‘Way Worse Than Deplorable!’ CNN Anchor Stunned By ‘Awful Things’ Trump Says About Biden Fans — But ‘No One Seems To Care’
CNN anchor Phil Mattingly was stunned by “awful things” former President Donald Trump says about supporters of President Joe Biden that “nobody seems to care” about — but criticism of MAGA gets huge attention.
On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Mattingly discussed remarks by Jamie Dimon in which the CEO told CNBC, “I wish the Democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about MAGA.”
Dimon concluded by saying he thinks “this negative talk about MAGA is going to hurt Biden’s election campaign.”
Mattingly played a clip of something Trump had just said at a rally, and asked why “nobody seems to care” when that happens but they pounce on things like Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark:
MATTINGLY: And I think it’s a good point. I think it’s one that I think you could see reflected in a very different approach that you heard from the former president in Indianola, in Iowa, on Sunday.
Take a listen.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND 2024 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: So we have to have fair and free elections or we don’t have a country. But that’s caucuses are your personal chance to score the ultimate victory over all of the liars, cheaters, thugs, perverts, frauds, crooks, freaks, creeps and other quite nice people.
That’s a mouthful.
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MATTINGLY: I was being sarcastic there. Like, the – like, it’s — the thing that I don’t understand about this, and I’m not criticizing Jamie Dimon or that view of what he’s saying, or what you’re saying about Hillary Clinton and the deplorables candidate.
It’s like Trump says awful things about Democrats and supporters of Joe Biden and supporters of Hillary Clinton and everything like that, way worse than deplorables or you don’t like them, and no one seems to care. Like, what — the deep offense that is taken when Hillary Clinton says deplorables or people call Donald Trump supporters MAGA people is not reflected. And I would like to know why.
LEAH WRIGHT RIGUEUR, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST AND HISTORIAN: We also – we also know that Joe Biden has actually been getting flak from – and really getting hit from Democrats, die hard Democrats, and progressives about being too soft, I think, on Donald Trump, which is interesting because the central part of the campaign has become this idea of Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy.
What I think is interesting about Jamie Dimon’s comments is that given that Jamei Dimon has been so critical of the past, why be about-face? Why in this moment? Why so rapidly, especially when he’s spent the last three months really championing Nikki Haley and saying, this is somebody who is not chaotic, who is not, you know, spitting in people’s faces and calling people names or calling for, you know, revenge politics as the front — as a frontrunner of the party.
And I think part of what we have to look into is, what does Jamie Dimon see as the pathway forward? Is he — and I think one of the things he’s identifying is that he thinks that Trump is going to be the frontrunner as — right?
HARLOW: He didn’t say that.
RIGUEUR: He says that this is the person that is going to be the GOP nominee. And so I think as he’s thinking about — as we’re thinking about, you know, how is he framing this, we have to remember that Jamie Dimon is trying to think about an entryway into this — a relationship with Trump.
Watch above via CNN This Morning.
