CNN Analyst Whacks Trump For Job Cuts While Paying Secret Service ‘To Ride Around The Racetrack’

CNN legal analyst Michael Moore ripped President Donald Trump and DOGE czar Elon Musk for cutting government jobs while paying the Secret Service to protect Trump at the Daytona 500 and to “guard three residences.”

Trump has attended several high-profile events recently, becoming the first sitting president to go to the Super Bowl and taking a lap around the track at the Daytona 500 this past weekend. Meanwhile, Musk and DOGE continue to slash (and later un-slash) jobs willy-nilly, including a slew of FAA firings on the heels of several aviation disasters.

On Monday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, Moore responded to cheerleading from Kevin O’Leary and Scott Jennings by slamming the cuts as “tone deaf” — especially given the spending on protecting Trump. Democratic strategist Karen Finney started the discussion:

FINNEY: I’m talking about, for example, Kansas City. Thirty thousand government employees might be laid off. It will destroy the economy of Kansas City. That’s okay?

O’LEARY: Why do you say that?

FINNEY: Because I’m reading what the individuals from Kansas City have been saying, that they’re very concerned.

O’LEARY: What do you think they’re going to say when they’re going to get whacked?

FINNEY: Of course they’re going to say that, but my point is, do we think that’s smart, to live in an American city, just go under?

JENNINGS: How many American cities need a massively oversized federal government to stay afloat?

FINNEY: Okay.

JENNINGS: I mean, isn’t that more about the city than the government?

JONES: But when did we get to the point where presidents are measuring themselves by how many people they put out of work instead of how many people they get jobs for?

JENNINGS: Not a moment too soon. Not a moment too soon.

JONES: This is — this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. And if they’re big fat chickens, hopefully they lay some eggs and maybe then we can afford it.

MICHAEL MOORE, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: This strikes me as something that was done just for the sake of doing. And I don’t — I think it was a tone deaf move. It wasn’t a big enough cut to do anything.

It was a completely tone deaf move. I mean, I find people are always interested in efficiency as long as it doesn’t affect them.

And it’s strange to me that we’ve got enough people to go and ride around the racetrack behind the presidential limousine and such and to guard three residences.

And we’re never cutting people from there. But to come now and make sort of a tone deaf move to cut the FAA is again, this is just an image thing and they want to be seen as doing something.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.