‘What?! Like WHAT?!’ CNN Anchor Stunned By Trump Saying Kamala Harris Looks Like Melania

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt was stunned by an exchange in which former President Donald Trump claimed that Vice President Kamala Harris resembled his wife former First Lady Melania Trump in her TIME Magazine cover illustration.

Trump participated in a glitch-plagued X/Twitter event with Elon Musk Monday night during whieh he — among other things — riffed about the VP’s cover illustration and compared VP Harris to Melania.

On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, a shocked Hunt asked her panel to weigh in on the comparison:

KASIE HUNT: More from Donald Trump’s conversation with Elon Musk. At one point, Trump decided to weigh in on TIME magazine’s recent feature, and specifically the cover artwork that pictured his opponent, Kamala Harris.

DONALD TRUMP: She is terrible. She’s terrible, but he’s getting a free ride. I saw a picture of her on time magazine today. He looks like the most beautiful actress ever to live. It was a drawing.

And, uh, actually, she looked very much like a great first lady. Melania. It was like she didn’t look. Yeah, she didn’t look like Camilla. That’s right. But of course, she’s a beautiful woman, so we’ll leave it at that, right?

KASIE HUNT: Okay. That’s another pronunciation of her name. Camilla. Guys. What?! Like WHAT?!

(SHOWS TIME COVER)

There it is. This is Kamala Harris, beautifully drawn on the cover of time magazine.

KATE BEDINGFIELD: It looks like her! It looks like Kamala Harris!

KASIE HUNT: Does it look like Melania Trump?

BRAD TODD: I think he was trying to say they were both beautiful.

KATE BEDINGFIELD: Uh-huh.

BRAD TODD: And he’s wasting time, though.

KASIE HUNT: (LAUGHS).

BRAD TODD: But I think he does have a fair point that that Vice President Harris is getting the greatest media honeymoon ever known to presidential politics. And I think that was his core complaint there with that cover.

KATE BEDINGFIELD: I, I mean, look, I’m not like, I’m afraid to try to psychoanalyze what Donald Trump is doing here. Who knows? I don’t know.

I mean, I think he it does kind of seem like he was trying to say it was like an overly flattering drawing of her. I don’t know, but, one thing it is not going to do is help him win, suburban voters, swing voters.

I mean, he’s to Brad’s point here. There are only so many days left in this election, and he’s spending them, you know, sort of rambling nonsense rather than making a case. So if that’s what he wants to do–

KASIE HUNT: We know he’s obsessed with time magazine as well, from the 80s through now.

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