CNN’s Chris Wallace Roasts Trump: He Was ‘Entertaining In A Kind Of Demented Way’ But Now ‘What A Bore’

CNN anchor Chris Wallace double-roasted former President Donald Trump by saying he has been “entertaining in a kind of demented way” in the past, but has now become “a bore.”

Journalists Kristen Soltis Anderson , Lulu Garcia-Navarro , Jim Geraghty , and Natasha Alford joined Wallace for this week’s edition of CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show on Saturday morning, during which Wallace weighed in on Trump’s lengthy and rambling press conference.

Alford teed Wallace up by noting that even Trump’s outrages have become predictable and tedious, and Wallace expanded on that:

ALFORD: And I think what he does, though, is starting to get boring. Like I’m looking at the meme that came out, the racist meme that he tweeted. And yes, there was some level of outrage, but I think there was also eye-rolling. It’s like, we’ve seen the show before. You’re going to the — you’re appealing to the most base instincts of voters. And I think people are kind of over it.

Today in her speech, Harris pointed out, she said, you know, he gives this this talk about the economy, but the actual policy plans were really light. And so she’s reversing the critique that Trump gave of her, that she had no policy, and now she’s saying, where are the details, besides the rage, besides the fearmongering? And I think that she’s exposing —

WALLACE: I want to pick up on that, Kristen, because whatever you want to say about Trump, he really has — he’s been entertaining in a kind of demented way, and as I watched his presser at Bedminster on Thursday, I thought, what a bore, what a bore this man has become.

ANDERSON: Well in part of his appeal all along, or part of his political power has been that he understands the medium of television very well. And you saw flickers of that, right? He had all the products there lined up at that Bedminster press conference. He understands entertainment, he understands television. But he can’t control himself. And that’s where he’s getting into trouble.

And so I, frankly, want to put this on a poll. I want to know, if you ask voters, who would you rather spend 10 minutes watching, Kamala Harris or Donald Trump? I actually think that if you’d ask that question six months ago, Donald Trump wins that in a landslide. It doesn’t mean people would vote for him, but he would win that question. I wonder what people would say today if I asked.

WALLACE: Because God forbid, well, first of all, it wouldn’t be 10 minutes.

ANDERSON: People feel like, OK, I’ve seen this show before.

WALLACE: It would be an hour of droning on and on and on.

GARCIA-NAVARRO: What I don’t like, though, is the one that was reading in that huge binder that looked like my sixth grader giving a book report. I mean, that’s not a Trump that’s going to sell anything.

WALLACE: In fact, I thought to myself, talk about political malpractice. Who gave this man that binder? Because, I mean, it just had page after page and he kept reading.

Watch above via CNN’s The Chris Wallace Show .