CNN Anchor Busts Out Laughing At Trump Insisting ‘I’m The Opposite Of A Nazi’

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt busted out laughing after a clip of former President Donald Trump insisting, “I’m not a Nazi, I’m the opposite of a Nazi!” amid uproar over his Madison Square Garden rally.

Trump is getting a lot of attention for the antics at his Madison Square Garden rally, which his critics compared to an infamous 1939 American Nazi rally even before it began.

In response to the uproar, Trump felt compelled to tell a rally crowd in Georgia, “I’m not a Nazi! I’m the opposite of a Nazi!”

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN This Morning, a clearly amused Hunt introduced the clip by wryly noting Trump “felt the need” to proclaim his non-Naziness, then cracked up as she tossed the issue to her panel:

KASIE HUNT: So perhaps that’s why just one week out from Election Day and with polls continuing to show a deadlocked race, the former president felt the need to say this.

DONALD TRUMP: They use that word freely. Both words. They say he’s Hitler and then they say he’s a Nazi. I’m not a Nazi! I’m the opposite of a Nazi! I don’t know.

KASIE HUNT: Joining us now to discuss, Alex Thompson, CNN political analyst, national political reporter for Axios, Phillipe Reines former adviser to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. And Mike Dubuque, former Trump White House communications adviser.

Welcome to all of you. One week to Election Day, Who would like to take the Nazi issue? (LAUGHS)

PHILLIPPE REINES: Should I do it at a (inaudible)?

(LAUGHTER)

ALEX THOMPSON: Is that a trick question?

PHILLIPPE REINES: I don’t know what the opposite of a Nazi is. But you know what the–? Look, Mike and I have planned this kind of events. You guys have covered these kind of events. You are asking for it if you put it someplace in a venue like that.

It is not like they suddenly stumble into ancient burial ground. You pick the venue knowing the history. You pick the people who were speaking, knowing what they have said in their history. You’ve given them the open mike, and then you say, my gosh, I can’t believe they said it. I don’t I don’t agree with that joke.

Whether it’s a joke or not, whether they knew it was in the teleprompter or not really isn’t the point. If you have an open mic and you invite Eddie Murphy and it’s suddenly profanity laced, you can’t say, my God, I mean, how did that happen?

(LAUGHTER).

And what is the point of it? What is what is the point of it? That is not what they need being discussed.

And it’s not just on, you know, what they will call the liberal media. This is what’s being discussed on Fox and on the right. This is with a week left. Thank God it’s only a week left. You you don’t want that. That is not a closing argument. He can say whatever he wanted later on. It doesn’t matter. It wasn’t worth it. It wasn’t worth the risk.

MIKE DUBKE: Well. Go ahead.

ALEX THOMPSON: I was going to say, there’s a question of whether or not this is intentional, to your point, to try to rally the uglier parts of the base or this is just sloppiness and a consequence of arrogance on the behalf of the Trump campaign.

PHILLIPPE REINES: There’s no other way to rally that part of the base?

Watch above via CNN This Morning.