Scaramucci: Trump ‘Cannot Afford a Trade War’ — He’s ‘Behind the 8-Ball with China’

EXCERPT:

SCARAMUCCI: "He knows that he, to use the president’s own words, he doesn’t have any cards related to President Xi. He pressed those cards to people at this table. Remember when he came down from like Mount Evil as like Orange Moses with the tablets and the tariffs, and people looked at that in China and said, 'We'll match those,' and they kept ratcheting up. And then the president realized, 'Wait a minute, I’m going to lose this economic trade war. And so he called a truce.' And so he knows with the affordability issue, and he knows that the Iran war going at the same time, he cannot afford to have a trade war with China. And that’s why he’s rolling out the red carpet. And he gave President Xi a huge propaganda win yesterday when he showed up at Joint Base Andrews, because Xi didn’t do the same for him in Beijing, he sent the vice president. So the president is behind the 8-ball with China and that's why he's playing nice with them right now."