Of course I, like most of the country, couldn’t tear myself away from the news yesterday and last night. I spent most of my time on CNN listening to Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon, and their guests work through the pain and emotional devastation of hearing our president support the “many fine” Nazis, KKK members, and White Supremacists who marched in Charlottesville. I thought Don, Ana Navarro, and Cornel West were especially touching.
I didn’t watch any FOX News, even though I usually like to keep an eye on the enemy, just to see where they land on any given issue. I couldn’t do it last night. I just couldn’t do it. That’s why I missed this: The moment black conservative commentator Gianno Caldwell — who Boy Culure reminds us was fond of claiming Hillary Clinton only cared about black votes, not black people all the while supporting demonstrably racist Donald Trump — has finally had enough of Trump.
Caldwell and the other woman are both clearly choked up as they discuss the events of the day, and although it’s not quite the full-throttle denunciation I would have like to see, it’s still very telling that happened on FOX. Just yesterday another FOX commenter, Kat Timpf, broke with Trump, and it’s this steady drip, drip, drip that will ultimately lead to a watershed moment for all Americans, I have to believe.
Here’s what he said:
Last night, I couldn’t sleep at all because President Trump — our president — has literally betrayed the conscience of our country. The very moral fabric in which we’ve made progress when it comes to race relations in America? He’s failed us. And it’s very unfortunate that our president would say things like he did in that press conference yesterday when he says, “Well there’s, y’know, good people on the size of the Nazis. They weren’t all Nazis, they weren’t all white supremacists.” Well, Mr. President, people — good people don’t pal around with Nazis and white supremacists. Maybe they don’t consider themselves white supremacists and Nazis, but certainly, they hold those views.
This has become very troubling, and for anyone to come on any network and defend what President Trump did and said at that press conference yesterday, is completely lost and the potential of being morally bankrupt. I am sorry — no, I believe that, and I’m being very honest, as someone who’s been talking about these issues for a very long time I am sorry that this is where we are right now, and I hope the president learns a lesson from his press conference on yesterday. It’s disturbing.
And here’s Kat going off on Trump:
Fox News host @KatTimpf absolutely goes off on Trump’s “disgusting” presser: “I’m wondering if it’s actually real life what I just watched.” pic.twitter.com/BS0xFwxk3o
— Andrew Kirell (@AndrewKirell) August 15, 2017
