Right-wing commentator Scott Jennings blew up on CNN over Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) leaning into circulating theories that President Donald Trump is in declining health, or had possibly already died — an issue that came to a head when the president was humorously asked about it during an Oval Office gathering on Tuesday.
"I think it speaks to, as well — I mean, Trump has been nonstop since returning into office, so something like this could take hold in the way that it did this past weekend and late last week, because we didn't see the president for a couple of days," said Washington Post reporter Sabrina Rodriguez. "I think the second thing here that's interesting, though, is it sort of flips on its head. We spent much of Biden's presidency hearing Trump supporters, more MAGA influencers, kind of documenting every day, you know, Biden stumbled getting on the plane or he walked a certain way, or he looked a certain way today. And now we're sort of seeing that flipped on its head with Democrats taking that approach."
"And why did we have to document it? Because nobody else would!" shouted Jennings.
"Hold on a second," said anchor Kasie Hunt. "You had an opportunity to ask the president today about this, and you did not. Why?"
"Well, because when he got on the phone and sounded very much alive, I thought it would sound kind of stupid, frankly, to ask an alive person if they were dead," said Jennings. "But I'll tell you who is a complete piece of s---, I'm going to tell you right now: Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota, holding up a phone in front of a rally saying, well, we thought we were going to wake up and find out the president had died. Someday it will happen. Someday it will happen."
"I used to say he was the biggest buffoon in American politics, but it's worse now," Jennings continued. "No political official, no elected official should be walking around saying, well, I'm hoping we wake up one day and the president of the United States has died. Crazy. Absolutely crazy."
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