Watch: CNN Stars Troll MAGA Panelist Amid Trump-Musk Feud
“I do appreciate you offering to let me stay at your place for a while,” network mainstay Scott Jennings joked with data guru Harry Enten on Saturday.
A CNN panel teased one of their contributors mercilessly on Saturday morning over Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s meteorically messy divorce this week.
“Oh, this is just so horrible. And you know, when this news broke, all I could think of was my dear friend Scott Jennings,” the network’s data guru Harry Enten said of his pro-Trump fellow panelist.
“Scott, how have you dealt with this, are you doing okay?” Enten went on, his voice laden with faux concern. “My heart goes out to you.”
Panelists on Saturday's broadcast of CNN's Table for Five were full with faux concern for MAGA contributor Scott Jennings amid the ongoing Trump-Musk feud.
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A MAGA loyalist and frequent CNN contributor, Jennings has spoken often and enthusiastically in support of both Trump and Musk in the past.
His appearance on Saturday, however, came amid the spectacular and rapidly widening rift between the president and his former-top-campaign-donor-turned-government-efficiency czar.
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Following his departure as head of Trump’s cost-cutting DOGE initiative, Musk this week launched a series of vicious and highly personal attacks against the president, taking shots at the White House’s budget proposals while accusing Trump of being less than candid about his relationship with late pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Within a matter of days, Donald Trump's bromance with government efficiency czar Elon Musk has disintegrated into bitter name-calling online.
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“Yeah, mom and dad are not doing so well right now,” CNN host Abby Phillips put it on Saturday. “On Friday, (Trump) spent a big chunk of the day, the morning it seemed, calling around to network reporters, including our very own Dana Bash here at CNN and spinning a narrative because, I guess, maybe he was unsatisfied with how this was playing out without him.”
Jennings, for his part, seemed content to take his fellow panelists’ mockery on the chin. “I’m perfectly fine,” he responded to Enten, adding: “I do appreciate you offering to let me stay at your place for a while.”
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