around him and said, i m smart, i went to good schools. like he was still trying to convince us, like, why don t you like me and still trying to seek our approval and still that guy from queens who wants everyone to like him and think he s and a big deal. even fredo never challenged his brother to an iq test as this president did. fredo is not where you want to end up in the ka incanoe wit guy behind you. it was all an assassination plot. it was terrible. to have to claim your smart is probably the first example of you re not being smart. look, when the emperor says i m the emperor, the empire is done. when you know who you are, you don t have to say it. the fact he s constantly talking about the things that he is and the things that he does when he has nothing to show for it. first of all, babe ruth, pointed to center field and hit the ball.
about 350 feet. that s one. muhammad ali. six rounds. i m sorry, he would do it. he delivered. this guy doesn t deliver. that s the difference. it s already to brag if you re actually going to do it. exactly. it s not bragging if you ve really done it. who said that? muhammad ali? it was fredo. trump says he s smart. it seems like health care may have outsmarted him. let s watch. i have to tell you, it s an unbelievably complex subject. nobody knew that health care could be so complicated. hillary clinton taught us that in the 90s. i mean, one thing you ve got to hand it to hillary, she waded into that pool first and saw how deeply confrontation it is, the doctors, the insurance companies, the pharmaceuticals. everybody s got their hands in this thing and everybody want ace bigger piece. there s been a few moments like that where he says, hey, listen, this is tough stuff. this is harder than anyone would have thought. yes, it is. except american history should ha
experience. you never held political office. you only knew people in washington from fund-raisers. yes, it is difficult. if you acknowledge that, people might give you an easier time. dana? the truth is someone who criticizes trump for all kinds of things, i don t think the guy is dumb by any stretch. you don t get to this place by being dumb. he s not aware of a lot of the things he needs to do. he s not versed in the business of governing. for example, dana, name the are areas you know nothing about. come clean. we can talk movies or sport zbl. i ll give you hockey. there are vast areas. when everywheversace was killed who he is. i know nothing about fashion or design. anyway, secretary of state rex tillerson expressed a different view of president trump s intelect. he called president trump a moron after a july 20th meeting at the pentagon with members of
welcome back to hardball. another thing that separates president trump from his predecessors is the way he talks about his own intelect throughout his campaign president trump has made it a point to boast about his intelligence. let s watch a few examples. so here i am, great schools, great brain, great success. i went to an ivy league school. i m very highly educated. i know words. i have the best words. look, i went to the great wharton school of finance. i was very good. i was a good student and all that stuff. i was a good student. i always hear about the elite, you know, they re the elite? i went to better schools than they did. i was a better student than they were. if putin likes me and thinks i m a good, smart person.
so he has been very successful at undoing those eight years of obama and the deregulation front. and daca too. yes. so why is he doing this? why is he spending so much effort to get rid of things just because he wants to get even with obama? it s partially that but it s also, that s what he can do. if you re looking at the categories of things he s done and things he hasn t done, he s been able to do the destructive things, undo things, he hasn t been able to do the constructive things like build a new policy. that s not unique to donald trump. nobody seems to be able to do that. it s easy to get rid of the individual mandate for obamacare than it is to create anything. or at least to defund the insurers which essentially kills obamacare but you mentioned daca, the iran deal, you know, the paris, trans-pacific, go down the line, it s quite easy to take things apart and let them fall apart. it s another thing to build it. jason, two things he wanted to do that i wanted him