Pro-Trump Scribe Smiles in Disbelief at Profane Anti-Trump Rant on CNN

Pro-Trump New York Post writer Lydia Moynihan reacted with disbelief at a profane rejoinder from fellow CNN panelist Adam Mockler on President Donald Trump’s attacks on people like rock legend Bruce Springsteen.

The president is known for intense and personal attacks on critics, which he demonstrated this week by slamming Springsteen in a Truth Social post that denigrated the Boss’s appearance and his dislike for Trump.

On Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight, anchor Abby Phillip asked Mockler about the attack, and Mockler unloaded on Trump.

When Moynihan interjected, “Don’t look to D.C. for moral clarity,” Mockler contrasted “absolute a**hole” Trump with former President Barack Obama, and Phillip piled on:

PHILLIP: Tonight, the president tries to tell Bruce Springsteen who’s the Boss? In a Truth Social post, Trump slammed the rock icon as a very bad, a bad and very boring singer and says that he looks a dried up prune who had bad plastic surgery. He then called on MAGA to boycott Springsteen’s concerts.

This post comes days after Springsteen opened his new tour in Minneapolis, one that he has said will be political. At that first concert Springsteen attacked, Trump called him, “A snowflake who can’t handle the truth and is destroying the country’s reputation.” He also accused the White House of corruption unmatched in American history.

And I guess Trump kind of just fell for it hook, line, and sinker. Not surprising that Springsteen is getting under his skin, but the president seems to be, I don’t know, really moved by this always.

MOCKLER: I’m just so sick of the — I’m so sick of the president of the United States spending valuable time attacking random celebrities. He danced on Rob Reiner’s grave. When Mueller died, he celebrated it.

He’s honestly morally inferior with the way he celebrates these deaths. He is just — it’s just awful to see. I’m a young dude who’s always looking for moral clarity from our leadership. I want to look up to our leaders and be able to learn lessons from them. What lessons do you think I learned from Donald Trump?

MOYNIHAN: Don’t look to D.C. for moral clarity. Not the advice I think anyone can give you.

MOCKLER: Well, Obama, I could have looked up to Obama and actually learned patience. I could have looked up to Obama and learned gratitude. I look up to, or if I look at the Trump, I’m just like, I don’t even know what I learned from that. Bully everyone around you. Isolate your allies. Be an absolute a**hole to anyone who interacts with you.

What’s the lesson that I’m supposed to take from this guy?

PHILLIP: If Springsteen called him thin-skinned. Trump seems to be —

SIMMONS: Living it.

PHILLIP: — living up to that.

(LAUGHTER)

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.

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