The Left’s Latest “Scandal”? Doug Burgum Likes Chocolate Chip Cookies
If you want to know how hopelessly unserious the corporate media has become, look no further than The Atlantic’s breathless exposé this week: Interior Secretary Doug Burgum likes his chocolate chip cookies warm.
Yes… this is what passes for journalism in 2025. The same people who ignored Hunter Biden’s laptop, looked the other way on $20 billion in green slush fund giveaways, and never asked who actually signed Biden’s executive orders are now “raising concerns” that Secretary Burgum’s staff bakes cookies.
Let’s be honest: the real problem here isn’t Burgum’s cookie preference, it’s that he’s too normal for D.C.
He’s from North Dakota. He drinks coffee, wears jeans, and, shock of all shocks, likes a warm chocolate chip cookie. That makes him public enemy No. 1 to a media class desperate to manufacture scandal in the absence of anything remotely resembling failure from the Trump administration.
But let’s get this straight:
- Doug Burgum is overseeing the reversal of Biden-era land lockups in Alaska.
- He’s helping to reopen leasing in the National Petroleum Reserve and push permitting for critical projects like the Alaska LNG Pipeline.
- He’s working to make America energy dominant again.
- And this is the story the left wants to tell?
Meanwhile, Interior under Biden was a black hole of environmental extremism, regulatory gridlock, and unaccountable grantees raking in billions with no oversight. But no one in the press corps batted an eye.
Here’s the truth: Doug Burgum is doing the job. Competently. Quietly. That’s what really bothers them. They can’t find a scandal, so they’re inventing one, and the best they’ve got is Toll House.
If the biggest “abuse of power” from the Trump Cabinet is warm cookies, we’re in a very good place. And if anyone should be crying in Washington, it’s the journalists who thought this was a story.
April 9, 2025