“Well, what do you say to that?” Don Lemon responds to Trump’s speech, calling it a “total eclipse of the facts” t.co/XS4x3LyoMP
CNN’s Don Lemon had harsh words for President Donald Trump after Trump’s more than 75-minute speech at a “Make America Great Again” rally in Phoenix, Arizona.
“Well, what do you say to that?” Lemon asked as Trump finished his speech. “I’m just going to speak from the heart here. What we have witnessed is a total eclipse of the facts. Someone who came out on stage and lied directly to the American people and left things out that he said in an attempt to re-write history, especially when it comes to Charlottesville. He’s unhinged.
“It’s embarrassing. And I don’t mean for us, the media, because he went after us, but I mean for the country. This is who we elected president of the United States, a man who is so petty that he has to go after people that he deems to be his enemy, like an imaginary friend of a 6-year-old,” Lemon said.
He continued, “His speech was without thought, it was without reason, it was devoid of facts, it was devoid of wisdom. There was no gravitas, there was no sanity there. He was like a child blaming a sibling on something else. He did it, I didn’t do it. He certainly opened up the race wound from Charlottesville. A man clearly wounded by the rational people who are abandoning him in droves, the business people and the people in Washington now who are questioning his fitness for office and whether he is stable. A man backed into a corner it seems by circumstances beyond his control, beyond his understanding. That’s the truth. If you watch that speech as an American, you had to be thinking ‘what in the world is going on.’ This is the person we elected president of the United States? This petty? This small? The person who is supposed to pull the country together. It certainly didn’t happen there.”
You can watch a full replay of the rally and Trump’s speech below:
