CNN black sheep Scott Jennings reveals five petty things he'd deport people to El Salvador for
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CNN's Scott Jennings took Donald Trump’s idea of shipping crime-committing Americans to El Salvador a step further - offering a list of joke 'offenses' he said should warrant the same fate.
Cardinal sins sarcastically listed by the Republican analyst on Wednesday’s NewsNight, included putting 'pronouns in your email signature' and standing for 'more than 15 seconds at the coffee creamer bar at [your local] coffee shop.'
Eventually ending with a list of five, the pundit continued - being the last of a panel of three to do so, not including host Abby Phillip.
'Two or more walking side by side on a sidewalk? You’re gone, El Salvador,' Jennings, who served as a strategist under George W. Bush, said.
'Recline your seat on an airplane?... You’re going too.'
The list elicited laughs from fellow contributors, who offered their peeves - and make-believe solutions - as well. The activity was billed as panelists' 'petty orders' - an ode to Trump signing an executive order earlier in the day to mandate a certain water pressure in showerheads.
Ana Navarro, one of the co-hosts of The View, said an executive order to abolish cold weather after the month of February was needed, for instance.
'I also would like people to answer questions that get asked directly,' the outspoken Trump critic added - in an apparent reference to prospective NASA boss Jared Isaacman's confirmation hearing on Wednesday.
The 42-year-old billionaire repeatedly danced around straightforward questions aired at the hearing asking whether Elon Musk had been involved in the proceedings.
Instead of answering yes or no, Isaacman repeatedly answered that the president had been the one presiding over his interview, while refusing to address Musk.
On CNN a few hours later, Shermichael Singleton listed 'slow drivers' as a party he felt should be hit with a grievance-related executive orders.
'We need an E.O. [for slow drivers where] you get a ticket,' the journalist insisted, touting himself as a fast driver.
'Maybe even put people in jail so that I can get to where the hell I want to go. No driving slow in the fast lane,' he continued. 'That’s my [offering.]'
Tiffany Cross, a progressive pundit who was let go by MSNBC in 2022, also participated, in an episode that also saw her and Jennings get into it after the former branded the latter 'irrelevant' due to him no longer employed by the government.
'EOs are very damaging,' Cross prefaced, before offering her peeve. 'But in spirit of this conversation, I would say, I would have an executive order.
'I do not want to hear your conversation on your phone. Use your headphones. If you’re in public, I don’t want to hear your conversation,' she continued, citing a lack of 'common courtesy' from certain age groups.
'Younger people who grew up with these devices are losing social grace and just having speaker phone conversation.'
As for Jennings, he was the only to offer five things he took issue with - but later took to X to reshare the segment to insist he had 'five more.'
His comments came days after Trump told reporters he may take his aggressive approach to regulating immigration - by sending violent, lawful American citizens to El Salvador - and the country's progressive, money-making prison system - after President Nayib Bukele said he would gladly accept them.
'If we could take some of our 20-time wise guys that push people into subways and that hit people over the back of the head and that purposely run people over in cars — if he would take them, I would be honored to give them,' he said Sunday.
The remarks were first reported by The Hill, and were later addressed by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt earlier this week.
During her daily briefing Tuesday, she insisted such maneuvers would only be made if 'there is a legal pathway' to do so.
We are not sure if there is,' she conceded. 'It's an idea that he has simply floated and has discussed very publicly in the effort of transparency.'
She then disclaimed: 'These would be heinous, violent criminals who have broken our nation’s laws repeatedly, and these are violent repeat offenders in American streets.'
