Scott Jennings Lashes Out Over Trump Nobel Loss — Says Win Would ‘P*ss Off All The Right People’
CNN GOP analyst Scott Jennings lashed out over President Donald Trump’s loss to newly-awarded Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado, saying a Trump win would “p*ss off all the right people.”
The Nobel Committee honored Machado on Friday for her activism in opposition to Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime, a prize that Machado dedicated to Trump. The decision sent waves of apoplexy through Trump’s allies and supporters.
On Friday’s edition of CNN’s The Arena, anchor Kasie Hunt discussed the decision with a panel composed of Jennings, Astead Herndon, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Jamal Simmons.
Jennings said Trump deserved the win, that it would be a “travesty” if he doesn’t win next year, and that he’d glory in the ire of critics at such a win:
JAMAL SIMMONS: You know, he is the most powerful, politically powerful president. Donald Trump — Donald Trump is the most politically powerful president of my lifetime. And yet he plays the victim. It’s just not a good look.
I wish he would just sort of grow into the role a little bit. And I’ll tell you, I’m not a Democrat who roots for Donald Trump’s failure. I root for him to be fair, right? And I think what’s killing him on the supreme — on the Nobel Prize in the end is going to be on one hand, you’re going to have things like what’s happening in the Middle East.
On the other hand, you’ve got troops on the streets, you’ve got pastors being pepper sprayed by ICE agents. Youve got all this disarray happening at home, and it’s so hard for people who want to root for American success, to root for Donald Trump, because Donald Trump is doing both of these things at the same time.
SCOTT JENNINGS: I agree with everything you just said. It is hard for
Democrats to root for Americas success because they’re so broken by Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the core problem of the Democratic Party. You cannot bring yourself to root for America because Donald Trump is the president.
SIMMONS: It’s not fair, Scott. That’s not what I said.
JENNINGS: He deserves —
SIMMONS: It’s precisely the opposite.
JENNINGS: He deserves the Nobel Prize. He deserved it before this deal. He deserves it now. He deserved it for hitting Iran. He deserves it for the eight other peace agreements that he’s negotiated. He deserved it for the Abraham accords. If they don’t give it to him next year, it will be a travesty. I would note that the lady who got it this year, who, by the way, deserves it, she dedicated her award to Donald Trump and was thanking Donald Trump and the American people for their support in getting rid of the Venezuelan regime.
And so I hope he does get it, because at the end of the day, it will p*ss off all the right people. And I just, I would be so happy. I would be so happy —
Watch above via CNN’s The Arena.
