CNN Correspondent Roasts Trump Over Rant On International Crisis: ‘Takes What The Last Person In His Ear Said’
CNN correspondent Kristen Holmes dinged President-elect Donald Trump over social media posts on the situation in Syria and the war in Ukraine, saying Trump just adopts whatever “the last person in his ear” said.
In the early morning hours, as Bashar al Assad’s government fell, Trump followed up his earlier Truth Social post on the topic with some new thoughts.
At 2AM, Trump wrote:
Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place. They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever. Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success. Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians. There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse. I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!
On Sunday morning’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, host Manu Raju asked Holmes
MANU RAJU: Trump, though different, he decided to weigh in multiple times, one over night and then one yesterday. The one one yesterday. He talked about what his own red line is in this. He said, in any event. Syria is a mess, but there’s not our friend. The United States should not have should have nothing to do with it. This is not our fight. He said again. Let it play out. Do not get involved.
KRISTEN HOLMES: Yeah. And I actually also want to point to what he said today. And I know you read this earlier because I think that it gives you a little bit of subtext here into how he’s currently viewing Russia and Iran in particular.
So, one, we don’t know who’s going to run the Iran profile for or portfolio for Trump yet. So they don’t have somebody doing that. They’ve started to build out their Middle East team. But that’s very new.
Two, when you talk about Russia here. He had just come out of a meeting with Zelenlinsky when he’s and that’s very clear in the text here.
MANU RAJU: Because he says and that’s just a reminder, he says that he says, “I know Vladimir well.”.
He refers to what’s going on with the war in Ukraine and talked about how there should be a, quote, immediate cease fire and negotiations.
KRISTEN HOLMES: And he kind of talks down to Putin. And that’s what we don’t often hear from Trump. He says Russia was no longer interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place, he says, The only protector that Assad had was Russia. Clearly he is, and we know this about Trump.
He takes the what’s the last person in his ear and then ends up amplifying it. This happens to be a time where he just got out of a meeting with Zelenskyy.
But it is very interesting to see how his worldview and how what he’s putting forward is coming together, particularly as he is in France meeting with world leaders and as he has just, you know, a month away from becoming the actual president.
Watch above via CNN’s Inside Politics.
