‘Who?’ CNN Anchor Stuns Comic George Wallace By Declaring ‘Donald Trump Is A Comedian In His Own Right’
CNN anchor Abby Phillip made comedian George Wallace do a double-take when she interjected that President Donald Trump “is a comedian in his own right” as Wallace was extolling comics as world leaders.
On this week’s edition of CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five, Phillip was joined by Wallace, Alyssa Farah-Griffin, Melik Abdul, and Jay Michaelson for her weekly panel show on current events.
When Wallace jokingly pitched himself as an ideal candidate and steered the conversation to the virtues of comedians, he objected when Phillip included Trump in the group:
PHILLIP: George, I am curious of your take on this. Just, you know, you described yourself as a sort of everyman, but what do you think is the solution here? Is it somebody who is allowed fighter, or somebody who is just head down, get the work done in Washington, don’t make a lot of noise?
WALLACE: Somebody that’s honest and really know what you’re doing. And let’s say a new Barack Obama or somebody with that type movement, somebody with that type of personality.
PHILLIP: A charismatic person.
WALLACE: A charismatic person like George Wallace.
(LAUGHTER)
PHILLIP: He launched his campaign here on this show.
WALLACE: If I want to run, if I want to run for president, the problem is I probably would win because you just want to do what the people want. You want all of this crazy stuff, the hate. That’s the worst thing you could do, hate and discriminatory practices. Let’s get rid of that. Let’s take care of the people. And that’s why comedians like the prime minister of Ukraine, he’s a comedian, I think all countries should, comedians should be because you know you’re going to take care of the people. Comedians are some of the smartest people in the world.
PHILLIP: Donald Trump is a kind of comedian in his own right. I mean, he is —
WALLACE: Who?
PHILLIP: Donald Trump. He likes —
WALLACE: Donald Trump is not a comedian. Donald Trump, let me tell you what Donald Trump is. Donald Trump is a BS-er, OK. You know why I know he’s a BS-er? That’s what I do. I specialize in it. All BS-ers know each other, OK. I’m talking to you, Melik. All BS-ers know each other. You know, we don’t know each other, but we know each other, you know?
(LAUGHTER)
See, I’m a New Yorker. All New Yorkers know a BS-er. We know this stuff. You know, that’s what, that’s what we do. Ask a comedian, 98 percent of the comedians are against Trump because they don’t want that, all that hatred that —
PHILLIP: They love to hate him because they love to make jokes about him.
Watch above via CNN Saturday Morning Table for Five.
