A recent clip of CNN’s Don Lemon and two guests went viral after they took turns characterizing President Trump’s supporters as “uneducated rubes” with Southern accents.
Lemon and his guests, #NeverTrumper GOP strategist Rick Wilson and New York Times columnist and CNN contributor Wajahat Ali discussed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent feud with NPR in which Pompeo challenged the NPR reporter to find Ukraine on the map.
It was at this point that Wilson ridiculed Trump saying, “Donald Trump couldn’t find Ukraine [on a map] if you had the letter U and a picture of an actual physical crane next to it.”
He added Trump is playing to his base – “the credulous boomer rube” – that voted for Donald Trump.
Ali depicted Trump supporters as saying, “You elitists with your geography and your maps and your spelling”, are why we voted for Trump.
Lemon had to wipe his eyes after laughing so hard (even though the joke wasn’t even that good) and put his head on his desk, then saying, “That was a good one, I needed that.”
The clip went viral after former CNN digital producer Steve Krakauer tweeted it, saying:
The arrogance, the dismissiveness, the smug cackling, the accents. If Donald Trump wins re-election this year, I’ll remember this brief CNN segment late one Saturday night in January …
Watch the video to see how CNN conservative correspondent Steve Ortes pushed back, explaining this type of interview as one of the reasons Trump won in 2016 and will win again later this year.
