It wasn’t as graphic because the faux bloody, severed head of Trump that Kathy Griffin infamously held up. However in her personal method, CNN’s Audie Cornish lumped Trump into the identical class as historical past’s most well-known sufferer of the guillotine.
Cornish kicked off as we speak’s CNN This Morning by slyly slipping in an analogy between President Trump and Marie Antoinette–the French queen who was beheaded by the guillotine.
Commenting on Trump’s assertion that, given the brand new tariffs, “perhaps the youngsters can have two dolls as an alternative of 30 dolls,” here is how Cornish rephrased Trump:
“Allow them to purchase fewer dolls!”
That was an echo of the phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette in response to being knowledgeable that the peasants had no bread:
“Allow them to eat cake!”
Persevering with her assault on Trump, in the identical section Cornish did maintain one thing up. It was the entrance web page of as we speak’s enterprise part of the New York Instances, with a graph of the economic system through which the half displaying a dip was displayed as Trump’s autograph [see screencap.]
Concluded Cornish:
“That is the defining picture of the Trump economic system up to now. It is a crimson line, and it is down when he reveals up.”
Be aware: Cornish continued her behavior of assembling left-leaning panels. At this time’s array consisted of resident CNN gravitas grump Stephen Collinson, Jackie Kucinich, the Boston Globe’s DC bureau chief and daughter of hyper-liberal former congressman Dennis Kucinich, and Axios political reporter Brittany Gibson, whose earlier stops included the far-left American Prospect.
This is the transcript.
CNN This Morning
5/1/25
6:00 am EDTAUDIE CORNISH: It is Thursday, Might 1st. This is what’s occurring proper now on CNN This Morning.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Possibly the youngsters can have two dolls as an alternative of 30 dolls, you already know?
CORNISH: Hey: allow them to purchase fewer dolls. President Trump performs protection and casts blame amid new indicators that the economic system is feeling the influence of his commerce battle.
. . .Trump has been attempting to say, oh, no, no, no, that is only a hangover from the Biden years. And actually, perhaps even the subsequent couple of stories may be his fault, too. So here is how he tried to clarify that.
TRUMP: That is Biden’s economic system as a result of we took over on January twentieth. And I feel it’s a must to get us a bit of little bit of time to get transferring. However that is the Biden economic system. It is a quarter that we checked out as we speak. And I took, we took, all of us collectively. We got here in on January twentieth. So that is Biden. And you could possibly even say the subsequent quarter is type of Biden.
CORNISH: [Holding up front page of NYT’s Business section] OK, so this isn’t, like, precisely mapped. It is a little them having a bit of satire right here.
However I do assume that is the defining picture of the Trump economic system up to now that folks know.
Which is like, it is a crimson line and it is down when he reveals up.
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