Trump worked himself up into a lather trying to defend his wounded ego, bragging that he is opening China and characterizing his latest capitulation to the European Union after threatening 50 percent tariffs as strategic.

“We have the hottest country in the world right now,” Trump said, quoting an alleged compliment from the king of Saudi Arabia. “Six months ago, this country was stone cold, dead. We had a dead country.”

A still rambling Trump proceeded to admit that he had to reduce his crazy high proposed tariff rates after realizing, “Wow, that's high.” It isn’t the first time that Trump has confessed to making up numbers when blabbing out misguided policies.

Trump closed with one of his routine attacks on the free press, admonishing the reporter who hurt his feelings by telling him the truth.

“But don't ever say what you said. That's a nasty question,” he whined. “To me that’s the nastiest question.”

That query was the least nasty thing about being in a room where Pirro had just been sworn in for anything other than a deposition.