Despite a CBS News/YouGov poll showing 76 percent of viewers approving of President Trump’s Tuesday State of the Union address, CNN chief national correspondent John King blasted the speech as a “disgrace” because it didn’t touch on topics important to liberals.
Most notably, according to King, climate change.
After praising the Democratic Party’s response via Stacy Abrams, as “the best response Democrat or Republican I can remember in some years”, King noted she talked about “voting rights”, “climate change”, and “guns”.
“They believe it helps them, and they believe especially on the issue of climate change, especially on the issue of voting right, it helps them to talk about things the President won’t talk about. You can shrug all you want,” King chided former GOP Senator Rick Santorum.
Santorum responded by pointing out the obvious: “I mean, the Republicans don’t support any of those things. Why would you talk about them?”
King then unloaded on President Trump for not addressing climate change during his popular speech:
Well, all Americans should want our President, whatever the disagreements are, just look at his own national security review. Every leader, whatever his party should be talking about climate change. You can have a debate about what to do about it. But that the President of the United States, at this moment in the world, did not mention climate change in even a sentence is, just frankly, a disgrace. Any president, Democrat or Republican.
After slamming Washington, D.C. as a dysfunctional place can only work on “one thing at a time”, a clearly frustrated King almost appeared to demand that Trump abandon the fight over illegal immigration:
So the President has to make a choice: if we stay in this immigration debate, that’s all we are going to do. We’ll have another potential government shutdown in two weeks or he’ll sign something to keep the government open but then declare the national emergency, it will end up in court. And any goodwill that was built tonight, any potential opening that was built tonight will be gone.
“So, will the President cut a deal, accept a compromise,” King wanted to know. “Or are we going to stay in this wall or nothing conversation for another two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, because if we do, forget any of this other stuff getting done.” This is CNN.
Read more and transcript at NewsBusters
He also didn’t mention unicorns.
Hats off to President Trump for NOT exploiting the scam, one way or the other. It’s religion, separation of church and state. Global Warming is dead.
Long live Climate Change!
No apology to J. King.
Interesting gambit. King effectively, or should I say, ineffectively, accused a Republican President of not acting like a “progressive” socialist. I wonder when King will start reporting on deaths caused by illegal integration and call for the deportation of illegal immigrants already here?
We remember how HRC and her crew buried Bernie Sanders in the primaries. What does the DNC have in store for the radical Green Socialists this time? They’re louder and there’s more of them. “12 more years ” is also 3 more election cycles.
Who watches CNN? And who is this King fellow? I don’t remember voting for any King…