Well, you’ve got to hand it to CNN—they’ve mastered the fine art of producing live cable television that’s half political roundtable, half reality show catfight.
This week’s installment of “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” featured the topic of Greenland, of all things, and let’s just say, it delivered more drama than a Real Housewives reunion. Sparks flew, logic ducked for cover, and GOP strategist Scott Jennings once again found himself surrounded by left-wing talking points dressed up in academic jargon and moral outrage.
Enter Tiffany Cross. Yes, that Tiffany Cross—the one who used to host “The Cross Connection” over on MSNBC before the network quietly shoved her out the back door with a “thanks but no thanks” just ahead of the 2022 midterms. That didn’t stop her from turning a basic geopolitical conversation into some sort of anti-colonial TED Talk. According to Cross, Trump’s interest in purchasing Greenland was nothing short of a modern-day act of colonial aggression. Because nothing says “imperialist invasion” like, you know, a proposed real estate deal.
Cross’s argument was basically that President Trump looking at Greenland and saying “Hey, that could be strategic for national defense and resource development” is the equivalent of planting a flag and enslaving a continent. “It’s a colonizer’s attitude to say, ‘I like it, I‘m just going to steal it,’” she declared, either unaware or unconcerned that the United States has this little tradition of buying land (see: Louisiana Purchase, Alaska, etc.) rather than pillaging it.
Jennings, bless him, tried to bring a little sanity back into the room by pointing out that suggesting Trump was trying to steal Greenland was patently ridiculous. But Cross wasn’t having it. She doubled down on her revisionist rhetoric with the kind of confidence you only find in someone who’s sure they’re making a viral moment, facts be damned.
When Jennings calmly explained that no one in the administration was proposing theft, Cross decided to pivot by attacking him. “You’re irrelevant,” she sneered, as if not being an elected official meant his arguments couldn’t possibly matter.
And that’s when Jennings delivered what can only be described as a verbal KO. “You got fired from your job. How relevant are you?” Oof. That one hit harder than CNN’s ratings during a Trump-free week.
Naturally, Cross was suddenly wounded by the personal attack she herself invited. Classic move. The left has become masterful at dishing it out and then grabbing the pearls when it’s served back. She called Jennings irrelevant, but when he hit back with an actual fact—her pink slip—she cried foul. That’s the thing with progressive pundits: they can’t decide whether they want to be the referee or the victim. Either way, they never seem to stick to their own rules.
CROSS: “You’re not a member of government, so you’re irrelevant.”
JENNINGS: “You got fired from your job, how relevant are you?” pic.twitter.com/GIxvKJ44HF
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 10, 2025
Let’s not forget this is the same Tiffany Cross who once compared MAGA hats to swastikas, told viewers that vaccine hesitancy in black communities was due to—you guessed it—white supremacy, and gave airtime to guests who called Republican voters “evil” and black GOP candidates “what Republicans want from their negroes.” Real enlightened stuff.
So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that she’s now rebranding Greenland discussions into colonialist manifestos. This is the modern Left’s playbook: insert identity politics into everything, ignore history, accuse opponents of bigotry, and then scream “victim” when they’re called out.
CNN got exactly what it wanted—fireworks, controversy, and a whole lot of Twitter clips. Jennings walked away looking like the only adult in the room, and Cross reminded America exactly why MSNBC decided her brand of activist journalism probably wasn’t ready for prime time. The rest of us? Just another night of liberal cable news theater, brought to you by people who still think Trump is out here trying to annex the Arctic.
