CNN Guest Lays Into ‘Dementia-Addled Nursing Home Patient’ Trump

Progressive commentator Jack Cocchiarella laid into President Donald Trump during a CNN appearance Thursday, comparing the president to a “dementia-addled nursing home patient.”

During a discussion about the ongoing government shutdown on CNN’s Laura Coates Live, Cocchiarella said:

The only thing that Donald Trump seems willing to give is his “Trump 2028” hat out to Chuck Schumer and of course Hakeem Jeffries, who it doesn’t really seem if he knows who that is at this point. Trump to me is kind of this dementia-addled, really nursing home patient in the White House right now. He’s leaning on [Russell] Vought, he’s leaning on Stephen Miller because he doesn’t want to get the job done. What Trump wants to do is take this as an opportunity, in my opinion, to go out and golf. To, I guess, maybe remodel some more parts of the White House. He just doesn’t seem interested in negotiating.

Cocchiarella continued, “He’s taking pleasure in what Russ Vought said would be the traumatizing of federal workers. Like, that was their goal coming into this administration, and so it seems like that’s all they want to do, and I don’t know how that gets any Democrat who actually cares about people who are going to see their premiums double, triple, come to the table.”

He concluded, “And why would you? It’s an administration that doesn’t want to engage.”

Cocchiarella took part in Jeffries’ government shutdown livestream this week, which was plagued with technical difficulties and at times pulled in “just a few dozen viewers.”

Watch above via CNN.