CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings offered his take on President-elect Donald Trump’s political resurgence, describing his success with three words: “breaker of narratives.”
Jennings, often at odds with his fellow commentators on the left-leaning network, argued that Trump’s ability to overcome the legacy media narrative stemmed from his unwavering refusal to let it—or them—define him.
“Trump is having a helluva ride – the greatest political comeback story in American history. Plus, he just destroys one wrongheaded political narrative after another,” Jennings captioned a video of the exchange when he shared it via X.
When asked about Trump’s impact on U.S. politics in the past year, Jennings was frank and candid.
“Well, first of all, it’s the greatest comeback story in American political history,” he began. “I mean, when you think about all the things that you just listed that he survived from the political stuff to the lawfare to the assassination attempts to the Democrats changing out their campaign — when you think about all the unprecedented stuff that he had to survive in order to come back from losing in 2020 to winning not just the Electoral College but the popular vote in 2024. There’s never been anything