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Conservatives are frothing over a Ukraine joke told on CNN

Ivanka Trump leads a charge of high-profile conservatives who feel attacked.

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Over the weekend, NPR reporter Mary-Louise Kelly detailed an incident with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, where he demanded she point out Ukraine on an unlabeled map.

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The point, Pompeo was making, was that most Americans couldn’t find Ukraine on a map.

On a CNN segment over the weekend, host Don Lemon; anti-Trump Republican/resistance bookseller Rick Wilson; and New York Times columnist Wajahat Ali discussed the story. Wilson joked that Trump couldn’t find Ukraine on a map if you spotted him the letter “U” and a picture of a crane.

The joke left Lemon a sobbing, cackling mess.

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The trio riffed on it, pretending to be a hypothetical Trump voter who didn’t care that people could read maps or knew basic geography.

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Which is, literally, what Pompeo was saying. That the average American couldn’t point to Ukraine on a map and didn’t care about it.

When he did it, it didn’t spark outrage, just a rallying cry from Republicans against the media.

When this group did the exact same thing, it sparked a thousand tweets of the “elites” being dismissive of the intelligence of the average American.

Not only did Trump himself share the clip, his daughter, who is the heiress of a million-dollar fortune, went in on the nation’s “elites.”

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“The arrogance, mocking accents and smug ridicule of this nation’s ‘Real Elites’ is disgusting,” wrote Ivanka Trump.

Prominent conservatives criticized the clip as well.

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As of press time, the indignation was picking up steam on Twitter.

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