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Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
CNN MAGA Star Scott Jennings Makes Big Boast on Stage in Front of Trump
Scott Jennings made a weird flex after Donald Trump brought him onstage at a rally celebrating the president's first 100 days in office. CNN's token MAGA panelist bragged about 'owning' liberals at the Michigan event on Tuesday night after the president called for Jennings to take the stage. 'We have a man here that—I don't know but he's defending me all the time on CNN, and he defends me really well, but he can't go too far, because if he goes too far, he'll get fired,' Trump said as he introduced Jennings. 'CNN, this is the end of Scott,' the president added jokingly. 'Oh, who cares? Don't worry, we'll take care of you, Scott.' Jennings only spent a brief moment on the stage, but claimed on X that he quickly got 'caught up in the moment.' 'We were flying in here today, and I said, 'Look at these farms. I gotta get a farm in Michigan, because when you own as many libs as I do, you got to put a place to put them all,'' Jennings said on stage. Trump broke out into a chuckle as the crowd cheered on the 47-year-old while he made his exit. The conservative pundit is a regular at CNN roundtables and often clashes with other panelists in fiery conversations about the Trump administration's policies. Last week, CNN host Laura Coates slapped down Jennings for talking over her during a heated discussion on the judiciary's pushback against Trump's agenda. Jennings said it didn't matter to him that some of the judges blocking Trump's policies were appointees of the president: 'I don't care, I don't care, I don't care who appointed them, I don't care!' Coates was having none of it. 'Well, here's what I do care about,' she said. 'I care about when I let you speak and you overtalk me.' Earlier this month, another CNN roundtable went off the rails after Jennings took a personal dig at a co-panelist while discussing Trump's market-crashing tariffs. 'You got fired from your job,' Jennings told Tiffany Cross, whose highly-rated weekend morning show, The Cross Connection, was canceled in 2022. 'How relevant are you?' But Jennings' tense exchanges seem to have endeared him to those in Trump's close orbit. DOGE chief Elon Musk earlier boosted a CNN clip where Jennings took his side amid a feud with trade adviser Peter Navarro. 'First of all, if I were going to start a business, I would call Elon. That's number one,' Jennings said. 'Number two: Navarro was wrong.' Musk responded to the clip on X with by posting three American flag emojis.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CNN Panel Goes Off the Rails With Heated Personal Attacks: ‘You Got Fired From Your Job!'
Scott Jennings sent a CNN panel off the rails during a debate about President Donald Trump's tariffs when he chose to personally attack an ex-MSNBC host for getting cut from the network. The sole MAGA member of the NewsNight with Abby Phillip panel was engaged in a feisty to-and-fro with Tiffany Cross, who hosted The Cross Connection from 2020 to 2022, until her highly rated weekend morning show was canceled. Jennings reminded her of this as they discussed Trump's desire to take the island of Greenland from Denmark for 'national security.' 'It's a colonizer's attitude to say, I like it, I'm just gonna steal it,'' Cross said, before Jennings snipped: 'Steal what?' 'Land, land,' Cross replied. 'You cannot just go and say, 'I like it, it's mine now.' It doesn't work that way. That is what they're trying to do.' 'I have never, ever said we're going to go to Greenland and colonize it or steal it. That's crazy,' Jennings said, taking Cross's point personally. Then came the most tense part of the exchange, as Cross said: 'I'm not even talking about you. You're not a member of government. So you're irrelevant on that point. I'm talking about the president of the United States.' Turning to personal taunts, Jennings then slapped back: 'You got fired from your job. How relevant are you?' Cross managed to remain composed in the face of the attack and continued with her point after saying: 'What you lack in a legitimate point, you make up for in personal insults.' Jennings smiled and rolled his eyes, as CNN International host Richard Quest appeared to laugh at the jibe. The flashpoint came about after the panel discussed new trade relationships in the face of tariffs possibly isolating the U.S. from traditional trading partners. Greenland, and Trump's attitude towards 'taking' it, came up as a topic.
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
CNN guest takes heat after saying America was 'never great'
Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross argued that America "was never great" during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. The liberal journalist appeared on CNN as a guest to discuss the recent security breach where Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was added to a Signal group chat with senior Trump officials discussing plans for an upcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Cross bashed President Donald Trump and his administration as "inept," arguing that the administration put national security at risk, before taking a shot at Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. Ex-msnbc Host Tiffany Cross Goes Off On Network About Her Treatment: I Had My 'Intelligence Questioned' "They ran on this whole idea of this pseudo-patriotism, this aggressive, masculine patriotism, yet everything they're doing runs against 'making America great,'" Cross said. "It was never 'great,' so I'm not going to say the 'again' part." Cross doubled down on her statement after Republican guest Joe Borelli, former Minority Leader of the New York City Council, started to protest. Read On The Fox News App "I absolutely feel that way. I think if you had the history my people had in this country, then you might have a modicum of understanding and respect for that. America was never great for me," Cross continued. She added that it was a "common understanding" that America was only "great" for certain people. Trump Disappointed About Signal Chat Leak Giving Boost To Liberal Outlet Cross, who previously hosted the MSNBC weekend program "The Cross Connection," was pushed out of the liberal network in 2022 and now co-hosts the podcast "Native Land Pod." Cross's comments were shared on X, where they drew criticism from conservatives. "This is why the Democrats continue to lose," Republican strategist Thomas Hern wrote. Ohio state representative Josh Williams also disagreed with Cross. "Tiffany Cross does not speak for all Black Americans," he wrote. "This country gave me the chance to rise from homelessness to the Ohio House of Representatives. I am living proof of the American Dream." Cross later returned to the Signal chat leak during the Tuesday discussion, saying that the administration had not yet "taken responsibility" for the matter. The Trump administration has maintained that no classified information was shared in the chat, doubling down on Wednesday that the Atlantic's story was a "hoax" after Goldberg published specific texts from the chat. The messages included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth outlining that combat aircraft were set to take off and strike drones were ready for the operation, which were accompanied by timestamps. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X on Wednesday, "The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT 'war plans.' This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin." Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this article source: CNN guest takes heat after saying America was 'never great'
Fox News
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
CNN guest takes heat after saying America was 'never great'
Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross argued that America "was never great" during an appearance on CNN on Tuesday. The liberal journalist appeared on CNN as a guest to discuss the recent security breach where Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic magazine, was added to a Signal group chat with senior Trump officials discussing plans for an upcoming strike on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Cross bashed President Donald Trump and his administration as "inept," arguing that the administration put national security at risk, before taking a shot at Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan. "They ran on this whole idea of this pseudo-patriotism, this aggressive, masculine patriotism, yet everything they're doing runs against 'making America great,'" Cross said. "It was never 'great,' so I'm not going to say the 'again' part." Cross doubled down on her statement after Republican guest Joe Borelli, former Minority Leader of the New York City Council, started to protest. "I absolutely feel that way. I think if you had the history my people had in this country, then you might have a modicum of understanding and respect for that. America was never great for me," Cross continued. She added that it was a "common understanding" that America was only "great" for certain people. Cross, who previously hosted the MSNBC weekend program "The Cross Connection," was pushed out of the liberal network in 2022 and now co-hosts the podcast "Native Land Pod." Cross's comments were shared on X, where they drew criticism from conservatives. "This is why the Democrats continue to lose," Republican strategist Thomas Hern wrote. Ohio state representative Josh Williams also disagreed with Cross. "Tiffany Cross does not speak for all Black Americans," he wrote. "This country gave me the chance to rise from homelessness to the Ohio House of Representatives. I am living proof of the American Dream." Cross later returned to the Signal chat leak during the Tuesday discussion, saying that the administration had not yet "taken responsibility" for the matter. The Trump administration has maintained that no classified information was shared in the chat, doubling down on Wednesday that the Atlantic's story was a "hoax" after Goldberg published specific texts from the chat. The messages included Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth outlining that combat aircraft were set to take off and strike drones were ready for the operation, which were accompanied by timestamps. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt posted to X on Wednesday, "The Atlantic has conceded: these were NOT 'war plans.' This entire story was another hoax written by a Trump-hater who is well-known for his sensationalist spin." Fox News' Emma Colton contributed to this article.
