CNN's Abby Phillip really knows how to scrape the bottom of the barrel for guests for CNN NewsNight. I remember the time she dragged on conspiracy theorist Joy Reid after she'd been cast off of MSNBC for being a liability. But then I saw this clip in which Scott Jennings is sitting next to podcaster Jennifer Welch, who, I have to admit, owes the CNN makeup team a huge thank you for transforming the dried husk she appears as on her podcast. Seriously, they did an amazing job. They took years—decades—off of her withered face. I remember when it came out that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings had a special filter put on the lens of his camera to smooth out his face—something similar has to be going on here.
CNN always can be counted on for the thoughtful chyrons, such as this one: "Is America on a fast track toward autocracy?" The clip's cut too tight for us to hear what Welch had to say about January 6, which was worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 combined, but she did claim President Donald Trump obviously has dementia, and cites his attempt to perform oral sex on a microphone as proof.
🚨 NEW - JENNIFER WELCH: Donald Trump tried to have oral s*x with a microphone on the campaign trail!
— THE INTEL PATRIOT 🇺🇸 (@DeIntelpatriot) July 20, 2026
SCOTT JENNINGS: “If this is the Democratic strategy, congratulations, America, you've already elected Republicans as far as the eye can see."
Boom! pic.twitter.com/gIsfNu3H1P
Come on, CNN. Do better. Then again, Jennings is right—keeping Welch talking might be a good strategy for the Republicans.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting out of hand. These people are a danger not only to themselves but anyone around them.
— Ken (@Ken_Allaga) July 20, 2026
It's time to open up the asylums and start filling them.
They are absolutely mental. How anyone listens to this and takes it in just shows how divided we are. The rational and the irrational
— Dmc (@bigdamomac1983) July 20, 2026
She is a loony tune. pic.twitter.com/qw1V1xo2CT
— Marla ☘️ 🇺🇸 (@believes_marla) July 20, 2026
Someone tell her that video of Trump and the microphone was a cheap fake—people will buy that.
Let Dems cook. They are destroying themselves faster than we ever could.
— US Patriot 🇺🇸 (@NJ_USA_Patriot) July 20, 2026
Welch is a mentally ill perverted mess. She’s a great representation of today’s Democrat party, and the funny thing is not one Democrat supporter in the media will ever correct her on her filthy outbursts
— conservativecarpenter2🇺🇸 (@greatcarpentry2) July 20, 2026
She seems to have come out of nowhere, but apparently she and her podcast co-host were featured on Bravo's Real Housewives of Oklahoma or something like that.
This woman needs help. Truly. She's got a severe mental health problem going on and should be taken off the air and put under a 72 hour hold at the minimum. She's an absolute embarrassment to that station let alone her family.
— nightsmusic (@nightsmusic1) July 20, 2026
Contrasts in human intelligence right here.
— Bhudda Pest (@BhuddaPest502) July 20, 2026
Welch is one of the most vile creatures on the internet.
— Don Satina (@DonSatina) July 20, 2026
Not only that, but the stuff she says.
Why do the Dems keep trotting her out?
— CryptoInvestor64 (@CryptoInvstr64) July 20, 2026
She's one of the least likeable human beings around.
Wow! How did she get booked!?!?!
— Sharon Flecha (@sharon_flecha) July 20, 2026
She is a skank of the first order.
— Ann Myers (@24by24) July 20, 2026
CNN, knowing full well what they were signing up for, booked this woman on purpose. By all means, make her the face of the Democrat Party—without the CNN makeup team and their wizardry.
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