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CNN Trump Attack Backfires, Makes Him Look Like Incredibly ‘Cool’ Vigilante Hero Batman

Conservative News DailyAugust 15, 2025
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The article discusses a recent segment on CNN where Abby Phillip compared President Donald Trump to the superhero Batman while referring to Washington, D.C. as Gotham City. This comparison came after Trump announced his decision to federalize the D.C. Metropolitan police Department to combat rising crime. Although Phillip appeared to use the analogy critically, many users on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) reacted positively, saying it made Trump seem “super cool.”

X users embraced and amplified the metaphor with memes depicting Trump as Batman, including images of the Bat-Signal featuring trump’s hairstyle and photoshopped pictures of Trump dressed as the Caped Crusader. The analogy also resonated because both the Democratic mayor and police chief of D.C. acknowledged that the federal takeover helped strengthen their crime-fighting efforts.

Many social media users criticized CNN, calling its tone deafness or incompetence evident in the segment, as the network seemed to unintentionally portray Trump’s crime-fighting action positively, contrary to their apparent intentions. The article highlights how the comparison made Trump look like a strong leader battling crime, while Democrats appeared to be opposing this effort, effectively making Trump’s position stronger in public perception.

If CNN did not exist, President Donald Trump might have had to build it.

On Monday, after Trump announced his decision to federalize Washington, D.C.’s, Metropolitan Police Department in order to fight rampant crime, CNN’s Abby Phillip, in a segment intended as hostile, compared the president to the crime-fighting superhero Batman, which, in the opinions of various users on the social media platform X, made Trump sound “cool.”

“Donald Trump makes himself Batman,” Phillip said in a clip posted to X. “And the nation’s capital is Gotham City.”

And she meant that as critical?

“That makes President Trump sound SUPER COOL!” one X user wrote.

Another X user agreed, writing simply “Cool!”

As they often do, X users made the comparison much cooler by posting a series of clever memes.

One such meme, for instance, showed the Bat-Signal projecting an image not of Batman’s logo but of Trump’s signature coiffure. Others showed the president dressed as Batman or hinted that he secretly was the Caped Crusader.

Of course, Phillip’s comparison of D.C. to Gotham City also resonated with X users. After all, even D.C.’s Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser and the city’s police chief admitted that Trump’s federal takeover bolstered their undermanned police force and thus aided their crime-fighting efforts.

Above all, however, X users marveled at CNN’s ineptitude or tone-deafness. Who knows what to call it? The network apparently believed that comparing Trump to Batman and D.C. to Gotham City would make viewers sympathetic to Bowser’s initial characterization of the federal takeover as “unsettling.” (Bowser later partially reversed herself, as noted above.)

We really do live in a remarkable time.

First, Phillip accidentally gave Trump one of the coolest comparisons possible.

Then, Democrats spent days defending rampant crime and arraying themselves against Batman.

“With enemies like these,” the president must be thinking, “who needs public relations?”




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