Washington, D.C. — In what could have finally put the confusion to rest, the White House was asked again to publicly and unambiguously denounce white supremacy. Instead, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany chose to shift the focus to the countless amounts of times that President Trump has already done so.

"It's really sad", said one journalist we spoke with. "She was given a perfect opportunity to once again put this story to rest, by denouncing the evils of racism, and yet she dodged the opportunity by pointing us to historical facts. Once again, this proves that Donald Trump and the White House care far more about the support they receive from these racist organizations, than they do about calling out evil."

"Yesterday, [the President] was—point blank—asked 'do you denounce white supremacy' and he said, 'I've always denounced any form of that.'", McEnany said, when responding to a question from a reporter. "I can go back and read for you in August of 2019 the president said, 'in one voice our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.' In August of 2017, he said 'racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs; including the KKK, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups.' I have an entire list of these quotes that I can go through with you. He has condemned white supremacy more than any other president in modern history."

The reporter then asked, "Just to clear it up, this morning. Can you make a declarative statement that the President denounces it?" To which, McEnany said, "I just did. The President has denounced this repeatedly."

"That was her chance and she blew it", said another reporter we spoke with. "She was given the perfect opportunity to finally let us know how the president feels about this issue and instead all she did was point us back to old statements where the President let us know exactly how he feels about this issue. It was a missed opportunity and now Americans are left to wonder how the President feels about this issue."

It is strange that the White House wouldn't want to take every opportunity given to denounce something so evil. Of course—in light of the President's willingness to answer the question himself just yesterday—there are those who might assume the issue should have been put to rest already. However, to strike out looking on a softball pitch that could have been hit out of the ball park, does leave people to ask the question, why does the President refuse to denounce white supremacy?

"It's really strange", said the reporter who was pressing McEnany on this question. "Yes, we've already asked this question infinity amount of times over the past four years. And it is true that every time we ask the question, the President or his representatives continue to give us the same unambiguous and definitive answers. But what's wrong with answering the question one more time, in order to finally put this issue to rest? It's really quite telling, if you ask me. Simply said, the President doesn't want to lose the support of these groups."

Though it's certainly not surprising that President Trump would refuse to answer this question. It does seem like it could be problematic with his image going forward, especially in light of the narrative the media has worked very hard to shape, about him being an outright racist who not only condones groups like the Proud Boys and other racists, but also fully endorses their racist behavior.
    

New York City, NY -- In a moment of solidarity and reassurance, CNN's Don Lemon was forced to fill the role of motivational speaker as he worked hard to reassure fellow anchor, Chris Cuomo, that there is still reason to hope.

In the wake of news today that Senate Republicans likely have enough votes to confirm President Trump's nomination for vacated seat on the U.S. Supreme Court--vacated by the recent death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg--Chris Cuomo was seemingly discouraged and hopeless.

"I could see it in his eyes. It was very sad. My fellow host and friend was in a bad place and I needed to step up and help him see a bit of light in this dark dark world", said Lemon. "I tried several times to encourage him to look at things from a different perspective, but none of my efforts seemed to be working."

And Lemon did make valiant efforts. He told Cuomo, "we're going to have to blow up the entire system", to which Cuomo responded, with a doubting shrug, "well, I don't know about that." Lemon, seeing his friends skepticism, pressed in and continued, "Yes. You know what we're going to have to do? Honestly, from what your closing argument is. You're going to have to get rid of the electoral college, because the people...the minority in this country decide who the judges are and they decide who the president is."

Cuomo then reminded Lemon that not only do you need an amendment to the Constitution, but you also need a two-thirds majority in Congress and three-quarters of the state legislatures to make that happen. Lemon tried desperately to reassure his friend and fellow Trump-hater that with a Biden victory in November, and an effort to stack the Supreme Court, they may be able to do just that, but Cuomo was still very skeptical.

"It was then that I realized, we're losing him. He's seriously more depressed and discouraged than I've ever seen him. Even more than he was when he had to admit the truth about hydroxychloroquine helping his recovery from COVID-19, or when he was faced with the facts that his brother's decision to put COVID-19 patients in nursing homes likely led to countless unneeded deaths. He was distraught and he needed a some serious pick me up. That's when I looked him in the eyes and spoke directly to his heart and said, "Chris, don't worry man. We got this!"

Those three words, "We got this" seemed to snap Cuomo out of his sadness and for the first time in the entire segment his frown turned to a grin and the light came back into his eyes. When pressed on clarification of what he was referring to in that emotional moment, Lemon said, "We got this because we have something Trump doesn't have. We have George Soros, our very own Emperor Palpatine, and we have an angry group of aggrieved Americans whom we've spent decades and dollars to create. We have a clone army that makes the Grand Army of the Republic look small. We have China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela and the United Nations on our side. If we can't beat this bag of deplorables playing by the rules of the system, then we're going to blow up the entire system."

That's the hope CNN wants to leave with Americans. "Don't lose hope. Even if it seems we are losing and all our efforts to derail the "Trump Train" are falling short, we must remember that history is on our side. And even when it's not, we'll simply change it," Lemon said.