Trump is selling his supporters a 'racist fantasy land': CNN panel

A CNN panel on Monday hammered President Donald Trump for threatening to shut down the entire U.S.-Mexico border, and one guest accused him of selling his supporters a "racist fantasy land."

During the panel, CNN contributor Irin Carmon said that Trump's plan to shut down the border was completely unrealistic and sounded more like something you'd see in a 4Chan thread than from a serious White House.

"This is what happens when you are governed by the base instincts of YouTube commentators," she said. "This is, essentially, kind of engineering a racist fantasy land. Whether it comes to fruition or not, this is all about keeping President Trump's base in a permanent state of furious arousal."

Carmon then accused the administration of doing as much as it could to create a humanitarian crisis at the southern border by not giving aid to migrants who are trying to claim asylum in the United States. Doing this, she said, bolsters Trump's case to his base that the United States is being "invaded."

CNN's David Gregory shared Carmon's assessment of how the administration is handling the border situation and he accused Trump of engineering the crisis for political gain.

"You don't create a fire just to be able to say, 'I put it out,'" he said.

Watch the video below.