CNBC’s Joe Kernen is making a career out of being humiliated as he tries to defend the Trump administration.
During an interview this week with GOP Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, Kernen asked about the requirement for the Department of Homeland Security to obtain judicial warrants before breaking down people’s doors.
“What about judicial warrants vs. administrative warrants?” he asked. “We’d never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time.”
“Well, I don’t think that’s true, but I mean obeying the Fourth Amendment or the Constitution shouldn’t be too difficult,” Paul replied. “It is something we fought the revolution over—it was a big deal.”
Days earlier, co-host Andrew Sorkin was forced to remind Kernen that worsening inflation cannot be finessed, after former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg dragged Kernen for his insistence that Trump brought down inflation.
A few weeks before that, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California shut down Kernen after he framed the partial government shutdown as Democratic political theater rather than a response to the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens by immigration goons.
And in January, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia refused to let Kernen steer a conversation away from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ documented civil rights’ violations.
Kernen’s defense of President Donald Trump’s policies means he’s been wrong about virtually everything related to our economy—including Trump’s idiotic tariffs.
When Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts appeared on CNBC shortly after Trump’s tariffs began disrupting the markets, she was forced to remind Kernen that Trump tried something similar in his first term, resulting in increased costs to U.S. consumers.
Even Sorkin has found himself clashing with Kernen, whose inability to confront uncomfortable subjects involving Trump led to an embarrassing on-air incident, where he tried to shield House Speaker of the House Mike Johnson from questions about Trump’s connection to the Epstein files.
Kernen has never been subtle so much as he is predictable. But each attempt to spin the indefensible does raise a question: Why doesn’t he jump ship to Fox News already?
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