On November 8, according to Yahoo News, Anderson Cooper said that he regretted calling President Trump a "fat tortoise" in his previous remarks, which he believed was completely unnecessary.
On Thursday (November 5), the CNN anchor likened Trump to this reptile. Earlier, the president preemptively claimed in a press conference that Trump used a historic vote on the basis of legal votes. Number of re-election. At the same time, Trump has repeatedly accused Democrats of fraudulent elections by mailing ballots and demanded that the votes be recounted in the state led by his opponent Joe Biden.
On Saturday (November 7), former US Vice President Biden won 290 electoral votes, surpassing Trump's votes. During Trump's speech, several news networks stopped broadcasting to refute Trump's remarks. Later on CNN, Cooper responded: "That is the President of the United States. That is the most powerful man in the world. However, we saw him like a fat turtle on his back, slapping in the hot sun. Wing, realized that his time is over.”
According to reports, this video has been viewed 10 million times on Twitter, which also sparked strong opposition to the TV host’s insulting remarks. On Saturday, Cooper tried to correct the incident in an interview with former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Cooper said that he regretted using those words because that was not the person he really wanted to be. But the election was at a hot moment, so he regretted and apologized for it.