CNN's viral and infamous video of Don Lemon and the company has been getting a lot of attention lately. While it took days before the general public has seen the segment, where the panelists threw mockeries toward Trump supporters, Donald Trump, as well as her daughter, Ivanka Trump immediately shared their thoughts about the matter.
The First Daughter shared the viral clip on her Twitter account and captioned it with her "condemnation" toward the panelists, Don Lemon, Wajahat Ali, and Rick Wilson. She stated that people always make fun of "half of the country," and complain after that the country is "divided." She then called out the panelists as "this nation's 'Real Elites" and described them as "disgusting" for their "arrogance, mocking accents, and smug ridicules."
According to Vogue, it was witnessed that Rick Wilson referenced the controversial NPR interview between the host and Mike Pompeo, during the live coverage of the President's impeachment proceedings. He said that Mike Pompeo "knows" in his heart that "Donald Trump could not find Ukraine on a map" as well, which is what the Secretary seemingly acknowledged about the host in his controversial interview.
Wilson further shared that the President will be in the same shoe if "you had the letter U next to a picture of a crane, which caused Don Lemon to burst into laughter "until he cried."
The three panelists then exchanged a lot of mockeries toward the Trump supporters, calling them "credulous Boomer-rubes" and "illiterate" as per other reports. Accordingly, it is not surprising why this segment triggered a lot of people, especially the ones who back Donald Trump.
While the avid fans of the administration largely expressed their anger toward the CNN panelists, several individuals from the opposition seemingly defended what the panelists had to say on air. Through Ivanka Trump's condemning tweet, it was reported that several netizens heavily criticized and slammed the First Daughter for "hypocrisy."
As per claims, calling the panelists as "Real Elites" would be questionable as his father, Donald Trump would be the right person to fit the shoe. A netizen even commented that his father "never worked a day in his life."
Author, John Pavlovitz also responded to Ivanka Trump's tweet urging her to do a challenge. He shared that the First Daughter should search his father's name on Twitter right beside the word, "Democrats." From there, he seemingly pointed out that Ivanka would surely find that Donald Trump always does tweet "hatred" toward the "half of the population."
In the end, Ivanka Trump was largely lambasted for defending his father given that Donald Trump himself has been mocking several Americans and other races for years now.