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USA Today
13 hours ago
- Politics
- USA Today
'Allison Cooper': Trump calls CNN anchor Anderson Cooper 'Allison' in rant
President Donald Trump unleashed on CNN star anchor Anderson Cooper in a rant over news coverage of the conflict between Iran and Israel, and the recent U.S. involvement ordered by the president. Trump took to Truth Social on June 23 to call the "AC360" host "Allison Cooper," while slamming what he referred to as "fake news" organizations that "would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible" in their stories about U.S. strikes of Iranian nuclear sites. In his post, Trump also slammed "Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of 'Con'cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News," in reference to Comcast chairman Roberts and ABC News' chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl. "It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW — ZERO CREDIBILITY!" Trump claimed. In the run up to the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump previously referred to Cooper as "Allison" at a Michigan campaign rally, according to The New York Times and The Associated Press, and on Truth Social. Anderson Cooper expresses 'regret' for comparing Trump to 'obese turtle' Public Notice newsletter writer Aaron Rupar, a popular voice in liberal politics, decried Trump's comments as "homophobic" in an X post. Cooper is openly gay. A spokesperson for Cooper at CNN told USA TODAY that they have "no comment and nothing to add." Anderson Cooper evacuated live on-air while reporting in Israel Cooper has been a central part of CNN's Israel-Iran coverage. On Monday, Cooper was forced to evacuate while filming live June 23 in Tel Aviv after an alarm warned of an upcoming missile launch from Iran. Anderson Cooper evacuates Israeli hotel on camera after Iranian missile alarms In a video "Anderson Cooper 360°" shared on X, the journalist and in-person correspondents evacuated their filming location while broadcasting from a hotel balcony in Israel early Monday, June 23, local time. "So these are the alerts that go out on all of our phones when you're in Israel," Cooper said of the alert alongside colleague Clarissa Ward, CNN's chief international correspondent. "It's a 10-minute warning of incoming missiles or something incoming from Iran. So now the location we're in has a verbal alarm telling people to go down into bomb shelters." Anderson Cooper previously apologized for Donald Trump comment The drama between Trump and Cooper includes an incident from the president's first term, when the "All There Is" podcast host admitted that he was disappointed in himself for comparing Trump to an "obese turtle" during coverage of the 2020 presidential election. "I should say that I regret using those words because that's not the person I really want to be," Cooper said Nov. 7, 2020. Celebrities tell all about aging, marriage and Beyoncé in these 10 bingeable memoirs Cooper made the comment after Trump wrongly claimed victory in the 2020 race, Cooper raised eyebrows for his own controversial comments. "That is the most powerful person in the world. And we see him like an obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun, realizing his time is over," Cooper said live on-air on CNN on Nov. 5, 2020.
USA Today
19 hours ago
- Politics
- USA Today
Trump focuses on bunker busters and babbling while our burger prices blow up
I don't think Trump is able to do two things at once. Reading his Truth Social posts, I'm not entirely sure he's capable of doing one thing at once. Look, I don't mean to be 'that guy,' but the president who ran almost exclusively on lowering grocery prices seems to have lost both his focus and his marbles. While President Donald Trump was ordering bunker-busting bombs dropped on Iran, burger-loving Americans who in no way wanted to get involved in a Middle East conflict were dealing with ground beef prices that hit a record, wallet-busting high of $5.98 per pound in May. And the commander in beef? He's on the social media site he owns posting all kinds of weird nonsense that has nothing to do with lowering food prices. Opinion: Trump just bombed Iran. We deserve to know why, but don't count on the truth. What kind of president bombs a country then says, 'Bullseye!!!'? One post on the attacks on Iran included this: 'Bullseye!!!' You know a president is serious when he uses three exclamation points and sounds like a 12-year-old boy who just hit a can with a rock. Responding to widespread reports the U.S. bombing raid did less damage to Iran's nuclear facilities than the administration claimed, Trump wrote: 'The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it.' How Churchillian. 'The Battle of France was a COMPLETE AND TOTAL success and everyone knows it, we just sent our troops to Dunkirk for some beach time. Enjoy the R&R, boys!!!' Online babbling, foreign bombing. And America's food prices remain high. Trump continued his babbling about the damage done to Iran's nuclear facilities: 'Only the Fake News would say anything different in order to try and demean, as much as possible ‒ And even they say they were 'pretty well destroyed!' Working especially hard on this falsehood is Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, Dumb Brian L. Roberts, Chairman of 'Con'cast, Jonny Karl of ABC Fake News, and always, the Losers of, again, Concast's NBC Fake News. It never ends with the sleazebags in the Media, and that's why their Ratings are at an ALL TIME LOW ‒ ZERO CREDIBILITY!' There's a lot to unpack there, from some homophobia directed at Anderson Cooper to random capitalization that can best be called 'troubling' to, for some reason, putting quotes around 'Con' in the first ''Con'cast' reference and then abandoning the quotes on second mention. It's like he's following the Stylebook for the Terminally Deranged. Trump cares only about pretending to look tough on TV The president of the United States capped off his June 23 online ranting by posting 'CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT'S TIME FOR PEACE!', which is just a deeply weird thing to say right after dropping more than a dozen 30,000 pound bombs on a country. But let's get back to hamburgers. I'm hungry, and if I were a Trump voter who believed he would be laser-focused on lowering my grocery bill, I'd be downright hangry. Trump actually made the military's planning more difficult What we're seeing from the Trump administration right now is there's no meat between the buns. The New York Times reported that Trump's decision to attack Iran was influenced by the attention Israel was getting: 'The president was closely monitoring Fox News, which was airing wall-to-wall praise of Israel's military operation and featuring guests urging Mr. Trump to get more involved.' Opinion: Why did US bomb Iran? In Trump's vibes war, it's impossible to trust anyone. And his bizarre and threatening social media posts warning Iran that America might take action actually caused problems with our military planning: 'But even as the military planning was being conducted in secrecy, each of Mr. Trump's social media posts seemed to be telling the world what was coming. The president, said one military official, was the 'biggest threat to opsec,' or operational security, that the planning faced.' Can someone gently and respectfully grab President Trump by the shoulders and shout: 'Dude! Focus!' An unpopular president, Trump isn't doing himself any favors I'm not an isolationist, but we presently know more about the cost of our hamburgers than we do about specific reasons for the attack on Iran or what was accomplished. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll released June 23 showed only about a third of Americans supported the attack and 84% are concerned about the conflict growing. The same poll shows Trump's approval rating slumping to 41%, a number that should slide more when people get a load of what their Fourth of July barbecue is going to cost. Fewer bombs, more burgers. That's the true American spirit. Trump won reelection because a small majority of Americans naively believed he would make the economy better and address food prices. He hasn't done either of those things. Now we're bombing another country in the Middle East, and he's rambling incoherently on the internet while cosplaying G.I. Joe. I don't think the man is able to do two things at once. Reading his Truth Social posts, I'm not entirely sure he's capable of doing one thing at once. But he should pay attention to the fact that Americans, it's safe to say, would like fewer bombs and more burgers. Perhaps someone can let Trump know that, if they can pull him away from watching Fox News and embarrassing the nation on social media. Follow USA TODAY columnist Rex Huppke on Bluesky at @ and on Facebook at
