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Charlamagne tha God Slams CNN for “Bullsh**” Trump Coverage: “Nobody’s Had an Honest Conversation About Donald Trump Since 2016”
The podcaster and radio host also excoriated what he saw as the media's double standards and failure to convey the true danger of Trump's rhetoric.  









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Charlamagne tha God took no prisoners during an appearance on CNN‘s AC360 on Thursday night, damning the network’s coverage of Donald Trump and what he called fascist statements and tendencies and the double standards that seem apply to Kamala Harris in an impassioned series of remarks.

In a clip that has gone viral on social media, Charlamagne, a popular podcaster and co-host of the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, is asked by host Anderson Cooper about Trump’s plan to appear on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast and whether Harris planned to do the same.

	











	
	
		
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	“I think that she should keep calling Donald Trump a fascist,” Charlamagne replied tersely.

	He continued, “And I think that Americans need to keep looking at the rhetoric of Donald Trump because I don’t know why we’re even thinking about electing somebody who’s talking about putting people in camps. I don’t know why we’re talking, why we want to elect somebody who’s talking about mass deportation. I don’t know why we’re having this conversation about somebody who wants to terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election. Aren’t we supposed to be a patriotic country? Whenever somebody like Colin Kaepernick takes a knee in this country, everybody talks about, ‘Oh, that’s so unpatriotic.’ But a guy can say he wants to terminate the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election and nobody cares?”

	Addressing Cooper, Charlamagne said, “Now, you brought it back to Kamala and Joe Rogan, Anderson, who gives a damn?”




	A clearly shocked Cooper tried to steer the conversation back to why Trump appearing on Rogan’s podcast is important in terms of the election, but Charlamagne wouldn’t bend. “[We’re talking about whether a] president is a fascist, that’s talking about putting people in camps, that’s talking about, once again, terminating the Constitution to overthrow the results of an election. That’s talking about jailing his political opponents. That rhetoric doesn’t scare people?”

	Charlamagne was referring to Trump’s repeated incendiary comments and threats against opponents, or the “enemy within” as he describes it, as well as his continued glorification of authoritarians and dictators at rallies and in interviews. John Kelly, Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff and a former Marine general, said in a New York Times interview that based on his own experience and what he had heard and seen, the former president met the definition of a “fascist.” 

	










	Going back to the interview, Cooper claimed that CNN did, in fact, cover Trump’s dangerous rhetoric. “I don’t think y’all have enough conversations about it.” Charlamagne replied. “I feel like I heard more on this network about ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ than I do about Donald Trump being a fascist. Am I wrong?”

	“That’s bullshit,” Cooper shot back. “I’m sorry, I’m a huge fan of yours. But to say that we’re sitting around discussing ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ …”

	“That’s bullshit, Anderson, for you to say that y’all don’t have those conversations,” Charlamagne said. 

	Cooper then tried his best to explain that perhaps there may have been some “nutty people” who have said things on CNN panels about Harris’ ethnicity, but overall the network tries to “get people different viewpoints as long as they’re willing to have a legitimate conversation.”

	Charlamagne replied, “I think no network has been honest about Donald Trump. You haven’t had, nobody has had honest conversations about Donald Trump since 2016. I saw last night they were talking about, you know, the double standard that exists between Donald Trump and the vice president. But it’s always a double standard with Trump, whether it’s with Hillary [Clinton], whether it’s, you know, against [President] Biden. Now, with Kamala, we talk about [Trump] being a threat to democracy, but we don’t treat him like one.”

	The question of double standards applied to coverage of Trump and Harris has come up after CNN’s Wednesday town hall with Harris, which Cooper moderated. 

	










	After the town hall, fellow CNN host Jake Tapper mused, “You know, it strikes me, what’s interesting about the moment we are in right now, is that we in the media are treating Vice President Harris like we treat a normal politician, and we’re critiquing her answers, and we’re talking about, ‘Well, she could have said this differently. She could have said that differently.’

	“Meanwhile, the Republican nominee literally is talking about liberals being the ‘enemy within,’ talking about using the military to go after these people. His defenders say, ‘Oh no, he’s talking about going after illegal immigrants’ or ‘He’s going after mobs in the street’ and Trump will say, ‘No, no, no. I mean, going after the Pelosis, going after Adam Schiff, going after Democrats,’ and these campaigns are in two different universes.”

	On Friday’s edition of The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne summed up why he spoke out against CNN.

	“All of these news networks make choices on what they’re going to discuss and what they’re going to center as topics of discussion,” he said. “It’s a choice to not center Donald Trump leading an attempted coup of this country. It’s a choice to not center his 88 criminal charges, 34 of them he’s been convicted of. It’s a choice to not center his rhetoric about jailing political opponents, jailing journalists, terminating the constitution to overthrow the results of an election, talking about putting people in detention camps, talking about putting the military on American citizens. His own former chief of staff said this week Trump said he needs the kind of generals Hitler had. If Kamala Harris or any Democratic candidate said or did those things, they would be at the least not be qualified to run but probably more than that they’d be in prison.”

	










	And he said this wasn’t only an issue with this election, “And it’s not just Trump and Kamala. It was Trump and Hillary. It was Trump and Biden. There’s a double standard for Trump and everybody else, period. Nobody treats Trump like a threat — not the DOJ, not the media and it’s just strange.”

Oct. 25, 4:24 p.m. This story has been updated with Charlamagne’s additional comments on Friday’s Breakfast Club.









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