'What the hell is she talking about?' Karoline Leavitt laughed at on MSNBC for Trump boast
The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend' as well as their guests were brought to laughter after watching a clip of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt breathlessly boasting about Donald Trump's tariffs as part of brilliant negotiating.
With the president walking back his sweeping tariff plan with the exception of China before the weekend, he then backed off tariffs on Chinese electronics late Friday night in an apparent nod to his supporters in Silicon Valley.
After noting the "climbdown," co-host Michael Steele pointed out that the White House spokesperson was leaning on the ghost-written Trump book "Art of the Deal" as an administration talking point.
Speaking to reporters outside the briefing room, the 27-year-old Leavitt chastised them with, "Many of you in the. media clearly missed the art of. the deal. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You you tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China, when in fact, we've seen the opposite effect. The entire world is calling the United States of America and not China, because they need our markets."
After watching the clip, co-host Steele blurted, "What the hell is she talking about?"
"I mean, does she not know that China and Japan and other nations are creating their own little economic axis without the us right now?" he added before turning to guest Basil Smikle to explain, "That somehow this art of the deal is working."
"There is no evidence that it's working. You can't govern with stream of consciousness," Smikle replied to laughter before dryly adding, "That doesn't work."
Turning serious he added, "You know, I heard Bill Clinton say this a number of years ago, that the United States is 4 to 5 percent of the world's population so we have to play nice with our partners around around the globe. And as you said, and we talked about this before, what China has been doing internationally has been, you know, when you.look at it, you know, building ports in places in Africa and in the Caribbean, they've expanded their economy significantly."
"So this sort of protectionist approach that the president is thinking or trying to promote that he has, I definitely think, you know, hurts American workers," he continued.
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