Senator Elizabeth Warren has found her next villain — and this time, it’s not Wall Street or Big Oil. It’s… Monday Night Football. Yes, really.
In her never-ending quest to identify the next convenient corporate scapegoat, Warren has now turned her populist fire on America’s favorite primetime pastime. Because apparently, the same populist pitchfork she used for greedy grocers, greedy auto makers, and the greedy CEO of Lay’s potato chips now points squarely at ESPN. Or Disney. Or the NFL. Or whoever she’s mad at this week for not conforming to the exact vision of America she wants to regulate from her perch in the Senate.
You might not be able to watch Monday Night Football tonight.
Why? When companies get too big, they have the power to cut off your favorite channels.
That’s what’s happening here.
And what’s Trump done about it? He’s let them get away with it. https://t.co/hnAOR6R1no
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) November 4, 2025
This latest episode of Warren vs. Reality isn’t even about the price of tickets or the cost of hot dogs at the stadium. No, it’s about who isn’t airing football — and the fact that Donald Trump, who Warren still sees as Public Enemy Number One, didn’t intervene.
You read that correctly. The woman who built her political brand on accusing Trump of authoritarianism is now mad at him for not acting like an authoritarian and forcing a broadcast decision on a private network. If it weren’t so backwards, it would almost be performance art.
You seem to be supporting this… pic.twitter.com/mSvHAK5z7G
— Charles X Proxy™ (@Charlemagne0814) November 4, 2025
And the internet noticed. Fast.
Commentators like Caleb Jennings didn’t even need to get fancy — they just pointed, laughed, and let the absurdity breathe. You could practically see the smirk through the screen as Jennings distilled the situation into plain language: Warren’s logic boils down to “Trump is a dictator for everything he does, and also for everything he doesn’t do.”
Just to be clear, Senator – you want Donald Trump to step in and force ABC and ESPN to make their content available on YouTube? https://t.co/TS9cWmzoMH
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) November 4, 2025
Which brings us to a little thought experiment.
Imagine if Trump had ordered ESPN or any other network to carry Monday Night Football — or any show, for that matter. Senator Warren wouldn’t just be filing lawsuits. She’d be sprinting to the nearest camera, veins bulging, volume peaking, decrying fascism in a tone so piercing it’d set off car alarms from Boston to Martha’s Vineyard.
Wait, is Monday Night Football some kind of right? Am I somehow owed the right subscriptions so that I can view it, regardless of who/what service is airing it? https://t.co/zIPI8R6TLr pic.twitter.com/BnfTmubOtt
— David P Thomas (@davidpaulthomas) November 4, 2025
But he didn’t. So instead, she’s attacking him for not being dictatorial enough. You can’t make this stuff up.
It’s the same tired playbook, just with new targets. There’s always some shadowy “greedy” force making life miserable, and Warren’s always right there to yell at it — even if it means contradicting herself twice before breakfast. It’s all theater, of course, but it’s the kind that gets her headlines and, conveniently, keeps her far away from explaining her own political fortune, which has grown quite handsomely despite all this alleged corporate evil she rails against.
