and he can discuss anything he wants to. i think the losers this week were the 20-plus democratic presidential candidates. how? they got pushed off the news cycle and the media solely focused on this squabble between the president and the squad. adrianna, let me remind you, the president does a good job of distracting the american people away from his failures from a policy standpoint, and that s my loud cry to the democrats. the fact is the economy is doing well for some, but not doing well for others. when he tweets these racial things, it takes the attention away from that, from the border, health care, the number unissue we face in this country. the fact of the matter, house democrats led the charge to pass a minimum wage bill this past week that will change the lives of the american people that will die in the senate and not make it to his desk. no one in the news cycle is talking about that. we know what his tweets will do. that s why we have to stay laser focused on kitche
it s not. it s about their ideology and trump supporters know he s not a racist. he s a man, a president who loves our country and he doesn t like to see it trashed day in and day out by these congresswomen. we have a racist and a bigot who ran on making america great again. if america was so bad, why did he run on this notion. number two, you and i both know, it s sad that you will not admit those comments are racist and they re race-based because he knows it generates a certain response. what s so scary about what you just said, you re very much like trump, trying to use the word patriot to replace racist. we know what these comments mean. trump was trying to generate a response because those words are the same type of rhetoric we heard in the 2016 campaign and he is starting this campaign the way he ended 2016, adrianna, and we know how divisive those words are and what they can mean and
today and the launch pat where apollo 11 took off. new details about the political implications of president trump s attack on the four congresswomen as the president tries to distance himself from the send her back chants. i don t know if it s good or bad politically. i don t care. many people say it s good. i don t know if it s good or bad. i can tell you this, you can t talk that way about our country, not when i m the president. joining me is democratic strategist antoine see right, former adviser to hillary clinton s campaign in south carolina and boston herald radio host adrianna cohen, also a nationally syndicated columnist. antoine, why do you think the president is trying to create this narrative that it isn t about politics? because we re raising the issue. the one thing we know about this
how they put these members of congress in harm s way. make no mistake, these words will generate a certain amount of excitement among the donald trump base. we ll be fooling ourselves if we think he won t do it again. adrianna, the president s tweets sparked a lot of controversy amid the scrutiny going on inside the border detention centers. with those tweets, the president changed the subject to racial issues. is that the idea, to take the spotlight and move it because these conditions in the detention centers are deeply, deeply disturbing. you re absolutely right, jo ling. we have a crisis at the border. there s no question anti it. that s why the president has been asking for help, asking democrats for help to solve the crisis for over seven months. they ve done nothing but restrict that s a lie, adrianna. nancy pelosi and senator schumer and all the democrats, they claim it was a manufactured crisis, not a real one for the
president is he does things in the moment to put us on distraction pathway and goes back to being somewhat normal and trying to walk it back and three weeks later it will be back to the same thing. we know this president is a racist and a bigot. these are the bedrock things, the foundational things that are molded and shaped his career. as democrats we re setting ourselves up for political suicide if we make this the 100% focus of the 2020 campaign. we have to jab and go. jab him on the racism and hit him where we need to, but go on to to issues and highlight the fact that he s been a failure to this country on quality of life issues. that s how we win up and down the ballot. adrianna, the new york times looked at this through the lens of 2020 in a new story trump s electoral college edge could grow in 2020, rewarding polarizing campaign.