CNN’s Kaitlan Collins and Axios Reporter Roast Trump Over Praise For Terrorists, Bitterness At Biden

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and Axios foreign policy reporter Barak Ravid roasted ex-President Donald Trump over his attacks on Israeli officials, praise for Hezbollah, and bitterness at a congratulatory message to President Joe Biden.

Trump has fired off a scattershot barrage of criticisms since the coordinated terrorist assault by Hamas. He attacked Biden, lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defense officials, and praised Hezbollah as “very smart.”

On Thursday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins and Ravid traced Trump’s anger to congratulatory messages from Netanyahu following Biden’s victory in the presidential election:

COLLINS: I was looking at this. And we were talking about this last night, at the end of the show. This is another piece, really based on reporting that you had that’s highly relevant, right now.

Because, you had the reporting, when Trump accused Netanyahu, of disloyalty, he was mad that he had acknowledged President Biden’s win, and he’s been criticizing him publicly. He’s praising Hezbollah as very smart. He’s been going off and criticizing, really, the missed intelligence, and that Netanyahu was caught off-guard, and saying that he was ill-prepared, to handle this, essentially.

RAVID: Yes, I think that if anybody was still wondering whether Donald Trump cooled down, from the fact that Netanyahu congratulated Joe Biden, after he won the elections? He had no other choice. He need to congratulate the new president.

So, Donald Trump did not cool down. Not only did he not cool down, it seems that he’s even more angry at Netanyahu, and it makes him say, really weird stuff.

And I think that a lot of people that are both Netanyahu supporters and Trump supporters, raised eyebrows, over those comments that honestly are really mind-boggling.

COLLINS: Yes. And I asked Netanyahu, about that, and if it bothered him. Because, I mean, not only did he accuse him of disloyalty, he also used an expletive, to you, saying “F him,” speaking of Netanyahu.

I asked if that bothered him, and he kind of chalked it up to political life, saying things ebb and flow. Of course, that was before Trump was attacking him, days after the deadliest day.

RAVID: Yes, and by the way, you know what Netanyahu told you? And this was very interesting, because it was something that I did not know, and nobody knew, until he told this to you, that Trump sent him a note, congratulating him, for winning the elections. So, I thought that, Trump was cooling down. Apparently, he’s not.

COLLINS: Yes. Barak Ravid, great reporting, as always. Thank you, for tonight.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.