CNN’s Don Lemon on Trump’s Looks: ‘Does He Own a Mirror?’

Nicholas Fondacaro | October 17, 2018
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President Trump drew widespread condemnation from the liberal media on Tuesday after he put out a tweet describing porn star Stormy Daniels as having a “horse face” following a judge throwing out a defamation suit she filed against him. And during CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time, the bitter banter between Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon (not exactly the epitome of civility) devolved into shots at Trump for not being a looker.

“Horse face. That's what the man who holds the seat of Abraham Lincoln said about yet another woman who’s in his way. How many ugly things has he said about women? I bet you can't count. Here's just a taste,” Cuomo opined at the beginning of the segment. As though Trump only insulted women, he then cut to numerous soundbites of Trump attack women for their looks.

After playing the clips, and introducing Lemon, Cuomo said he was “embarrassed to say” the production team “had to keep adding things and taking things away, because we kept forgetting some of what he's already said, because he's flooded the zone with piggish piffle”. “[N]ine out of ten Republicans love him anyway,” he decried.

Lemon soon chimed in and despite claiming he would never act like Trump and would keep his “thoughts about others’ looks” to himself, he blasted Trump’s physical appearance:

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