CNN’s Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo Stage Dramatic Reenactment of Trump-Trudeau Meeting
New Day hosts Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo staged a dramatic reenactment of President Donald Trump’s remarks at a fundraiser in which he boasted about making up facts about trade deficits in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
“Trudeau came to see me. He’s a good guy, Justin,” Camerota, taking up the role of Trump, said.
“No, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none,” Cuomo said, as Trudeau. “Donald, please.”
“Wrong, Justin, you do,” Camerota said. “I didn’t even know. I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid. And I thought they were smart.”
“Everybody but the Trump base knows the president flagrantly abuses the truth when it suits him,” Cuomo said after the pair wrapped up their performance. “It’s part of his persuasiveness and maybe his own sense of self-delusion, that he needs about what is true and what isn’t.”
Daily Beast editor John Avlon noted that “bragging about lying” is part of Trump’s “Manhattan real estate developer persona.”
“Presidential words matter – this is basic — and they do not matter to President Trump. And what’s more, he brags about lying.”
“I see it differently,” Camerota said. “I see it as the best window yet we have had into his style and belief that he doesn’t really care about the details or the facts. They don’t matter. He runs with a hunch, he has a feeling about this. ‘I feel you’re screwing me over, so I don’t need to know the facts, I feel that way.’ So he runs with it.”
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