Costco’s $1.50 hot dog combo is basically America’s happy meal — and it's turning 40. 🌭🇺🇸 #Costco
https://t.co/9oAFQEfqRi— The Big Time with Whitney Allen (@thebigtime) November 21, 2025
Content creator Joey Kinsley has pulled quite a few gut-busting feats.
He ate chili every hour for 24 hours and once consumed only potato chips for 48 hours. None of these stunts went more viral than when Kinsley dined on nothing but Costco hot dogs for seven straight days.
The price tag for bingeing 29 hot dogs dolled up with ketchup, mustard and relish and washed down with a Pepsi or Mountain Dew? $43.50 (plus the cost of the membership) and some “extreme indigestion.” Pepto Bismol and Tums each sent him care packages.
“I always say in my videos, ‘Please do not try this at home,’” said Kinsley, who goes by Sir Yacht. “But that definitely launched my YouTube thing.”
In the first few months of Mr Trump’s second term inflation moved tantalisingly close to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. But businesses have begun to pass on the costs of tariffs to consumers. The annual inflation rate was 3% in September, up from 2.9% in August and 2.7% in July. With some firms now paying average import duties of around 10%, inflation is likely to keep climbing in the months ahead.
https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker/economy
BY THE NUMBERS: A new FOX News poll shows most voters believe the White House is doing more harm than good on the economy.
Seventy-six percent of those polled view conditions negatively, and 58% of voters disapprove of the job Trump is doing — a four-point rise from two months… pic.twitter.com/AyX0ax7s0O
— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 19, 2025
Here are six takeaways from the latest Fox News national survey.
— Some 76% of voters view the economy negatively. That’s worse than the 67% who felt that way in July and the 70% who said the same at the end of former President Biden’s term.
— Large numbers, overall and among Republicans, say their costs for groceries, utilities, healthcare and housing have gone up this year.
— Voters blame the president. About twice as many say President Donald Trump, rather than Biden, is responsible for the current economy. And three times as many say Trump’s economic policies have hurt them (they said the same about Biden’s last year). Plus, approval of how Trump is handling the economy hit a new low, and disapproval of his overall job performance hit record highs among core supporters.
— After the government shutdown, the GOP and the Democratic Party have lower favorable ratings, and roughly 6 in 10 say the president and lawmakers on both sides don’t care about people like them.
— Voters think Republicans have a better plan for border security, immigration and crime, while Democrats are seen as better on affordability, wages, healthcare and climate.
— Views are divided on Trump’s peace deals making the world safer and the administration’s strategy for dealing with alleged drug-traffickers.
Trump’s job performance drew career-high disapproval among men, White voters and those without a college degree.
Among all voters, 41% approve of the job Trump is doing, while 58% disapprove. Only once have his ratings been lower and that was during his first term, 38-57% in October 2017. Two months ago, it was 46-54%.