David Frum Taunts Sexually ‘Inadequate’ Trump Fans on CNN for Casting Oval Blowup as ‘So Manly’

The Atlantic staff writer and CNN regular David Frum cruelly taunted fans of President Donald Trump over their gushing response to the brutal blowup between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Trump and Zelensky met in the Oval Office Friday after weeks of tension over public comments between the two. That meeting devolved into a stunning outright shouting match when Zelensky angered Trump, and ended with Zelensky being ejected from the White House and the diplomatic world in a state of shock.

Over the weekend, MAGA fans on social media gushed about Trump’s performance, with many — including Trump crypto advisor David Sacks — calling him a “boss” for attacking Zelensky.

On Monday morning’s edition of CNN News Central, anchor John Berman literally raised his eyebrows when Frum hit back at the praise for the “bullying” of “a valiant leader fighting for a valiant people” by questioning their sexual self-image:

David, what could/should Volodymyr Zelensky have done? I’m not trying to victim blame here but given the reality that you’re painting here saying that people need to come to — come to terms —

FRUM: Yeah.

BERMAN: — with this fact, what should Zelensky have done and now do?

FRUM: Um, I think that there’s a suggestion of some Republicans that Zelensky should have engaged Trump in some way or appealed to him or flattered him.

This is the bravest living leader in the world. This is a man who turned his face to the enemy when they attacked a city and did not fly to safety. Who has faced a half-dozen or more very credible assassination threats. And a lot of people said he should just have been — he should have just cowed to Donald Trump the way Trump’s own Cabinet members do.

He is a brave man fighting for a brave people, and he showed dignity, and he showed us all the truth. I think we are all, again, in Zelensky’s debt and again, in the debt of the Ukrainian people.

BERMAN: What do you think of the reaction the last couple of days from the White House? They seem to be trying to put out all the positive response from right-wing media to what happened in the Oval Office, but might there be a sense of — I’m going to misquote Shakespeare — though doth protest too much? They’re trying to get it out a little more than might be if they were merely neutral here.

FRUM: Yeah, and look at the line of defense of the president. No one has said look, he stood up for American interests in pillaging Ukraine and getting these — has taken $500 billion out of a country with a — you know, that is at war and facing a huge reconstruction bill. What they keep saying — he was so manly. He was such a boss, as his — as his crypto adviser said of him.

And I think you know what? I don’t have time for your psychosexual anxieties. You may feel inadequate in your masculinity and for some puffed up person on television to bully a valiant leader fighting for a valiant people. But I think every true American watched that scene and felt shame.

BERMAN: David Frum, appreciate you being with us this morning.

Watch above via CNN News Central.