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Raw Story: 'What the hell is she talking about?' Karoline Leavitt laughed at on MSNBC for Trump boast
Raw Story - 'What the hell is she talking about?' Karoline Leavitt laughed at on MSNBC for Trump boast
Tom Boggioni
April 13, 2025 8:53AM ET
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?"
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Tom Boggioni
April 13, 2025 8:53AM ET
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?"
/snip/
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