CNN broadcasted a segment where President Donald Trump appeared to contradict his own campaign promises, leaving viewers to witness his “flip flopping” stance.
During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly assured that the United States would steer clear of “regime-changing wars” that they “know nothing about”.
However, his recent actions in Venezuela seem to contradict those assurances.
A CNN anchor pointed out this discrepancy to viewers: “Compare what he’s been saying lately, in the last few days, about foreign interventions, to the kinds of things he said previously when it comes to the campaign trail and as he was running for office.”
The program then transitioned to a recent clip of Trump aboard Air Force One, where he told reporters: “Colombia’s very sick, too, run by a very sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States, and he’s not going to be doing it for very long, let me tell you.”
Footage from December 2016 was then played, featuring Trump saying: “We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with.”
Fast forward to 2026, Trump stated: “If they start killing people [in Iran] like they have in the past, I think they’re gonna get hit very hard by the United States.”
A clip from 2024 showed him vehemently criticizing regime changes in Iraq, Libya and Syria as “globalist disasters”, followed by a fresh soundbite of him stating: “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security, and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.”
Viewers took to social media to discuss the segment, with one user tweeting: “He’s disintegrating before our very eyes.
“CNN compiled Trump’s flip flops side by side. It’s a montage of contradictions and broken promises,” another viewer chimed in.
