CNN Host Compares Chance of Trump Defying Judge on Illegals to Trail of Tears

In one of those moments that one might have missed live because it was so out-of-left-field, CNN host Laura Coates made a comment Wednesday during Kasie Hunt’s new show The Arena linking President Donald Trump’s latest back-and-forth with the judiciary over illegal immigrant deportation flights to President Andrew Jackson’s displacement of Native Americans starting in the 1830s that became known as the Trail of Tears.

Coates chimed in prior to a commercial break that “it’s not totally unprecedented at all for a president to disagree with an opinion of a judge,” adding “we saw that with Andrew Jackson, who didn’t like the ruling about the Cherokee Nation, when he ignored the ruling and said something like, you know what, so here’s your order. Now you come and enforce it.”