Last week, Donald Trump held a rally in Minneapolis. He packed the 20,000 seat arena with more supporters waiting outside. After the two-hour session exiting attendees were met by hurling bags of urine and drivers were prevented from leaving their parking lots. Many left-wing wackos thought the resistance was great. Centrists were embarrassed. I was pissed off.
So much so that I called up Chris Cuomo at CNN and asked to appear on his show. He agreed and opened by naming me a supporter. He then explained the format. You say something positive, I’ll say something negative, and we’ll talk over each other until the segment ends. I said, how about something different.
In order to discuss Trump you have to separate policy from personality. Because you’ve known him, you take personality. Take two hours to explain to everyone what a douchebag he is. Then we’ll bring out one of his friends, say Carl Icahn, and he’ll make the argument that he’s actually a nice guy. This way the audience can judge. And since this is a 24-hour network, we’ll do a second segment about his time in office. For this part we’ll use two politicians. The Democrats and Republicans are full of lawyers. We’ll get a sleazeball from one side and a scumbag from the other and they can shout about his time in Washington. But this segment will take less time because we’ve heard it all before. Then I’ll take over.
For the policy segment, get me a tax accountant, a big time businessperson, and an economist. We’ll discuss every economic policy he’s passed from renegotiating NAFTA, walking away from TPP, talks with China, and the tax plan. I’ll politely argue that the president was correct in all of these positions and then we’ll hear from the others. And we’ll address each issue one by one. This way the audience can judge.
Then bring me a healthcare professional and an administrator from Veteran Affairs. We’ll discuss the pros and cons of removing Obamacare’s individual mandate, and all the changes to the VA. After that, bring me the head of the department of immigration and we’ll discuss the effect of illegals on the economy, whether pushing Mexico to guard their southern border was a good idea, and whether kids were actually put inside cages or chain link fencing was simply put inside a gymnasium. This way people can judge.
Then we’ll discuss each of Donald Trump’s 128 executive orders and the over 300 substantial congressional laws that have been passed. Please deliver appropriate personnel for each one. I’ll need additional resources to help but this way the audience can ju___. And before I could complete the word, Chris abruptly ended the interview by saying, “that’s not the way we do news in America.”
We shook hands and I left.
Note: The US doesn’t have all day news that’s unbiased like we do with CBC News World and CTV’s 24-hour channel. And Trump supporters are not racists, they’re beneficiaries of these policies.