Maggie Haberman accuses Trump and Republicans of hypocrisy — claiming they complain about Cancel Culture while imposing a different kind of cultural control. This from the same media that’s spent years defending the left’s grip on our culture — from Hollywood to museums to academia, from Big Tech censorship to woke corporate marketing, from rewriting school history curriculums to controlling what can and can’t be said on college campuses. What Democrats call “cultural control” is simply Trump challenging their monopoly.
And when she’s not spinning culture, Haberman is trashing Trump for using legal emergency powers — claiming he “creates circumstances” to grab them. Meanwhile, the entire country is in an emergency — open borders, murders, assaults, and violent crime surging in cities across America. What will it take for Democrats to admit it? Four hundred million more immigrants, every major city turned into a lawless homeless encampment, drug cartels taking over our government, and fentanyl wiping out an entire generation?
Maggie Haberman: …pictures in his head. But I do think that he, he would be open to doing this elsewhere. There we’ll see how this experiment goes. Washington is relatively small in terms of being a major city. Other cities this could be more complicated in.
Kaitlan Collins: Well, and I also, when he was talking about having to go to Congress about basically for people who aren’t tracking this as closely as we are, after the 30 days which now he’s on, you know, he’s got 28 days left, he’d have to go to Congress to, to continue the federal takeover of the police force here in Washington to get to get authorization for that today. He seemed to suggest that maybe in his view, he doesn’t. If he declares a national emergency.
Haberman: There is a very wide number of issues on which Trump has said there is some kind of a national emergency in play when, uh you know, a lot of evidence would suggest otherwise.
President Trump has always taken the approach to power long before he was a candidate, Kaitlan, that if you have powers before you, you are wasting them if you don’t use them, even if you have to, you know, create sort of a circumstance by which you are grabbing them. And so there the administration has been criticized for using emergency powers for a number of instances where they have in it’s not clear there is an emergency where it’s clear there isn’t one.
I don’t, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he declares an emergency. You know, he said he doesn’t want to. We’ll see.
Collins: Well, and, and speaking of, you know, your, the view of that mindset of having power in front of you not using it, I mean, this is much bigger than just what is happening in DC with the police force, the National Guard being deployed on the streets. They’re expanding that tonight. Is what we’ve been told by the White House, he was at the Kennedy Center today.
You know, the other day he was calling it the Trump slash Kennedy Center, saying, whoops, I mean, the Kennedy Center obviously he’s hand picking these nominees and these honoraries that are, that are going to get honored later on this year.
I wonder what you make of that plus the Smithsonian just this wide lens of what exactly he has been undertaking the last few weeks.
Haberman: Look the narrow lens in terms of the Kennedy Center Honors and specifically say Gloria Gaynor, who’s, you know, obviously very talented musician, but, uh, it, it feels like to some extent an extended Trump rally playlist.
Uh, you know the broader sense to your question about culture, he is trying not just to leave an imprint on the type of culture that exists in Washington DC and in the rest of the country, but he is trying to control what that could be.
Now what his, his supporters will say is when it comes to the Smithsonian, it’s just a review. They haven’t done anything yet, but they actually have done a lot of things, uh, across the board in other ways, uh, that suggest exactly where their head is. And so yes, this is a, they, they, they have long, the Trump administration and Republicans have long complained about Cancel Culture, quote unquote, but they are now imposing a different kind of cultural control.
Collins: Yeah, all of, obviously, we’re following all this really closely when it comes.
CNN’s The Source is just a safe space for the media to trash Trump and sell books — with Maggie Haberman serving up opinion as if it were news. Anyone who thinks they’re “informed” after watching this show is fooling themselves.
Can anyone explain what “cultural control” Trump is supposedly pushing?
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