The 2025 Rear-View Awards

American Thinker ^ | 12/26/2025 | Greg Maresca

[SeekAndFind]

If hindsight is 20/20, then 2025 was a year where irony is produced by algorithms and politicians think diplomacy is a TikTok trend.  To toast our survival is the annual Rear-View Awards, the only column where irony is not just a category, it is the entire piece.

Metaphor of the year: Hollywood director Rob Reiner, the onetime foil to Archie Bunker, was apparently murdered by his son, proving that sitcom dysfunction can mirror life and be “All in the Family.”

Best market correction: Hunter Biden no longer getting $400,000 for his artwork. He is down to $100 bucks to spray-paint obscenities on a Tesla.

Stat of the year: The New York Times ran a story on how foreign travel to the U.S. is down due what the Gray Lady calls "Trump Slump." This is believable when you consider that for the last four years our number one tourist attraction was the Rio Grande.

Question: When will scientists admit that the climate has been changing long before humans invented SUVs, plastic straws, or had opinions?

Cover-Up: Jake Tapper’s book, “Original Sin” exposes the media’s four-year whitewash of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline.  The canard that Biden was sharp, the border secure, Trump colluded with Russia, and Hunter’s laptop was fake, Tapper reveals what Washington long knew: Biden was unfit for office as early as 2017. The book recounts one particular moment of confusion when at a Beverly Hills fundraiser, Biden failed to recognize George Clooney and told Obama how much he loved him in Driving Miss Daisy.

The Oxford Word of the Year is actually two words: “rage bait” because apparently “click bait” wasn’t emotionally ruinous enough. Linguists use “rage bait” for anything that divides or offends.  Last year’s phrase was “brain rot,” the term for scrolling ourselves into mental mush. Together, they sum up digital life:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2025; rearview

[Rummyfan]

The book recounts one particular moment of confusion when at a Beverly Hills fundraiser, Biden failed to recognize George Clooney and told Obama how much he loved him in Driving Miss Daisy.

True or not that’s LOL funny.

[simpson96]

“...1972 and 2025 are as far apart as 1972 and 1919.”

:-O

[SunkenCiv]

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[gundog]

I nominate Sydney Sweeney....

[equaviator]

Sooo, what is the point of finding the irony in anything? What meaningful purpose does it serve? If anything, there might be a little humor in it.

[9YearLurker]

As is 1907 from 2025 and from 1789.

[Berosus]

“Biden was unfit for office as early as 2017.”

Have you ever heard of the “Law of 14,” written by columnist Jonathan Rauch? It says that once a politician has been a governor, or in Congress, for more than fourteen years, he/she is expired, and the voters are tired of having that person around. If you believe that Maxim, Biden has been unfit for office since 1986.