(DCNF)—Since President Donald Trump took office for his second term om Jan. 20, Republican strategist Scott Jennings has delivered some noteworthy smackdowns while on CNN.
Jennings has had multiple viral moments, leading Fox News host Greg Gutfeld to jokingly declare in February that CNN had created a new viral video genre centered around the former George W Bush administration official. Here are five of the times he flustered panelists on CNN.
Feb. 4: Jennings Reminds Washington Post Columnist Buyouts Are “Voluntary”
Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin spent a fair bit of time complaining about voluntary buyouts offered to federal employees in the first days of the Trump administration during the Feb. 4 episode of “CNN NewsNight,” even claiming a Democratic administration would seek to purge Republicans from the federal workforce.
“A. No Democrat’s going to shrink the government. And B. They’re not forcing anyone out. These are voluntary buyouts. They’re voluntary. And the CIA is voluntary,” Jennings said.
After Rogin constantly interrupted Jennings during the segment, claiming the buyout offer was “terrorizing” bureaucrats, Jennings responded.
“It’s not terrorizing to get an offer,” Jennings explained.
Feb. 11: Jennings Calls Out CNN Panelist Claiming Corruption
When CNN contributor Bakari Sellars accused White House Senior Advisor Elon Musk of corruption during the Feb. 11 episode of “CNN NewsNight,” Jennings didn’t hesitate to call him out.
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“You guys are way out over your skis with accusations and innuendo,” Jennings said. “You have no way — I mean, what you’re essentially alleging would be the biggest corruption in any of our lifetimes. You have no way in the world of making those accusations in a credible way, but yet you’re out here doing it.”
“You just said that Elon Musk is working at the behest of the president in what would amount to the biggest corruption scheme to enrich himself that we’ve ever seen,” Jennings added later.
Feb. 24: Jennings Reminds A CNN Panel Who Federal Workers Work For
After Elon Musk sent an email to federal employees asking them to list accomplishments for the past week, a CNN panel claimed the email was “abusive” during the Feb. 24 episode of “CNN NewsNight.”
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“It’s called having a boss in the private sector,” Jennings told co-panelist Tara Setmayer, who said, “From someone who’s not your boss?”
“Well, the White House is every federal worker’s boss, that’s number one,” Jennings said as Setmayer and “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip tried to talk over him, adding, “The test was, are you even paying attention to your email? Are you even at your terminal?”
March 6: Scott Jennings Confronts Dem Rep With Biden’s Inflation Track Record
During the March 6 episode of “CNN NewsNight,” Democratic Rep. Marilyn Strickland of Washington tried to tout job numbers after criticizing President Donald Trump over increased egg prices.in the wake of a bird flu epidemic.
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“I just want to know why we should trust Democrats who skyrocketed inflation for the last — what — why would I trust you? Why would I trust you?” Jennings asked Strickland about prices.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) hit a four-decade high of 9% in June 2022, after then-President Joe Biden signed multiple spending initiatives into law, including the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, despite warnings that it could cause inflation to go up. While Biden was in office, prices shot up by over 20%.
March 18: Jennings Reminds Biden Admin Official Who Caused The Border Crisis
During the March 18 episode of “CNN NewsNight,” Jennings confronted former Biden administration official Neera Tanden about how members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua were allowed into the United States.
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“Your administration let them all in. We’re trying to get rid of them. I totally get why you’re upset,” Jennings said days after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of gang members on March 15.
Jennings then cut Tanden off when she tried to argue that deportations should be limited to “criminals.”
“They’re illegal immigrants. They are criminals,” Jennings said.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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