trade deficit. weath whether they got down a, i don have that number in front of me. as for ms. sanders having the information and providing it, she later tweeted that there is a deficit in goods only, not overall trade. you count everything, especially if talking to another world leader and making it clear you re counting everything. but that is if that conversation even actually took place as the president claimed. and since we re now fully in the weeds and perhaps down a rabbit hole, it s worth noting something else the president said, talking about the difficulty of selling american cars in japan, he talked about one vehicle that met all requirements except for one. and he said they were ready to prove it. and they said, no, no. we have to do one more test. it s called the bowling ball test. the president explained.
before. justin trudeau is right. the u.s. does not have a trade deficit with canada. here s what the president tweeted it th tweeted this morning. trudeau doesn t like saying that canada has a surplus versus the u.s. negotiating. but they do. they almost all do, and that s how i know. the president s own facts say no. but it s possible the president s defending statements he never made, despite him telling an audience he did. press secretary sanders was fielding questions on this topic. are there other times the presidents has had conversations with his counterparts around the world in which he is not accurate in terms of a conversation that he s having with them? well, the president was accurate, because there is trade deficit. and that is the point that he was making, that he didn t have to look at the specific figures, because he knew there was a
that s where they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and drop it on the hood of the car. if the hood dents it doesn t qualify. you know where he s going with this, i think. guess what, the roof dented an a little bit and they said no, this car doesn t qualify. it s horrible the way we re treated, yes, it s horrible. keeping him honest, nobody can figure out what the president was referring to. there is apparently no bowling ball test many there are countless standards in japan, here and elsewhere on emissions, pedestrian safety, you name it. nothing involved bowling balls and dented hoods. here s howsa sarah sanders deal with that. it illustrates the ways some countries are able to keep american goods out of their markets. she was reading that directly from a page, you can till. who knows what tomorrow may