‘Nonsensical Gibberish!’ Alisyn Camerota Mocks Trump To Time Interviewer Over Bizarre ‘200 Deals’ Claim

Podcast host Alisyn Camerota mocked President Donald Trump over his wild claim to have completed 200 trade deals, calling it “nonsensical gibberish.”

On this week’s edition of the Sanity with Alisyn & Dave podcast, co-hosts Camerota and Dave Briggs quizzed Cortellessa about the big Trump get.

When Time Magazine Senior Political Correspondent Eric Cortellessa and Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs. confronted Trump recently with the fact that there are “zero deals so far,” Trump claimed “I’ve made 200 deals” — but couldn’t provide details.

In one exchange, Cortellessa tried to make sense of the “200 deals” claim, but Camerota just cut to the chase and called it gobbledygook:

ALISYN CAMEROTA: He told you he’s made 200 deals with other countries. Why couldn’t he name one of them?

ERIC CORTELLESSA: Um, that’s a good question. I certainly asked him that, uh, you know, no deal has been announced. Uh, it’s, it certainly possible that there actually isn’t a deal. It’s possible that they’re waiting to roll out a number of them together.

Um, don’t have insight into that. He also said he had spoken with president Xi of China who had called him the Chinese deny that. Um, Howard Lutnick told me on the record, those talks were underway. Another senior administration official said. That they were as well.

So it’s kind of a he said, she said thing.

But, you know, basically, it was really interesting, right? He says there’s 200 deals and there aren’t even 200 countries in the world.

But I think when I sort of pressed him on can you share with whom, his answer was, because a deal is a deal that I choose, view it differently, I’m a department store and I set the price, right?

And I think how I interpreted that was, Trump has an idea in his mind for the kind of deal he would ink with various countries. He didn’t actually say this in the interview, but I know he said this to others, that he looks at it as like a tailor-made suit for each country.

And he basically thinks that because of the economic power of the United States and just how coveted access to our markets is, he’s going to be able to pressure these countries to submit to the terms he’s laying out. So maybe he has an ideas about a deal on his mind, but, I don’t think they’re quite solidified.

ALISYN CAMEROTA: Yeah, that’s not the definition of a deal that I have! I mean, you know, I thought that there were moments in the interview where you are having to interpret in real time, you now, I think, oh, no, no.

In the fact check, what I really appreciated about the interview was that there’s a companion piece to it where afterwards you fact check because as Dave and I were talking about, it’s impossible to do it in real-time. That the interview would have been completely derailed.

So afterwards, you guys go back and provide the fact-check of it where you have to divine what he’s saying, because it is open to interpretation and confusing.

ERIC CORTELLESSA: Yeah, I mean, that’s part of the beauty of the platform, right? We get to do the interview and, like you say, if you fact check everything in real time, you just don’t have an interview.

So you can’t do it all. But we are able to set the record straight in the fact check.

ALISYN CAMEROTA: You had to do, you and Time, not just you, you and time magazine have to do interpreting of what he means because some of his answers are nonsensical, gibberish!

Watch above via the Sanity with Alisyn & Dave podcast.