By Katherine Tinsley
3:44pm PDT, Jun 18, 2025
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Donald Trump critic
Jim Acosta had a harsh message about the president's administration as conflict continues to arise globally. The CNN alum called the former reality star "a danger to this country."
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Jim Acosta spoke about Donald Trump at the Center for American Progress on Tuesday, June 17: "I've been sort of trying to shout this from the rooftops or wherever anybody will listen to me — at the end of a bar in Kansas City, whatever: The President of the United States is a danger to this country. Full stop," he said.
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On Saturday, June 14 — Donald Trump's birthday — the president held a parade celebrating the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Some commentators have drawn comparisons between the Trump administration and North Korea: "Even people in the Republican Party were afraid to show up at his birthday parade — the dictator Kim Jong Un birthday parade that he tried to have over the weekend where you saw the video of the tank going by the empty stands and you heard the squeaking of the tracks of the tank. And it was sort of like, 'What is this?'" Jim Acosta said.
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Jim Acosta noted how some retired servicemen have said their efforts in World War II could be undermined if a fascist dictatorship were to come to power in the U.S. "There were some of these military veterans who had fought in World War II and said, 'We defeated fascism the last time, I'm here to do it this time,'" he recalled. "I don't know if anybody saw those images, but they were very stirring images, I thought."
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When Jim Acosta left CNN after Donald Trump's second inauguration, the president publicly celebrated his exit. The two men have ceaselessly criticized one another over the years. Acosta, for example, recently joked about Ivana Trump's death during an appearance on "The Contrarian."
"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?" he asked. (She is, in fact, buried at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey.)
"Immigrants always doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do!" he joked of foreign-born women marrying the former reality star.
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Karoline Leavitt slammed Jim Acosta's comments in a statement, telling Fox News he's "a disgraceful human being."
