There are so many different ways that CNN does fake news. They broadcast false information, they omit facts damning to democrats, they present partisan opinion as hard news, and then there is this: The low-rated cable network is terribly upset that President Trump ate ice cream while U.S. forces carried out a strike that blew the crap out of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. Ice cream? Is it too late to draft another article of impeachment?
Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran behind the Ayatollah Assahola, the mastermind of the country’s terrorist network, and responsible for killing hundreds of American troops. Him getting blown up by U.S. rockets is arguably the biggest story of Trump’s presidency, but here’s the angle CNN went with:
President Trump dined on ice cream as news of the airstrike broke https://t.co/iP5fbnSfDH pic.twitter.com/SmrqI6zN0Y
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 3, 2020
This is serious journalism, folks:
As news broke that the US struck and killed Qasem Soleimani, President Trump was dining at his Mar-a-Lago club, surrounded by old friends and others like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
As meatloaf and ice cream were served, the Pentagon confirmed that the US was behind the strikes, the only statement from the administration throughout the night.
Here’s a legitimate question: if the only statement the administration put out was that the U.S. was behind the strike, how does CNN know President Trump’s was eating meatloaf and ice cream with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy? Is the whistleblower still working the White House and leaking information or did CNN just make this up?
As it turns out, CNN has uncovered an alarming pattern of President Trump ordering airstrikes while enjoying sweets:
Putting this airstrike in perspective: The scene Friday was similar to the one after Trump gave the order for American forces to carry out the missile strike on a Syrian airfield in the spring 2017.
After that strike, Trump went into great detail about the chocolate cake he had with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who was there for ga summit, when he informed him about the series of tomahawk missiles.
“I said, Mr. President, let me explain something to you — this was during dessert,” Trump said at the time. “We’ve just fired 59 missiles, all of which hit, by the way, unbelievable, from, you know, hundreds of miles away, all of which hit, amazing. Brilliant. It’s so incredible. It’s brilliant. It’s genius.”
“He was eating his cake and he was silent,” the President added.
Trump later described it as “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen—and President Xi was enjoying it.”
How does Trump eating cake with China’s president put the airstrike on Soleimani in perspective? The only perspective this adds is that CNN is fake news of the highest order and is attempting a murder/suicide on journalism. Also, what the f*ck is a “ga summit”?
I searched CNN’s archives and I couldn’t find any articles about what democrats were eating during defining moments of their presidencies because obviously food is only outrageous when Trump eats it. Luckily I’m an amateur historian and know what some of the former democratic presidents dined on in their big moments.
When Obama sent billions to Iran in a midnight pallets-of-cash airlift, he wanted to eat chicken and waffles but his man-wife made him suffer through a tasteless “healthy” low-sodium plate of a vomit-like substance because he was never in charge of the U.S. or his own household.
It’s unclear what Bill Clinton ate when he was impeached, but we know what he ate to get impeached: intern marinated cigar, while his date for the affair had the cream of some old guy.
As Iranians stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Jimmy Carter ate crow to commemorate how wrong his entire presidency was. JK, nobody remembers anything about Carter’s term. He was both forgettable and unmemorable.
As he tried to stop the Civil Rights Act from passing, Lyndon Johnson had Texas BBQ, but he ate it naked on the toilet in front of his cabinet while dropping N-bombs for some reason.
While visiting Dallas, John F. Kennedy ate lead. What? Too soon?
CNN gets bent out of shape that President Trump calls them fake news, but they constantly report garbage like this. If you don’t want to be called fake news, don’t report fake news. It seems simple enough. CNN must think they know what they’re doing but the ratings beg to differ.
