‘The President Is So Funny!’ Fox Anchor Gushes Over Trump Cabinet Meeting Quip
Fox Business Network anchor Maria Bartiromo gushed to Trump adviser Peter Navarro that President Donald Trump “is so funny” after she played a clip of Trump making a quip during a cabinet meeting.
Trump held a 73-minute cabinet meeting Thursday afternoon on the heels of the chaos wrought by tariff policies that wrecked financial markets, after which Trump announced a 90-day “pause” on most of the tariffs that caused the markets to tank.
During the meeting, Trump was asked about China retaliating on the motion picture industry. On Friday morning’s edition of Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria, Bartiromo played the clip and praised Trump’s sense of humor:
NAVARRO: You dump goods into Europe, and that it’s an unsustainable equilibrium. That’s the bottom line. We got to a point, Maria, where the U.S. can’t keep doing what it’s doing. We’re sending too much of our wealth abroad through the trade deficit and losing too many jobs, and we don’t have the ability to defend ourselves —
BARTIROMO: Yeah.
NAVARRO: — because we’re losing our defense industrial base. And China can’t keep dumping stuff on world markets, thinking that everybody is going to keep buying it. So they need to — they need to take care of their own people. They need to let their own people be consumers, not just working their — their slave — slave labor sweatshops.
BARTIROMO: Well, they’re going to — they’re going to get that if they haven’t already. President Trump is not ruling out extending the 90-day pause on tariffs. Here’s the President yesterday responding to Fox Business’ Edward Lawrence. Watch this.
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LAWRENCE: So how close are you to the first country coming to actually make a deal with the United States over tariffs? Is it days, months?
TRUMP: Well, I think it’s very close. But you know, we have to have a deal that we like. We don’t want a deal that’s going to be a bad deal. Or I could — I could make every deal in one day if I wanted to.
REPORTER: China retaliated today by reducing the number of American films that can be shown there. What’s your reaction to them now targeting cultural exports from the United States?
TRUMP: I think I’ve heard of worse things.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
BARTIROMO: The President is so funny, I love that answer!
But Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister shut down China’s offer to work together against Trump’s tariffs, saying that they will not make common cause or hold hands, quote, unquote. Europe as well. You just mentioned Europe.
They signaled last night, after the close no partnership with China. They declined to accept China’s re-routed, dumped goods into the United States.
Watch above via Fox Business Network’s Mornings With Maria.
