Trump Stays Up Late To Mean-Girl CNN’s Erin Burnett After She Called Out Anti-Immigrant ‘Hitler’-Like Remarks
Ex-President Donald Trump stayed up until almost 2 a.m. to insult CNN anchor Erin Burnett hours after she called out his remark about migrants, explicitly comparing it with Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric.
Trump is under fire from critics over a rant in which he said immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” a phrase with chilling historical echoes.
“Nobody has ever seen anything like we are witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad. And people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you can have,” Trump said.
On Friday night’s edition of CNN’s OutFront Burnett asked Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) and called out those historical echoes — which elicited a decidedly muted reaction from the congressman:
BURNETT: I want to ask you one other question tonight, about former President Trump. He’s coming under fire for making anti-immigrant comments in an interview. Some of this comes and echoes language used by white supremacists. I want to play for you what he said.
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TRUMP: Nobody has ever seen anything like we are witnessing right now. It is a very sad thing for our country. It’s poisoning the blood of our country. It’s so bad. And people are coming in with disease, people are coming in with every possible thing that you can have.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BURNETT: Just to be clear, Congressman, the specific reference to poisoning the blood, blood poisoning was a phrase that was used repeatedly by Hitler, very specifically, blood poisoning.
So, what’s this — what’s your reaction when you hear this sort of language? What he said, altogether, from the former president?
D’ESPOSITO: Well, perhaps not the best choice of words.
That may or may not have been on Trump’s mind at 1:40 a.m. Saturday when he lashed out at Burnett in a stream-of-consciousness rant involving his heyday as a reality TV star:
Ratings challenged Erin Burnett, the Fake News CNN Host(ess?) who is constantly and very boringly reporting false and semi-inflammatory stories about your favorite President, used to call me, over and over again, in my prior, beautiful, and very simple life, to get herself on The Apprentice, “a ratings phenomenon” (Variety). She would do ANYTHING! I let her on the show a number of times, but her calls didn’t stop, and I finally told her,“Sorry, no more.” The fact is she was not smart, and very boring, much like she is today on her soon to be canceled (???) show – put it to sleep! Anyway, just sayin’.
Burnett appeared on The Apprentice as a “boardroom adviser”
Watch above via CNN’s OutFront.
