Tiffany Cross Claims On CNN That Minorities Enforce Trump’s ‘Racist’ Agenda Because They’re ‘Desperate for Money and Work’
Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross said non-white government employees are willing to carry out President Donald Trump’s “racist” policies, like cracking down on illegal immigration, not because they agree with them, but because they are “desperate for money and work.”
Cross shared her opinion during an appearance on CNN NewsNight on Friday. Host Abby Phillip was leading a roundtable on recent memes and ads shared by the Trump Administration, including one from Homeland Security’s X account that showed a ripped, young Arnold Schwarzenegger flexing that included the caption “Answer the call.”
The CNN chyron for the segment said: “Labor Dept. Social Campaign Features Almost Exclusively White Men.”
Phillip said the ads and memes were misleading, though, when you see the people who work for government agencies like the Department of Homeland Security.
“When I look at the people who work at DHS, they are actually all races and genders and all kinds of stuff,” Phillip said.
She continued: “The people who are carrying out the immigration agenda, they’re Black, they’re latino, they’re asian, they’re women. And yet the imagery is showing something entirely different.”
That’s when Cross jumped in to object.
“Abby, I don’t celebrate diverse people carrying out a racist policy.”
Phillip started to respond, but Cross continued: “But I think they’re taking those jobs, Abby, not because they have an ideological relationship to them — probably because they are desperate for money and work.”
The CNN star said that is “maybe” the case, but that her main point was “they’re trying to gear recruitment at DHS toward White people, it seems, and that’s not actually what it looks like.”
Cross then said the memes and ads were “very similar to Stalin in the 1950s.” She then urged viewers at home to Google it for themselves to confirm.
Cross hosted The Cross Connection at MSNBC from 2020 to 2022. She is now the host of the Native Land podcast.
Trump, during his appearance on CNN last week, argued ICE has not “gone far enough” in deporting illegal immigrants.
Watch above via CNN.
