Jessica Tarlov Thought She Was Schooling Her Co-Hosts. She Got Humiliated Instead.
Matt Margolis | 7:45 AM on July 25, 2026
Jessica Tarlov Thought She Was Schooling Her Co-Hosts. She Got Humiliated Instead.
Matt Margolis
~4 minutes
Friday night's episode of The Five gave viewers a masterclass in what happens when a liberal co-host way out of her depth tries to lecture the panel and ends up lecturing herself into a corner. Jessica Tarlov set out to catch her conservative colleagues in a supposed contradiction on socialism. She walked out of the segment looking like a fool in the process.
Tarlov opened by accusing Greg Gutfeld and Jesse Watters of hypocrisy over the Trump administration's equity stakes in companies such as U.S. Steel and Intel, arguing that conservatives have been throwing around the word "socialist" for years without meaning it. "You've been calling every Democratic candidate for over a decade a socialist or communist," Tarlov said.
Gutfeld wasn't having it. "The socialists are calling themselves socialists! We didn't name them the DSA," he said.
That’s the big problem with Tarlov’s argument. She thinks Republicans are just tossing the label “socialist” out there as if it were an overused pejorative, but the truth is the socialist insurgency that’s going on right now in the party is happening with candidates who are openly calling themselves socialists and are associated with the Democratic Socialists of America.
Undeterred, Tarlov pressed her theory that the Trump administration taking a government stake in a private company is functionally the same as socialism, maybe even communism, and that her co-hosts were too busy defending Trump to notice. Gutfeld asked her to actually make the case. "Explain the stake and how it works, please. Like, how is that the same as socialism?" he said.
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