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CNN's Michael Smerconish *OBLITERATES* calls to remove Trump from office
X ^ | 04/11/2026 | Jason Cohen

Posted on 04/13/2026 11:10:56 AM PDT by DFG

🚨NEW: CNN's Michael Smerconish *OBLITERATES* calls to remove Trump from office🚨

"You'd expect the guy that posts about a whole civilization dying would be simultaneously busting up the White House furniture — but there's NEVER been ANY reporting of Trump like that behind closed doors."

"In other words, it's not that there's a method to his madness — it's that the madness IS his method."

"Trump is capable of EXACTLY what his critics say he isn't: patience, process and genuine deliberation."

"90 minutes before his own deadline, a ceasefire materialized. That's NOT nothing."

"It's certainly not the behavior of someone who needs the 25th Amendment invoked or warrants impeaching."


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 25thamendment; aoc; ceasefire; civilization; cnn; demagogicparty; eggheadsmerconish; endofcivilization; mahmoudkhalil; michaelsmerconish; smerconish; tdstrolls; trump

1 posted on 04/13/2026 11:10:56 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

He *OBLITERATED* them?

So they no longer exist?


2 posted on 04/13/2026 11:15:51 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DFG

I’m glad somebody on the left finally figured it out.


3 posted on 04/13/2026 11:19:41 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: DFG

He’s exactly right.


4 posted on 04/13/2026 11:26:27 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Fido969

It’s better than saying he ‘decimated’ them...


5 posted on 04/13/2026 11:27:12 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

6 posted on 04/13/2026 11:32:02 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Skywise
This guy pretty sums up my attitude on the Trump messaging strategy except for one thing. I genuinely think it was absolutely necessary for the entire Trump Administration to come out and be publicly hard core and provocative at the start of the Trump presidency to help reset US deterrence and make a show of strength after the disaster of the Biden Administration and the anti Trump color revolution dynamics of his opponents during his first term.
7 posted on 04/13/2026 11:38:09 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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To: DFG

President Trump has interrupted the democRAT/DemoKKKrat grift, plain and simple.

He made money the old fashioned way, he EARNED IT. They cannot buy him. They keep trying to kill him.

Yes, the Left also desires POWER over, well, everything, to enable the grift, and more.

He has really pissed off the Chicoms. They received a lot of oil from Venezuela and Iran. Unlike Hussein, he bows to no one.

He has REDUCED the Federal work force by hundreds of thousands. “They” said that was impossible.

He is now going after the State by State grift. This infuriates the Left even more. I can just hear them, whining in their basements “Can’t he leave us anything?


8 posted on 04/13/2026 11:38:12 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: DFG

The problem in this Country is when people think war, they think failure. We have a whole generation who has never seen success, overseas side of fact they’re not educated and don’t even understand it.😨


9 posted on 04/13/2026 1:01:26 PM PDT by Hildy
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To: DFG

Yawn.


10 posted on 04/13/2026 1:26:55 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: DFG

That civilization comment may have been an insider comment related to another figure who has used the expression, a guy who lost his appeal that week…

‘…. Mahmoud Khalil’s group wants to eradicate Western Civilization & foment unrest in the United States. President Trump & @SecRubio are well within their legal rights to deport this radical. We are either going to stand up or become Europe. I’m 100% behind the President. pic.twitter.com/0shUR407pr— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) March 11, 2025

Khalil has been shouting to the world that he wants to “eradicate Western Civilization” and that revolutionary violence is the way to do so. He has led occupations of buildings on Columbia’s campus, been engaged in what amounts to violence used to deprive others of their civil rights, and preaches support for terrorist violence.

But his colleagues in the British embassy in Syria loved him. His job, supposedly, was to increase Britain’s “soft power,” and unless that means promoting violence and revolution, he was doing a pretty crappy job of it. It sounds more like he was recruiting terrorists to get student visas to Western countries. …’


11 posted on 04/13/2026 1:32:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Immigration board denies Mahmoud Khalil’s appeal, bringing activist one step closer to deportation
NYPost ^ | 4/10/26


12 posted on 04/13/2026 1:41:20 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

The press and Dems have no problem with people talking about ending civilization so long as it is western civilization or the comment isn’t coming from Trump.


13 posted on 04/13/2026 1:44:32 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: DFG

Broken clock.

Smerconish is a useful idiot.


14 posted on 04/13/2026 1:55:29 PM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: DFG

For someone who proudly touts being “stuck in the middle”, I have yet to hear anybody on his show, other than the odd caller, to say anything positive about President Trump. I missed these few lines above where Smerk kinda backed him, but nary a guest with anything but negativity.

Abrams’ show is just the same...a non-negative quip by the host to show us his centrist evenhandedness, followed by a bunch of nega-Trump by both guest and host and every second or third day some positive vibes from a caller.


15 posted on 04/13/2026 1:56:26 PM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Oh, Trumpy days are here again....)
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To: Hildy
when people think war, they think failure.

No let's not get carried away. Most Americans view the Second World War, as well as the Revolutionary War, the Union victory in the Civil War etc... with great affirmation. Korean War too for those who know it and cherish the freedom won for South Korea.

But Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq...they're viewed differently. And rightly so and President Trump has said as much. They came at great cost to our own life as a nation, to our prosperity, and our potential...We neglected life within our own borders in favor of foreign adventurism that left many of our best dead or wounded. The decay in our country at large is visible in our crumbling infrastructure and things like that... But the real decay has been in our national spirit. And it's not just liberals who are to blame for that...

And on that note: we did to do more to care for our veterans. And part of that means not just seeking out more wars for the sake of it.

16 posted on 04/13/2026 2:16:40 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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