CNN’s Jeffrey Lord Compares Donald Trump to Martin Luther King Jr.
Since 2015 Jeffery Lord has been one of Donald Trump’s biggest surrogates on CNN. He is rarely, if ever, critical of Trump, will always defend Trump, and promotes basically all things Trump.
Lord went so far this week as to compare Trump to Dr. Martin Luther King. Yes, you read that correctly. The comparison comes in the framework of our current healthcare system, Lord stated DJT is the MLK of healthcare. When you read it initially, there is a jaw dropping moment of confusion and outrage (see everyone that reacted on CNN).
As I dug deeper into what he was saying I understood what he was trying to do, but came to the conclusion he was still very wrong. His argument is that Dr. King and Trump are using the same strategy, which is both are “creating a crisis to bring about a legislative outcome”.
The inherent flaw in his thought process is that Dr. King didn’t manufacture a crisis, he simply brought attention and focus to a crisis that had been festering for hundreds of years, which is the way blacks were treated in the United States of America.
Trump on the other hand is considering not paying insurance companies their due payment from the federal government, to essentially defund the Affordable Care Act and instantly create a healthcare crisis to exploit. Trump will use the crisis to generate a new healthcare law that pleases conservatives and republicans that does not have the contributions of Barack Obama anywhere near it.
There’s a difference between bringing attention to a crisis and manufacturing one, but the beauty of it all is that Jeffery Lord is smart enough to know that, which is why he created his own crisis and now look who’s sitting here writing and talking about Jefferey Lord…
In the wee hours of Thursday morning, CNN’s Jeffrey Lord was still at it, tweeting out links to Martin Luther King Jr. speeches and professing his love and admiration for the slain civil rights leader.
“A hero unafraid to oppose judging by skin color,” Lord wrote in one tweet.
“I stand with Dr. King,” read another. “If you think that’s the wrong side of history, I disagree. Strongly.”
Lord, a conservative commentator employed by CNN to be a Donald Trump defender, had had quite a day.
It started with an appearance on one of the network’s early morning shows, during which he called President Trump “the Martin Luther King of health care.” King and Trump were the same, Lord said, in the sense that they both used moments of crisis to pass legislation.
Lord’s remarks — and the wave of outrage they triggered — became fodder for a full day’s worth of high-decibel CNN entertainment, with various people in varying degrees of dudgeon brought on to excoriate him.
In appearances on three shows and in an column for CNN’s website, Lord dug in his heels to defend the Trump-King comparison, twisting himself into a rhetorical pretzel as hosts, guests and a chorus of social media users took turns pummeling him.
It a typical Lord moment, except it lasted all day and into the early morning Friday. Since joining the network as a paid analyst in June 2015, he has fashioned his full-throated and outlandish defenses of Trump into something of a brand. In turn, his critics online and his interlocutors on CNN have made a sport out of shooting him down.
At some point Lord’s defenses — rather than his initial remarks — became the main discussion topic. The night ended with a visibly frustrated CNN host Don Lemon cutting his show off several minutes early, leaving Lord, who stood by his statements through it all, to try to get the last word on Twitter.
It began at the crack of dawn Thursday on CNN’s New Day, where they were discussing health-care legislation. Trump had just threatened to withhold federal subsidies to health insurers in hopes of forcing Democrats to negotiate an Obamacare replacement.
Impressed with that approach, Lord saw a creative historical parallel — one he knew would draw controversy.
“Think of President Trump as the Martin Luther King of health care,” Lord said. “When I was a kid, President Kennedy did not want to introduce the civil rights bill because he said it wasn’t popular, he didn’t have the votes for it, et cetera. Dr. King kept putting people in the streets in harm’s way to put the pressure on so that the bill would be introduced. That’s what finally worked.”
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