Aidan McLaughlin is the editor-in-chief of Mediaite.
Look out from the balcony of your room at Le Sirenuse and you’ll see the trio of rocks jutting out of the Tyrrhenian Sea that gave the hotel, one of the last true greats in the world, its name. The three jagged islets form an archipelago, which is said by the Greeks to have been
Freddy Gray speaks to Vanity Fair’s Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin about their latest two-part interview with one of Trump’s closest allies Susie Wiles. As chief of staff to the White House, she has given some of the most candid quotes about what really happens inside Trump’s regime.
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Freddy Gray speaks to the Washington correspondent for Vanity Fair Aidan McLaughlin about his interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene. The Congresswoman, who was formerly a MAGA loyalist, announced her resignation having fallen out with President Donald Trump. Freddy and Aidan discuss the fallout, her unpredictable views on current issues & why the media loves a
‘He has to be, by a country mile, the most accessible president in the history of the presidency’
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Against all odds, Zohran Mamdani, the 33-year-old state assemblyman and proud ‘Muslim democratic socialist’ won as as the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor. Aidan McLaughlin wrote about this for Spectator World. On this episode of Americano, Freddy Gray speaks to Aidan about how Mamdani defeated the favourite Andrew Cuomo, whether his success is
He’s proposed free buses, no-cost childcare, a rent freeze and a $60 million development of city-run grocery stores
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Only a few months ago, Elon Musk took to his social media platform X to share a confession with his 220 million followers: ‘I love @realDonaldTrump as much as a straight man can love another man,’ he wrote. This week, Musk and the sitting president had such a violent public breakup that it sent Tesla
His defenders are repeating the same sins as Biden’s inner circle
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has worked hard to shed her reputation as a far-left dilettante
They are less powerful and less popular than at any point in recent history
His war on Substack suggests he doesn’t understand the site he bought
Much has changed since 2017, when fashion labels and publishers boycotted the new administration
A new generation armed with microphones and little else takes center stage
The YouTuber and entrepreneur has improbably emerged as one of the most prominent voices in right-wing media
The full interview Carlson released on his website and on Elon Musk’s X was received primarily with a yawn
Journalists who have worked at Tara McGowan’s news outlet say the ideals it publicly professes are a far cry from reality
In the 2024 race, the popularity of RSBN among the MAGA faithful and Trump himself could revive the dynamics of 2016
The two networks that a few decades ago changed the way the world consumes news are each facing oncoming storms
‘We have run off our core audience. Maybe they won’t come back’
