"I have a dog"
On a November 19, 2025 Newsmax appearance, Rep. Nancy Mace said unprompted: "I'm not part of the powerful. I'm not part of the elite. I'm an island of one. I don't get invited to parties. I don't have any friends. I have a dog." Journalist Aaron Rupar posted the clip to X; it was widely shared as a self-own.
On a November 19, 2025 Newsmax segment, Rep. Nancy Mace told host Rob Finnerty: "I'm not part of the powerful, I'm not part of the elite, I'm an island of one… I don't get invited to parties. I don't have any friends. I have a dog." The remarks came during a defense of her stance on the Epstein files, framed as a pitch against elite insiderism, though, as LGBTQ Nation noted, she is a federal elected official. Independent journalist Aaron Rupar posted the clip to X, where it spread widely as a self-own. When Rupar posted it, Mace replied, "And you thought you cooked with that too", a comeback that critics also found wanting, per LGBTQ Nation's coverage by Alex Bollinger.
Aaron Rupar's post of the clip (verified from LGBTQ Nation article):
Nancy Mace: "I don't have any friends" pic.twitter.com/321HCjp5Uv
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 19, 2025
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posts the Newsmax clip, November 19, 2025.
The line also drew late-night mockery. On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, a fellow South Carolinian, riffed on the admission, offering to invite her dog to his parties and landing on: "No one should have to spend that much time alone with Nancy Mace," per HuffPost's account.
"No one should have to spend that much time alone with Nancy Mace.", Stephen Colbert, The Late Show, November 2025 (cited by reporting)
Sources & related coverage
- LGBTQ Nation (Alex Bollinger): Nancy Mace confesses that she has no friends
- Boing Boing: Congressperson Nancy Mace, who loves to play the victim, has no friends
- HuffPost: Stephen Colbert brutally trolls Nancy Mace