'Grossly exaggerated': CNN smacks down Trump's latest Cabinet claims

CNN's Daniel Dale dissected President Donald Trump's Cabinet meeting Wednesday, during which his secretaries took turns lavishing praise and even touting Trump's presidency as one of the best "ever."

Trump's exaggerations were par for the course, Dale said.

"Well, he kind of vaguely repeated his frequent claim that the U.S. had a trillion-dollar trade deficit with China under President Biden," Dale began. "It did have a big trade deficit, but he's grossly exaggerating it — it was about $263 billion last year — so, he's about quadrupling it."

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Dale continued, "And, while he blames Biden for letting it get out of control, that was actually a lower figure than the trade deficit with China in each and every year of Trump's first presidency, so it did not 'explode' under President Biden."

Dale then commented on something he claimed was "subjective," but something he, as a Canadian, felt the need to speak up about.

"He said, in the Canadian election, he said it was the one who 'hated Trump the least' who won. I don't know how to measure hate," Dale said, "but certainly Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney was much harsher in his public rhetoric than his main opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. So, I don't know about the one who hated Trump the least."

Dale said it was interesting that Trump did "a kind of self-fact-check of his previous rhetoric."

"He made a comment about imported dolls, and he said, 'Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30. Maybe those two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more.' So that acknowledgment that imported products like dolls might cost a couple of bucks more is sharply at odds with what we heard him say over and over — certainly on the campaign trail, even more recently — when he said, 'It's foreign countries who pay those tariffs, consumers aren't going to pay them at all.' So here, at least briefly, he acknowledged that, yeah, stuff might cost more money here for Americans."

Watch the clip below via CNN.