How the Left lost its cool

Published February 10, 2025 2:00pm ET



Many are now positing what was recently unthinkable: President Donald Trump, the beta-carotene-hued king of all things camp, is suddenly “cool.”

“Trump is cool now,” an incredulous Bill Maher remarked on a recent episode of HBO’s Real Time. “I mean, rappers like him, the athletes. … I mean, the Village People are gay for Trump now!” 

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