CNN Morning Crew Cracks Up At Image Of Trump As An ‘Escaped Monkey From A Cocaine Study’
CNN’s morning show crew cracked up when one of them presented the image of former President Donald Trump as an “escaped monkey from a cocaine study.”
The day has arrived: President Joe Biden and Trump are set to debate Thursday night in the earliest general election presidential matchup ever, with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash moderating.
In the hours before the debate, which kicks off at 9 PM, commentary on the showdown dominated cable news.
On Thursday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, Jonah Goldberg drew laughs from anchor Kasie Hunt and her panel with his description of Trump’s first term:
KASIE HUNT: Jonah Goldberg. And so, first of all, there’s there’s three of you sitting with us. In many ways, you represent kind of the three pieces of American political thinking. To be clear–.
(CROSSTALK, LAUGHTER)
KASIE HUNT: We have two Republicans. But as we’ve seen in the in these elections, I mean, these people keep voting for Nikki Haley. Jonah, you have, you know, expressed that you’re not supportive of Donald Trump. Shermichael, previously, worked for him.
But but, Jonah, I just kind of want to go to you on++ in that as I’m thinking about this day, and the reality that the three of you kind of represent and underscore, the historic nature of the day can be kind of hard to wrap our heads around.
But in many ways, this election is going to be different from any we have had before. The stakes are in some ways very much higher at what is what are the stakes on that stage tonight in your view?
JONAH GOLDBERG: Yeah. So look, I’m generally very much a skeptic about the importance of presidential debates, but I actually think this one matters.
I mean, historically, there’s a lot of data that show that don’t tend to matter that much. They tend to emphasize style and telegenic stuff over substance.
You know, the the one that everyone always talks about is Kennedy versus Nixon. And everyone says, well, Kennedy won because he had makeup in and Nixon looked like he woke up in a motel room–.
And, and like, it’s like, okay, you’re making my point that this things emphasized style over substance. This is about reassuring people for two candidates that people have a lot of misgivings about. Right.
For Biden, it’s not misgivings necessarily about his character. It’s misgivings about his age, his whether he’s up to the job.
And for Trump, it’s misgivings about, “Dear God, are we going to go back to four more years of the kind of chaos and him being in our headspace again? Can I handle that? Can I make peace with that, or is it going to be four more years of him tweeting like an escaped monkey from a cocaine study? And so, like.
KASIE HUNT: I need to get– this is why Shermichael is here–
(LAUGHTER)
JONAH GOLDBERG: Yes, yes. He has to be reassuring to a certain extent, to give people permission to vote against Biden and whether he can do that or not, I have no idea.
SHERMICHAEL SINGLETON: I don’t want to envision that. The cocaine monkey.
(LAUGHTER)
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