Just when we thought CNN couldn’t get any more vile and unwatchable, the legacy cable news outlet proves us wrong. For some reason known only to that person, a CNN executive editor thought it would be a great idea to send a reporter to go and ask a member of the Mexico-based Sinaloa drug cartel what he feels about President Donald Trump. No, we’re not kidding.
The interview comes after Trump designated all of the cartels in Mexico terrorist organizations. As the Trump administration intensifies efforts against violent organizations flooding our country with lethal fentanyl, which has claimed countless American lives, CNN chose to explore the perspective of a cartel member.
“According to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist,” reporter Isobel Yeung says in the remarkable segment. “The cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization. What do you make of that?” The heavily disguised cartel member responds: “Well, the situation is ugly, but we have to eat” — as if selling drugs, smuggling human beings and raping women is the only way to earn the ability to get a meal south of the border.
RedState notes further:
Yeung continues to platform the terrorist organization member.
“What’s your message to Donald Trump, if he’s watching this?” she asks.
“My respect. According to him, he’s looking out for his people. But the problem is the consumers,” he replies. “If there weren’t any [American] consumers, we would stop.”
In perhaps the most fitting part of the interview, the Sinaloa cartel member is wearing a hat featuring the Joker.
Yeung inquires as to whether or not the man feels any remorse, noting that “people are dying on a daily basis” and “children are afraid to go to school.”
“Of course, things are sad,” he replies. “But well, things are sad.”
The segment has all the vibes of someone sitting down and asking, ‘Say, Mr. Bin Laden, tell us how you feel about people calling you a terrorist after 9/11,’ and ‘What’s your message to George W. Bush?’
CNN is now interviewing cartel members to ask how they feel about being labeled terrorists.
You cannot make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/4RhsTMykJ3
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 4, 2025
Needless to say, social media users ravaged CNN, as they should have. “CNN is the enemy of the people,” political activist David Freeman correctly noted on X. “This is absolutely evil [CNN],” another woman seethed. “Interviewing cartel…the ppl that human traffick children, smuggle drugs into the US, rape, murder and rob ppl. Just when you think MSM can’t sink any lower, the next day happens.”
“I feel like these kinds of journalists fetishize criminals,” added another user. “It strikes me as similar to the women who would throw themselves at Ted Bundy after he was arrested.”
CNN is not the first mainstream media outlet to interview a member of the Sinaloa drug cartel about their operations in the United States. A “60 Minutes Overtime” segment that aired in March also sat down with one such human smuggler for the terrorist organization, who said business is still booming as he now smuggles people out of the United States and into Canada. The smuggler confesses that he transports people, including babies, across the northern border, as well as large amounts of fentanyl and weapons.
These ‘journalists’ and their media bosses wonder why a record number of Americans don’t like them, don’t trust them, and are increasingly turning them off — especially CNN.