CNN cuts away from Trump's Iowa victory speech to protect viewers from Trump's 'anti-immigrant rhetoric'

CNN, an outlet that routinely prides itself on presenting "facts first" that "aren’t colored by emotion or bias" cut away from former President Trump's Iowa caucus victory speech, seemingly justifying the move by saying he was engaging in "anti-immigrant rhetoric."  

"Are we going to seal up the border?" Trump said during the speech. "Because right now we have an invasion. We have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. I can't imagine why they think that's a good thing." 

CNN reporter Jake Tapper then cut in, telling viewers, "Donald Trump declaring victory with a historically strong showing in the Iowa caucuses" and that "if these numbers hold the biggest victory for a non-incumbent president in the modern era for this contest." 

Tapper said that while he viewed Trump's remarks as "a relatively subdued speech as these things go" but then added, "under my voice, you hear [the former president] repeating his anti-immigrant rhetoric." 

After learning of his projected win, Trump said he is "greatly honored" as well as "invigorated" for the rest of the campaign. 

"We have to get our country back," Trump told Fox News Digital. "Our country has gone through so many bad things over the last three years, and it is continuing to go through bad things." 

"We’re going to quickly do it all again," he added. "We are going to fix our border and we are going to do it and do it quickly." 

This comes after Joe Biden angrily lashed out at Trump, who is widely considered the Republican Party primary's frontrunner, in addition to "extreme MAGA Republicans" following the projected victory. 

"Looks like Donald Trump just won Iowa. He’s the clear front runner on the other side at this point," Biden posted on X.   

"But here’s the thing: this election was always going to be you and me vs. extreme MAGA Republicans. It was true yesterday and it’ll be true tomorrow."  

This type of rhetoric is nothing new for Biden; he also recently said during a speech near Valley Forge, PA that Trump is "echoing the same exact language used in Nazi Germany. He probably posted on social media the words that best describe his 2024 campaign 'revenge,' 'power,' and 'dictatorship.'"  

In other Iowa GOP caucus news, longtime entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announced Monday night that he is dropping out of the race and endorsed Trump to be the party's nominee. Ramaswamy had placed 4th in the caucus with 8 percent of the vote, coming behind Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.