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- CNN anchor Abby Phillip laughed at Scott Jennings as he struggled to defend Donald Trump’s attempt to add his name to the Kennedy Center.
- A judge ruled that adding Trump’s name to the John F. Kennedy Center was unlawful.
- Jennings argued critics are motivated by opposition to Trump rather than legal concerns.
CNN anchor Abby Phillip couldn’t help but laugh at conservative commentator Scott Jennings on Friday (June 12) as he failed to defend Donald Trump‘s decision to add his name to the Kennedy Center.
The discussion came after the president’s name was removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, following a federal judge’s order that found the name was added to the venue unlawfully. The Trump administration is now appealing the judge’s ruling.
“I mean, is the entire government supposed to be working to make this one man feel good about himself?” Phillip asked on Friday’s edition of CNN NewsNight as the panel discussed the appeal.
“Are we upset that the president of the United States took an interest in the Kennedy Center?” Jennings responded.
“A lot of people are upset about that, yes,” Phillip replied.
“But why?” Jennings said. “Why would they be upset about it? I’ll answer my own question. They’ve never been able to stand the fact that Donald Trump won the White House the first time, and especially the second time, and they don’t want him to exercise any power, large or small.”
Phillip interrupted Jennings, telling him, “How about Congress established the Kennedy Center as a memorial for John F. Kennedy, and that it is illegal for him to slap his name on it? That is why people are upset about it.”
As Jennings continued to defend his point, Phillip asked, “What about the law, Scott?”
“What about it?” Jennings fired back.
“What about?!” Phillip repeated before breaking into laughter.
“Who cares?” Jennings continued. “You can’t get the government on the phone after 3 o’clock on a Friday, yet we can build scaffolding to scrape a name off the side of a building?”
Phillip countered Jennings’ point, saying, “They built scaffolding to put a name on the side of the building, so they can’t build it to take it down?”
“This is what Democrats do for fun on a Friday night,” the MAGA mouthpiece added. “These haters stand out on the street screeching about a name.”
You can watch the segment in the video above.
CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, Weeknights, 11/10 c, CNN