Aidan McLaughlin

Aidan McLaughlin is the editor-in-chief of Mediaite.

What's going on with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

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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

How did Zohran Mamdani win?

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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

Elon Musk was doomed to fail with DoGE

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