CNN’s Rye Reminded of Slavery by Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’

CNN's Rye Reminded of Slavery by Trump's 'Make America Great Again' (NewsBusters)

Appearing as a guest on Tuesday's CNN Newsroom with Carol Costello, liberal CNN political commentator Angela Rye hyperbolically asserted that Donald Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan reminds her of slavery and the days when black Americans were assaulted with dogs and water hoses.

Even though the Republican presidential candidate has stated that the 1980s is an era that he believes America was "great," and has focused on jobs lost by what he believes are unfair trade deals as factors in America not being as "great" as in the past, the CNN commentator linked his slogan to the days of extreme racism against the black population: "I also think when you start your campaign with a slogan like 'Make America Great Again,' when some of us hear shackles in our minds or we hear dogs and see fire hoses, that's not an era we want to go back to."