CNN Anchor Clashes With Trump Fans Over Trump Chief’s Anti-White ‘Racist’ Rant

CNN conservative commentator Scott Jennings and fellow Trump defender Phil Williams clashed with anchor Abby Phillip over a rant by Trump Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller that she said would be considered “racist” if someone else said it.

During a photo op to promote Trump’s police takeover of Washington, D.C., Miller responded to protesters by saying “So, we’re going to ignore these stupid White hippies that all need to go home and take a nap.”

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Phillip hosted a panel comprised of Jennings, Williams, Alencia Johnson, Adam Mockler, Sheila Kolhatkar, and Donte Mills.

Phillip observed that if a Democrat singled out White MAGA voters for mockery, Miller would be the first one to accuse them of “racism”:

PHILLIP: I want to make one note. I’m going to play a little bit more of Stephen Miller and we’ll talk about it on the other side. Listen.(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)MILLER: Voices that you hear out there, those crazy communists, they have no roots. These demonstrators that you’ve seen out here in recent days, all of these elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been.And, by the way, most of the citizens who live in Washington, D.C., are black. This is not a city that has had any safety for its black citizens for generations, and President

Trump is the one who is fixing that.(END VIDEO CLIP)PHILLIP: There’s a lot going on there, including that. I’m not sure when last Stephen Miller talked to the black residents of Washington, D.C. But I also just have to note, he’s deriding elderly White hippies.Now, if someone said that, any one of us at the table, we would be accused of racism. Why is it okay for him to say that about Americans?MILLS: Because Trump set the standard. That’s the bottom line. Trump set the standard about how you can talk about people and what you can say, and these people feel it’s okay now to voice it.PHILLIP: But just to be clear –MILLS: And Trump started it.PHILLIP: Just to be clear, he’s calling American citizens who we — look, we can see them with our eyes ourselves, not elderly. They are D.C. — they’re people from D.C. He’s calling them crazy, elderly, White hippies use, and he’s said that multiple times. Why is that okay, but if someone else were to say that, that would be — you would be accused of being racist by Stephen Miller, frankly?JENNINGS: I’m not sure I’m following your line of thought here. I mean, the fact is some of them are elderly and some of them are protesting.PHILLIP: Okay.

But because some — and because they’re White, they’re not allowed to protest?WILLIAMS: No. Is not what he’s saying at all, but –PHILLIP: Well, then why did he say that?JOHNSON: Why is he saying –WILLIAMS: He’s having a good time poking fun at the people who are making fools of themselves.PHILLIP: I guess –(CROSSTALKS) PHILLIP: Listen. I’m old enough to remember baskets of deplorable, okay? I cannot imagine that it would be okay for any Democratic politician to say these crazy White Trump — I mean, Republicans criticize –JENNINGS: They say that all the time.JOHNSON: Yes, but exactly –(CROSSTALKS)PHILLIP: You criticize them for it all the time. All why is it okay for him to say that?JENNINGS: I mean, I don’t care what they say. But they say it all the time. You’re acting like this is –PHILLIP: I would say that is that’s a — I appreciate the truthfulness of that, that you don’t care what Stephen Miller says. Because at the end of the day, what he’s doing is something that if on the other side of the aisle was said about your voters, MAGA voters, you would be up in arms about it.WILLIAMS: MAGA voters. Okay, so MAGA voters. I tell you both, the funny thing is –PHILLIP: Not to describe you as

a MAGA voter.(CROSSTALKS)WILLIAMS: On the basket of the deplorable –JENNINGS: They call us Nazis.WILLIAMS: We actually embrace the deplorables. We made hats out of it. You all are welcome to make a White hippie hat if you want to and embrace it, but I doubt you won’t because the left is constantly getting offended.PHILLIP: Okay.WILLIAMS: And this is not a — this is a nothing burger.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.