Kellyanne Conway’s Biggest Flubs, So Far

5. Trump in Talks With Taiwan?

In an interview with Anderson Cooper, Conway insisted that Trump, who was the president-elect at the time, had broken a 37-year-old U.S. protocol to not recognize Taiwan as a sovereign country. When Cooper asked Conway about Trump allegedly speaking to the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, Conway stated, “I can’t discuss anything beyond what’s been publicly said.” Cooper fired back by telling her no U.S. president has “spoken to the leader of Taiwan since 1979.” Conway flipped the script and responded with, “I don’t remember any discussions ever being asked about President Obama or president-elect Obama eight years ago at this time.” In the end, Conway skirted the entire conversation and ended it by saying Trump was “fully briefed and fully knowledgeable about these issues on an ongoing basis.”