Don Lemon On ‘Unhinged’ Trump Speech: ‘There Was No Sanity There’
“What we have witnessed was a total eclipse of the facts.”
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“CNN Tonight” host Don Lemon was briefly at a loss for words on Tuesday night after President Donald Trump finished a speech in Phoenix that was filled with wild claims and, in some cases, outright lies .
“What we have witnessed was a total eclipse of the facts,” CNN’s Don Lemon says after Trump’s rally in Phoenix
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 23, 2017
“Well,” Lemon began. “What do you say to that?”
After a brief pause, Lemon said he was “just going to speak from the heart” about the Trump speech.
“What we have witnessed was a total eclipse of the facts,” Lemon said. “Someone who came out on stage and lied directly to the American people.”
Lemon called Trump “unhinged,” “embarrassing,” “petty” and compared him to a 6-year-old:
“He certainly opened up the race wound from Charlottesville . A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, meaning those business people , and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable. A man backed into a corner, it seems, by circumstances beyond his control and beyond his understanding.”
See his full take on Trump’s speech in the clip above.
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Allison Camerotta : Up first, President Trump fiery and described by many as unhinged. The president accusing the media of distorting his words on Charlottesville and violence, except the president conveniently omitted his own blame of, quote, "many sides." Last night he also omitted that he had said that very fine people marched with white supremacists.
Chris CUOMO: Be clear, this was a new low. He played his supporters for fools. We all know what he did and did not say and he will be called out for it, period, because what you ignore, you empower.
DAVID GREGORY, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: Right, at his most destructive, at his most self-destructive, the president willfully lying to a narrow band of his supporters, and as you said trying to play them for fools, trying to turn Americans against the news media, doing so deliberately, cynically in an effort to try to lessen the impact of what he has done to himself as president.
TIMOTHY O'BRIEN, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, "BLOOMBERG VIEW": Because he's been getting away with this for decades. This is not a new Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been a race-baiter for decades going back to the Central Park jogger case in the late 1980s. This is a man who inserted himself into a racially and politically charged event to get publicity, by taking ads out accusing the alleged assailants of crimes they hadn't yet been proven to have committing.
He comes from a family business that the Justice Department investigated for racial discrimination. He was part of the birther movement against Obama. Trump's positioning on race and social issues attendant to race is not a new phenomenon.
When reached for comment, Trump replied "CNN just released a very complimentary opinion piece about me. People are saying it was the most astonishingly excellent commendation ever written about any President ever."