Fox guest host lashes out at Justin Trudeau for "trying to out-alpha President Trump"
Morgan Ortagus: "There are 16 Republicans that tried to do that. He's the alpha dog, Trudeau should stop trying."
Written by Media Matters Staff
From the June 12 edition of Fox News' Outnumbered:
HARRIS FAULKNER (CO-HOST): Can I ask a really basic question? And I know we talk a lot about the lack or the loss of civility in politics in general. But what makes a leader from another country think that he can come out against a communique in a news conference and go after the president like that? Is there something unsaid that's happened that I missed?
REP. LEE ZELDIN (R-NY): I think that is maybe what upset President Trump the most, was that --
FAULKNER: He could have called him on the phone. There are a lot of ways he could have handled his business.
JESSICA TARLOV (CO-HOST): [Canadian Prime Minister] Justin Trudeau is now on record saying exactly that, that this is what he had communicated to the president a number of times, and that he didn't feel like he was torching him --
FAULKNER: But why go along with the communique then? Why do one dance in the room and then dance a jig out there by the microphones?
FAULKNER: Here's a real number. Canada depends 20 percent of its GDP on things it exports for us to buy. We depend 1 percent in the reverse. We have the leverage. So, again, did I miss something when you wouldn't have shown some respect and picked up the phone?
MORGAN ORTAGUS (GUEST CO-HOST): I was just going to say, I think Justin Trudeau just learned a very tough lesson about trying to out-alpha President Trump. There are 16 Republicans that tried to do that. He's the alpha dog. Trudeau should stop trying.
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