CNN Finds Humor in UK Parliament Insulting Trump to Downgrade State Visit

CNN via Newsbusters ^ | February 20, 2017 11:55 PM EST | Nicholas Fondacaro

[markomalley]

Debate raged in the United Kingdom’s Parliament Monday over whether or not President Donald Trump should be extended the warm welcome of a full state visit. As insults targeting Trump flew back and forth, CNN seemed to get a good laugh out it all. “Insults flying over Trump's invitation for a formal state visit to the UK,” hyped Erin Burnett during her show OutFront, “One Member of Parliament today likening it to quote, “pimping out the queen.’” All while the on-screen headline read “Can God Save the Queen…From Trump?”

“President Trump doesn't just get people stirred up at home. Look what happened in the British parliament. All because Britain's prime minister invited President Trump to [a state visit],” reported CNN’s Jeanne Moos as she played clips of members of Parliament yelling and screaming. “I'm standing here as a woman being shouted down by women,” Anne Main of the Conservative Party can be heard saying.

Moos seemed in awe of the number of Britons who were opposed to the President getting the chance to meet and have dinner with the queen of England. “Over 1.8 million UK residents signed a petition saying it was okay for President Trump to come visit, but that he should not get an official state visit, ‘because it would cause embarrassment to her majesty the queen,’” she said while quoting the petition.

She also seemed amused by Labour Party MP Paul Flynn who hammered Trump with disparaging comments about his intelligence. “Like a petulant child. The intellectual capacity of the president is protozoan,” he exclaimed. “Protozoan? Like, “a single-celled microscopic animal,” Moos asked inquisitively as she literally read the result of a Google search.

“Members of parliament went there,” she touted as clips played of MPs talking about Trump’s controversial comments to Billy Bush:

TULIP SIDDIQ [Labour]: Can you really lay out the red carpet for someone who talked about grabbing women by the [ bleep ]?

…

DAVID LAMMY [Labour]: I think about a man who thinks it's okay to go and grab [ bleep ].

CAROL MONAGKAN [Scottish National Party]: I became concerned when I heard comments like “grab them by the [ bleep ].”

JEANNE MOOS: The Scottish lilt helped.

The CNN reporter even remarked on the creativity of the anti-Trump protesters outside the Parliament building. “Outside parliament, protesters rallied, ‘God save the queen from Donald Trump,’” she noted, “The president was portrayed as King Kong, clutching the monarch as he scaled Big Ben.” Moos got in on the fun too, jokingly saying, “God save the queen from this debate.”

After watching clips of Flynn stating that the visit was equivalent to “pimping out the queen for the Donald Trump,” CNN cut back to a giggling Burnett who admitted, “there’s just something about that.”

Transcript below: 

CNN
Erin Burnett OutFront
February 20, 2017
7:58:00 PM Eastern

ERIN BURNETT: Insults flying over Trump's invitation for a formal state visit to the UK. One Member of Parliament today likening it to quote, “pimping out the queen.” Here's Jeanne Moos.

[Cuts to video]

JEANNE MOOS: President Trump doesn't just get people stirred up at home.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Sit down! Sit down!

MOOS: Look what happened in the British parliament.

ANNE MAIN [Conservative MP]: Let's have some fake outrage here. I'm standing here as a woman being shouted down by women.

MOOS: All because Britain's prime minister invited President Trump to –

THERESA MAY: Pay a state visit to the United Kingdom later this year.

MOOS: Over 1.8 million UK residents signed a petition saying it was okay for President Trump to come visit, but that he should not get an official state visit, “because it would cause embarrassment to her majesty the queen.” Opposition members of parliament lobbed insults at President Trump –

PAUL FLYNN [Labour Party MP]: Like a petulant child. The intellectual capacity of the president is protozoan.

MOOS [Reading from a literal Google search]: Protozoan? Like, “a single-celled microscopic animal?”

TULIP SIDDIQ [Labour]: Can you really lay out the red carpet for someone who talked about grabbing women by the [ bleep ]?

MOOS: Members of parliament went there.

DAVID LAMMY [Labour]: I think about a man who thinks it's okay to go and grab [ bleep ].

CAROL MONAGKAN [Scottish National Party MP]: I became concerned when I heard comments like “grab them by the [ bleep ].”

MOOS: The Scottish lilt helped.

EDWARD LEIGH [Conservative]: Which one of us has not made some ridiculous sexual comment sometime in our past?

MOOS: The queen, probably. She would be President Trump's official host as she was for President Obama, that time he accidentally toasted –

BARACK OBAMA: To the queen.

MOOS: Right through Britain's national anthem. Outside parliament, protesters rallied, “God save the queen from Donald Trump.” The president was portrayed as King Kong, clutching the monarch as he scaled Big Ben.

PARLIAMENT: NO!

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I think the no’s have it.

MOOS: In the end, the government made clear –

UNIDENTIFIED MAN 2: The visit should happen. The visit will happen.

MOOS: But, god save the queen from this debate.

FLYNN: Pimping out the queen for the Donald Trump..

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN…

UNIDENTIFIED MAN 3: Mr. Walker I don’t think it’s in order to refer to “pimping out” our sovereign.

MOOS: New York.

[Cuts back to live]

BURNETT: There’s just something about that. [laughter]  

[markomalley]

video at link

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Insipid twats.

[FlingWingFlyer]

PRESIDENT Trump needs to ban all visits to the UK by anyone being paid by the U.S. taxpayers. Make them come here.

[JPJones]

Cancel the visit.

[dhs12345]

Trump should bypass Parliament and talk directly with the British people.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Yup.

[Flick Lives]

Felites

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I said ‘screw ‘em’ years ago after living there and experienced the constant America bashing. Experienced this personally as well. Not fun.

[ConservativeMind]

President Trump needs to obliterate Buckingham Palace in retribution for England’s burning down of our White House.

[be-baw]

To fully appreciate the hatred CNN has for Trump you would have to watch it 24/7.

[WMarshal]

To all the professionals who work for the UK government that read this site for their own research and for official government analysis: the tide has turned and America is a new animal. The lofting class infesting Parliament is going to get a lot of UK citizens killed because of their America bashing. I can say this authoritatively because, even though I am an Anglophile of English ancestry, as I listen to everything being said in Parliament against President Trump AND the portion of America the portion of America that elected him, I am perfectly content with Britain suffering the consequences of their own folly.

Given the ability of the common man in America to see the pontification of British office holders the current dialog in Parliament is cutting your own throat.

While I agree with the maxim that “All politics are local” in today's interconnected world local is a lot larger than it used to be.

If the ruling class of Britain is comfortable with navigating through the modern world without an America ally then it should keep doing what it's doing. Before you make a quick decision before you run off to beat the servants, just ask yourself this question: "Can America survive without Britain and can Britain survive without America? (Here is a helpful hint: American can, and will do, just fine without Brittan)

[poinq]

The non-Brexit crowd does not like a lot of things. They don’t like Brexist and, they don’t like Donald Trump. So what. We too have people who don’t like Donald Trump. It does not matter. After Brexist starts rolling, Trump will visit England to keep the pressure on the EU. And both America and England will be better off for it. Remember Trump has properties over there. His mother was born in Scotland. And like a lot of Scottish men Trump is a little crude and brash. They are used to that. Prince Philip his also Scottish.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Does CNN... and the rest of the establishment media for that matter... have ANY idea how much they drive themselves into irrelevancy the more and more that they carry on like this?

We are witnessing the suicide pact of an entire profession and one that was long deemed unassailable and invincible.

[VanShuyten]

“...because it would cause embarrassment to her majesty the queen...”

Obama gave her an IPod containing his own speeches.

That was an embarrassment to the US by someone with the intellect of an amoeba.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Eff the Brits. DT should stay here and tend to more important matters. Sadly the UK and the the rest of Europe arw already lost. Let them take in our lefists

[proud American in Canada]

I would cancel too. One member of Parliament reminded that Trump was the choice of the American people.

Odd that, in Tucker Carlson’s words, our “ formal Colonial overlords” can’t respect that.

I wish I could post a video of the news anchor from The Simpsons...

Kent Brockman...” I for one, welcome our alien overlords.”

LOL!

The Simpsons have nothing to do with the story obviously, but he’s using that word made me think of this show. Great American contribution to World culture. LOL!

[proud American in Canada]

Talking directly to the people? It’s worked for him in the past. :-)

[stars & stripes forever]

[“...because it would cause embarrassment to her majesty the queen...”]

I should think the queen’s embarrassment would be the behavior of her son and one of her grandsons.

[proud American in Canada]

I totally believe you. It was the same for me here when I moved to Canada.

Non-stop hatred and bile. Just disgusting.

[proud American in Canada]

LOL!

I’d forgotten about the iPod incident. What a freaking narcissist he was.

That is not an appropriate gift to give to the Queen of England.