Trump Honcho Whiffs When CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Challenges Him to Name ‘Any’ Deals That Are ‘Actually Close’

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum whiffed when CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins challenged him to name “any” of the deals President Donald Trump claims to have completed since his tariff rollout-and-pause.

Since Trump trade adviser  Peter Navarro’s claim, during a Meet the Press interview, that the U.S. could make  “90 deals in 90 days” during Trump’s pause on tariffs, the tally of announced deals stands at zero. But when pressed on the deals in a recent interview, Trump blurted out the claim that “I’ve made 200 deals.”

On Monday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins tried to get Burgum to name “any trade agreements that are close to actually closing in on.”

Burgum’s response did not include that information:

K. COLLINS: You’re not the Treasury Secretary, or Peter Navarro, the trade adviser. But do you know of any trade agreements that they are close to actually closing in on, and not just toplines, a memorandum of understanding.

BURGUM: Well, I know — I know that they’re very focused in taking a look at those — in those 35, who is ready to come to the table. The top half of those 35 have been broken into three tiers. And these folks are working around the clock, over the weekends, to get trade deals.

And I think, for President Trump, you’re going to see one trade deal after another announced. When you start walking through a 100 announcements, with a 100 different countries, in every single one of those, we end up with a better trade deal than we have right now? I mean, how could anybody say that’s not a good deal for this country?

But again, the courage to actually take on a completely unfair global trading system, it takes — you know, President Trump was courageous in his first term. Now he’s fearless, this time around, and he’s fearless in fighting for every American, because these things will benefit our economy, and will benefit every American.

K. COLLINS: I mean, he’s arguing that he’s made 200 trade deals so far.

BURGUM: Well, there is all kinds of companies — countries, excuse me, that are showing up at the doorstep, because they understand America is serious about leveling the trade issues, right now.

Watch above via CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins.