Anderson Cooper and Charlamagne clash over CNN calling Trump not fascist enough: ‘He’s bulls—‘

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and radio host Charlamagne Tha God called each other “bulls—” during a heated discussion Thursday night.

The clash began when Charlamagne, during an appearance on Cooper’s show, began attacking news outlets like CNN for not focusing enough on former President Trump being a fascist and instead discussing racial issues involving Vice President Kamala Harris. Did it.

“It’s crazy because you still don’t have the news networks to have that conversation, like when someone, say, questions Kamala Harris’s blackness or whether she’s hired at DEI, you’re all in on that. We will have round table discussion about it and ask that question. How are we not having a roundtable discussion asking if Donald Trump is a fascist? In fact, he’s not even asking, he’s telling,” Charlemagne said.

He added, “How is this not a topic of discussion every day on a network like CNN?”

“I talk about this every night,” Cooper pushed back.

Charlamagne criticized Cooper and CNN for continuing to ask about Harris while ignoring Trump.

“I don’t think there’s been enough conversation about this among all of you,” Charlamagne said. “I feel like I’ve heard more about Kamala Harris being Black than Donald Trump being a fascist on this network.”

“Honestly, that’s bulls—,” Cooper replied. “I’m sorry. I’m a fan of yours, but to say that we’re sitting down to discuss Kamala Harris Black is—”

“I have seen that. I have seen many round table discussions. Now that’s bull-, Anderson,” Charlemagne said.

Cooper insisted that no CNN anchor is asking whether Harris is black, although there may have been “stupid people with strong convictions” on a panel before. He argued that it was part of his show to have “legitimate conversations” with “different viewpoints”.

“I think no network is having an honest conversation about Donald Trump. No one has had an honest conversation about Donald Trump since 2016. I watched last night, they were talking about, you know, the double standard that exists between Donald Trump and the vice president, but it’s always the double standard with Trump, whether it’s Hillary, whether it’s, you know, Biden’s. Is against. Now, with Kamala, we talk about her as a threat to democracy, but we don’t treat her that way,” Charlemagne hit back.

“I don’t know what you’re seeing, but I don’t know if there are any Trump supporters out there or people who like him who come to me every night to validate their opinions,” Cooper said. responded to.

He added, “I just want to say that there is no one on the planet who has not heard or seen everything Donald Trump has said.”

“I don’t believe him,” Charlemagne interjected. “When the Vice President said this to you last night, and he said, ‘I don’t think a lot of people know,’ I’m 100% confident that a lot of people haven’t heard his rhetoric.”

Cooper then agreed with fellow panel member Angela Rye on the double standard between Harris and Trump, and criticized Trump for having no policies compared to Harris. Charlamagne appreciated his comments and said he would “love to hear more pundits do the same”.

“I am not a pundit. I am not interested. I don’t think my opinion is particularly interesting to the audience there,” Cooper said.

“I disagree,” said Charlemagne.

Cooper continued, “Well, you can dispute it, but I believe in asking questions and probing people’s arguments and trying to uncover what’s true and what’s not. And I’m not on MSNBC for some reason. I’m not on any other network for some reason. I’m on CNN because I want to talk to Republicans, I want to talk to Democrats, and I want to learn from them. I don’t think I have the answers. I am ready to change my mind. People can convince me of what they say all the time. I don’t even know why I’m talking about myself.

Cooper also called out the people who attacked Harris when she questioned her during a CNN town hall on Wednesday night, saying they “misunderstand” what her job is and are making more of a mockery of MSNBC and herself.

“I am not on MSNBC and no disrespect. They’re very talented at what they do, but I don’t see it. I have no interest in seeing what these overpaid blow-dry anchors think and I’m including myself in that highly paid blow-dry – even though I don’t blow-dry, I get paid more , but I’m not interested in anchors’ opinions. “I’m interested in the facts and letting the audience make up their own minds,” Cooper said.

“Now that I know you can literally say bulls—, I want to hear it more,” Charlamagne said.