Here we go again.
30 hours after President Donald Trump incited a deadly insurrectionist riot at the U.S. Capitol and after social media companies restricted access to his accounts for fear of further incitement, the president released a pre-recorded video in which he said that he was “outraged” by the “heinous attack”, while falsely taking credit for stopping the disturbances he started.
With Trump also calling for “healing and reconciliation,” while promising a “seamless power transition,” CNN correspondent Dana Bash reacted immediately to the outgoing president’s statement with the following opinion: “It’s obviously a very different tone.” After saying that this was also the “first time he accepted the reality” that Joe Biden will be president, Bash noted that they needed to “shout” Trump for lying about the immediate sending of the National Guard.
The CNN reporter infamously trumpeted Trump’s tone last March, after he finally began to recognize the coronavirus pandemic, saying he was the “kind of leader people need” after a briefing at the White House . Trump, meanwhile, literally laughed in the past about his ability to get the media to praise him for his “new tone” whenever he acts in a somber and sober way.