‘All Vibes All The Time’: Trump Supporting Journo Brutally Roasted After Flubbing Multiple Facts in His Defense on CNN

Journalist and prominent Donald Trump supporter Batya Ungar-Sargon was dragged relentlessly on social media Friday after she botched basic facts about both the Trump and Obama administrations on the 2008 financial crisis during a segment on CNN.

The Free Press columnist, who featured prominently in another viral CNN clip on Friday was called out for blasting former President Barack Obama on CNN’s NewsNight over the program that bailed out banks involved in the financial upheaval that affected millions of Americans.

It was quickly clarified that it was actually former President George W. Bush who signed the TARP bill, not President Obama — although Obama did support it while a U.S. Senator.

While defending Trump to host Abby Phillip on Thursday, Ungar-Sargon – a self-described “MAGA lefty” – said:

I’ve been thinking a lot about the 10 million Americans who lost their homes in the 2008 financial crisis, and how President Obama’s first act in office was to give $700 billion to the banks that caused it, including $30 billion in bonuses to the crooks who organized it.

And I’m thinking about how those very Americans saw a president pick Wall Street over Main Street and what they saw this whole week was a president willing to go out there and fight for the forgotten men and women of this heartland and take on the entire international global order for them.

Friday, Ungar-Sargon commented on social media, “In 2008, President Obama bailed out Wall Street and screwed over Main Street. In 2024, President Trump screwed over Wall Street to bail out Main Street. That’s what a lot of Americans are going to remember about last week.”

A clip of Ungar-Sargon’s comments went viral one X, but the columnist was hit with a community note.

A fact check that cited the Encyclopedia Britannica and Congress read, “The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which allocated $700 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), was signed into law by President George W. Bush, not President Obama.”

Reactions to Ungar-Sargon’s CNN appearance and social media reactions, mostly from others in media but on both sides of the aisle, were unforgiving:

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