the sand. no exclusions for specific countries over the weekend. he said individual countries could apply for certain products. the president campaigned on a pledge to protect american steel and aluminum and last night tweeted we re on the loosing side of almost all trade deals. our friends and enemies have taken advantage of the u.s. for so many years. sorry, it s time for a change. make america great again. not sure what that is on the screen but not what i was reading. the president says a trade war is easy to win, but he gets disagreement on that from the chief of staff for bush 43. that was back in the time just after they slapped massive tariffs on steel. he s now the head of the business round table and says win ago trade war is not as easy as the president is making it out to be. listen here. the tweets by the president, include ago tweet about responding on german autos on friday suggests that he thinks
a trade war is easy, that it s winnable. it isn t. nobody wins a trade war, especially in these globalized days, the united states, we re so pendent on goods coming in and going out for the competitiveness. he knows what he s talking about. after president bush slapped that tariff on foreign steel, some nine months later the united states had to rescind that because there was evidence it was hurting american industries, and the economy. we ll see where it all goes. meanwhile, israeli prime minister netanayu will be at the white house today. his second time here, the fifth meeting overall with the president. they met in israel a couple other conferences as well as an tune for him to get away from israel. he s the center of corruption investigation there. some of the most recent news is that his spin doctor is now in talks to turn state evidence, which a lot of people are seeing as potentially bad for netanayu.
what jumps out to me at this excellent new york times poll, i found fascinating to look at is how ronald reagan is being accepted by democrats as a great president or near great. barack obama has had a huge leap up in the times poll, up ten points. but you see the power, i think, of history and media on these polls. i mean ulysses s. grant is up because rob chernow has a best-selling book about him. lyndon johnson has had a lot of movies and one-man plays and celebrations for 50 years of civil rights and voting rights legislation and lbj is up quite a bit. if i have a disappointment in the poll, it s just how low the war of 1812 president, james madison, is. i always thought of madison as top ten and he s not that anymore, instead eisenhower and reagan and lbj have superseded him. bush 43, justin back over to
you, bush 43 was one of several presidents who also saw a bump as the years went by. trump still has three years ahead of him. what are the chances he places better in future rankings? well, he can t do worse, so the chances are certainly that he could go up. it s up to him really. if he moderates his behavior, if he strings together some more victories like he did with the tax cut bill, i think he could go up quite a bit. certainly as we saw with george w. bush, over time emotions fade positively and especially negatively. so between some substantive accomplishments, better behavior in office and democrats finding someone they like even less than the road, trump should zoom up in those polls. i m wondering, doug brinkley to you, these are political scientists who were surveyed instead of historians, do you think there would have been a different outcome on this fascinating poll if historians
going to get a deal, let s thrown our money at everything. throw it at the pentagon, domestic spending. not do anything about entitlements and the the dirty little secret is that for all the talk when democrats are in the white house, the republicans talk about spending matters. when the republicans get there, this is true of bush 43, they re big government spenders and the deficits always go to heck. bill: let me try to squeeze in two more questions. two different topics. the four different pillars the president laid out. money for the wall, chain migration, the visa lottery and daca. knowing where the far left is in this country against this president, do you see the far left allowing the middle left to go to the white house for a signing ceremony for something as bell as an immigration reform bill? are they going to give him that?