Month: September 2025

• Tommy Hilfiger credits his success to hard work, fearlessness, and the power of manifestation.
• “I personally do not have fear because I think that if you live with fear, it sets you back,” Hilfiger said.
• The practice of manifesting has become popular in recent years, especially on TikTok.

Tommy Hilfiger says his success comes down to hard work, no fear, and the power of manifestation.

During an appearance on Thursday’s episode of “The Burnouts” podcast, the fashion designer spoke about how he built his namesake label after his first venture failed.

“By the way, dreams come true, and you can make your dreams come true if you manifest and if you go after that goal, that north star, knowing that along the way there are going to be roadblocks and obstacles,” Hilfiger told podcast hosts Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni.

Hilfiger said he “always” thought of obstacles as opportunities.

“You have to figure out how to get over that roadblock, around it, under it, or through it. But there’s a way to get to the other side,” Hilfiger said. “And if you give up because you think there’s not a way to get to the other side, you’re cheating yourself.”

He says the roadblocks he faced along the way ultimately worked to his benefit because they forced him to think outside the box.

“I personally do not have fear because I think that if you live with fear, it sets you back,” Hilfiger said. “And I think too many people live with the fear of doing something different and new, and therefore fail.”

He says he is always focused on keeping the brand relevant and continually thinking about what comes next. For him, manifestation involves seeing inspiration, saving it for later, and bringing it to life when the time is right.

“I may have seen a photograph of the Wild West, and I think, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to do a jeans campaign in Montana or somewhere?’ And then bing, it comes up,” Hilfiger said.

“I think that if you see something you like, you remember it. And you just access it when you need it. And I think that that’s part of the manifestation, of picturing it. Have to have seen something that has some relationship to what you are planning for,” he added.

A representative for Hilfiger did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.

Manifesting has gone mainstream in recent years, especially on TikTok, where videos about manifestation tips and “lucky-girl syndrome” mantras rack up thousands of views.

Some people are also turning to AI chatbots to enhance their manifestation practices, such as visualizing goals and creating positive affirmations.

• Jon Stewart went into full satire mode while commenting on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.
• ABC said it was pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air after he commented on Charlie Kirk’s death.
• Stewart praised President Donald Trump sarcastically, calling him “our great leader.”

“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart leaned heavily into satire on Thursday night while commenting on fellow late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.

On Wednesday, ABC said it was pulling “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air “indefinitely” after Kimmel commented on Charlie Kirk’s death in an episode that aired Monday.

“I don’t know who this Johnny Drimmel Live ABC character is. But the point is, our great administration has laid out very clear rules on free speech,” Stewart said in his opening monologue on Thursday.

Stewart usually hosts “The Daily Show” on Mondays, but the program said in an X post on Thursday that he would also be doing that day’s episode.

Thursday’s episode opened with a voiceover calling the program the “all-new, government-approved Daily Show, with your patriotically obedient host, Jon Stewart.”

“We have another fun, hilarious, administration-compliant show,” Stewart said while pretending to shush the audience when they laughed.

In his monologue, Stewart praised President Donald Trump sarcastically, calling him “our great leader” and a “perfectly tinted Trump.”

Stewart also commented on Trump’s state visit to the UK, during which a reporter had asked the president about Kimmel’s suspension.

“How dare you, sir! What outfit are you with, sir, the Antifa Herald Tribune?” Stewart said, referencing a left-wing group that Trump designated on Wednesday as a “major terrorist organization.”

“There’s a very reasonable explanation for what befell this scallywag, Kimbal,” he continued, intentionally mispelling Kimmel’s name.

The show then cut to a clip of Trump’s response, where he told the reporter that Kimmel was removed because “he had bad ratings more than anything else.”

“Now, some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy, a thin gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitary intimidation, principleless and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance,” Stewart said.

“Some people would say that. Not me, though, I think it’s great,” he added.

Representatives for Stewart and Kimmel did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.

Stewart isn’t the only late-night host who has weighed in on Kimmel.

“The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert said in his opening monologue on Thursday night that Kimmel’s removal was a “blatant assault on the freedom of speech.”

Colbert also criticized Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr in his monologue. Carr wrote in an X post on Wednesday that broadcasters need to push back on “programming that they determine falls short of community values.”

“Well, you know what my community values are, buster? Freedom of speech. Or as Alexander Hamilton called it, ‘Hakuna Matata,'” Colbert said.