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I am not a fan of Van Jones, never have been so his response to President Trump's speech really surprised me.
Liberal pundit Van Jones says Trump ‘became the president’ in his speech to Congress
CNN commentator and former Obama green jobs czar Van Jones was awe struck by the address that President Trump gave to a joint session of Congress, but he pin-pointed the momenthe thought that Trump “became the president.”“He became president of the United States, in that moment. Period.
”The moment Jones is referring to is the recognition that Trump gave to Carryn Owens,the widow of the Navy SEAL who was killed in the Yemen raid ordered by Trump weeks into his presidency.“There are a lot of people, who have a lot of reason to be frustrated with him,” Van continued, “to be fearful of him, to be mad at him. But that is one of the most extraordinary moments you have ever seen in American politics. Period.”
“Now there is a lot that he said in that speech that was counterfactual,” Jones warned, “that was not right that I oppose, and will oppose. But he did something tonight that you cannot take away from him – he became president of the United States.”
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I saw Jone's comments. Frankly I just don't get them.
They brought the window to the speech specifically to use her as a stage prop. Trump managed for once in his life to utter a few gracious words without tripping over his Teleprompter. He acted like a normal human being for two minutes.
And now van Jones is squealing like a teenage girl at a Beatles concert? I just don't get it. I guess the bar for being presidential is pretty low in 2017.
Last edited by Goose (3/01/2017 1:15 pm)