In this episode of “CNN… The Most Trusted Name in News™”…
CNN never seems to change. Despite their dwindling ratings, the personalities on the network continue to embarrass themselves daily.
Such was the case during a recent episode of “CNN This Morning,” where New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro joined the panel to discuss President Donald Trump’s remarks about Europe needing to contribute more to their defense.
Not to nitpick, but that’s exactly what Trump demanded during his first term.
Furthermore, Trump’s comments on Ukraine were met with criticism on the show, with no one showing support for his stance on the matter. However, that topic will be saved for another discussion.
Garcia-Navarro kicked off the relevant portion of the segment, pretending to wonder who America’s allies are — now that Trump’s back in the White House…
I think, a wider issue here about what is Donald Trump’s foreign policy? What are we looking at here?Are we looking at a complete change in who our traditional allies are? This is the question that I keep on asking myself. Who are America’s allies now? When you are praising Vladimir Putin and you are offending Canada, the European Union, Panama.
CNN’s Jim Sciutto jumped in, adding: “Denmark over Greenland.”
Garcia-Navarro was still fixated on the question (in her mind) of who America’s allies are in Trump’s mind:
Yeah. This becomes the broader question of who is the United States actually allying themselves with? And what does that actually mean for our security in the world?
Sciutto’s pump was now primed:
I mean, that is the thing that, Jonah, that came out of Munich, right, is that this was not just Europe worrying about Trump abandoning Ukraine. It’s Europe worried about Trump abandoning Europe. And by the way, saying so, in so many words: Europe, it’s up to you right now. Which was the worry prior to the election. I heard it frequently, and now this is the reality they’re dealing with.
Then it got worse.
Veteran “journalist” Jonah Goldberg said that while Trump has a “goldfish’s memory” of history, he subscribes to a “19th-century notion of spheres of influence”:
And that’s one of the things that helps explain why Trump likes to talk, why he heaps praise on dictators and adversaries while heaping scorn on friends, is that he thinks our friends are actually subordinates.
Memo to Jonah:
Call European nations what you want, but in a global sense, they are subordinate to the United States.
Moreover, the expectation that they carry their own weight, not only by paying for their own national security, but also by ponying up and paying their annual dues to the America-loathing United Nations, is beyond reasonable — whether they are America’s allies or not.
Goldberg continued his ridiculous rant:
[Trump] thinks NATO is basically a protection racket or a country club, and they’re not paying enough dues to him. They’re not kicking up to the boss enough. But he sees Xi and Putin as basically rival crime families, and they deserve respect because they are equal strongmen. … They get Taiwan, they get Ukraine, we get Panama.
Spoiler:
Trump is not going to “get” either Panama or Greenland — and Canada’s not going to become America’s 51st state. It’s called “negotiating from a position of strength,” loons — a concept foreign to the disastrous previous administration.
I’m out.
