Sarah Rumpf

1 week ago | mediaite.com | Sarah Rumpf

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is fond of wearing apparel bedecked in American flags, but the origin of his clothing may be less patriotic, according to a popular menswear influencer. Hegseth has frequently been photographed wearing flag lapel pins, tie tacks, belt buckles, socks — not to mention the countless photos of him holding open his suit jacket to show off a flag-print lining fabric.

1 week ago | mediaite.com | Sarah Rumpf

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) is running for the U.S. Senate next year, but repeatedly declined to say whether or not he would vote to keep Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as the party’s leader in the Senate. Schumer’s title flipped from Senate Majority Leader to Senate Minority Leader when the Republicans took back control in last November’s elections, and he and other party leaders have seen their popularity take a blow in the wake of the losses and President Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

1 week ago | mediaite.com | Sarah Rumpf

Rahm Emanuel, who is reportedly considering running for president in 2028, told The Wall Street Journal that Democrats need to move to the center if they want to win again, blasting the party’s current brand as “toxic” and “weak and woke.” The 65-year-old longtime Democratic operative has worn a lot of hats — congressman, presidential advisor, White House chief of staff, mayor of Chicago, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and a new interview with the Journal’s John McCormick published Monday digs...

1 week ago | mediaite.com | Sarah Rumpf

Stew Leonard, Jr., the owner of the regional Stew Leonard’s supermarket chain, brandished a variety of products during a CNN segment on Memorial Day grocery prices, including a large salmon, a tomahawk steak, and some avocados — to the obvious amusement of CNN Newsroom anchor Boris Sanchez. Leonard was interviewed from inside his store location in Norwalk, Connecticut, one of eight total locations, with two more in Connecticut, three in New York, and two in New Jersey.

2 weeks ago | mediaite.com | Sarah Rumpf

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) drew mockery after it was discovered that the photo he was using on a social media profile did not represent his coastal Florida congressional district, but Dayton, Ohio — a landlocked city about 900 miles away. Fine was recently elected to Congress after his predecessor, Mike Waltz, resigned to take the role of President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser (a position Waltz has since left in the wake of the SignalGate scandal).