Donald Trump has been playing “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” over The Rolling Stones’ objections, and the president has done this with other songs, too. Trump isn’t one to ask for consent. CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta explained to Anderson Cooper on ‘AC360’ on Tuesday night that a White House adviser summarized Trump’s effort to overturn the election results by citing the Rolling Stones song that Trump has repeatedly played at his rallies.
Cooper asked Acosta about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulating President-elect Joe Biden and vice-president-elect Kamala Harris following the Electoral College confirming the former vice-president’s victory.
“Is there any sense of how the president feels about Senator McConnell congratulating the president-elect? What’s the status of that relationship?” Cooper asked.
“He has not weighed in publicly yet, has not tweeted about this yet,” Acosta said, adding, “I think the clearest indication of how the president feels could be captured in that White House briefing room earlier today. Kayleigh McEnany, the press secretary, was performing for an audience of one.”
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Acosta then tore into McEnany’s incredible remarks about a possible “continuation of power” for Trump — who was clearly defeated by Biden. “She used those words, ‘continuation of power,’ suggesting that somehow the president might remain in office,” Acosta said, adding that the remark was “a laughable thing to say.”
“On top of that, I will tell you, Anderson, there are people inside the president’s team of advisers who just, they’ve just given up on this, and they can’t understand why the president can’t get to conceding that he lost this election,” Acosta continued to say.
“I talked to an advisor earlier this evening who said, who described it this way, talking about a Rolling Stones song that we used to hear played at the end of Trump rallies, ‘You Can’t Always Get What You Want,’ and then the words of this advisor, ‘Cue Mick Jagger,’ meaning this is it. It’s the end for President Trump,” Acosta said.
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Well, Trump did eventually tweet about McConnell, and the president is apparently not very good at math.
Trump’s allies slam Mitch McConnell for congratulating Biden https://t.co/ak9nu6420L via @MailOnline. Mitch, 75,000,000 VOTES, a record for a sitting President (by a lot). Too soon to give up. Republican Party must finally learn to fight. People are angry!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 16, 2020
Trump got just over 74 million votes. Biden got over 7 million more than the outgoing president. And to win, you need to get more votes than your challenger — and more electoral votes.
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