All the while, CNN anchor Don Lemon laughed loudly. Since early in the 2016 election, Trump has been the choice of white working-class voters — particularly those who live in rural America. AD“The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting,” tweeted Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior adviser. Segments like the CNN one that White House aides criticized can be found almost nightly on Fox News. Despite this, conservative media is likely to blow the CNN segment out of proportion to further its own narrative.

Source: Washington Post January 28, 2020 15:43 UTC