Why did world leaders including Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau laugh about President Trump in a viral video? Because they're "jealous," White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggests.
Conway spoke to Fox & Friends Thursday about a viral video showing world leaders including Trudeau and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson laughing about Trump and his lengthy press conference.
On Fox & Friends, Conway blasted the exchange as "childish" but said the world leaders were "hardly denouncing the president's policies" and suggested jealousy was really to blame.
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"What was it really about?" Conway asked. "It was about the fact that President Trump commands a room, and he does. And maybe that makes a couple of people jealous."
After the video emerged Wednesday, Trump was "fuming" over it, CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports. He subsequently blasted Trudeau as "two-faced" and then was heard praising his own insult on a hot mic, saying, "that was funny when I called that guy two-faced." Conway doubled down on that characterization on Fox & Friends, saying with his "two-faced" description, Trump "said it best." Brendan Morrow
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