And the funny thing is, he didn’t really mean it as an insult!
On today’s CNN This Morning, in a segment analyzing the results of the Iowa caucuses and looking ahead to New Hampshire, CNN commentator Jamal Simmons, who stuck it out for a year as Vice President Kamala Harris’s communications director before bailing, said:
“Trump is like a walking, talking middle finger, right? People think about him like, oh, this guy is the way we get back at the elites. The way we get back at the people who are in charge, who are leaving the rest of us behind while they continue to make more money and divide up the spoils amongst themselves. He does have this persona.”
In a sense, Simmons’ description of Trump aligns with how Trump has described himself as his supporters’ “retribution.”
Co-anchor Phil Mattingly was so taken by Simmons’ line that he ended the…
