Scott Bessent Is a Pathetic and Incompetent MORON
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🗓️ 27 April 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:23.5 | humiliated himself again on the Sunday shows, this time on this week on ABC with Martha Radditz. |
| 0:30.8 | She was asking him about the status of these deals, these trade negotiations, where people |
| 0:36.2 | are banging down our door, apparently, and the phone's ringing off the hook on all these trade negotiations where people are banging down our door apparently and the |
| 0:38.1 | phone's ringing off the hook on all these trade negotiations while our economy, our economy suffers. |
| 0:45.0 | And his answers were ranged from unsatisfactory to lying to just utterly, utterly mortifying and disgraceful. |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, how could you just wake up in the morning, you know, in your Barbie house in Charleston |
| 1:05.5 | and decide you want to go on to TV and try to spin this nonsense for Donald Trump. |
| 1:12.3 | Anyway, I want to watch the first clip about the most important thing, the China negotiation, |
| 1:17.4 | and I'll explain to you what the many, many problems are with it on the other side. |
| 1:23.1 | Are negotiations actually happening? |
| 1:25.5 | Who is talking? |
| 1:26.9 | This was IMF World Bank Week, the NDC, as you know. |
| 1:32.3 | And I had interaction with my Chinese counterparts, but it was more on the traditional things |
| 1:38.3 | like financial stability, global economic early warnings. I don't know if President Trump has spoken with President Xi. |
| 1:47.5 | I know they have a very good relationship and a lot of respect for each other. |
| 1:52.0 | But again, I think that the Chinese will see that this high tariff level is unsustainable for their business model. |
| 1:58.5 | Why would they deny that the negotiations are going on? Well, I think they're playing to a different audience. The Treasury Secretary doesn't know if Donald Trump has talked to Chairman Shee. He doesn't know the status of the negotiation. Why are you on TV then? I mean, it'd be one thing to lie and to say, well, you know, those are private conversations. |
| 2:18.7 | I'm not going to comment on them. |
| 2:19.6 | That's what he said. |
| 2:20.3 | He said, I don't know if they've talked. |
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