Phil Mattingly: Catherine Rampell VS Scott Jennings On Donald Trump VS Canada & Mexico

"CNN's Catherine Rampell and Scott Jennings debate what President Donald Trump won by placing, and then pausing, tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico." 

Source:CNN with Catherine Rampell vs Scott Jennings. Perhaps you can tell for yourself who is who.

From CNN

As my colleague Kire Schneider wrote about this earlier today:

"As Ederik mentioned yesterday and what Jesse Dollemore talked about today, is that Donald Trump creates all these man-made disasters (generally unintentionally, I believe, because he doesn't know what he's doing) and gets leaders of other countries to make some announcement announcing that they're doing what they already agreed to do years ago, or at least weeks ago." 

From The New Democrat

I give Catherine Rampell credit for willing to be on the same CNN panel with Scott Jennings to discuss anything with him and not just being able to beautifully (in more ways than 1) deliver her key points about an issue, but then just sit there and be able to take his garbage (to put it mildly) and just laugh it off as if she's thinking: "He can't be serious". Which is how Scott Jennings has really sounded for about a year now every time he's on CNN talking about anything related to Donald Trump. 

This point that she made here is the key to the whole discussion: 

“I mean, I don’t know what Trump wanted in this situation,” she began. “Again, he didn’t actually get anything. But if he were to put these tariffs in place, they would be very painful- " 

And then after Scott Jennings accused said that Catherine Rampell's comment was a "total lie": 

"For American consumers. Okay, Scott, I mean this is, this is public information!” continued Rampell. 

If you don’t know that these countries have-, are committing to do exactly what they have already been doing, either you haven’t done your homework, or you think the American people are idiots because again, they’re doing exactly what they were already were doing,” said Rampell." 

Donald Trump as President of the United States, (which is a big enough American nightmare right there) is like a stocker at a grocery store, who is a bit of a klutz, who just made another mess, cleans up all the apple sauce, or tomato sauce, the milk, that he just knocked over on the floor, who then cleans up that mess and expects extra credit for cleaning up his own mess, that he should've never created in the first place. 

As Kire Schneider also said earlier today on The New Democrat: 

"My point here is President Trump when he announced his tariffs on Canada and Mexico over the weekend, got burned by that. The Stock Market took a tumble and what mostly likely happened is that his oligarch backers got on him about that and told him that he needs to retreat (or something to that affect) and end, or at least pause these tariffs. 

So what the President did on Monday was try to save his face by announcing that he he reached new border agreements with Mexico and Canada, that were already in place. And tried to take a victory lap on that. But as much as President Trump might hate this, we still have free speech and a free press in America. And Catherine Rampell and a lot of others, including The New Democrat, called him out on that." 

And the Scott Jennings of the world can act like Donald Trump just saved America from World War III or something, but anyone who actually knows this story, who follows the news, who does their own research... knows better. Especially better than someone who admittedly gets their information from Donald Trump's White House. Which is what Scott Jennings does.

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