Trump Lackey Stumbles Through Lies to Defend the Economy

Peter Navarro blamed the media for using “scare tactics” to make Donald Trump look bad as he struggled to explain why the president’s negotiating strategy has failed to produce any trade deals.

“The world is screwing us,” Navarro told NewsNation with zero facts to back him up, claiming it was “beautiful to watch” Trump negotiate deals against countries he claims are “cheating” America.

Navarro, however, failed to explain how "best business man ever" Trump's “Art of the Deal” had failed to result in any tangible trade agreements. Instead, in response, Navarro said: “Well, usually a deal, as the media loves to remind us, takes a long time by 18 months, 2, whatever, but we’re going to do this in Trump time, which is to say record time.” He's worn of course. But you know what will come in record time? The damage to everyday Americans from Trump's stupid tariffs.

“You will see, and you did mention that the American public has a short memory. All the misery that the media is inflicting now with all the scare tactics will go away as the first deal comes.” It's giving "There is no war in Ba Sing Se".

But when asked once again to clarify when the public can expect the “good deals” to arrive, Navarro brushed off giving any details and said the American public simply needs to trust in Trump’s “perfectly correct” approach to playing hardball with the global economy, which has led to a trade war with China and pushed the U.S. to the brink of recession.

“It may be the U.K., it may be India, maybe South Korea,” said Navarro. “But as soon as we begin to see what will be a march of deals, people will understand that the strategy Trump has adopted is perfectly correct, and that the world needs to stop screwing us.”

Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, are set to send the cost of everyday goods skyrocketing. Experts say prices are expected to rise so high that the tariffs will in effect function as de facto trade embargoes, with retail CEOs warning the U.S. could be just weeks away from seeing empty shelves if the president doesn’t reverse the policy.

Recently, Donald Trump praised billionaire Jeff Bezos after Amazon scrapped a plan to display tariff costs for consumers. Trump, however, has continued to keep his head in the sand, insisting everything is fine and that the U.S. is set to make a “fortune” from his tariff policies.

Trump's narrative would have been hard to keep, given that Amazon announced it would be displaying how much the tariffs would affect the cost of every item available on their website, right next to the listed price. Trump called CEO Jeff Bezos and bullied him into dropping the plans, with White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt labelling the move a “hostile and political act.”

When asked by Vittert to explain why Trump was so upset about Amazon’s tariff plan if the tariffs were supposed to be so good, Navarro went on an unhinged tirade, saying the retailer was “evil,” accusing them of falsifying numbers and “poisoning” the U.S. economy by importing counterfeit goods from China. Funny how Amazon wasn't evil when they paid a million dollars to Trump's "inauguration fund".

“Leland, when I saw those SOBs do that, it was like deja vu all over,” Navarro said. “They are the biggest pirates and thieves in this country because they’re the platform that ships all the counterfeit and pirated goods from China, and they basically facilitate the theft from American entrepreneurs and manufacturers, and they allow the poisoning of the American people with their stuff.”

Vittert agreed with the trade adviser’s criticisms of Amazon, but said if the company really was so “evil”, why did Trump “invite Jeff Bezos to the inauguration"?

“That’s how Donald Trump works,” Navarro replied.