‘Stop This!’ CNN Anchor Loses It on Trump Fan Over Forgotten Working Class ‘Nonsense’
CNN anchor Richard Quest lost it on prominent Trump supporter Batya Ungar-Sargon for invoking the “forgotten working class,” calling the talking point “nonsense.”
On Thursday’s edition of CNN NewsNight , anchor Abby Phillip convened a panel that included Quest — a CNN International anchor and business editor — as well as Ungar-Sargon, Chris Sununu, Ashley Allison, and Neera Tanden.
After Phillip and Quest called out Ungar-Sargon’s take on Trump tariffs, she claimed, “This is why Donald Trump won” and triggered Quest with talk of the “forgotten middle class”:
QUEST: The Peterson Institute has well and truly documented steel tariffs, solar panel tariffs, all of them from the first administration. And yes, there were certain gains, important gains. There were also heavy losses. And there’s a reason. No country does this in this particular way because historically, it hasn’t worked. The country doing the general tariffing always loses in the end.
UNGAR-SARGON: This is why Donald Trump won, because people sit around saying the things we all agree should happen are impossible.
PHILLIP: Donald Trump won. Go ahead. Continue.
UNGAR-SARGON: I’m just saying, like, we all agree that the goal is win.
PHILLIP: Yes, reelection.
UNGAR-SARGON: We all agree that targeting tax are good. We all want to re-shore manufacturing —
ALLISON: But he didn’t do targeted tariffs.
UNGAR-SARGON: And then you sit around and everyone says, but it’s impossible to do this stuff. That’s why he didn’t do it in a targeted way. Because nice people who are very organized and do things very carefully to not take on the entire country and the entire —
QUEST: (INAUDIBLE) —
UNGAR-SARGON: — Wall Street on behalf of the forgotten working class of this country.
QUEST: Oh, will we please —
ALLISON: He is not doing this for the working class.
QUEST: — stop this forgotten working class?
UNGAR-SARGON: We will not, sir. We will not, sir.
QUEST: I’ll tell you why. Because everything is —
SUNUNU: Only forgotten by the Democrats.
QUEST: Nonsense. Everybody in some shape or form, you know, is part of a working class, either historically today or whatever. And every one of us, in some shape or form, lives in an economic environment where we are aware of what is happening in our own areas.
But this idea that somehow it’s Wall Street versus Main Street, Main Street doesn’t care about Wall Street, Wall Street just wants —
(CROSSTALK)
Watch above via CNN NewsNight .
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