Scott Jennings Disrupts CNN’s Storyline, Points to Trump’s ‘Success’ #Political
Scott Jennings, former special assistant to George W. Bush, provided his usual, much-needed touch of sanity to CNN Sunday morning, on State of the Union. As a panel hosted by Dana Bash railed against the Trump administration in a by now pretty true-to-form way, Jennings forced them to listen as he confronted them with actual facts about the current state of affairs, and the proper respective functions of the presidency and federal bureaucracy.
His words fell on deaf ears, though, and in the end Bash was still at ease jokingly comparing the administration and its supporters to Nazis.
Bash opened the discussion with President Trump’s meeting Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which ended in a heated exchange of words. She referred to the incident as “theater,” and asked “Is it kind of, ‘Apprentice 2.0,?’” suggesting it was a staged act of cheap showmanship on Trump’s part.
Jennings refused to buy into Bash’s premise, and instead systematically addressed the current media obsessions one by one, as he responded, “I think Donald Trump is doing an amazing job so far on the things that he ran on. Immigration- … the border is effectively shut down. The attitude change from the federal government effectively closed the border(...)”
Instead of playing along with the favored narrative, Jennings stuck to the reality of what the administration had done, and what had resulted in real life.
He then went on to the diplomatic blow-up:
Zelenskyy made a huge mistake on Friday. All he had to do was show up and sign this deal, and he just couldn't do it. And, sometimes, these guys, when they put on the military uniform, they have trouble taking it off. He needs to… put on the garb of diplomacy, and understand that he's got an honest new broker on the field who can actually help him end this war, maintain his sovereignty, maintain prosperity for the Ukrainians.
On the liberal media’s number one bogeyman of all – Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency – he said:
[R]egarding Elon and the bureaucracy… there seems to be, when Republicans are president, this idea that the bureaucracy and the government should not be responsive to the political leadership of the executive branch. That is totally false. It has nothing to do with a loyalty test, but it does have to do with whether or not the unelected bureaucracy is responsive to the political oversight of the government. Democrats right now do not seem to believe that the president should be able to be the president.
Upon returning from a commercial break, rather than actually answer any of what Jennings had said, Bash concluded with a series of political cartoons, including a World War II-era one by Dr. Seuss, depicting the “America First” isolationists of that time as Nazi sympathizers and fascists.
Thanks to Jennings’ courage and honesty, CNN was again forced to hear some actual facts spoken on their show. Instead of acknowledging those facts, though, they merely responded with cheap ridicule, and a flippant Nazi comparison.
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CNN’s State of the Union
03/02/2025
9:45 AM[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: TRUMP ALLOWS MUSK AND VANCE TO SHARE HIS SPOTLIGHT]
BASH: Welcome back. My panel is here.
And one of the things I want to put on the table here is whether what we saw between Elon Musk, and the J.D. Vance- sort of- behavior, and the- theater, if you will, that went into a lot of the substance that really matters, is it kind of, ‘Apprentice 2.0.?’
(...)
SCOTT JENNINGS, FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I think Donald Trump is doing an amazing job so far on the things that he ran on. Immigration- the border is- just his taking office, the border is effectively shut down. The attitude change from the federal government effectively closed the border. Look at the people coming across now. Look at the encounters today versus what was going on with Biden. I think, on March 4, you're going to hear them talk a lot about the success on immigration.
As it relates to Ukraine, look, Zelenskyy made a huge mistake on Friday. All he had to do was show up and sign this deal, and he just couldn't do it.
[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: PRESIDENT TRUMP TO ADDRESS JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS]
And, sometimes, these guys, when they put on the military uniform, they have trouble taking it off. He needs to take off the military garb, put on the garb of diplomacy, and understand that he's got an honest new broker on the field who can actually help him end this war, maintain his sovereignty, maintain prosperity for the Ukrainians.
And regarding- and regarding Elon and the bureaucracy, if I just may respond to something you said, about the bureaucracy, there seems to be, when Republicans are president, that this idea that the bureaucracy and the government should not be responsive to the political leadership of the executive branch.
That is totally false. It has nothing to do with a loyalty test, but it does have to do with whether or not the unelected bureaucracy is responsive to the political oversight of the government-
REP. SUBRAS SUBRAMANYAM (D-VA): Uh, now, I-
JENNINGS: Democrats right now do not seem to believe that the president should be able to be the president.
SUBRAMANYAM: You should come to my town halls. You should come and talk to some of these federal workers- many of them are veterans, in fact. But many of them are very competent. What we're doing is we're- we’re prioritizing loyalty over competence.
JENNINGS: I don't doubt it-
SUBRAMANYAM: That's bad for our country right now-
JENNINGS: But I prioritize the political leadership. Elections have consequences, and they need to understand.
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[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: NEW CNN POLL- TRUMP APPROVAL AT 48% AHEAD OF JOINT ADDRESS
We have elections for a reason in this country. We vest all executive authority in a president of the United States, not in an unelected bureaucracy, not in independent agencies, but in a president. The president's agenda matters. When a Republican is president, the bureaucracy resists. It has to stop.
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There’s two parties, Dana. One wants bigger government. One wants smaller government. I think I'll take it to the midterms.
DANA BASH: All right, everybody, thank you so much for being here. And up next, we all want a laugh. We probably all need a laugh. This week's best political cartoons. After a quick break.
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[ON-SCREEN HEADLINE: POLITICAL CARTOONISTS WEIGH IN ON WILD WEEK]
BASH: Now some political cartoons we saw this week. Here's one from Matt Davies showing foreign aid and the price of eggs in the United States. RJ Mattson shows the executive branch sawing off the other two branches. And check this one out. Going back- way back into the archives, we found this cartoon from doctor Seuss in 1941 on what ‘America first’ means, and what it meant back then.
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