Juan Williams Calls Trump an Idiot, Then Jesse Watters Drops a Major Reality Check
May 24, 2019 News
Juan Williams thinks that if he were playing poker with Donald Trump, hed take the presidents money.
But Jesse Watters reminded him that, in November of 2018, Trumps the one who took all of the chips.
Williams, the longtime NPR journalist, has been the resident liberal on Fox News The Five for some time now. During Tuesdays show, Williams called Trump an idiot during a debate about Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, who became the first Republican in Congress to call for Trumps impeachment.
The fact that Trump was going after Amash as well as early Democratic front-runner Joe Biden proved to Williams that the sitting president is a simpleton. I think if we invited Donald Trump to the table to play poker with The Five, Id take his money big time, Williams said.
Its like a poker player and he keeps blinking. Hes like, I know whats going on. He thinks Joe Biden is a threat in Pennsylvania. Thats why hes attacking Joe Biden like that.
Hes not attacking Kamala Harris. Hes not going after anybody else. Hes going after Joe Biden, hes going after the media sometimes
Hes going after Justin Amash. Why? Theres a Republican whose finally saying its time to impeach this idiot. Yes, this is no coincidence.
This got a whoa from panelist Dana Perino and a more full-throated correction from Jesse Watters.
Hes not an idiot, Juan, Watters said. Hes the president of the United States.
Not only that, hes a real-estate mogul who parlayed that into a place in the national culture as a media mogul, reinvented himself after a collapse in the 1990s, flirted with running for the presidency twice, finally ran for it to much derision in 2016 and, well, won.
One of the most persistent myths particularly in politics is that of the lucky idiot, the man who bounds from success to success while being a complete ignoramus, somewhat like Peter Sellers character in Being There.