Lewandowski Mocks Journos Who Still See ‘America First’ as ‘Novel’

Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski blasted mainstream media pundits who panned President Donald Trump’s first State of the Union address Tuesday, saying they “still don’t love the fact that we’ve got a president who’s now proud to call America the greatest country in the world again.”

Calling the State of the Union address a “very good, positive, forward-looking speech,” Lewandowski praised Trump for focusing “on reminding the American people where we were just a year ago, where the economy was, and where it is today — with job creation and with unemployment for the Hispanic and black communities at record lows, with consumer confidence at record highs.”

Because Trump delivered such a positive message to the American people, Lewandowski mocked media members for frowning on it. He spoke on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.”

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“The message that Donald Trump outlined tonight is the message that he talked about on the campaign, which is, ‘We’re going to put American first,'” Lewandowski said. “I know it’s a novel idea to some people.”

“I know that they’d rather live in another country. I know the members of the mainstream media said they’d promise to move if Donald Trump got elected,” Lewandowski continued. “Guess what — they’re still all here, they’re still all getting rich, and they still don’t love the fact that we’ve got a president who’s now proud to call America the greatest country in the world again.”

Fox News contributor Charles Hurt blasted Washington, D.C., for misunderstanding and disapproving of Trump’s call for national unity during his speech.

“[Trump] came back to it at the end where he said that, above all else, they’re all Americans. And this capitol in this city in this nation belongs to them. And it’s strange that that’s still a radical idea around here, but it is,” Hurt said. “And it’s why people like him, and it’s why people around here don’t get why people like him.”

Hurt also said he couldn’t believe that Democratic lawmakers — especially African-American Democrats — remained seated when Trump highlighted the low unemployment rate for African-Americans.

“Jobs for everybody is good, whether you’re black or white or Hispanic or whatever. Unemployment dropping is a good thing,” Hurt said. “And so I think that seems kind of a petty thing to have these guys sitting on their hands, you know.”

Host Laura Ingraham derided Democrats for having “a hard time standing at certain parts.”

Host Laura Ingraham derided Democrats for having “a hard time standing at certain parts,” adding that it was “odd when we talk about African-American unemployment at an unbelievable low — and you can’t get Democrats standing for that?”

“I mean — to me, that looks like you’re cheering against progress,” Ingraham said.

The Fox News host also pointed to a CBS poll showing that 75 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s first State of the Union Address while just 25 percent disapproved of it, predicting that the poll “is going to put the Democrats upside down.”

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“Ninety-seven percent, according to this CBS poll, just came out after the speech — of Republicans rated it well. Forty-three percent of Democrats rated it good and 72 percent of independents gave it a positive approval,” Ingraham said.”

But Philippe Reines, a former senior adviser of Hillary Clinton’s, dismissed Trump’s speech entirely because it was a “traditional State of the Union address” that represented a “missed opportunity” for the unconventional president.

“And I actually don’t mean that as a compliment,” Reines said. “The man that Corey got to the Republican nomination is not the man who has done it traditionally. He has not left any stone unturned, upended — just smash. And that has worked for him.”

“The State of the Union seems to be the last bastion that [Trump] respected as is,” Reines added. “He’s a man who has taken everything and turned it upside down and made it work for him.”

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