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Posted: 2024-01-19T06:26:42Z | Updated: 2024-01-19T14:20:26Z

Margaret Hoover isnt having it with Democrats who name-drop her great-grandfather, former President Herbert Hoover .

The CNN political commentator, on Thursday, weighed in after ex-President Donald Trump recently mentioned her great-grandfather while hoping the economy will crash as he declared that he didnt wanna be Herbert Hoover, who was president at the onset of the Great Depression.

President Joe Biden responded to his predecessor by saying Trump is already Herbert Hoover and the only other president who lost jobs during his term, a claim that Politifact noted doesnt mention the COVID-19 pandemic.

The CNN political commentator cracked a smile after host Erin Burnett said the two seem to agree on Herbert Hoover.

I never knew him. He died in 64. I was born in 77. But will Democrats just bury the 90-year-old talking point from the early 20th century and recognize the Great Depression was a unique event in American history? she asked.

FDR couldnt solve it, Hoover couldnt solve it. Weve learned a lot about macroeconomics since then.

Democratic strategist and CNNs senior political commentator David Axelrod interjected, pointing out that Trump a Republican is the one who brought it up first.

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He is not a Republican, replied Margaret Hoover.

Axelrod said, Wherever your great-grandfather wherever he is, he should be happy that Donald Trump doesnt want to be him.

H/T: Mediaite

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