CNN Anchors Floored By Trump’s ‘100% Outrageous’ Nickname for Zuckerberg: ‘I Just Need To Stop for a Beat’

CNN’s Dana Bash and Jim Sciutto were floored over Donald Trump’s choice of a nickname for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, with Bash declaring she needed to “stop for a beat” after reading the former president’s Truth Social post.

Bash read multiple Truth Social posts from Trump on Friday and during a discussion with Sciutto about a possible ban on TikTok in the United States, she read a Trump post addressing that very topic.

“If you get rid of TikTok, Facebook and Zuckerschmuck will double their business. I don’t want Facebook, who cheated in the last Election, doing better. They are a true Enemy of the People!” Trump posted on Thursday.

“I just need to stop for a beat,” Bash said after reading the post. “Zuckerschmuck? I mean…that’s pretty outrageous.”

“It’s 100% outrageous and on a number of levels,” Sciutto said.

“Never mind the substance. I’m just talking about that term,” Bash added.

Sciutto knocked Trump for opposing a TikTok ban despite a ban on the social media app being floated by him when he was in the White House.

“The use of the term, it’s offensive, and the argument. This is President Trump, who as commander-in-chief said this was a threat against our country. He has identified China as a threat to the U.S., but now suddenly he’s turned that around and said, ‘Actually, I’m fine with TikTok’?” Sciutto said. “It’s a reminder that Trump’s foreign policy is somewhat volatile. We lived through that four years ago, well his policy in general, and here’s another example.”

Sciutto added, “That is quite a 180-degree reversal from the presumptive GOP nominee to have said it was a threat and taken action to put it under and [he’s] now saying, actually I have no problem because offensive word about Mark Zuckerberg.”

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