Dana Bash Takes Issue With Trump Saying People Want To Be His Friend

Posted • December 17, 2024: CNN host Dana Bash put her pettiness on full display during Tuesday’s Inside Politics as she took issue with President-elect Trump quipping about how “In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend.” While the rest of her panel of liberal journalists were able to admit things were “going his way,” Bash felt the need to fact-check what she admitted was “rhetorical;” to point out how journalists and an anti-Trump judge don’t want to be his friends. After teeing up the soundbite of Trump’s comments by noting that she and CNN political director David Chalian had huffed about it in his office the day prior, Bash thought a fact-check of Trump’s personality was needed: Trump: One of the big differences between the first term – In the first term, everybody was fighting me. In this term, everybody wants to be my friend. I don't know. My personality changed or something. [Cuts back to live] Bash: That was rhetorical. His personality has not changed. (…)

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