Wolf Blitzer has perfectly summed up the problem with Donald Trumps seemingly selective outrage.
The CNN host noted Wednesday the stark difference between the president-elects responses to white nationalists celebrating his win and his comments on vice president-elect Mike Pence getting singled out during a performance of Hamilton.
In a segment on the The Situation Room, Blitzer asked guest Sean Spicer, a Republican National Committee spokesman, to explain why Trump wasnt delivering a specific speech denouncing the white supremacists and Nazi sympathizers whove celebrated his win.
Spicer said it seems a bit silly to continually ask Trump to more formally denounce those supporters. Blitzer pointed out that Trump had no problem going out of his way to criticize the cast of Hamilton, after Pence attended the show and one of its members singled out the vice president-elect, who was also booed by the audience .
He [condemns white nationalists] in response to questions, youre right, and he is very tough in the response to questions, but he doesnt do it necessarily on his own initiative, Blitzer said.
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For example, you know he hits the news media when he thinks theres a story thats unfair, he tweets when he is outraged about something in the media, Hamilton, what happened in the Broadway musical, Hamilton, but he doesnt seem to go out of the way to express his outrage over people hailing him with Nazi salutes.
Why doesnt he do that more dramatically, if you will, and make it clear that he wants no part of the people?
Watch the the full, heated segment between Blitzer and Spicer above.
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