Anderson Cooper Mocks Trump’s Oval Office Sparring Match: ‘Real Housewives Reunion Techniques’
CNN host Anderson Cooper went on a lengthy rant about President Donald Trump’s broadcasted Oval Office debate with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer tonight, comparing the dramatic stunt to “Real Housewives reunion techniques.”
“If you ever used to think of the Oval Office as a dignified place, where serious people discuss serious issues in a serious manner, today the reality of what it’s become became clear,” Cooper began. “Today the Oval Office was used as a backdrop, like the fake board room set on the set of the reboot of The Apprentice, except on this show the contestants don’t have to pretend they want to work for Donald Trump.”
“In fact, one of participants even questioned the president’s manhood,” he continued, referencing Pelos saying the wall is “like a manhood thing for” Trump. “The vice president was there, too. You wouldn’t really know it though, because he didn’t say anything, he just sat silently at times staring down at his hands — while the president tried to both star in and produce the show.”
Cooper then played a series of clips from the bizarre meeting, saying that, aside from “the interruptions, and the grandstanding, and the Real Housewives reunion techniques” — referencing a reunion segment in the franchise in which contestants are intentionally egged on for a reaction — the “main substance of the show” was Trump’s wall.
“Perhaps it was orchestrated to appeal to his base, to distract from the headlines,” the host wondered. “Whatever the motive, the president wanted to make one thing clear: He says he wants his wall and if he doesn’t get the money he wants for it in ten days, he’ll shut the government down.”
The show pivoted to a fact-checking segment, during which Cooper played a series of Trump’s comments — including his claims that wall construction has already started, terrorists are entering the country from Mexico, and migrants’ diseases — and corrected the president.
Watch above, via CNN.
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