North Korea hasn’t fired off any nukes yet, thank goodness, but President Trump’s tweet about his nuclear button still has a lot of the country rattled, perhaps CNN’s Brian Stelter most of all.
On Tuesday night, after the tweet, Stelter made it known that he rewrote the opening of “Anderson Cooper 360” to deal with the tweet, which he called “madness.”
Rewriting @AC360 due to Trump's "nuclear button" tweet: "This is not how we planned to start the broadcast, but President Trump has just tweeted, and it is almost literally a bombshell," @andersoncooper says pic.twitter.com/0Hf74aBv5p
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 3, 2018
This is about the president's fitness. It's uncomfortable. But it's incumbent on journalists to ask these Q's. https://t.co/6DbjZW8S71
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 3, 2018
Yeah, OK. It’s now two days later and we’re still sticking with the narrative of President Trump’s mental fitness — a topic covered on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper” Thursday.
Psychiatrist tells Dems in Congress: Trump is losing grip on reality https://t.co/6dxJcC2bZr #TheLead pic.twitter.com/mJ71x1S5s2
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 4, 2018
Now Stelter is checking into Steve Bannon’s questionable tell-all book “Fire and Fury,” and of course what inspired him to write a column were questions in the book about Trump’s fitness for office.
The gossipy parts of Wolff's book obscure the bigger, more important point. His reporting suggests Trump is unstable — raising alarms about his fitness for office. Here's my new column https://t.co/d9Y5JNBJtq
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 4, 2018
Concerns about Trump’s fitness were already in the news bloodstream because of his jaw-dropping tweets on Tuesday about jailing political opponents and controlling a “nuclear button.” “Should Americans be concerned about the President’s mental fitness,” NBC’s Peter Alexander asked in Wednesday’s press briefing, given that “he appears to be speaking so lightly about threats regarding a nuclear button?” On CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” Wednesday night, former presidential adviser and CNN senior political analyst David Gergen said Wolff’s reporting reinforce questions about whether Trump is fit for office.
“I do think we need to have a serious national discussion about this,” Gergen said. And “by the way,” he added, “I think the Republican party bears some responsibility here.”
The ratings show most of America thinks CNN personnel are unstable, but we are not qualified to determine, and more importantly, we haven't analyzed you in person. BOTH required. https://t.co/FkPvYYSW7I
— Sandy (@RightGlockMom) January 4, 2018
@brianstelter cried about Fox suggesting Hillary – who passed out & got thrown into a van like a dead animal – had health problems https://t.co/kM882ZLGA9
— Dougs Slaughterhouse (@notthefakeDH) January 4, 2018
Don't you work for that cable network who went "all in" on the pissing Russian hookers? How many times are you going to touch that hot stove Tater? https://t.co/wfBdp0jI8X
— 💋Honey Badger 🐾 (@nickie_greer) January 4, 2018
CNN narratives are why CNN is so unworthy of your time. Narratives are created by them and pushed as reality. https://t.co/7XGXVcD4vj
— MaryMary (@Emberr) January 4, 2018
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