Posted on 12/16/2024 12:35:21 PM PST by Red Badger
CNN commentator and former Obama advisor Van Jones admitted during a recent podcast appearance that President Trump is “smarter” than “all of his critics” and that he made the entire Democrat party and Democrat media complex “look like idiots.”
These remarks came during an interview posted to political commentator Chris Cillizza’s YouTube channel on Friday. Cillizza agreed with Jones’ assessment that “we look like idiots,” commenting, “You’re totally right.”
Jones’ revelation is in response to Trump defying all attempts to steal the 2024 election with a sweeping victory on November 5, winning every swing state, 312 electoral votes, the national popular vote, and both chambers of Congress. Cillizza was dumbfounded that Trump was able to build such a movement and “figure out the mainstream media is the fringe,” but Jones set him straight.
WATCH:
VIDEO CLIPS AT LINK..............
Cillizza: How the hell did Donald Trump figure out the mainstream media is the fringe, and the fringe is now the mainstream? How did Donald Trump figure out— I mean, Joe Rogan is obvious, right? Like, we knew the guy had a big audience. It’s not like we were, like, stunned, but like, how the hell was he, the 78 year old guy who doesn’t even have a computer and still like writes handwritten notes– how did he become the guy who cracked the code on, to your point, running a cultural, I don’t even want to say campaign running a movement, heading a cultural movement versus a campaign?
Jones: Every one of your people knows Elon, Elon, Elon, Elon. Listen, everybody keeps, I mean, the problem is, you have a framework in your mind that, how could Donald Trump? How could Donald Trump? How can Donald Trump? Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump, let me just be very clear: Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all of his critics. You know how I know? Because he has the White House, the Senate, the House, the support, the popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him and a religious fervor in a political movement around him, and his best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him. This dude is, is a phenomenon. He is the most powerful human on Earth and in our lifetime. And we’re still saying, Well, how is this guy… We look like idiots to ordinary people.
Cillizza: You’re totally right.
Former Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called the rare moment of clarity “a clip for history.”
This is the second time Jones has blasted his liberal colleagues as “idiots” recently.
Days after Trump’s historic victory, Jones gave an accurate assessment of the election, commenting, “We thought that they [MAGA] were idiots. It turned out we [Democrats and leftwing media] were idiots.”
You know it's bad when the Democrats are calling themselves idiots.
You don’t just look like idiots.
Bow before MAGA!
He’s being generous..................
NOT breaking news van. A lot of us have known for years. Even taking PDJT out of the equation. May I add EVIL idiots.
Sometimes it seems this Jones guy, who has been pretty much communist, is going to go MAGA.
Donald Trump is a common sense politician. No wokeness, no Green New Deal, no open border, no outrageous big government, no big spending, pro-USA. Not hard to understand.
Ha.
For once looks are not deceiving.
On one hand, Van Jones is a hard lefty. On the other hand, he seems to not get carried away by ideology and is reasonably truthful (for a talking head). He will also admit mistakes. For these reasons, he’s a hard guy to completely dismiss.
He's introspective enough to get that their message failed, their lies failed and their fraud apparatus failed, and he will be hard at work fixing and refining them for next time.
Dems looking like idiots....
“Circumstances Do Not Make a Man, They Reveal Him.”
Dr.Wayne W. Dyer
He popularized the saying:
“When you squeeze an orange, you’ll always get orange juice. What comes out is what’s inside.”
Much like Snakehead Carville.
They actually ARE just idiots, frankly.
For a while it was looking like that it was only Kamala who was the clueless moron who’d been inconceivably elevated to the top of the ticket - that it was just a hurried fluke because of circumstances. It wasn’t. They (the Democrat Party and its colluding legacy media wonks) actually thought Kamala had or could get the appeal needed if only they keep pandering to that far fringed group of victim nutjob voters. Transers, abortion-above-all, illegals supporters, etc.
They thought they could drive opinion for the smaller fringes in lieu of actually looking at your paycheck’s size with respect to gas, utility, and grocery prices.
They misunderstood that there is no amount of ‘brat’ joyousness diversity that can take the place of a job that gives you enough money for milk, butter, eggs, staples and gasoline and a place to live.
The far left was never mainstream. They just had the LSM to parrot their talking points day after day into their echo chambers while mainstream America tuned out, turned off and rejected the left wing mantra that whites are oppressors, men can be a woman just by saying he is a woman and vice versa and that capitalism is bad.
Simple DJT listened to Baron Trump.
Democrats are calling themselves idiots.
We already knew that
LIARS, that’s what they are. When you lie all the time, you forget what reality is. Reality is a pit bull. It bites you in the butt and you wonder: “where did THAT come from?”
It’s so funny when cognitive dissonance is resolved! I’ve been saying this for years - of course normies figured it out months before Van Jones did, because we just tend to look at the facts and don’t try to force the world into our predetermined view of how things must be.
Most of us saw it when Trump came down the escalator. The rallies and debates confirmed it, but these leftists were still convinced he was a Russian whoremonger.
Ultimately the discrepancy between what you believe and what your five senses plus common sense tells you must be resolved. It’s a glorious thing to see!
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