It wasn’t as graphic as the fake bloody, severed head of Trump that Kathy Griffin infamously held up. But in her own way, CNN’s Audie Cornish lumped Trump into the same category as history’s most famous victim of the guillotine.
Cornish kicked off today’s CNN This Morning by slyly slipping in an analogy between President Trump and Marie Antoinette–the French queen who was beheaded by the guillotine.
Commenting on Trump’s statement that, given the new tariffs, “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” here’s how Cornish rephrased Trump:
“Let them buy fewer dolls!”
That was an echo of the phrase attributed to Marie Antoinette in reaction to being informed that the peasants had no bread:
“Let them eat cake!”
Continuing her attack on Trump, in the same segment Cornish did hold something up. It was the front page of today’s…
