CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Calls BS On Trump Trade War ‘Win’ — Of Things Canada And Mexico Were ‘Already Going To Do’
CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins called BS on President Donald Trump “claiming victory” in a standoff over tariffs, pointing out that the ostensible “concessions” were things that had already been announced or planned.
Over the weekend, Trump announced stiff 25 percent tariffs against close U.S. trading partners Canada and Mexico and 10 percent on goods from China, which were set to take effect Monday. But the opening bell saw the Dow Jones plummet over 500 points within seconds, and within hours Trump was announcing a “pause” on tariffs with Canada and Mexico — claiming it was the result of his dealmaking.
On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins lightly roasted Trump — the same person who, of course, on the cover of The Art of the Deal” — for “winning” things that were already in place:
COLLINS: President Trump is declaring victory for now, in his trade standoffs with Mexico and Canada, with the President pausing, for at least the next month, on actions that could have dramatically increased prices for Americans on everything, from cars to avocados.
But Trump, the same person who, of course, on the cover of “The Art of the Deal,” said this today about his goal, ultimately with Canada.
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TRUMP: What I’d like to see, Canada become our 51st state.
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COLLINS: That was after his first phone call with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, today, but before his second one. I was there in the East Room, shortly after that second call had ended.
Trump here, overall, seems to have won an agreement, where Canada is really going to do what it was already going to do. The Prime Minister saying this $1.3 billion border plan that he announced, back in December, is going to go into place.
And as for Mexico, this is how President Trump explained that result.
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TRUMP: They have agreed to put in 10,000 soldiers, permanently, like forever, 10,000 soldiers at their side of the border, and stop fentanyl and illegal aliens from coming into our country.
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COLLINS: According to Mexico’s Defense Ministry, there are already 15,000 troops, nearly, there on the border. It’s a deployment that started in 2019.
Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.
