platner or stick with him? JEFFRIES: Well, the voters of Maine elevated him in the primary and ultimately senators are going to have to make that collective decision, I assume, in terms of what happens. And again, I think I have a responsibility -- we have a hard enough job pushing back against Donald Trump's extremism and the sycophantic behavior of my Republican colleagues in the House. We need to focus on that and we need to make sure we’re doing everything possible to win back control of the United States House of Representatives in November.  Two passes and that’s it. Jeffries tried to brush the first one off with a “how ‘bout them Knicks” and deferred to Maine voters on the second. There was no “let me put a fine point on it” or other interruption from Welker, who allowed Jeffries to dance around Platner before moving on to the Knicks. Welker’s related exchange with Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock went pretty much the same, with one glaring exception: embed KRISTEN WELKER: Senator, let me talk to you about the midterms. One of the big headlines this week: Democrats officially nominating Graham Platner as their candidate in Maine, despite controversies from allegations of abusive behavior from ex-girlfriends, which he firmly denies, to a tattoo associated with a Nazi symbol. He says he obtained that without understanding its meaning. He has since covered it up. Do you believe Graham Platner has the character to serve in the United States senate? RAPHAEL WARNOCK: Well, here’s what I’ll say, character matters. And that's what I'm saying in this new book that I have written, "The crooked places made straight." I think the voters of Maine have an opportunity to see who they want to represent them in the United States Senate. They will decide that. Here, Welker gets into some of the scandal details, but downplays them. Platner’s Totenkopf tattoo becomes “a tattoo associated with a Nazi symbol”- as opposed to a tattoo of THE distinctive symbol used by the Nazi SS. On-the-record testimony of domestic violence becomes “allegations of abusive behavior from ex-girlfriends.” There is no serious pushback of Warnock as he tries to deflect to his book. Awful as this coverage is, it is the only coverage of the Platner allegations. ABC and CBS instead chose to bleat about President Trump’s name being removed from the Trump-Kennedy Center: On @ThisWeekABC, @JonKarl excitedly went to a “live” shot of the Kennedy Center: “I think we have a live picture. Can you guys pull it up of the front of the Kennedy Center right now? I wish we could zoom in a little bit there, but that is a tarp, a shroud I guess we could call… pic.twitter.com/RjJcntNAwT — Brent Baker

On Saturday's edition of The Weekend: Primetime, co-host Elise Jordan casually dropped a jaw-dropping detail about one of the network's own: "Our senior producer Johanna questions it [the Moon landing.]" Yes, that Moon landing—the 1969 Apollo triumph watched live around the world, supported by reams of evidence and independent verification. Yet MS NOW's senior producer harbors doubts. In the same segment, co-host Ayman Mohyeldin unleashed extreme economic catastrophizing, claiming, "People can't eat. People can't afford anything in this country. People can't afford their food."   Mohyeldin slammed Elon Musk, claiming he is "celebrating having broken this kind of grotesque record of becoming man's first trillionaire." Mohyeldin painted SpaceX as "this company that is super inflated, nobody knows anything about, people don't understand what even SpaceX actually does." Actually, SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history on June 11, jumping through countless regulatory hoops and providing full financial disclosures and a clear explanation of what it "actually does" before debuting on Nasdaq as SPCX. And you know who else is "celebrating?" The 4,400 SpaceX employees—including cafeteria workers, welders, and support staff—who became millionaires thanks to their stock holdings. The panel revealed itself to be badly out of touch with the American mainstream. Mohyeldin, criticizing President Trump for putting on a UFC fight as part of the 250th anniversary celebrations, said: "There's this culture of disparity that is just getting wider and wider between the people who can enjoy the UFC fights . . .  and the people who are struggling to make ends meet." Message for Mohyeldin: the people who "enjoy the UFC fights" don't tend to be the sort you'd meet in the halls of MS NOW or in faculty lounges. They're the very people who work hard to make ends meet. And Elise Jordan claimed that "UFC wrestling" is "fake." Jordan got her sports mixed up. UFC isn't "wrestling." It is a real sport with unscripted, live combat based on martial arts. Jordan was presumably thinking of WWE wrestling, where the "E" stands for "Entertainment." Where is Haystacks Calhoun, now that we need him to explain things to Elise? All You Need To Know About MS NOW: 'Our Senior Producer Questions The Moon Landing' pic.twitter.com/Q6heXIkyiq — Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) June 14, 2026 The Moon landing skeptic is longtime MS NOW senior producer Johanna Hoecker. Tell us more, MS NOW. Was the Apollo 11 mission filmed on a Hollywood back lot? Is Musk prepping a fake Mars landing while millions of Americans literally starve in the streets because they "can't eat" and "can't afford anything"? For years, MS NOW and its media allies have delighted in painting conservatives as conspiracy cranks for questioning official narratives on elections, public health, and more. Yet here the network is, lightheartedly indulging doubts about one of humanity's crowning achievements—-right alongside doomsday rhetoric that makes tinfoil-hat theories look tame. Here's the transcript. MS NOW The Weekend: Primetime 6/13/26 6:04 pm EDT AYMAN MOHYELDIN: It's the brand, right? Like, this is the brand that Donald Trump wants to associate himself with, this UFC. This, it's like kind of from The Gladiator scene, "Are you not entertained?", right?  The people can't eat, people can't afford anything in this country, and Donald Trump is out here, celebrating the UFC with this kind of cage fight. Pete Hegseth is trying out to be macho. And to your point, the split screen that I think Americans this week are probably watching is, you get the world's first trillionaire, and we're gonna talk about later on in the show.  He's out here celebrating having, you know, broken this kind of like, I don't know what it is, this kind of grotesque record of becoming man's first trillionaire. This company that is super inflated, nobody knows anything about, people can't afford their food, people don't understand what even SpaceX actually does. And, you know, it's not to just dunk on the company, but it's to say we are at a time when there's grotesque inequality, and there's this culture of disparity that is just getting wider and wider between the people who can enjoy the UFC fights, the people who can buy crazy expensive tickets to go to the World Cup, and the people who are struggling to make ends meet, and, and America is just going in this kind of like very dichotomous, direction. . . .  I just wanna play this soundbite of Marco Rubio talking about the UFC, comparing it to the moon landing, if our viewers missed it, watch this. MARCO RUBIO: When President Kennedy announced that we were gonna put a man on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth, no one thought that was possible, and we did it. We are a nation founded on doing what no one else dared to do and no one else aspired to do. And at some level, that's what this whole company, what UFC has been. The idea that Marco Rubio is comparing the Moon landing to starting a fighting company is beyond absurd and an insult to Americans and to the many Americans who worked and sacrificed themselves in those various Apollo missions and have been part of NASA. Because it's like, now, first of all, not only is it insulting to everyone who worked on the Moon landing and got man to space for mankind, but also to reduce that entire enterprise, that entire endeavor into a man who started a fighting company, is just -- ELISE JORDAN: Maybe Rubio's just admitting he doesn't think that the Moon landing is real, like our senior producer Johanna, who questions it. He is admitting the Moon landing is just as fake as UFC wrestling.