Co-host Joe Kernen, discussing Clinton’s health, asked Trump if he thought he was “probably correct” that Clinton “didn't have the stamina either mentally or physically to be president.” Kernen also told Trump, “I think your schedule has been more grueling than the one been pursuing, and that has been documented,” even though Trump goes back to his home in New York almost every night. Trump’s half-hour interview on Squawk Box was even friendlier. Other topics in the interview included the NFL players protesting the national anthem and Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel, which the co-hosts were amazed that he was able to open “two years ahead of schedule.”

Despite ample polling that backs up Clinton’s claim, Doocy framed it as “mistake,” asking Trump, “How big a mistake was this for her to say that on Friday night?” Co-host Brian Kilmeade claimed, “Hillary Clinton, in … making these comments and going to these high-ranking fundraisers, in many ways, she seems divorced from the everyday American.” Trump also claimed, drawing no pushback from the hosts, that he would be a “president of all the people,” even though he has repeatedly smeared Muslims, called Mexicans “rapists,” discriminated against African-Americans, and courted the white nationalist movement. I would think it would have been, so something is going on, but I just hope she gets well.”Ĭo-host Steve Doocy later asked Trump about Clinton’s September 9 remark that “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables” characterized by “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic” views. I hope she gets well soon.” Trump also seemed to reference the baseless Clinton health conspiracy theories that have been spread by right-wing media figures, saying, “The coughing fit was a week ago, so I assume that was pneumonia also. Co-host Ainsley Earhardt said the “press was kept in the dark for an hour and a half,” to which Trump said, “I really just don't know. Trump was likely expecting more of the same, and he was right.ĭuring his interview with Fox & Friends, Trump was asked about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s disclosure that she had been diagnosed with pneumonia after she left a 9/11 memorial event early, saying she was overheated. I apologize for any offense it caused.”ĬNBC has not responded to requests for comment.Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on September 12 visited two morning shows, Fox News’ Fox & Friends and CNBC’s Squawk Box, that have a history of giving him kid-glove treatment and softball interviews. When asked to comment on the situation, he responded:“I made an inappropriate and insensitive remark on Squawk Box. I apologize, before I have to.' After, some nonsense about Miss America is mumbled thus making the situation even more uncomfortable.īut it appears Kernen’s had to further apologize. Then Kernen defends himself because “people say that all the time!” He follows this up with an incredibly sincere apology: “Alright, I'm sorry, I take it back.

I was going to say something.”īecky Quick, sitting next to him, quickly begs: “Please don’t.” When it was clear his co-hosts Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin were uncomfortable, he tried with all his might to hold back the hilarity on the tip of his tongue: “No, I can’t do it. Actually he didn’t, but that didn’t stop him from adopting an Indian accent while talking about the currency. Early Friday morning on CNBC Squawk Box, host Joe Kernen had some really interesting things to say about rupees.

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