S12 EP79: Hour 1 - The Donald Trump CNN No Win Situation
The Erick Erickson Show
Erick Erickson
4.5 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Trump did his town hall last night on CNN and depending on where your bias lies you either loved it or hated it but here’s some actually analysis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Our One. |
| 0:12.7 | Hello, America. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome. |
| 0:14.4 | It is Eric Erickson here. |
| 0:15.6 | Across the nation, the phone number is 877-97-973-7-425. We'll be a little freer with the phones today because I'm not going to be here tomorrow. I'm taking a day off for the first time in a very long time to go play golf because even when I haven't been |
| 0:40.6 | on the radio in the last few weeks I've been working nonstop. |
| 0:44.3 | My wife was like, you got to get out of the house. |
| 0:47.3 | So my wife, the Blessed Saint, is I'll be home for Mother's Day, but otherwise I'm going |
| 0:53.4 | to this great golf location that will remain nameless and hitting golf balls for a couple of days with some friends. |
| 1:00.4 | Okay. |
| 1:01.9 | We've got to talk obviously about what happened last night. |
| 1:06.0 | CNN is getting the snot kicked out of it. |
| 1:08.4 | Let me just talk about the reaction more. But first, |
| 1:18.5 | I do have the audio. I want to give you an idea of this. And this is part of the reason Trump fans love him. He's very entertaining. There was not a lot of substance last night. |
| 1:24.0 | You didn't learn what he wants to do in a second term, how he sees the lay of the land in the country. |
| 1:28.5 | It was a lot of score settling in grievances. |
| 1:31.6 | It was all very entertaining. |
| 1:32.9 | And this gets to the weird dichotomy you have where Trump fans really, really love him. |
| 1:38.3 | Trump critics really, really hate him. |
| 1:40.4 | And a lot of the middle road people are like, well, what the hell is going on here? |
| 1:45.7 | It's this weird dynamic now. And you can't tell people who hate Trump that there are a lot of |
| 1:52.8 | people who like him. You can't tell people who like Trump that there are a lot of people who |
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