USA. Franklin Square, New York. 2017. Sean Hannity, notorious conservative commentator and confidant of Trump, with the owner of Carmela’s, an Italian restaurant Hannity used to frequent as a teenager. Hannity is one of the most popular and controversial TV hosts in the country. He has supported waterboarding and other forms of torture, equated the Qur’an with Mein Kampf, warned of sharia law coming to the United States, denied climate change as “phony science from the left,” claimed we won the Iraq War despite “the Democrats’ efforts and attempts at preventing victory,” advocated that Trump “bomb the hell out of Iran,” and promoted conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. In our photo shoot, he asked what kind of work I did, and I mentioned Palestine and Israel. He asked if I knew “Bibi” (the nickname of Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel). I said no. He asked what I thought about Bibi’s policies. I said I didn’t agree with them and that it was way past due for good faith negotiations to establish a Palestinian state. He looked at me with amusement and pity and said, “Did you know the Palestinian Authority gives money to the families of dead terrorists? That’s state-sponsored terrorism. You don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Perplexed by what that point had to do with the conversation at hand, I tried to have a more analytical discussion of the history and conditions of violence in the region, but he stopped engaging.