CNN Anchor Erin Burnett didn’t come right out and call the president “Marie Antoinette Trump.” But she may as well have.
“Trump skips town with another failed vote in the Senate moments ago,” Burnett began. “Thousands of flights tonight delayed, canceled. And despite all of that, the president of the United States has just gotten on a plane, with no delays, to his Mar-a-Lago vacation home.”
Burnett noted that more than 5,000 flights were delayed Friday, more than 1,000 canceled, about a 600% increase from Tuesday. “And it’s about to get a lot worse,” she correctly noted, because Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is threatening that 1 in 5 flights could be cut. “Hold on, can I just say 1 in 5?” she repeated, obviously appalled. “That’s 20%!”
“Americans would take the hit for that,” Burnett added.
Then, she got back to Trump. “As I mentioned, one of the planes not delayed tonight was Trump’s.” She displayed a full-screen graphic of his social media post. It stated, “The United States Senate should not leave town until they have a Deal to end the Democrat Shutdown.”
