- Don Lemon laughed uncontrollably as two CNN guests mocked Trump supporters. The clip went viral on Twitter.
- Ivanka Trump ripped the elitist panel as “disgusting.” But even former CNN contributors are attacking Lemon for “blatant bigotry.”
- The CNN panel is reminiscent of Hillary Clinton’s 2020 “deplorables” comment. But those “deplorable” Americans turned out in droves election day.
Don Lemon laughed so uncontrollably during a live broadcast on Saturday that he had to wipe tears from his eyes. What was so funny to the CNN anchor? Ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali calling Trump voters stupid. And using a mocking southern accent.
Don Lemon And Coastal Elitism
Lemon snickered when Wilson claimed:
This is an administration defined by ignorance of the world.
That’s par for the course in partisan presidential politics. But then Wilson took it a step further and began insulting Donald Trump’s supporters. He characterized them as proudly, stubbornly ignorant “rubes.” And painted them as small-town hillbillies, suspicious of intelligent people (like himself, presumably):
That’s partly him playing to their base and playing to their audience. The credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump. That wants to think that Donald Trump’s the smart one, and y’all elitists are dumb.
Ali joined in:
You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling…
Wilson piled on for good measure:
And your math and your readin ’
So this is what the media elites think of people who live in the Central Time Zone.
Hillary Clinton’s Deplorables Redux
. And the president stuck up for his supporters .
Source: (Twitter Here’s the thing about Donald Trump…
He’s a coastal elite like Don Lemon. Actually far beyond Don Lemon’s league! He used to be close to the Clintons. And he’s a media celebrity and New York City real estate developer.
But Donald Trump listens to the middle-class Americans in parts of the country very different from his. And he speaks their language. He understands them, and he’s looking out for them.
They love him for it. They’ll have his back again in November.
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This article was edited by Josiah Wilmoth .
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