Welker asked Bessent:
"Let me ask you, Mr. Secretary, how long do Americans need to be patient? How long do they have to wait for the cost of living to come down?"
Bessent prattled about a piece he wrote in 2024, dodged the question, then incorrectly declared:
"And so across the board, prices are starting to come down. We're having Thanksgiving week. This will be the lowest cost for a Thanksgiving dinner in four years. Turkey prices are down 16%."
Welker corrected his misinformation, stating:
"And yet some prices are going up of course. We have seen prices increasing on staples like coffee, bananas, bacon. Inflation has gone up. It's at 3% now up from 2% in April when the tariffs were imposed."
Bessent replied:
"No, no, no, no, no. They weren't. So inflation hasn't gone up."
Launching into his next rash of alternative facts, Bessent said:
"And Kristen, the one thing that we're not going to do is do what the Biden administration did and tell the American people they don't know how they feel. They are traumatized and—over the Biden inflation."
But from January 2017 to January 2021, Trump benefited from the strong economy Democratic President Barack Obama left him, hovering around an annual rate of 2%. Trump then mishandled the pandemic causing thousands of unnecessary deaths, handing an economic and public health crisis off to President Biden.
President Biden dropped inflation from the pandemic high of 9.1% down to 2.4% by November 2024. Since taking office, Trump's trade wars have raised that figure to 3.0% by the end of October 2025.
Bessent then offered advice for those struggling financially:
"You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state."
Ignoring the lack of awareness necessary for Bessent to suggest people struggling economically just move, his comments were actually false in relation to inflation rates in blue versus red states.
Undeterred by facts, Bessent added:
"Blue state inflation is half a percent higher. And that is because they don't deregulate. They keep prices up. Energy is higher."
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According to data compiled by the Republican led Joint Economic Committee State Inflation Tracker, blue California's cumulative inflation rate of 20.1% actually places it in the middle of the pack, not at the top as Bessent suggested.
Deep red Utah, on the other hand, has a cumulative inflation rate of 21.8%.
The big red economic centers of Texas, Florida, Arizona, Tennessee, and Nevada all have higher cumulative inflation rates than California's 20.1%. And the lower-economic-output red states—like Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Georgia—have significantly higher rates.
Traditionally blue states in the Northeast enjoy some of the lowest cumulative inflation rates in the country.
New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania’s cumulative inflation rates are 19.2%. The New England states of Massachusetts, Maine, and Connecticut’s rate of 17.9% place those blue states as the lowest in the country.
Average rates in the red Midwest are around the same as California.
Bessent's lies, misinformation, and denials coupled with his out-of-touch suggestion to just "move" drew backlash.
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Near the end of the interview, Welker asked Bessent:
"Isn't the fact that you're rolling back tariffs an admission that ultimately they do drive up prices for consumers?"
Trump's handpicked Treasury Secretary responded:
"Kristen, how much does your arm weigh?"
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance—or just competence—baffle them with bullsh*t.
It all went down when Vogue Arabia posted a red-carpet video—and suddenly, the Lohan Accent Multiverse expanded.
Lohan greeted the camera with a simple introduction:
“Hi Vogue, it’s Lindsay Lohan. It feels amazing to be in Doha tonight. I’m very excited to be here. My family came with me, and it’s going to be a beautiful night.”
With that, the entire internet hit mental rewind: “Sorry… what was that voice?”
Posted three days ago, you can watch and listen to the video below:
Her delivery appears to rise, fall, speed up, slow down, confuse, and then glide through vowels like that one linguistics exam I failed in college. But if you listen closely, perhaps you’ll hear a bit of Long Island—her birthplace—layered with something vaguely Irish, lightly Mediterranean, and possibly sprinkled with Eastern European tones.
Pinpointing a new Lohan accent is like trying to catch smoke.
Fans also took notice of the change:
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But is this a Hilaria Baldwin-esque reinvention? Not quite. With Lindsay, accent evolution is practically a seasonal tradition.
Flashback to 2016, during her now-iconic “Lilo lang” era, when she surprised the world with a hybrid accent she described as a blend of multiple languages she had been practicing while living abroad.
You can hear the proof below:
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Since then, the accent has reappeared in interviews, charity events, and casual paparazzi encounters. And as always, the mystery deepened when her father, Michael Lohan, stepped in to clarify. According to him, there’s nothing unusual going on. His daughter simply has a gift for languages and uses it often.
Michael explained:
“Lindsay picks up languages like I pick up a coffee! I’ll be on the phone with her, and I’ll hear her say something in fluent Farsi to a friend she’s with. She’s spoken French, Arabic, Farsi—she’s always played around with languages.”
This matches what Lindsay herself has said.
In an Entertainment Tonight interview, she explained that her accent changes:
“I think when I’m around certain dialects, it changes each time—and you just pick things up along the way.”
Which… fair. Sometimes people travel abroad and only pick up a souvenir keychain. While others, like Lindsay Lohan, pick up a whole new phonetic identity.
It also reflects The Parent Trap star’s life abroad. Lohan has lived in Dubai for more than a decade, having moved there in 2014 after stepping back from Hollywood. Her lifestyle there is intentionally quieter: work-focused, family-oriented, and far removed from the tabloid frenzy of the 2000s.
And honestly? The accent chaos almost makes sense once you remember she hasn’t lived in America since Obama’s second term.
So when she does appear at an event—especially one filled with industry icons like Anna Wintour, Farida Khelfa, Tyra Banks, and Gisele Bündchen—people do pay attention. Sometimes to the dress, sometimes to the company… but, let’s be honest, thanks to the internet, mostly to the voice.
Of course, the timeline wasn’t done with Ms. Lohan and her glow up yet. Not even close:
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She also has an evolving professional slate. Lohan is currently developing her own beauty line, following the celebrity-entrepreneur blueprint laid by Rihanna, Hailey Bieber, and Selena Gomez. She said she has been testing serums for her upcoming brand but declined to share a release date.
On top of that, she has a two-picture deal with Netflix after starring in Falling for Christmas and Irish Wish. One of the upcoming films is Our Little Secret, a holiday comedy with Ian Harding and Tim Meadows.
So, yes, Lindsay Lohan is busy. She’s building a brand, raising a toddler, filming Netflix movies, and testing serums. All we can say is: "You go, Glen Coco."
But in between the buzz of excitement have been whispers of concern as more and more Hollywood entertainers appear to be changing their appearance, and not for the better or for the healthier.
Typically, these comments of concern center around one of two things, either extreme thinness or needing assistance with fairly basic tasks, like walking downstairs, both of which point to declining health and increased frailty.
But when people comment about this, they're immediately accused of body-shaming the celebrity in question, rather than advocating for their health or expressing genuine concern.
Body positivity and women's rights advocate Jameela Jamil finally came forward to point out this distinction, indicating that there's a big difference between voicing concern about someone's well-being and judging them for how they look.
Jamil explained:
"It's not body-shaming to comment on the fact that there is a rapid rise of the aesthetic of emaciation amongst women in Hollywood."
"Women in their twenties, thirties, forties, and fifties, even."
"All of a sudden, becoming so thin that you can see their ribs, you can see their hip bones jutting out."
"No one's saying they look disgusting... That would be body-shaming."
"What we are commenting on it for is because it's so widespread, it's so extreme, and it's happened so fast."
"And the question is, who is pushing this aesthetic?"
Jamil also touched on the fact that in today's political climate, it's important for women to be able to defend themselves, advocate for themselves, and do what they can do to contribute to positive change. They will not be able to do that, though, if they are too unhealthy and frail to participate.
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Jamil discouraged her viewers from calling out specific people or projects causing concern, but some were not shy about pointing out celebrities they were worried about, as well as some projects they felt were potentially promoting eating disorders.
Fellow TikTokers appreciated Jamil's video and shared her concerns.
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The last time incredibly thin frames, prominent collarbones, and jutting hip bones were popular and idealized was the late '90s and early 2000s, before the Obamas entered the White House and Michelle Obama promoted healthy and strong bodies.
Some theorized that this was a sign of the political climate and what was to come.
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These conversations are tricky and can feel like shaming, but there's an obvious difference between commenting on someone's appearance as "good or bad" and commenting about a person's health based on what can be seen.
Some people are naturally smaller in stature and very lean, but visible bones are rarely a sign of robust health. That needs to be addressed before another generation of girls and young women grow up starving themselves.
