Anderson Cooper Calls Out Trump for Telling Others to ‘Learn Before You Speak’: ‘Pot Meet Kettle’

CNN’s Anderson Cooper called out President Donald Trump Friday for his audacity to “claim that someone else doesn’t have his facts straight” and should learn before they speak.

“Pot meet kettle!” Cooper said during his opening monologue, bringing up how Trump threw his lawyer Rudy Giuliani under the bus for not being clear about the facts. He told viewers this was “all part of the damage control from the damage control over the president’s payments to repay the payment for Stormy Daniels‘ silence.”

He further noted that to add to the confusion, Trump’s most recent statement was only necessary because “Guiliani who, remember, was brought in to help clean up the president’s legal mess made a bigger and more rambling mess out of the Stormy Daniels story,” when he appeared on Sean Hannity‘s show declaring Trump repaid Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payment.

Cooper then detailed how things only got worse when Trump, who did not have his facts straight, sent out Giuliani, who did not have his facts straight, to clean up his mess.

So the President of the United States sent out his lawyer who didn’t have the facts straight who had just started to clean up the mess with full confidence. He did not say exactly about what Rudy Guiliani did not have his facts straight about and Guiliani did not clarify matters with a statement late today. ‘There is no campaign violation… The payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president’s family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not. My references to timing were not describing my understanding of the president’s knowledge but instead my understanding of these matters.’ Now, maybe it’s because I did not go to law school, but I have no idea what that last sentence means.

He then concluded by airing a video of Trump saying “you know what, learn before you speak.”

“Learn before you speak, it’s a lot easier,” Cooper repeated.

“The president says it’s actually very simple. You would think if it’s so simple Rudy Guiliani would have cleared it up in his multiple TV appearances or his multiple published statements,” Cooper noted. “At least you now know that the president is someone who believes in thinking before speaking and that not having the facts is a shortcoming except of course when comes to more than 3,000 false or misleading statements he’s made since taking office, according to the Washington Post.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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