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BUZZ OFF: CNN’s Smug Erin Burnett Bleats Trump Blinked in Tariff Standoff
NewsBusters ^ | 2/4/2025 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 02/04/2025 2:13:29 PM PST by JV3MRC

Even in a world where President Donald Trump clearly racks up foreign policy wins, CNN’s smug harpies desperately try to convince all eight of the network's viewers that he’s really losing.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett injected a hefty amount of spin into her reporting on Mexico and Canada collectively waving the white flag on their retaliatory threats against Trump’s tariffs and agreed to increase security on both the Southern and Northern borders respectively.

But in Burnett’s Trump Derangement Syndrome-afflicted worldview during the February 3 edition of OutFront, this supposedly constituted “Trump backing down twice in a day.” Huh? So “what changed,” asked Burnett. “Were these always empty threats or not?” No, Erin, they weren’t, or else Mexico and Canada wouldn’t have made the concessions they did.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cnn; erinburnett; tariffs; trade
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1 posted on 02/04/2025 2:13:29 PM PST by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

Is she really that stupid?


2 posted on 02/04/2025 2:15:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin
Is she really that stupid?

Her viewers are, or at least they are hearing what they want to hear.

3 posted on 02/04/2025 2:17:02 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: JV3MRC
Burnett is mad that Mexico and Canada cried "Sperm-donating sibling to my sperm donor" when President Trump levied tariffs on their countries.

-PJ

4 posted on 02/04/2025 2:17:24 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: BenLurkin

Maybe, but under the lefty ideology, America is not allowed to win anything, at all. And Americas adversaries are always virtuous.

She might actually believe her own BS. But thats the way lefties are so don’t get your panties in a bunch over that reaction.


5 posted on 02/04/2025 2:21:06 PM PST by fightin kentuckian
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To: JV3MRC

CNN will be gone in a blink.

Just watch....


6 posted on 02/04/2025 2:21:55 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: BenLurkin

The Left is that stupid. They really believe that Trump blinked, Trump is stupid here, etc. I’m seeing this out in the world. #TDS is real.


7 posted on 02/04/2025 2:22:00 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: fightin kentuckian

Good observation, thanks


8 posted on 02/04/2025 2:22:52 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: JV3MRC

I’m only going to watch a few minutes because TUBI is carrying it in 4k. Then I’ll be done.


9 posted on 02/04/2025 2:25:21 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: JV3MRC

Such a pretty girl. To bad the rest of her is Ugly.


10 posted on 02/04/2025 2:28:29 PM PST by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you are filthy animal! )
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To: CatOwner
Her viewers are, or at least they are hearing what they want to hear.

All 8 of them are the former.

11 posted on 02/04/2025 2:32:20 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: JV3MRC

Her understanding of geo-politics wouldn’t fill a thimble.


12 posted on 02/04/2025 2:35:08 PM PST by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: FreedomPoster

You’re right.

To the Left, the truth is whatever they want the truth to be.


13 posted on 02/04/2025 2:35:39 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: JV3MRC

All propaganda all the time.


14 posted on 02/04/2025 2:35:54 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: JV3MRC

Man, Erin the newswhore is on a mission for her Deep State handlers.


15 posted on 02/04/2025 2:36:37 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: JV3MRC

From my perspective, we still have terrible trade deals and the threat of tariffs has been weakened considerably. Trump didn’t “blink,” but the outcome was less than ideal.


16 posted on 02/04/2025 2:40:37 PM PST by Kleon
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To: JV3MRC

They just can’t help themselves. I saw this headline yesterday on a “news” site:
“Trump Does Abrupt U-Turn on Tariffs”


17 posted on 02/04/2025 2:53:36 PM PST by Restless
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To: JV3MRC

lol

we wanted something, we threatened tariffs, they gave us something.

Hard to see how that is a not a win for Trump. And the deal is only good for 30 days, so if they don’t follow through, he will hit them with tariffs then.


18 posted on 02/04/2025 2:57:58 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: JV3MRC

This is a 100% win.

People need motivated, you need to have leverage, or else you’ll get the middle finger. Only in a few rare cases do people work for free out of the love of their heart (parent for children, etc).

Trump simply used the treat of tariffs to ensure he has the required leverage so he can deal with the border issues.

He’s brutal, but effective.

No different with Panama. There the threats worked as well. Panama is not renewing China’s control of the canal.

I’m not sure what he really wants from Canada?


19 posted on 02/04/2025 3:15:45 PM PST by Red6
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To: JV3MRC

Baghdad Burnett?


20 posted on 02/04/2025 3:38:01 PM PST by vespa300
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