CBS Anchor Goes Full MAGA With Cringe Praise for Trump Speech [View all]

Tony Dokoupil had only nice things to say about a State of the Union address that saw Trump bellowing at his Democratic detractors.

President Donald Trump might have spent the first legislative address of his second term hollering at Democrats on the benches of Congress but one CBS anchor seems to be all for it.

“It was an extraordinary speech,” CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil told viewers Tuesday night. “The longest joint session in history, the longest State of the Union address in history. In some ways, vintage Trump: combative, populist, historic for other reasons as well.”

He further praised “all the energy of the speech, the heart of the speech, on culture issues through the middle.”

Dokoupil’s boss, Paramount CEO David Ellison, attended the State of the Union as a guest of Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham.

It was not immediately clear whether those “culture issues” referred to a particular moment, around 50 minutes into Trump’s address, when the president belted out a racist tirade against migrants as he was heckled by Democratic Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

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