Donald Trump has launched a war,
an attack against his former White House press secretary, Kayleigh Mcenany, after
she egregiously discussed the results of a poll he didn't like on FoxNews.
So let's watch the apparently awful segment that Mcenany was part of,
and then we'll fill in the blanks.
>> I think you're going to see this all come to head here in Iowa, then Thursday,
of course, it's going to be a big deal.
And the DeSantis team would say, we just had polling come out that shows we closed
the gap by nine points since we announced in Iowa.
Still trump's hugely ahead, but they say they're closing the gap,
that's their argument.
>> She just said, still Trump is hugely ahead.
Now, for normal people, like me, for instance, if I were running for
President of the United States, if I were in the middle of a primary,
if I was polling ahead significantly, I would be elated, I'd be very happy.
But not Trump, not Trump.
So, it seems that the poll that Mcenany is referring to is this one,
it's a poll out of Iowa that shows that Trump is doing well, okay?
So, according to that poll, Trump is leading the pack at 54%,
this is between April 27th and April 30th.
DeSantis is at 20%.
Now, fast forward to May 23th through the 25th, Trump, unfortunately, well,
I don't wanna say unfortunately, I don't really care, they're all awful people.
But, Trump, unfortunately for him, lowered his lead a little bit.
So he went from having 34 points on Ron DeSantis to now having 25 points and
that's what he's bitter about.
But Kayleigh Mcenany is just, I can't believe I'm saying this, is doing her job,
she's talking about the poll results, she can't change the poll results.
And while I've come to expect lies on FoxNews, she didn't lie about it.
But Trump's upset, so his anger was immediate.
John, let me give you his statement on Truth Social, and
then I want to hear what you have to say about it.
Kayleigh Milktoast Mcenany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews.
I'm 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up.
While 25 is great, it's not 34.
She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll.
The RINOS & Globalists can have her FoxNews should only use REAL Stars.
I mean, you chose her as your White House press secretary.
Why'd you do that if she's not a real star anyway.
But, John, what do you think about all this?
>> Well, he chose her, and then he kept her for years.
Again, I would love for Trump fans to have
the absolute bare minimum ability to think about and
draw natural inferences from what they're hearing.
If a guy keeps picking people and keeping them for years and then one after
the other declares that they were terrible, why does he keep picking
terrible people and keeping them for years, but it never gets through to them.
He can keep doing this game, because whether they're good or
bad is not some sort of characteristic that is drawn from a cross
section of all of their behaviors and decisions.
It is entirely contingent at any particular second based on
what Donald Trump thinks or says or feels, honestly,
it's probably not even a conscious thought.
And they're fine with that, they like that, they don't care.
Look, I was a little bit defensive, I guess,
this morning when I talked about this, first of all,
in that I think that milktoast probably shouldn't be spelled that way.
Like, what are we doing with the cute?
>> [LAUGH] >> Come on.
>> I agree, actually, I agree.
>> Okay, I think he can bring the left and
the right together when it comes to milktoast, but
I guess I sort of get his frustration in that you described what
she did as just relaying the facts, and you said she can't change them.
But what was her job for years?
Either changed and lies, or at the very least, ignore them,
only talk about the April numbers and pretend that the new numbers aren't there.
It's ridiculous, it's detached from reality, but that's what her job was and
she actually did a really good job at it for years.
>> Yeah, she was a great press secretary for Trump.
And by the way, all the people defending her now in the Republican Party mentioned
that, we'll get to those defenses in just a moment,
but she's not working for Trump anymore.
Now she's working for
FoxNews and FoxNews very clearly is trying to prop up Ron DeSantis.
And by the way, even so, Mcenany didn't do anything wrong,
she just delivered what the poll results are.
But there's a backstory between Mcenany and
Donald Trump that some might not know about.
So I wanna get into that a little bit,
because apparently after the midterm elections last year, Mceany said
[LAUGH] on Fox that Donald Trump should delay his presidential announcement so
that the Republican Party could focus on winning the runoff elections or
the runoff election between Herschel Walker and Raphael Wardock.
Trump didn't like that, he did not like that [LAUGH].
So, in February of this year, Mcenany urged DeSantis to jump into
the presidential race and challenge Trump, Trump really didn't like that.
Months later, Mcenany praised Trump for
his interview on Tucker Carlson's Show, and
Trump responded the way you would expect him to, he's such a petty little bitch.
Okay, so he wrote, I guess Kayleigh is no longer speaking so
favorably about DeSanctimonious now that his polls are shot.
I guess not [LAUGH].
>> He's so sensitive [LAUGH].
>> He's so delicate, delicate former president of the United States.
>> He's just a very delicate, thin skinned little idiot.
Yeah, look, I think that his attack against her is pretty unfair,
sll she was doing was saying what the polls say, that said, she's terrible.
>> Let him fight.
>> And by the way, she stood by and defended him as press secretary,
as he did what he's doing to her, to person after person after person,
loving them and then throwing them under the bus when they weren't useful anymore.
She knew that's who she was working for, so
she can't be surprised by the behavior that he's doing right now.
>> Okay, look, but
the one thing I will say is that Kayleigh Mcenany played it right.
I mean, she was White House press secretary, and then afterward,
she was able to snag a job over at Fox.
I mean, she won in the end, unlike some of the men who had surrounded
Donald Trump during his administration, I mean, Mike Pence is so pathetic.
Mike Pence is like the most pathetic man in the country, and
that's saying something.
I mean, there's a lot of pathetic men in the country.
He's obviously planning on running in the primary.
He's probably gonna announce next week on Tuesday.
And you wanna know what his primary platform issue is gonna be?
We need to privatize social security.
Good luck with that buddy, good luck with that.
And he was loyal to Trump till the very end when Trump
wanted him to do something ridiculous and
unhinged in trying to overturn the results of our democratic process.
So he loses.
Now he's trying to run for president, he's gonna fail,
who knows what he's gonna do after that?
But no one has any interest in you, Mike Pence.
But, it does warm my heart a little bit to see that the woman in this scenario,
Kayleigh Mcenany, was smart enough to transition that position of power
in the White House to a gig at FoxNews.
>> Yeah. >> I don't like her,
I think she's a terrible person, but if I take a step back and
let go of my personal feelings toward her and
just objectively look at the situation, she made the right moves for herself.
>> 100%.
Yeah, and kind of mirror.
So she, I guess, laid the path, I suppose, for
Gen Saki on kind of the other side, but not that far on the other side.
And isn't it amazing that worked out for both of them,
people whose job it is to whether you want to admit that they're lying constantly,
at the very least, to manipulate and distract,
go immediately into media jobs, because corporate media perfect 100%.
Their job is to tell people what they want to/need to hear for
the status quo to continue, and they just move that skill set over to the TV side,
and that's perfectly acceptable.
I don't see anybody, like, revolting over the fact that Gen Saki got that position
amongst I mean, the viewers obviously, we think it's a little bit ridiculous,
but why aren't the viewers bothered by it?
Because they didn't mind the lies when she was working as press secretary,
why would they mind the lies now?
>> Well, because our politics have become a team sport and so,
when you have that kind of mentality, then journalism isn't
meant to keep politicians honest, it's meant to root for your preferred side.
And that's what we're seeing in corporate media right now.
But it's always on superficial issues,
it's never on policy that would materially impact Americans lives.
When it comes to those issues, the corporate media on both sides is 100% in
cahoots and that's what grosses me out the most.