A CSPAN caller claiming to be a "registered Republican" unleashed a devastating beat-down on President Donald Trump for presenting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes in a social media post.
“I really want to apologize,” the caller told CPAN anchor Greta Brawner. “I mean, I'm looking at this awful picture of the Obamas. What an embarrassment to our country. All this man does is tell lies. He is not worthy of the presidency. He takes bribes blatantly. And now he's being a racist. Blatantly.”
“They were supposed to deport the dangerous criminals,” the caller continued, after claiming he voted for Trump three times. “They were not supposed to go after small children and storm schools, bring terror upon … little kids and the women and children. It’s not just the immigrants in the school. All the children are scared. This is not a decent man. This is not an honest man. He openly takes bribes. He's pathetic as a president. And I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man.”
“That frustration is being borne out in poll after poll after poll,” said MS NOW anchor Katy Tur. “The numbers all say the same thing. There are no outliers here. The president is too focused on foreign policy, too focused on his 2020 conspiracy theory that he won the election when he did not. He’s too cruel to migrants and children, too focused on enriching himself, not focused enough, on the economy. Not successful in his big promise of lowering prices. And unethical.”
Tur also said the animosity is manifesting in nearly every off-year election since Trump returned to the White House last year, with Democrats overperforming and winning in nearly every race last year and a surprise upset in Texas, where a Democrat trounced an assumed safe Republican in a special state election.
“It’s 8.5 on the Richter scale,” Tur said, citing former Trump spokesman Sean Spicer. “It also explains new reporting from Axios that Republicans aren't just worried about losing the House in November, but also the Senate.”
“Do you know how big of a deal that is?” Tur asked viewers. “The Senate looked next to impossible to lose. Democrats could only win it over on the back of an absolute GOP tailspin, which we could very well be witnessing,”
Tur said it also explained Republicans’ desperation to pass the “Save Act” to nationalize or standardize some voting practices, and put those practices under the control of the Republican controlled federal government.