‘My God, Is That SNL?’ Don Lemon Scoffs at Trump’s White House ‘Festival of Flattery’

CNN’s Don Lemon brought on a pair of presidential historians Wednesday night to analyze the “festival of flattery” that he mockingly said went down on the White House lawn in celebration of the passage of the GOP tax bill.

After passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican party leaders — from Paul Ryan to Mike Pence — took to a podium set up on the White House lawn to issue effusive praise to President Donald Trump for his heroic work on the bill.

“My god is that SNL?” Lemon scoffed, after watching a montage of the White House ceremony. “Is that real?”

“Complimenting President Trump has become something of a ritual at the White House, but have other presidents expected such praise?” Lemon continued, before breaking down into laughter at the display.

“What is going on here?!” he exclaimed.

Lemon then brought in presidential historians Timothy Natale and Douglas Brinkley, who he introduced as “so handsome.”

The three watched videos of lawmakers showering Trump in applause, and the historians were equally befuddled by the sycophancy of Republican lawmakers.

Brinkley described the passage of the tax bill as an “historic victory,” before noting that “the exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, it almost seems like a scene out of The Godfather we just saw, not what you would expect from the president of a democracy.”

“I haven’t heard this kind of sycophancy since I listened to the Nixon tapes where Henry Kissinger is telling the president what a remarkable human being he is,” Natale said.

Watch above, via CNN.

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