CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta said this week that President Donald Trump has caused the United States to become “vicious” and “nasty,” in an interview at the Hill Center.
Acosta, who was promoting his new book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America,” asked the audience during his interview with Bill Press to consider what children are learning from their elders.
“The question that I ask all of you is, what are you doing on a daily basis to make sure that we’re passing on to the next generation of our kids and grand kids a better country than the one that we have right now?” Acosta said.
He later criticized Trump for dubbing the media the “enemy of the people.”
“I think we also have to take stock of what we’re doing at home, what we’re doing in our communities. What’s happening in our daily lives that is contributing to this culture of just viciousness? We’ve become a vicious, nasty country,” Acosta said.
He added that when his father and grandmother first came to the United States from Cuba, they were given winter clothes by the local Presbyterian church, and his father was helped by a teacher to learn English outside the classroom.
“Are we still that country anymore? Did John F. Kennedy call immigrants rapists and criminals back then?” Acosta asked, in an apparent reference to Trump’s comment when he launched his campaign in 2015. “No. I think we have to take stock of where we are right now and ask ourselves whether or not we’re leaving that better country that, Bill you say that we’re going to be leaving to our kids and grandkids–whether we’re in fact doing that, or whether that’s just lip service.”
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