Twitter Turns on CNN’s Van Jones After He Praises Trump: ‘How Dare You Normalize Him’
The outspoken POTUS critic says Trump did “something extraordinary” in addressing Congress
Van Jones, the CNN political commentator and outspoken critic of President Trump, has come around to admiring POTUS and Twitter can’t believe it, making him a trending topic who is getting panned on social media.
Asked by Anderson Cooper for his reaction to the standing ovation for the widow of a Navy Seal killed in action during Tuesday’s address to Congress, Jones said: “He became President of the United States in that moment, period.”
Jones went on to add that Trump “did something extraordinary,” and that people who wanted POTUS to remain a “divisive cartoon” should be worried after the speech.
Trump Critic Van Jones Praises Congressional Address: 'He Became President of the United States' (Video)
“There are a lot of people who have a lot of reasons to be frustrated with him, to be fearful of him, to be mad — but that was one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics,” Jones said of Trump honoring Carryn Owens, whose husband Chief Petty Officer William “Ryan” Owens was killed in a recent Yemen raid.
Jones has emerged as one of the leading voices calling out Trump’s contradictions and conflicts in the post-election media landscape.
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.@VanJones68 Van Jones Set Off A #Snowflake Storm By Saying The New Trump Will Be President For 8 Years Bc He Gets Us To Believe In America. pic.twitter.com/lPj4C89t3Y
Attempting to elevate his credibility as objective journalist&elevate own career .@VanJones68 does huge disservice to legitimate #Resistance
JONES can take his VAN full of deplorable normalizing cow shit and drive it straight off a tall cliff @CNN Van Jones