CNN’s Audie Cornish challenged a conservative panelist after he praised an athletic competition announced by President Donald Trump that has sparked comparisons to the dystopian “Hunger Games” novels and films.
The 79-year-old president announced the White House will host the “Patriot Games,” where one teenage boy and girl from each state and territory will compete, as part of the celebration of the United States’ 250th anniversary next year, and “CNN This Morning” producers rolled a clip of Trump’s comments interspersed with similar dialogue from the “Hunger Games” films.
“Hold on, we need to play this so people can hear it,” Cornish said. “I don’t want because the way you’re about to describe it will give us pop culture vibes.”
“It’s wild, I got to give it to him,” said podcaster Noel King.
“May the odds be ever in their favor,” added New York Times podcaster Lulu Garcia-Navarro, quoting from the film. “Yes, if he wanted to be the ruler of Panem, he’s really coded that perfectly.”
Cornish asked Daily Signal politics editor Bradley Devlin whether he would volunteer to participate.
“No,” he said, “because I’d lose. Thankfully, I wouldn’t die in these games, but I would lose.”
Garcia-Navarro asked whether Devlin thought the president was trolling by setting up something so similar to the sci-fi series.
“Do you think this is a troll in the way that we’ve seen this administration troll things that they want just to break through and they think it’s funny?” she asked. “Or do you think this is like a massive misstep? That’s the debate that I saw sort of among politicos. What is this for?”
Devlin wasn’t sure, either, but he was generally supportive.
“Do they want to pick a fight with the media over this or something like that, potentially?” Devlin said. “I mean, I think it’s just they’re going to try to make the pomp and circumstance as pomp and as circumstantial as possible. Like, this is America 250 – I like it. Go big or go home, I like it.”
“Okay, volunteer your child,” Cornish noted.
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