CNN reporter struggles not to laugh while covering Trump’s X-rated Arnold Palmer anecdote: ‘I’m not making this up’
A CNN reporter at the MAGA rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday struggled to make his way through a recap of former President Donald Trump’s talking points from the event, which included a lengthy anecdote about late golf legend Arnold Palmer’s genitalia.
The live feed showed political correspondent Steve Contorno trying to summarize Trump’s rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, which skipped from a bizarre tangent about Palmer’s manhood to the former president’s haircare routine.
Trump talked about Palmer, a Latrobe🌳 native, for 12 minutes.
“Arnold Palmer was all man. And I say th𒁃at at all due respect to women. And I love women. But this guy, this guy. This is a guy that was all man,” Trump had said during his speech.
“This man was strong and tough … And I refuse to say it. But when he took showers wit⭕h the other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God! That’s unbelievable.’”
Contorno was tasked with professionally covering Palmer’s purported generous endowment live on air while Trump was still talking in the background.
“Trump’s campaign telling us that tonight’s appearance in this speech that he is giving is the beginning of his closing argument to voters that he is going to deliver over the next couple weeks. And that closing argument began rather … interestingly,” Contorno began, already fighting back a chuckle.
“He started with a long-winded story about Latrobe, Pennsylvania, native Arnold Palmer, including — and I’m not making this up — a description of the Hall of Fame golfer in the men’s room, in the locker room, and what he looked like in the shower!”
Stifling laughter, he moved on quickly, segueing into the more typical rally coverage of parsing through political statements, including Trump’s continued attacks against President Biden for targeting Catholic Americans.
