CNN Host Rips Trump

CNN host Kaitlan Collins sharply called out President Donald Trump’s “two-week” plan to make a decision about Iran, saying that he has given the exact same deadline for several other pressing matters in the past—and seldom fulfilled them.

Knewz.com has learned that the CNN anchor labelled the two-week deadline a “verbal crutch” rather than an actual, concrete plan.

According to reports, President Trump has approved the plans to attack Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility but has yet to make a final decision regarding the matter, keeping the door open for diplomacy.

A statement from Trump, read out by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, said:

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.”

On Thursday night’s episode of The Source with Kaitlan Collins, the CNN host aired a montage of video clips showing Trump repeatedly promising to deliver his answers in two weeks regarding pressing geopolitical matters, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Ukraine war.

After airing a clip of Press Secretary Leavitt reading out the statement from President Trump regarding his deliberations on Iran, Collins commented:

“If that two-week timeline that you heard there sounds familiar, that’s because it is. Since his first time in office, President Trump has often relied on a two-week metric, promising big answers, tough solutions, new policies, and even decisions on some of those pressing issues that are facing him, like efforts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.”

Collins’ statement was followed by a supercut of clips showing Trump give the same two-week deadline for several matters. For instance, when asked if he trusts Putin, the U.S. President replied, “I’ll let you know in about two weeks.”

When a different reporter asked him, “Do you still believe that Putin actually wants to end the war?” the President once again said that he would have the answer by the end of “two weeks.”

“President Trump has actually put forth a two-week timeline so frequently that it’s tough to fit many of the instances on the screen, all at the same time,” Collins said on The Source.

Trump’s “habit” of issuing a two-week deadline was also recently called out by another CNN host, Brianna Keilar. Commenting on Trump’s plans to mull over his decision regarding Iran for two weeks, Keilar said on CNN News Central:

“We do just need to be clear here, that would ordinarily be quite a deadline, but the president says two weeks all of the time, it’s really this kind of verbal crutch that he uses that he often doesn’t mean so it’s hard to know exactly what he means here.”

“He’s used this recently when he’s talking about Ukraine, what to do about Ukraine and Putin, it’s going to be in two weeks, all the way back to the beginning of his term, whether it was a healthcare plan to replace Obamacare or it was his infrastructure plan,” Keilar added.

“Most of these two week promises never happen. Some of them do, but not within two or sometimes the two to three weeks as he will sometimes say. He makes a lot of these Fortnite references. And so this is really tricky as we try to parse this,” she further stated.

While President Trump tries to come up with a concrete policy regarding Iran, the Islamic Republic’s mission to the United Nations has stated that no Iranian official would ever “grovel at the gates of the White House.”

“Iran does NOT negotiate under duress, shall NOT accept peace under duress, and certainly NOT with a has-been warmonger clinging to relevance,” the statement read.

Furthermore, Israel’s Supreme Leader himself said in a recent televised speech that “any US military intervention” in the Israel-Iran conflict would be costly and added, “The Iranian nation will not surrender.”

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