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Pop CultureThanksgivingNov 21, 2025

‘Hey! Can You Pass the Epstein Files?’: TikTok Is Rehearsing the Wildest Thanksgiving Conversation Starters

A social experiment for the holiday table.

By Precious Fondren
Image courtesy of TikTok/@tarah_nt

It’s that time of the year again. when TikTok users begin practicing the most deranged, pot-stirring Thanksgiving dinner conversations imaginable. 

Just weeks before families gather to pass the turkey and dressing, TikTok and X have turned “Thanksgiving conversation starters” into a social experiment. This year’s trend arrives with an endless buffet of material. Anything involving Donald Trump is basically a conversational grenade. The Epstein files are back on the discourse menu as well. New this year is the death of conservative figure Charlie Kirk, who spawned an entirely new wave of meme culture. Even the election of Zohran Mamdani could be a topic people claim they’re ready to lob across the table between bites of mashed potatoes.

One creator kicked off the season by offering a full comedy set’s worth of outrageous one-liners about the recent Trump rumors.

“Hey, slow down on the stuffing. I don't even think Trump could fit all that in his mouth,” he begins. It’s obviously going to escalate from there. 

“Wow, you sure can put it away is what I'm assuming Bill said,” he continues. “And here we thought Bill was the only president who could really blow,” a reference he clarifies as being about Clinton playing saxophone on late-night TV in the ’90s. His comments section was immediately filled with people declaring they’d be using these exact lines on unsuspecting relatives.

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But if anyone is going to get banned from Thanksgiving permanently, it will probably be TikTok creator Gracin, whose viral video is definitely going to horrify their entire family tree. 

They begin the video: “Abortion. Check. Who here has gotten an abortion this year? I’ve had three!”

“Grandpa. Pronoun check. What are we feeling this year? He/they? They/them? My grandpa, them," they say without hesitation, as if their grandpa wouldn’t laugh right in their face.

Then comes, “Doug, I love your American flag hat. Have you ever thought of changing it to a trans flag? I feel like the trans flag would really bring out the color of your eyes.” 

They go on to suggest Aunt Carol get a septum piercing and gauges, casually mention getting “group abortions” while holding hands, and rally the table to go get vaccinated together “for funsies.” The delivery widens every generational divide possible. 

Tarah Nicole takes the concept even via topics that sound like rejected prompts from a dystopian party game. 

“If you had to make one slur socially acceptable again, which would you choose? You have to say it,” she begins.

“Who at this table do you guys think has had an affair? Give examples why. Everyone share your exact salary, and the person who makes the least has to clean up.” 

Tarah then jumps into a litany of impossibly inflammatory questions around subjects like the worst parent at the table, the worst thing anyone has seen in a relative’s internet history, and who in the family fakes mental illness for attention. SCREAMING.

TikTok creator Stevoclub, who’s becoming known for his bizarre and hilarious “dada” stim, joined the trend with a monologue.

“I low-key want an abortion, maybe five,” he says with the straightest of faces. "And I low-key want a thot daughter and three gay sons. And I want to take a trip to Palestine, too, yeah, and I low-key want to run for president, yeah.” 

Whether anyone actually steps into their family homes and use these lines at the dinner table remains unknown; most people will likely chicken out and ask someone to pass the cranberry sauce instead. 

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