WATCH: CNN’s Jeffrey Lord Says President Trump Is ‘The Martin Luther King of Health Care.’ (He’s Not.)

Why Did CNN Hire Him?

Jeffrey Lord called President Donald Trump “The Martin Luther King of health care” Thursday moning. Lord, a former Trump surrogate and a CNN political analyst for years, has a long an ugly history of launching grenade-like racist remarks. In 2015, Media Matters published an article titled, “New CNN Hire Jeffrey Lord Is An Anti-Immigrant Lynching Denier Who Compares Opponents To Nazis.”

It hasn’t gotten any better.

Here’s the clip of Lord’s offensive remarks, which aren’t even worth dissecting:

Fortunately, Symone Sanders put him in his place. She later posted this tweet:

On Twitter, Jeffrey Lord is now trending:

And it’s become a Twitter Moment: Jeffrey Lord on CNN: Trump is the MLK of health care