Ex-CNN host Jim Acosta continues to sink to new lows.
On a special episode of “The Contrarian” with host Jennifer Rubin in honor of the left’s “No Kings” Day, Acosta spoke to Rubin and fellow guest, White House correspondent April Ryan, about a number of topics, including deportations carried about by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On the topic of illegal immigration, Costa made one especially bad joke at the expense of President Donald Trump’s deceased ex-wife, Ivana Trump.
“I got a question, though. Where are the ICE raids at the Trump properties?” Acosta posed to Rubin and Ryan.
“Can somebody call ICE on the Trump golf course in Virginia? You’re telling me there’s nobody in there that is undocumented or has some kind of squirreliness going on with their paperwork?” he continued.
🚨NEW: Jim Acosta drags Trump’s deceased ex-wife Ivana into *UNHINGED* rant about immigration raids🚨
“How many immigrants has he married? He’s got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey!”
“Immigrants always doing the jobs that Americans don’t wanna do!”@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/qRuhNYYJII
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Acosta then went after Trump’s marriage history as both his current wife, Melania Trump, and Ivana Trump are immigrants.
Should Jim Acosta apologize?
“How many immigrants has he married? He’s got one buried at his golf course in New Jersey. Isn’t she buried by the first hole or the second tee or something like that?” Acosta asked the two women.
The joke played well with Ryan and Rubin but looked quite awful for Acosta.
Even when spouses of presidents are alive and well, it comes off as crude and underhanded to attack them when they are only guilty of being married to the person in office.
This was a new low for a reporter who quite literally had to have the microphone taken from him like a child during a news conference in 2018.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt clearly felt the same way, telling Fox News, “Jim Acosta is a disgraceful human being.”
According to Fox, Ivana Trump was buried at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, after her death in 2022.
The remark really showed where Acosta’s priorities are and who he thinks is worthy is chastisement and who is worthy of protecting.
Instead of heaping scorn on the awful people ICE is deporting — rapists, murderers, human and drug traffickers — Acosta would rather defend those people and take shots at the dead ex-wife of the president.
In January, Acosta left CNN rather than see his broadcast moved to a later time.
This is one step above CNN outright firing him for being an awful reporter, but it should still tell the public something if a network like that is trying to keep him out of the limelight.
Ivana Trump was the mother of the president’s older children, Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. Acosta was not just jabbing at the president; he was insulting a mother whose children are still here and loved her.
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