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On Saturday, MAGA Republican President Donald Trump took to his own social media platform to rage against another late night host who hurt his fragile ego. This time, the target was NBC's Seth Meyers.
Trump posted:
"NBC’s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)."
"He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his 'show' is a Ratings DISASTER."
"Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!"
Then Trump's FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, reposted Trump's message on his official X account.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr just shared a Truth Social post from Trump calling for Seth Meyers to be fired
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— Dan Silverman (@dmsilverman.bsky.social) November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NBC/Universal parent company General Electric is currently seeking FCC approval for a deal with Comcast. That's the same barrel CBS was over when they paid off Trump's frivolous lawsuit over 60 Minutes.

Trump’s FCC chief Brendan Carr authored the chapter about the FCC for Project 2025 — a white nationalist manifesto.Trump called for NBC to fire comedian Seth Meyers because the American Taliban doesn’t allow comedy.
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— Nancy Levine Stearns (@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social) November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Trump has attacked Meyers before. He posted about the Saturday Night Live alum back in October of 2022 and again in January and August of 2025.
Then on November 1, 2025, Trump posted:
"Seth Meyers of NBC may be the least talented person to 'perform' live in the history of television. In fact, he may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise."
"I watched his show the other night for the first time in years."
Trump's Truth Social posts from January and August indicate otherwise.
Trump added what had him riled, posting:
"In it he talked endlessly about electric catapults on aircraft carriers which I complain about as not being as good as much less expensive steam catapults. On and on he went, a truly deranged lunatic."
"Why does NBC waste its time and money on a guy like this??? - NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!"
In the offending episode, Meyers' "A Closer Look" segment pointed out Trump "spends more time thinking about catapults than Wile E. Coyote" and offered a montage of times Trump whined about electric versus steam aircraft carrier catapults, as if he had a clue about the design and engineering of either.
It was like Trump's toilet, showers, and dishwasher rants where he simply regurgitated something he heard someone say once to prove he was knowledgeable to his audience.
On Monday, Meyers addressed Trump's weekend call to fire him, saying:
"You know, in our increasingly isolated digital age, where we spend more time scrolling apps than shaking hands, a true moment of genuine human connection can be rare which is why I deeply appreciated this thoughtful piece of fan mail I got over the weekend."
After sharing Newsmax's coverage of Trump's Truth Social post, Meyers added:
"You guys, they said my name on TV! It's not often you hear the name Seth Meyers on TV before midnight."
You can watch Meyers riff on Trump's call to fire him here:
Meyers added that drawing Trump's ire wasn't unusual, saying:
"I'm also aware that being attacked this weekend by the president doesn’t make me special in any way, shape or form. I was simply on the same sh*t list as Christopher Wray, James Comey, Indiana Republicans, Thomas Massie, Rand Paul, Marjorie Taylor Greene and former President Joe Biden."
But what exactly set the POTUS off?
Referring to Trump's last post about him, Meyers stated:
"So catapults set him off last time. What was it this time?"
"Well, he posted on Saturday, and referred to 'last night' which means it was probably something I said on Friday, but our Friday show was a repeat."
"Which repeat? The catapult show. So it was the catapults again."
Meyers gently reminded Trump he'd drawn from that well before, saying:
"And with respect, Mr. President, you can't get mad a second time for the same thing when it's in a repeat."
People were firmly Team Meyers in Trump's latest feud.
If only we could point out Trump’s actual incompetence and get him immediately fired. Oh, that’s impeachment…right…never mind…
— marylou-ber.bsky.social (@marylou-ber.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 1:52 PM
He needs a sense of humor and to stop being such a big, whiny crybaby.
— peggyok6851.bsky.social (@peggyok6851.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I'm calling for the American People to fire Trump. He needs to stay in his lane.
— spb (@spberb.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Tantrum no. 15,985+++
— Nancy W (@brucelakestudio.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Considering how well things are going for piggy Trump, maybe he should leave this one alone.
— Carol of Oz 🌪️ (@carolofoz2.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Someone needs to turn the tv off.
— frisson310.bsky.social (@frisson310.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hopefully the networks have learned from the Kimmel fiasco and stand firm against Trump.
— noknot01.bsky.social (@noknot01.bsky.social) November 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Getting real tired of his tv show reviews. doesn’t he have any presidenting stuff he needs to be doing?
— Release the epstein files Cat (@unhipcat.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Donald Trump is doing wonders for boosting late night shows ratings he says are falling....
— JF Turgeon (@onclejef.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Can we please never elect another president who is this thinly skinned?
— jamaldowner.bsky.social (@jamaldowner.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Comedy is the Achilles Heel of narcissists.
— Morgan (@larubia22.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Maybe he should watch less late nite TV and do like government stuff
— PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Twitter ‘X’ refugee thank you 'Elon' 🙄 (@powerfromspace1.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Has he seen South Park lately?! That will probably cause a massive stroke..
— Carl with a C (@carlwithac.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Translation: Seth Meyers was exactly right and funny as Hell
— PC Sherry🦋 (@pcsherry.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Honestly, networks should encourage them to keep it up because this is just free publicity at this point. I wonder what the effects on viewership are whenever Trump goes on one of these tirades. A major Streisand effect, is my guess.
— 🐝🐍The Grand Scoobah🔮🧙♀️ (@tokensandsigns.org) November 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I didn't watch Kimmel regularly but I did tune in for a while when that was all going down. I have been much more reliable in watching Colbert since they went after him. I used to watch a lot of Seth on YouTube but haven't in some time. This just reminded me that I enjoy his A Closer Look segments.
— 🐝🐍The Grand Scoobah🔮🧙♀️ (@tokensandsigns.org) November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Does Trump just watch TV all day?Doesn’t the president have more important things to do?
— David Wesley (@david-wesley.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Trump is the weakest “man” I’ve ever witnessed.
— Metal Evangelist (@metalevangelist.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If all these comedians were "no talent" then no one would watch them and Trump's delicate ego wouldn't be so offended...
— ladystark1953.bsky.social (@ladystark1953.bsky.social) November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
To be fair to the 79-year-old Trump, remembering something for two whole weeks is difficult for an elderly person who shows Trump's level of cognitive decline.
We must remember that this is someone whose doctors keep giving him a cognitive assessment that he keeps mistaking for an IQ test.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was criticized after she, during a Fox News interview, slammed Democrats who've called the Trump administration "fascists" and was shown just how wrong she is after claiming "they probably couldn't even define a 'fascist.'"
Bondi spoke with network personality Sean Hannity, who asked her to elaborate on what the news chyron referred to as "the rising tide of political violence" nationwide. Hannity in particular was miffed about the words Democrats have used to describe the MAGA movement.
He said:
"I keep hearing from Democrats, 'Nazi, fascist, racist, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.' I talk about it all the time. Is that incitement? Is that dehumanization?"
"Do you believe that impacts unstable people and has a cause and effect?"
Bondi responded:
"Yeah, Sean, it does. It is freedom of speech but it does and in the world in which we live, people have to have more compassion. When conservatives can't even walk down the street without getting screamed at—"
"They probably couldn't even define a 'fascist.' But 'from the river to the sea, Palestine,' they don't know what that means. It's horrific and they're inciting violence, you're absolutely right."
You can hear what she said in the video below.
Many were quick to point out that Bondi is not just dead wrong but that the word "fascist" describes the Trump administration accurately.
Bondi completely ignores the fact that President Donald Trump frequently engages in behavior that is textbook fascism.
Trump has intensified his rhetoric about prosecuting political rivals, sharing posts on his social media platform that call for "televised military tribunals" and the imprisonment of prominent figures including former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Vice President Mike Pence, former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
He's repeatedly demanded jail time for members of the House Select Committee that investigated the role he played in the January 6 insurrection and has ramped up rhetoric against Americans he brands “the enemy from within.”
For that matter, Trump has multiple times been compared to Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler, whose populist rise eventually led to him overturning German democracy and whose anti-immigrant sentiment and attacks against Jews and other minorities culminated in the Holocaust and the murders of millions of innocent people.
Trump, who has previously said that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country," echoing fascists like Hitler, who wrote about "blood poisoning" in his book Mein Kampf, was also in a report alleged to have privately commended Hitler's generals for their loyalty, stating he wanted "the kind of generals that Hitler had."
Unnervingly, Trump's repeated calls to annex sovereign countries—particularly Canada, which he has referred to as the "51st state"—have drawn comparisons to the Anschluss, the Nazis' annexation of Austria.
President Donald Trump was widely criticized after he rudely snapped at Bloomberg News reporter Jennifer Jacobs after she tried to ask him a question about the Epstein files on Air Force One as Trump flew from D.C. to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for the weekend.
Trump has done everything he can these last few months to avoid any and all questions about the Epstein files, which are said to contain detailed lists of some of the late financier, pedophile, and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein's most high-profile clients and enablers.
But the scandal boiled over as a result of a release from House Oversight Committee Democrats that includes emails like one Epstein sent his associate Ghislaine Maxwell that reads:
“I want you to realize that the dog that hasn’t barked is Trump. [Victim] spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned. Police chief, etc. I’m 75% there.”
In another message, dated January 31, 2019, Epstein emailed journalist Michael Wolff:
“[Victim] Mar-a-Lago. [identifier]. Trump said he asked me to resign — never a member, ever. Of course he knew about the girls, as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
Last week, once the government shutdown ended, Speaker Mike Johnson swore Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) into office and she became the 218th signatory on the bipartisan discharge petition to compel the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. That set up a House vote on the bill for this week, a development Trump was none too happy about.
So on Friday, as Trump rode on Air Force One and spoke with reporters, Jacobs asked why he's pushed back against releasing the files "if there's nothing incriminating" in them.
Trump swiftly dismissed her with:
"Quiet, piggy."
You can watch what happened in the video below.
Trump was harshly criticized.
On Tuesday, the House and Senate—with just one “no” vote—approved a bill requiring the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, following an unusual procedural maneuver in the House to force the measure to the floor.
Once Trump signs the bill, the Justice Department will have 30 days to release all files related to Epstein and his associate and procurer Ghislaine Maxwell. However, Attorney General Pam Bondi may withhold certain materials if their disclosure would endanger underage victims or interfere with an ongoing investigation.
Notably, a congressional vote was never required for the files to be made public. Trump could have ordered their release unilaterally, but has pushed back against their release, decisions that have invited further scrutiny. Trump recently pivoted and said he supports releasing the files and ordered the Justice Department to investigate Democrats' associations with Epstein.
A large part of the population has had at least one job in the foodservice industry, either waiting on customers at tables or at the counter or in the kitchen.
Most corporate chains have policies to address different issues that might arise. But regional, small, of family run restaurants can often make their own rules.
One issue is customers who can't pay their bill, for any number of reasons.
In fast food, the solution is generally to cancel the order. Fast food usually isn't made until the bill is paid.
But what about restaurants where the bill is due after the customer has eaten?
Reddit ChaosAnalyst asked:
"Restaurant employees of Reddit, what actually happens when someone doesn't have enough to pay the bill? Most you've ever seen?"
"I've only had this happen, maybe 3 times in my 25 years in the industry."
"2 were regulars, and they made it good later and made sure to leave extra for the servers."
"The other was banned because he was a busted ner-do-well, and he was no longer welcomed in one of the last bars in town that would offer him service."
"I miss the days when local bars/restaurants had a good relationship with each other and we could call and ask about a certain patron and either the manager or bartender would be the first person to tell you if they were a problem."
"Or they'd call ahead and warn you that this f*cker was on the way to your place and we just wouldn't serve them."
~ thePHTucker
"I'm not a restaurant employee, but I can tell you what happened to me at a Longhorn Steakhouse."
"Their machine declined my bank card, so I told the waitress I was going across the street to get cash from the ATM. My wife never left the table."
"The manager came out and informed my wife that the cops had been called and they were trespassing her from the property. So she got up and walked outside at their insistence."
"I got back at the same time the cops showed up. Explained to the cops what happened as did the waitress who was horrified by the manager's response."
"I was asked by the cops to never return and didn't pay a dime. I complained to Longhorn corporate and they sent me twice my bill in gift cards with an apology note."
"But I have never been back."
~ turkeyburpin
"What do you do if someone's card declines and they don't have anything else to pay?"
"I went on a date with a guy once and that happened. They just took his driver's license and held it until he came back the next day with the money for the bill."
~ Jenmeme
"I own a few restaurants so it depends. If someone walks out on the bill and it's small, I just write it off and go on with my day. If it's big we file a police report. Nothing's ever come of those reports as they're usually tourists from out of state anyways."
"And making staff pay for it is both illegal and unethical, so we don't do that. A few times a customer has stated they can't pay which has caused a bit of a negotiation."
"Once it was a clearly homeless man who just said he has no money and that was it. Told him no biggy, he was just hungry, and off he went. Didn't see him again."
"Another was someone who rang up a whole tab drinking and decided to not give a sh*t and flat out refused to pay. He looked more interested in starting a fight than getting out of his bill. The police came, and suddenly his wallet was out, though."
"The most I've lost on a walkout was about $100. It's pretty rare in my area to have such problems. 90% of my problems are dealing with weirdos like the pretend health inspector we had come by."
Also side note, my bartender got a fake $100 one time. Was annoying but I absorbed the cost and I retrained the staff on spotting them."
"Next day the same guy shows up and says 'uhhh did you guys get some funny money yesterday? I had a joke bill in my wallet and might have accidentally used it'. Then he paid his bill. So that was nice of him."
~ Dragoeth1
"We once had a family who racked up a $350 bill at a steakhouse, then realized they’d 'forgotten their wallet'..."
"The manager made one adult stay behind while the rest went to 'get it'. They never came back."
"The guy sat there for three hours before admitting they ditched him too."
~ Nervous-Equipment255
"We were in countryside Bali, and went to pay after the meal and realised we didn't have any local money. Called the owner over and told him. We asked him if he would hold a $50 Australian note until we came back with Bali rupiah (the bill was approx $30 AUD)."
"He said no problem, come by tomorrow. But once he had the $50 AUD, he wasn't going to let it go. He convinced us to let him take us on a tour the following day. It was great, we went to places we never would have on our own."
~ Partly_Dave
"I realized I didn’t have my wallet because I’d changed purses. I explained, apologized, and left my phone as collateral while I ran back to my apartment for my wallet."
"I then ran all the way back and, sweaty and gasping, found my waiter to pay. He felt bad that I was trying so hard to fix this and gave me a free drink."
~ Marillenbaum
"Bounced checks and dine-and-dashes were far more common than 'Whoops. I forgot my wallet'. But it does happen."
"Usually the restaurant would just ask them to come back tomorrow and pay."
"And the patron would, in fact, come back the next day and pay."
~ anannanne
"I was mortified when my debit card didn’t work when I was like 18. I thought I’d be hauled off to jail. I swore I’d be back to pay."
"Went to the ATM. Debit still didn’t work. I woke my mom up and begged her for money. All she had was a $100 she kept for emergencies."
"I ran back and dropped the $100 on what was a $20 check. Left an $80 tip."
"For about a year after that, they always gave me free soft drinks and occasionally comped an appetizer or other free food. It was a Denny’s back in the 1990’s."
~ WritingParking
"I would print the receipt and write the person’s name, and they’d pay it next time they came in."
"We also ran tabs for our higher-end customers."
"For non-regulars, if it was under like 10-15 bucks and they forgot their wallet or card or whatever, I would usually do the same, and pretty much every time the person would come back and pay it and then become a regular because of it."
"If it was like $5 or under and something the cost us like a buck or two, I’d just tell them no charge."
"They’d end up coming back to try to pay and become a regular."
"Even if there were occasions where we took a hit for like $10 and the person never came back, doing it brought us so many new regular customers who were appreciative of the kindness, that we made way more money doing it than we would have otherwise."
"Most business owners don’t think of the big picture. I basically would mentally write off any losses like that as marketing expenses."
"But like I said, it was VERY rare that someone would have a $10-$15 or whatever IOU and not come back to pay."
"And honestly, if someone is so hard up they can’t afford $10-$15, I’ll just consider it a mitzvah."
~ Area51_Spurs
"In my experience, it depends on the situation. If someone ran out on a small check, we usually ended up doing nothing, but you'd be banned if you ever dared to show up again."
"Some customers would apologize and promise to come back and pay. We would generally just let them go, especially if they were a regular. More often than not, they did come back and pay."
"Even people who straight-up refused to pay would generally just be banned. I remember my manager calling the police just once, on someone trying to walk out after racking up a huge check, and getting into a screaming argument with my manager when he tried to stop him."
~ Silly_Accident3137
"A table shorted me $30—left me $120 in cash on a $150 tab. Went to the manager asking what to do. He told me I could pay the difference to make the check whole or they'd mark the shortage as a 'walk out' and I'd get written up.
"I asked, 'what would have happened if they left me nothing and just walked out?' Manager's response was 'same two options'."
"Since I wasn't going to pay the difference from my tips and was going to get written up anyway, I told him, 'my bad. They walked out on the entire tab. I'll take the write-up."
"Pocketed the $120 in cash and got written up."
~ misterpringle
"At a local spot, they put your name on a big white board next to the bar, first and last, as well as the amount owed until you settle your bill."
~ medium_pace_stallion
"I used to be a server and had this table with 4 guys. Their bill came up to somewhere around $52 and some change."
"I brought them the bill, and when I went to collect it, the guys were gone and there was only $50 cash on the table. I told my manager, and he removed something from their bill and cashed it out so I would still get something for a tip."
"It was definitely a sh*tty thing for those guys to do, but thankfully I had a good manager who made sure it wouldn't come out of my pocket."
~ Sea_Panic9863
"I delivered for Domino's Pizza in the early 2000s. I took an order that went to an apartment complex on the edge of town. When I arrived, the front door was wide open. I knocked on the door, and I heard a voice telling me to come in."
"I walked into the apartment and made my way to the living room. There was a man sitting on the ground. A wheelchair was on the other side of the room. I asked if he was OK, and he told me he had to sleep on the floor because he didn't have a bed."
"I looked around the apartment and noticed he had no furniture. He only had an overhead light and nothing else. I pulled his order out of the bag and told him the price."
"He then told me he had no money but hadn't eaten in a few days. I was new at the job and didn't know what the policy would be for something like this. I told him I couldn't give him his pizza and apologized over and over. He told me he understood, and I left."
"When I got back to the store, I told the manager about what happened. He asked me if I wanted to give the guy the pizza. I told him I did, but I didn't want to get in trouble. He told me it was OK because he knew I believed the guy and also because of the guy's living situation."
"The manager walked over to a computer and deleted the order. He then told me to grab a few cans of pop and some wings that were never picked up. He then told me we couldn't do this all the time, but there were times when it was the right thing to do, and I could make that decision the next time."
"I drove back over to the guy's house and knocked on the open door again (he told me to leave the door open because it helped keep the apartment cool). I was called into the apartment and saw the guy was still on the floor. He saw that I was still carrying his order, and his face lit up."
"I told him I was bringing his food back along with some other things. He was so thankful. He told me this food would last him a week and asked me to put everything on the counter."
"The man then proceeded to thank me. I apologized and told him I wanted to help, but I wasn't sure if it was okay. We talked for a bit before I had to go back to work."
"The whole interaction made me sad. The guy was really nice, but handed a sh*t card in life. He never ordered from us again, and I have no idea what happened to him. I wish I had checked on him at least one more time but I didn't and I kind of regret it."
~ jimmypfromthe5thgala
What policy would you choose if you owned a restaurant?
“May I meet you?”
No, this is not a pick-up line from your grandfather’s dusty box of love letters. Nor was it penned by Jane Austen, Shakespeare, or even a Bridgerton-era footman who slipped through a cosmic wormhole to rescue modern romance.
Nope, this was billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman logging onto X to offer lonely young men unsolicited dating advice as if he were America’s last functioning courtship expert.
Y’all… America is down catastrophically bad.
Ackman’s November 15 post, which has now surpassed 36.6 million views, lamented how difficult dating has become for young people.
He started off with:
“I hear from many young men that they find it difficult to meet young women in a public setting. In other words, the online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers. As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling.”
Insert the 30 Rock GIF of Steve Buscemi as a “hip teen” holding a skateboard at a high school, saying, “How do you do, fellow kids?”
Ackman then unveiled the golden line he used to deploy back when Wall Street was still writing off martini lunches as “research and development:”
“I would ask: ‘May I meet you?’ before engaging further in a conversation. I almost never got a No.”
Before we go any further, let’s pause and appreciate the cinematic absurdity of a hedge fund manager—one worth an estimated $9.4 billion, according to Forbes—advising regular, non-yacht-owning Americans on how to flirt.
This is the same Bill Ackman who founded Pershing Square Capital Management, the “activist investor” firm known for high-risk bets, public feuds, and a long history of dragging corporate America—kicking, screaming, and clutching its quarterly earnings—into whatever governance structure benefits him most.
“Out of touch” doesn’t even begin to cover it; this is a man whose idea of “meeting someone naturally” is bumping into a fellow mogul on the tarmac while both their private jets refuel.
And that’s just the financial side. The 59-year-old also enthusiastically styles himself as a public intellectual. He has donated to both Democrats and Donald Trump, a political U-turn with the same whiplash energy as a 1990s rom-com montage.
Most recently, he’s reinvented himself as a full-time conservative influencer, chiming in on everything from campus “free speech crises” to billionaire-solidarity culture wars. It’s the sort of ideological makeover only a man with a $9.4 billion cushion could attempt without requiring physical therapy.
He continued:
“It inevitably enabled the opportunity for a further conversation. I met a lot of really interesting people this way."
For additional context, Ackman has also been married twice: first to landscape architect Karen Herskovitz, with whom he shares three daughter, and then to designer Neri Oxman, whose name has enough elite cachet to be featured on Netflix’s Abstract: The Art of Design.
The billionaire added:
“I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key to its effectiveness. You might give it a try.”
Ah, yes, nothing says foreplay quite like MLA formatting.
And oh, the internet sure gave it a try, but not quite the way Ackman intended:
In his post, Ackman also clarified that his “old school” greeting was meant to be inclusive:
“And yes, I think it should also work for women seeking men as well as same sex interactions. Just two cents from an older happily married guy concerned about our next generation’s happiness and population replacement rates.”
Of course, he mentioned population replacement rates. Nothing says “romance” like a billionaire slipping into a light demographic panic while encouraging you to use polite grammar.
You can view the whole post below: 
Meanwhile, Ackman was reportedly a guest at a White House dinner honoring Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, seated alongside Elon Musk, Cristiano Ronaldo, FIFA’s Gianni Infantino, and several AI/crypto moguls. Quite the guest list for a man lecturing the public about meaningful human connections.
Because it is impossible to mention Mohammed bin Salman without mentioning the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we must acknowledge the context: the CIA concluded in 2018 that the crown prince personally approved the assassination.
This is the geopolitical backdrop for Ackman’s nostalgia-infused plea for “proper grammar” in dating — a billionaire dispensing Victorian pick-up lines between war-crimes-adjacent banquets.
And the internet was not done with him:
But here’s the thing: billionaires love treating structural problems as personality flaws, preferably in ways that never implicate themselves. Wealthy men like Ackman live in a bubble where “online culture ruined dating” is a legitimate diagnosis.
At the same time, the actual chokeholds on young people’s romantic lives are wages, rent, climate dread, political instability, and the creeping suspicion that billionaires are captaining the ship straight into the iceberg.
College journalist Nicholas Sherwood captured this dynamic perfectly in Psychology Today:
“If the public is to seriously confront the growing crisis of loneliness, it cannot—must not—frame the crisis as something exclusive to men. To do so is to allow the manosphere to take ownership of the matter and entrench culture further into a contemptuous, misogynistic fugue.”
In other words: loneliness isn’t a male issue, or a female issue, or a “rich man wants to feel wise” issue. It is a human issue—one that will not be fixed by hedge-fund courtship scripts, billionaire nostalgia, or demographic anxiety disguised as dating advice.
Still, if you ever find yourself at a party with Bill Ackman—perhaps one where Elon Musk is passionately explaining Mars colonization to a houseplant—you’ll know exactly what to do. Just walk up, place a hand over your heart, and say with the purest, most grammatically sound diction you can muster:
“May I… log off?”