CNN drew a significant level of criticism from viewers after airing a segment in which they allowed a Sinaloa cartel member to discuss his feelings about President Trump.
The United States officially declared the Sinaloa cartel a foreign terrorist organization in early February with a declaration by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
As the Trump administration cracks down on such violent organizations for flooding our country with deadly fentanyl, taking countless American lives, CNN decided to discuss how that makes one cartel member feel.
“According to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist,” reporter Isobel Yeung says in the remarkable segment. “The cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization. What do you make of that?”
“Well, the situation is ugly, but we have to eat,” the heavily disguised cartel member replies.
CNN is now interviewing cartel members to ask how they feel about being labeled terrorists.
You cannot make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/4RhsTMykJ3
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) May 4, 2025
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Yeung continues to platform the terrorist organization member.
“What’s your message to Donald Trump, if he’s watching this?” she asks.
“My respect. According to him, he’s looking out for his people. But the problem is the consumers,” he replies. “If there weren’t any [American] consumers, we would stop.”
In perhaps the most fitting part of the interview, the Sinaloa cartel member is wearing a hat featuring the Joker.
Yeung inquires as to whether or not the man feels any remorse, noting that “people are dying on a daily basis” and “children are afraid to go to school.”
“Of course, things are sad,” he replies. “But well, things are sad.”
The segment has all the vibes of someone sitting down and asking, ‘Say, Mr. Bin Laden, tell us how you feel about people calling you a terrorist after 9/11,’ and ‘What’s your message to George W. Bush?’
Social media erupted after the interview aired, ripping CNN for providing a microphone to the drug cartel.
“CNN is the enemy of the people,” political activist David Freeman correctly noted on X.
“This is absolutely evil [CNN],” another woman seethed. “Interviewing cartel…the ppl that human traffick children, smuggle drugs into the US, rape, murder and rob ppl. Just when you think MSM can’t sink any lower, the next day happens.”
“I feel like these kinds of journalists fetishize criminals,” wrote one viewer. “It strikes me as similar to the women who would throw themselves at Ted Bundy after he was arrested.”
The poor drug cartels …
Holy shit. https://t.co/uN9uG6D45G
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) May 4, 2025
CNN, unbelievably, isn’t the first mainstream media outlet to interview a Sinaloa drug cartel member to discuss how things are going for them in the United States.
A “60 Minutes Overtime” segment airing in March also sat down with one such human smuggler for the terrorist organization, who said business is still booming as he now smuggles people out of the United States and into Canada.
The smuggler admits that he not only moves people – including babies – across the northern border, but also significant quantities of fentanyl and weapons, and “60 Minutes Overtime” had a friendly sit-down with him.
The Department of the Treasury under President Trump leveled new sanctions against financiers of the Sinaloa drug cartel in late March, the latest move in the administration’s attempts to secure the homeland from these monsters.
CNN also ran a segment over the weekend in which they criticized Trump for going after “musicians who sing about” the Mexican drug cartels.
