career, maybe more or as much as the apprentice ? he had been a celebrity going back to the 1980s. it s the kind of celebrity that he was. i talked to tony schwarz who wrote the art of the deal and he said, look, we obviously had a great impact in putting trump on the map but he said i was nothing compared to mark burnett. the apprentice really put him into american household and not as the guy who did the cameo and the movie. not as the guy from home alone but this executive with great judgment people came to and consulted on important matters. what do you think about it, kristen? everybody is assigned blame. i talked about my brother reading the art of the deal in the 1980s and becoming an admirer then. it seems there s a long list there. do you think it s the tv show like reagan in the 1950s? do you think it was donald
author of the shadow president, and the author of the art of the deal for then citizen donald trump. tony, the economy is doing well and the president deserves credit for that. but as we are seeing now, his impulsiveness comes with a price. yeah, it s a leadership issue, which is that he is so narrowly focused on his own self-interests that first in the face of something like the china situation at g20, he s going to overhype it, and then the moment it seems like he might get blamed if it doesn t happen, he s now going to turn on it. and what he s incapable of recognizing is that the consequences to totally blow up the financial markets, and so the cost of that kind of narrowness is really extraordinary. it is interesting. he said recently that he follows his gut and his gut can tell him more than anybody s brain can tell them. well, isn t that quite a statement? i think what tony was saying about it being a leadership
position. it is interesting when you say it is a psychological that notion keeps coming back, that we re being taken advantage of, we re being laughed at. it is sort of a i can t get into his head or psychoanalyze him. i m happy to psychoanalyze him. he s somebody who is worried about being laughed at. it is self-referencial. he has equated his experience with the national experience. when he talks about what s right for the country, he imagines that it s what s right for him. so as tony was saying, this is a primitive thing that goes back, actually, to the early 1970s and the arab oil embargo. then he was mad at the japanese for their competition with detroit. then when detroit was doing a little bit better, he was mad at mexico and china. one of the troubling elements of this is that his trade disputes tend to be with non-white countries. he s never really very mad at
it s not a real event, the caravan. the birther thing he talked up is unconstitutional. so to this ad, somebody pointing out did something awhile ago, it was over a period of time. it s as if he needs to create event to go ahead of the real events which took place which he could have responded to in a much better way. right. doris kearns goodwin, al cardenas, leah, thanks to each of you for a responsible way to deal with some of this stuff today. coming up after we fit in a break, the coauthor of making the deal, tony schwartz live on the beat next. hey there people eligible for medicare. gimme one minute. and i ll tell you some important things to know about medicare.
michael, do you think oprah will help in georgia? it s a heart warming scene. the math running statewide in georgia is very hard and i don t know if oprah can get their candidate over the top there. former governors and state party chair, donna brazile and former boehner aide michael steele. interesting conversation from both parties. press:here you kicking our coverage five days out. coming up. steve bannon and roger stone about key issues in wikileaks. i ll tell you what they mean. donald trump s new willie horton style ad attacking immigrants and what is not in it. i should seri veelg statement from fox news saying the press should only report news the way trump wants it reported. saying if you don t want to be called the enemy, then get the story right. be accurate and report the story the way that i want it reported. tony schwartz here to talk about that, trump s mind-set in the closing days. i m ari melber and you re watching the beat on msnbc.