{"id":2475942,"date":"2025-08-18T15:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-obama-clinton-and-bush-smarter-than-trump-liberal-media-scream\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T19:11:10","slug":"cnn-says-obama-clinton-and-bush-smarter-than-trump-liberal-media-scream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-says-obama-clinton-and-bush-smarter-than-trump-liberal-media-scream\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN says Obama, Clinton, and Bush smarter than Trump: Liberal Media Scream"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-says-obama-clinton-and-bush-smarter-than-trump-liberal-media-scream%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2475942&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article criticizes CNN for what it describes as extreme anti-Trump bias, highlighting a CNN commentator&#8217;s claim that former President Donald Trump lacks the intellect of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wh-filled-spot-hillary-clinton-portrait-used-to-occupy-with-very-special-trump-portrait\/\" title=\"WH Filled Spot ... Portrait Used to Occupy with Very Special ... Portrait\">previous political figures<\/a> such as Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Hillary Clinton when dealing with russian President Vladimir Putin. The commentator, Bakari Sellers, suggested on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that Trump failed to perform effectively on the world stage during his meeting with Putin, implying that Putin &#8220;ate Trump&#8217;s lunch.&#8221; The article counters this view by noting that Obama, Clinton, and Bush oversaw multiple wars, while Trump ended several conflicts and hosted a summit aiming to resolve the Russia-Ukraine war. It also cites criticism of Obama and others for their handling of Putin, such as allowing the Crimea annexation without opposition and attempts to &#8220;reset&#8221; relations with Russia.The piece presents the CNN commentary as unfounded and overly partisan, concluding with a sarcastic &#8220;five out of five screams&#8221; rating to emphasize its disapproval. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div id=\"ld-4686-3758\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:14832835450050406,size:[0, 0],id:\"ld-4686-3758\"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=\"https:\/\/cdn2.decide.dev\/_js\/ajs.js\";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,\"script\",\"ld-ajs\");<\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">CNN says Obama, Clinton, and Bush smarter than Trump: Liberal Media Scream<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2206555\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>CNN reached a new low in its anti-Trump bias, declaring that Russian President Vladimir Putin ate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3758546\/trump-reverses-biden-regulations-executive-order\/\">President Donald Trump&rsquo;s<\/a> lunch on Friday because Trump doesn&rsquo;t have the &ldquo;intellect&rdquo; of former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Regular commentator Bakari Sellers on Sunday&rsquo;s <em>State of the Union<\/em> overlooked that the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >political trio oversaw<\/a> several wars, while Trump, in his second term, has ended a half-dozen wars and is today hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3757957\/zelensky-white-house-meeting-land-concessions-russia-ukraine-war\/\">world summit<\/a> at the White House to end the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3758132\/european-leaders-washington-peace-zelensky-trump-meeting\/\">Russia-Ukraine war.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3758546\/trump-reverses-biden-regulations-executive-order\/\">Trump revokes Biden&rsquo;s swamp-first regulations order<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\/3757843\/trump-enters-zelensky-summit-approval-surging-upward\/\">Trump enters Zelensky summit with approval &lsquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-enters-zelensky-summit-with-approval-surging-upward\/\" title=\"... enters Zelensky summit with approval \u2018surging upward\u2019\">surging upward&#038;rsquo<\/a>;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Sellers was focused on Trump&rsquo;s meeting in Alaska with Putin, an icebreaker on several fronts after former President Joe Biden let U.S.-Russian relations reach a Cold War low.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He&rsquo;s not Barack Obama, he&rsquo;s not Hillary Clinton. He&rsquo;s not even George Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments,&rdquo; Sellers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNN Commentator: Trump Lacks &lsquo;Intellect&rsquo; of Obama or Hillary To Go Up Against Putin\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bIQ4ootaeJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From CNN&rsquo;s Sunday morning <em>State of the Union<\/em> hosted by Jake Tapper:<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAKARI SELLERS,<\/strong> CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: <em>I think Vladimir Putin is a thug. I think he&rsquo;s a war criminal. And I think he made Donald Trump look small. I mean, I understand the minutiae of where &mdash; I want a deal, like every other American wants a deal, or you should be praying for that deal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>However, like I have said before many times, Donald Trump cannot perform on the world stage because he simply does not have the intellect to match up with these world leaders. He&rsquo;s not Barack Obama, he&rsquo;s not Hillary Clinton. He&rsquo;s not even George Bush when it comes to being able to maneuver in these environments. And so what you saw was Vladimir Putin come and get what he wanted. I mean, the winner of this is Vladimir Putin. I don&rsquo;t know why we&rsquo;re trying to hide the ball.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BRAD TODD,<\/strong> CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: <em>That&rsquo;s what happened when he took Crimea. Obama gave him exactly what he wanted when he let Vladimir Putin have Crimea without so much as a shot or an objection.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/staff\/brent-baker\">Brent Baker,<\/a> the Steven P.J. Wood senior fellow and vice president for research and publications at the Media Research Center, explained our pick: &ldquo;How vacuous can you be? When [former Sen.] Mitt Romney called Putin &lsquo;the biggest political threat facing America,&rsquo; which has proven true, Obama ridiculed Romney: &lsquo;The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back, because the Cold War&rsquo;s been over for 20 years.&rsquo; And as Todd pointed out, Obama didn&rsquo;t do anything to counter Putin&rsquo;s invasion of Crimea. Yet Obama is intellectually superior to Trump because Trump isn&rsquo;t standing up enough to Putin? To say nothing of George W. Bush declaring he got &lsquo;a sense&rsquo; of Putin&rsquo;s &lsquo;soul&rsquo; and found him &lsquo;trustworthy&rsquo; or Hillary Clinton offering Putin a &lsquo;reset&rsquo; button.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Rating:<\/span> <em><strong>FIVE<\/strong> out of <strong>FIVE<\/strong> screams.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN claims Obama, Clinton, Bush outsmart Trump: Media outrage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2475943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Trump-Ukraine-Scream.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4589,5855,50623,5315],"class_list":["post-2475942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-bush","tag-clinton","tag-cnn-2","tag-obama"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Trump-Ukraine-Scream.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475946,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475942\/revisions\/2475946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}