Anderson Cooper admitted a shocking fact that should raise a few eyebrows with the way we get our current political news. While chatting with Stephen Colbert and explaining this weekend’s “tweetstorm” by President Trump, Cooper reveals that he’s muted the president. Instead of just unfollowing Trump and leaving him stung that popular newsman Anderson Cooper has left him behind, the man has just entered the cone of silence while Trump shouts till red in the face.
It’s admirable to most, I’m sure. Reporting on the things that Trump tweets is likely the silliest thing we have to deal with in 2017 and skipping out on that isn’t a bad thing. But as Cooper points out, muting the president leaves you out of the loop when it comes to watching Trump pull a Nixon in real time. CNN might be the original “fake news” according to the president, but they still have to keep up with the other networks. If the other networks are plugged into the president’s latest toilet thought. You can’t trust anybody in this Twitter game.
The rest of the interview deals with some tight discussion about the media, particularly the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Cooper describes it as a Bar Mitzvah and says he won’t be going to another one anytime soon. Colbert seems to agree, though his words don’t say it. More and more the “nerd prom” sounds like the worst thing on the planet and Donald Trump is only the latest addition to the awfulness.
(Via Late Show)
