Anderson Cooper Chides Trump For Tuesday Rally Speech, Calls Him ‘World’s Biggest Victim’
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Trump’s fiery Tuesday night speech at a rally in Phoenix has been met with a great deal of criticism for a number of reasons. CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday offered his takeaways from the performance.
Trump’s fiery Tuesday night speech at a rally in Phoenix has been met with a great deal of criticism for a number of reasons.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday offered his takeaways from the performance.
In doing so, he presented a bevy of statements made by President Trump that were simply not true, and commented that the address at large, “became an ‘airing of grievances’ in which the president went out of his way to make himself the victim in the tragedy of Charlottesville. A tragedy that had many real victims, including...Heather Heyer—struck and killed...”
In assessing Trump’s character and motivations, Cooper called the leader, “The world’s biggest victim, trapped inside the body of the world’s most powerful man,” and said, “Last night, first and foremost, wasn’t about the people in that auditorium as the president claimed it was. Maybe that was the biggest lie of all. Last night, what we saw, was all about him.”
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough echoed similar thoughts, noting on Wednesday, “It was a frightening speech. He sounded like an autocrat trying to dehumanize his allies.”
Meanwhile, Trump expressed a much different view of his Phoenix address; he took to Twitter Thursday morning and characterized the speech as "enthusiastic, dynamic and fun."
Trump’s fiery Tuesday night speech at a rally in Phoenix has been met with a great deal of criticism for a number of reasons.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Wednesday offered his takeaways from the performance.
In doing so, he presented a bevy of statements made by President Trump that were simply not true, and commented that the address at large, “became an ‘airing of grievances’ in which the president went out of his way to make himself the victim in the tragedy of Charlottesville. A tragedy that had many real victims, including...Heather Heyer—struck and killed...”
In assessing Trump’s character and motivations, Cooper called the leader, “The world’s biggest victim, trapped inside the body of the world’s most powerful man,” and said, “Last night, first and foremost, wasn’t about the people in that auditorium as the president claimed it was. Maybe that was the biggest lie of all. Last night, what we saw, was all about him.”
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough echoed similar thoughts, noting on Wednesday, “It was a frightening speech. He sounded like an autocrat trying to dehumanize his allies.”
Meanwhile, Trump expressed a much different view of his Phoenix address; he took to Twitter Thursday morning and characterized the speech as "enthusiastic, dynamic and fun."