Former GOP Strategist Reacts To 'Indefensible' Trump Thanksgiving Rant: 'It's A Tough One'

The ex-federal prosecutor said Friday on CNN that such comments from the president are what make it "so difficult" to be a conservative these days.

Former GOP strategist Joseph Moreno called President Donald Trump’s hostile Thanksgiving rant “absolutely indefensible” during a Friday appearance on CNN’s “The Lead,” suggesting that the caustic messaging from the president and his administration is placing a growing burden on conservatives.

Guest host Boris Sanchez asked Moreno, “What happened to ‘Happy Thanksgiving?’” Trump certainly started his Thursday screed that way, before the insults started flying.

“Boris, you’re putting your finger, honestly, on what’s so difficult to be a conservative-leaning citizen, who my whole life has cherished vigorous but respectful debate,” said Moreno, a former federal prosecutor and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves.

He continued, “And so when you see something like this, which is absolutely indefensible, and you’re sitting at the Thanksgiving table, and your family and friends say, ‘How can you possibly support an administration that comes out with messages like this?’ — it’s not easy.”

Trump shared a lengthy tirade on his Truth Social platform one day after two National Guard members were shot in Washington, D.C., where they were deployed to contain the purported “bedlam” of crime he claimed earlier this year required a federal presence.