White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt snapped at a star CNN reporter when pressed on the affordability crisis the president has repeatedly called a “hoax.”

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins noted that President Donald Trump’s messaging on the economy has been all over the place—from claiming all is well, to recommending that parents simply buy their children fewer Christmas gifts this year.

The heated exchange began with Collins, 33, asking, “If the economy is as strong as the president has said it is, then why is he telling parents two weeks before Christmas that they should only buy two or three dolls for their children?”

Leavitt, 28, answered that the administration wants more dolls made in the United States, suggesting Americans will just have to stomach higher prices indefinitely, as t

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