CNN's New Day hosts Alisyn Camerota and Chris Cuomo showed off their acting chops Thursday morning, staging a dramatic re-enactment of a speech President Trump gave Wednesday night. Speaking at a fundraiser, Trump bragged about making up information in a conversation with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — providing the fodder for Camerota and Cuomo's Thursday theatrics.
The two hosts read from a transcript obtained by The Washington Post, where Trump claimed that the United States runs a trade deficit with Canada while admitting he said so without knowing the facts. "Donald, we have no trade deficit," Cuomo's Trudeau said, per Trump's retelling — only to be shot down by Camerota's Trump. "'Wrong, Justin, you do.' I didn't even know. I had no idea."
Cuomo and Camerota laughed at the scene, before Cuomo launched into his actual analysis. "Look, we know that the president — we, when I say we, I mean everybody but the Trump base — knows that the president flagrantly abuses the truth when it suits him," he said. "It's part of his persuasiveness, and maybe his own sense of self-delusion that he needs about what's true and what isn't."
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Camerota managed to find an upside to Trump's alternative facts: "I see it as the best window yet we have had into his style," she said. "He doesn't really care about the details or the facts. They don't matter."
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