Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

CNN: Is White Supremacy What Trump 'Meant' by 'Make America Great Again?'
Newsbusters.org ^ | August 16, 2017 | Kristine Marsh

Posted on 08/16/2017 6:34:06 PM PDT by Kaslin

After Tuesday’s heated press conference over Charlottesville, the media has been in a renewed frenzy over Trump’s comments. Over at CNN, the outrage seemed to be at its worst, with hosts sounding just like their radically left-wing guests. On the 7am hour of CNN’s New Day, fill-in host Poppy Harlow actually asked liberal reporter and CNN analyst April Ryan if Trump's slogan “Make America Great Again” was referring to the days when the KKK terrorized the South.

The panel discussion started between the Daily Beast’s John Avlon, CNN political analysts David Gregory and April Ryan, and hosts Chris Cuomo and Poppy Harlow. The panel started off “fact-checking” Trump’s claims that the white supremacist group had a permit to protest, before quickly moving on to attacking Trump. Gregory lamented Trump “reverting to form” deciding to “whip up social disruption and deepen the social disruptions in our society as opposed to trying to tamp it down the hatred that an event like this represents.”

Avlon then blasted the press conference as “a new low” of historic press conferences.

JOHN AVLON: After the president’s disastrous press conference -- in the pantheon of historic press conferences this was a new low by Donald Trump standards or any historic standards. The only people who came out to support him, there were a couple of paid shilts doing happy talk on Twitter, but were David Duke and white nationalist leaders, white supremacist leaders. If that doesn't cause a gut check, a reality check on the part of people working in the white house, what will? This president seems to have completely abdicated the moral authority that should go with the office of the president and the responsibility to at least try to unite the nation.

Host Poppy Harlow then lamented that this press conference showed “what was in” Trump’s “heart.” She asked CNN analyst April Ryan if standing up for white supremacy was what Trump “meant by make America great again.”

CNN: Is White Supremacy What Trump 'Meant' by 'Make America Great Again?'

POPPY HARLOW: People standing next to him, Gary Cohn, Steve Mnuchin. Also Jewish, as well as his daughter. His grandchildren. April Ryan, as someone who has covered the White House for a long time and questioned the president in the briefing room. This is what was in his heart, what is in his heart. He made that clear in the press conference yesterday. Is this what he meant by make America great again?

“I believe so,” April Ryan said soberly. Ryan then began to rehash the liberal conspiracy theories about Trump’s “code words” signaling to white supremacists that he was on their side. Her primary example? A fictionalized story from the media that the bust of MLK was removed by Trump from the Oval Office.

RYAN: While he was candidate Trump, many people said there were code words he was using. Make America great. And the question was, one of my questions was, at what point in our history is he talking about America being great, and we want to go back to. Supporting this yesterday shows us. It's very interesting, in listening to the conversation all morning and last night, I'm heartsick, but I have several questions this morning. What does Benjamin Netanyahu have to say about this? Because I remember just a few months ago Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United States and said Israel has no greater friend than Donald Trump. This is bigger than just everyone talking about the heart and moral authority. And then you know I also think about at the beginning of this president's entrance into the Oval Office, the big story -- I remember Zeke Miller made a mistake talking about the king bust wasn't there. The reason why it was such a big deal is because so many people were concerned about the president's heart and his mind when it came to issues of inclusion and race. That statue is still in the Oval Office, well at least, last we checked. So those are two things they need to question this morning.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: aprilryian; charlottesville; clintonnewsnetwork; cnn; davidgregory; fakenews; johnavlon; newday; poppyharlow; raceissues; violence
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

1 posted on 08/16/2017 6:34:06 PM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
We are really up against powerful evil forces.


2 posted on 08/16/2017 6:37:37 PM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
We are really up against powerful evil forces.


3 posted on 08/16/2017 6:37:43 PM PDT by doug from upland (Mayflower Hotel --- hotel of choice for Dem officials and their hookers)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

These people are liars.

They are dishonest.

They stir up strife.

They attack people’s reputations.

They need to be condemned.

#FAKEAMERICANS spewing #FAKENEWS.


4 posted on 08/16/2017 6:37:58 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Little nasty, hateful children.....


5 posted on 08/16/2017 6:38:28 PM PDT by EagleUSA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
Black power! Tear down the monument of Democrats, now let's vote Democrat!


6 posted on 08/16/2017 6:39:28 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ForYourChildren

America was great when it attracted the cream of the crop from around the world, regardless of color. Most were thrilled by the opportunity they enjoyed here that wasn’t open to them in their backwards homelands (on all continents).

We are reaping the fruits of decades of letting in the dregs of the world instead...


7 posted on 08/16/2017 6:39:58 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

You have to be a special kind of stupid to get that interpretation from the press conference. Or just a leftist “journalist”.


8 posted on 08/16/2017 6:41:36 PM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

That is a crime scene. It should be roped off and guarded.


9 posted on 08/16/2017 6:42:06 PM PDT by KyCats
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Headline: “Overtaking the Cartoon Network in Ratings: Is That What CNN Intended When They Continued to Push Stupidity on their Audience?”


10 posted on 08/16/2017 6:42:21 PM PDT by rfp1234 (DinosorosExtinction)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

“CNN: Is White Supremacy What Trump ‘Meant’ by ‘Make America Great Again?’”

Does CNN really mean “Clepto Neo-Nazis?


11 posted on 08/16/2017 6:42:31 PM PDT by sergeantdave
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

I think the MSM has jumped the shark


12 posted on 08/16/2017 6:42:41 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

My father who is like half a lib told me today Trump is finished from this Charlottesville crap.. I told him “Au contraire mi Padre, he’s all but guaranteed himself a 2nd term”. He has. That speech he gave at Trump tower, standing up to the Bolshevik media, exposing the Antifa terrorists just garnered him a couple million new votes. The major mistake of the Bolsheviks is they think the average person out there is stupid. No no no, maybe slightly stupid, but not flat out blind. They know exactly what the Bolsheviks are trying to do to him and to us as well.


13 posted on 08/16/2017 6:46:27 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan taking office.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Is communism what Obama meant by Yes We Can ?


14 posted on 08/16/2017 6:47:32 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: GrandJediMasterYoda

American Taliban


15 posted on 08/16/2017 6:49:05 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

So CNN has sunk as low as the History Channel Ancient Alien guys in using loaded questions to assert what they hope will be interpreted as facts. Since it’s not an actual statement they have their weaselly wiggle room. We can play that, too.

Is it true that all CNN on-air personalities are required to drink human blood and swear fealty to satan and George Soros?

Could Anderson Cooper really be the bastard offspring of Gloria Vanderbilt and David Duke?

When Jim Acosta goes to bed at night does he actually pray for America’s downfall and the rise of a Marxist totalitarian regime?


16 posted on 08/16/2017 6:49:31 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( Washington DC - Swampland of money and unindicted crooks ))))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The MSM is now a haven for demagogues. That little session Fake News had with Miller a short time ago reveals that collectively the MSM thinks they re co-equal to the Executive branch, if not over it.


17 posted on 08/16/2017 6:52:51 PM PDT by odawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Is Antifa/blm what Obama “meant” by “Unity”?

Remember that? And how it disappeared from the the narrative after Nov 2008?


18 posted on 08/16/2017 6:54:08 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Search "Vice Mayor Wes Bellamy tweets" and pass those links on to all you know)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Can you imagine the looks on their faces if a guest would say”you do know the klan was started by the democrat party.”


19 posted on 08/16/2017 6:59:09 PM PDT by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

That particular narrative is 100% the same as before the election. Didn’t work very well for them, so try the same thing again.


20 posted on 08/16/2017 7:01:42 PM PDT by palmer (...if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-50 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson