he also made comments about unfair standards the japanese allegedly apply on u.s. cars. and he said this. s in a quote it s called the bowling ball test. do you know whats it. they take a bowling ball from 20 feet in the air and drop it on the hood of car if the hood dents it doesn t qualify. guess what the roof dented a little bit and they said no, this car doesn t qualify. it s horrible. the way we re treated. it s horrible. it doesn t make any sense. but anyway, a trump aide tells josh dossey the washington post the president tells this story frequently. where did he get that? it sounds like a commercial for some product. i don t know. you know, there have been advertisements for bedding. sometimes they ll drop a bowling ball on a bed or an egg. samsenite. someone told me as samsenite.
it s horrible. it doesn t even really make sense. but anyway, a trump aide tells josh dossey the washington post the president tells this story frequently. where did he get that? it sounds like a commercial for some product. i don t know. you know, there have been advertisements for bedding. sometimes they ll drop a bowling ball on a bed or an egg. samsenite. someone told me as samsenite. the gorilla throwing the luggage around. i think that he s one of these people who, when the legend is more exciting than the truth, you print the legend or you share the story. it doesn t matter if it s true or not. nothing ever seems to matter to him when it comes to truth. it s just like his deficit with canada. all of a sudden we have a $24
canada. even though we don t. we do not, to be clear, there is no trade deficit with canada. there is a trade surplus. who says that? the u.s. government says that. the trade office and the commerce department both say that. the government that the president of the united states works in says that. and now i m joined by josh dossey of the washington post who broke the news that the president was bragging about making things up in conversations with the canadian prime minister, josh. first, tell me where he did this and what he said. so thanks for having me. he did this last night at a fund-raiser in missouri for josh holly. the president was on a two-day trip, went to california and saw the border wall prototypes, did a fund-raiser and last night in missouri, 60 donors, gave 30 minutes of contemporaneous off the cup remarks where he ticked through foreign and domestic issues and did this as part of that speech to that fund-raiser.
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something wrong with you. you re certainly not very good. president trump, as you may recall, sold his deal-making skills from the very first day of the campaign. however, jonathan lemere and darlene superville, both of the associated press, said president donald trump remained out of sight, suppressing his instincts to make himself part of the story by making a deal or picking a fight. tonight other friends of our broadcast, ashley parker and josh dossey of the washington post co-authored a piece we mentioned earlier titled white house strategy, keep trump contained. they wrote, republicans pursued a clear strategy to keep trump contained during the three-day standoff that ended monday. steve schmidt is here to talk about it and a political analyst.