‘Just blatant disrespect’: CNN panel flays Trump for boasting about ‘BSing’ Canada’s Trudeau

Reacting to a Washington Post report that President Donald Trump laughingly boasted to donors about lying to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the panel on CNN 's "New Day" was stunned that the president brazenly admitted it and warned that it will come back to harm the U.S. in future trade negotiations with other countries.

Wednesday night the Washington Post reported that Trump told donors that he made up information about a trade deficit he believes the United States has with Canada during a meeting with Trudeau -- and that the president treated it like a joke.

To illustrate the offensiveness of Trump making light of speaking with another world -- particularly one closely allied with the U.S. -- hosts Chris Cuomo and Alisyn Camerota took time to read the entire transcript of Trump's comments for CNN analysts John Avlon and Mark Preston.

Following the recitation, Cuomo took aim at Trump.

"Look we know that the president flagrantly abuses the truth, when I say we, I mean everyone but the Trump base, abuses the truth when it suits him," host Cuomo began. "It's part of his persuasiveness and maybe his own sense of self-delusion, about what is true and what isn't. But what does it mean for Justin Trudeau to hear this isn't what the president was talking about when they are still at the table about NAFTA?"

"Oh, it's going to mean great things, it's really help build trust," Avlon sarcastically offered. "It's not that he is bragging about lying, that this is part of the Manhattan real estate developer persona, right? But it is the personal disrespect he has shown in Justin Trudeau. He is basically playing him off as 'a good-looking guy who I just blatantly lied to and I'm such a genius that I was proven right.'"

"Look, presidential words matter, but they do not matter to President Trump and, what's more, he brags about lying," he continued.

"I see it differently," host Camerota interjected. "I see it as the best window yet we have had into his style and belief that he doesn't care about the details or the facts. They don't matter. He runs with a hunch ... he has a feeling about this. 'I feel you're screwing me over, so I don't need to know the facts, I feel that way.' So he runs with it."

"Geopolitically,  going with your gut is dangerous," Preston remarked. "Acts matter when we're dealing with international diplomacy and the American president, whose words really do matter."

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