CNN Regular Says Trump Is A Cancer, MAGA Is A Demon In Need Of ‘Exorcism’

Regular CNN analyst Bakari Sellers veered into Nazi territory when he referred to President Donald Trump as a “cancer” and suggested that the president’s voters were vermin or even demons who needed to be completely eradicated from the United States.

Sellers, during a recent panel discussion hosted by ousted CNN anchor Don Lemon, claimed that the nation was well on its way to requiring an “exorcism” or even a “fumigation” to remove the MAGA movement in its entirety.

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Bakari Sellers tells Don Lemon: The country needs a “fumigation” of MAGA.

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“You know, Joe Biden was somewhat of a bridge, he was supposed to be a bridge,” Sellers began, suggesting that former President Joe Biden’s election had been a means to an end — the tolerable middle ground that would allow the country to break away from Trump’s first administration and pave the way toward a real Democratic movement.

“A palate cleanser, or somebody who morally and ethically was antithetical to who Donald Trump was,” Sellers continued. “You know, Uncle Joe was the nice guy, an older white guy comes in and you want to eat ice cream with him, right?”

But then Sellers went on to say that President Trump’s decisive victory in 2024 had proved that using Biden as a “palate cleanser” had not been enough to put an end to the Trump’s support and clear the way for Democrats moving forward. He made no move to recognize that Biden may have failed to move the needle because he was not an effective leader, nor did he raise the possibility that Trump had coasted to reelection in 2024 because former Vice President Kamala Harris had not been a strong candidate.

Instead, Sellers responded to that assessment by arguing in favor of taking more drastic measures to “cleanse” the nation’s palate of its taste for Trump, comparing the president’s supporters to vermin that required “fumigation” and even demons in desperate need of an “exorcism.”

“I think what that episode in our country’s history showed us is that we really need some fumigation, right? We need a — a — exorcism, for lack of a better term,” he said. “We need a more aggressive approach to go in and surgically remove the cancer that is the Donald Trump and MAGA movement.”