Karoline Leavitt 'Chides Media For Missing The ‘Art of the Deal' as Donald Trump Suspends Some Tariffs'

"1. Karoline Leavitt walks up to podium on White House driveway

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary:

"Excuse me, if I, excuse me Raquel, if I could just add to what the secretary said. Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal, you clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You tried to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China when in fact we've seen the opposite effect. The entire world is calling the United States of America, not China because they need our markets. They need our consumers and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them. And that's exactly why more than 75 countries have called, because the United States of America is the best place in the world to do business. And as the president has shown great courage, as the secretary has said, in choosing to retaliate against China even higher."

STORYLINE:

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt chided reporters Wednesday for "clearly missing" President Donald Trump's book on dealmaking as the president announced he is pausing his so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on most of the country’s biggest trading partners but maintaining his 10% tariff on nearly all global imports." 

Source:Associated Press with a look at President Trump's chief propagandist Karoline Leavitt and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. 

From the Associated Press

The New Democrat talked about this last Wednesday: 

"President Trump's Chief of White House Propaganda (that some people call White House Press Secretary) Karoline Leavitt, said that President Trump's retreat or reversal on the tariffs "is part of  of the Art of The Deal", and people who are criticizing the President Trump "obviously haven't read that book". A few problems with that statement: 

1. Donald Trump never read read that book either. Perhaps someone read it to him. But we all know that is not the same thing. Most of us learn that when we are kids getting our bedtime stories. 

2. Donald Trump didn't write that book either. He had a ghostwriter who wrote that book for him, a guy named Tony Schwartz. 

3. Going big without putting any thought into the consequences of a bold move like this, whatsoever, no thought even about how the markets would react, how consumers would react, how countries that you are imposing your economic nationalism on (also known as tariffs) would react, has nothing to do with "The Art of The Deal". Certainly not the art of a good deal. 

I wish someone would give Karoline Leavitt a dollar, so she could go buy some new material. She's always reacts in the defensive and takes whatever big shot at the people who have the character to question her, without putting any thought into what she's saying. It's always a Trump power play with her: "When on the defensive, always go big in response to take out the other side", without actually thinking about what you are saying." 

From The New Democrat

"When people can't make up their mind about what to do... like start a trade war, (just to use an example) a lot of times they'll get caught in-between 2 competing ideas of what they should do and they get stuck: 

They don't understand the consequences of going either way 

They don't have enough information on what they should do

Haven't bothered to think about what they should do

Or my personal favorite: they simply don't know what the hell that they're doing. 

I mean a President of the United States, who is looking at a debt of 500-hundred-million-dollars in New York City, because of how they ran their business... who went bankrupt 7 times before becoming President of the United States, who is now in-charge of the economic policy of the United States of America. Think about that." 

From The New Democrat

It's easy to see (unless you are blind, or are on a week long meth high right now) why Donald Trump likes Karoline Leavitt: 

She's always on the attack when news about them is bad. 

She never lets facts get in the way of whatever partisan argument that she's trying to make. 

I'm willing to bet that Karoline Leavitt has never read "The Art of The Deal" either. Or, she's just lying about that. Either 1 could definitely be true. It's easy to see why a businessman who went bankrupt 6-7 times, who is looking at a debt in New York State of 500-million-dollars because of how they did business in Manhattan, would try to run a federal government and national economy like this. To put it simply: President Trump doesn't know what the hell he's doing. 

But as Rik Schneider said last week, you don't need to know what you are doing, or how to be President, have a strong grasp of economics, to even become President of the United States. All you need to become POTUS is:

35 years of age

born in America, or to an American parent 

and win the Electoral College. 

But, hey, MAGA won and everyone who still cares about American democracy, the rule of law, limited government, the U.S. Constitution, honesty, morality, and character, all lost. So this is what we have to put up with for almost 4 years now. 

But as long as we still have a First Amendment in this country, (unless the Supreme Court lets President Trump throw it out through executive order) we can always express how we feel about anything that the Trump Administration ever does.

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