sanders said about pruitt yesterday. does the president have confidence in the epa administrator at this point? the president thinks that he s done a good job, particularly on the deregulation front. but again, we take this seriously and are looking into it and will let you know when we finish. we are looking into it. that s almost like the white house backing a way a little. two nights ago president trump called pruitt to say i have your back. when you have the full faith and confidence with the president, you re in trouble. when you re backing away, saying he s looking into it, she might have fired him from the podium. i don t think he survives this. the fact that he says $50 a night in washington, d.c. is market rate, like, i would love to get that rate. where do you get the rate? airbnb. airbnb, you re on a bunk bed with 17 roommates in a bridge in a van down by the river. there you go. there it is.
you got me there. i like that. i m sorry. he s in a luxury condo for 50 bucks a night? come on now. who is buying this? and also saying we didn t have all the facts is not a defense. whether it is the ethics official of the epa saying we didn t have enough facts on the rental or pruitt saying, i didn t have the facts on my own senior employees salaries. those are defenses. and the larger thing here is the tragic common evident is the fish smells from the head. trump has set a tone around good governance and ethic that is filtering down to his own administration. putting policy aside, this is not the first controversy he s been involved in. these are two of the main controversies he s reported. he now has around-the-clock security. first-class travel. a sound-proof phone booth.
economy something the president is willing to accept? look, the damage to our economy comes from china s restrictive packages. i mean, my thought on that, blame china. they ve been doing this for decades. they re playing trump. trump is doing what everyone in the world has said we should do. he s doing like grand coalition out there. and you ll see more on that point. so our intention is not to punish anybody. our intention is to open markets, investments and lower barriers. that s the deal. so don t once in a while, presidents have to lead, okay. i ve been around a while. i ve worked for a president 35 years ago. and you have to lead. that s what he s trying to do. don t beat him up for trying to show some leadership. he didn t create this. china created this. don t forget that. can you just give us an
amazon stock think the president is inflicting the least amount of pain? give me a break. well, obviously the other problem for trump is that the tariffs that china is putting on are going to be on products that are produced by state he wants. places that democrats are in trouble at in red states. farmers are not going to be happy also texas, north carolina a whole bunch of products pork in iowa. the fact of the matter is, incredibly weird to have a white house where in the morning you have peter navarro come out and say we re slamming all these tariffs on china. and then market tanks and the white house says, we have to put kudlow out to calm everybody down. you constantly see this fight inside the white house. even inside donald trump s head about what is he really doing on trade and tariffs. kudlow is now taking the
syria, on the border wall, is that donald trump is a performance artist. he campaigned very effectively by being a performance artist. but is clearly not a policy maven and not even a good manager. all these issues now require actually being informed about the policy behind it. building a team around it that can take action effectively. and delivering to his base. and delivering on the promises he campaigned on. a lot of this stuff as trump is running scared about his inability to just go to wall and wave a magic wand. let s go bigger than president trump s base. the washington post has an article today entitled trump s easy campaign promises run into the difficulties of reality. so go beyond the base who s happy about the supreme court and the federal judge appointments. the president whether we re talking about trade or the wall, is running into difficulties. does his base see that? do they care? his base is so enamored with trump, obviously so. because they feel like do you