White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s spin on President Donald Trump’s decision to pause/reverse his controversial tariffs drew mockery on social media.

Leavitt chided reporters on Wednesday when she appeared to argue that Trump’s decision to roll back most of the tariffs he announced last week — following days of sliding stock markets, fears of a global recession and criticism from even his most loyal backers — was actually part of his plan all along.

That’s despite Trump saying it was because he “thought that people were jumping a little bit out of line” and “were getting a little bit yippy, a little bit afraid.”

With an apparent nod to Trump’s 1980s memoir-business advice book “The Art Of The Deal,” Leavitt said:

“Many of you in the media clearly missed the art of the deal, you clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here. You try to say that the rest of the world would be moved closer to China when in fact we’ve seen the opposite of that. The entire world is calling the United States of America, not China, because they need our markets, they need our consumers and they need this president in the Oval Office to talk to them.”

Trump has also shown “great courage,” she claimed, with his newly-increased tariff of 125% on Chinese imports.

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Critics called B.S. on the explanation, though.