Trump is even more stupid than I ever thought in his speaking to Justin Trudeau ....audio .......

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In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau
by Josh Dawsey, Damian Paletta and Erica Werner March 15 at 10:11 AM Email the author

President Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on tax policy at Boeing in St. Louis on Wednesday. With him, from left, are Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Boeing chief executive Dennis Muilenburg and Boeing employee Hazel Jean Mims. (Evan Vucci/AP)

President Trump boasted in a fundraising speech Wednesday that he made up information in a meeting with the leader of a top U.S. ally, saying he insisted to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the United States runs a trade deficit with its neighbor to the north without knowing whether that was true.

“Trudeau came to see me. He’s a good guy, Justin. He said, ‘No, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none. Donald, please,’ ” Trump said, mimicking Trudeau, according to audio of the private event in Missouri obtained by The Washington Post. “Nice guy, good-looking guy, comes in — ‘Donald, we have no trade deficit.’ He’s very proud because everybody else, you know, we’re getting killed.

“... So, he’s proud. I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. ... I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.’ You know why? Because we’re so stupid. … And I thought they were smart. I said, ‘You’re wrong, Justin.’ He said, ‘Nope, we have no trade deficit.’ I said, ‘Well, in that case, I feel differently,’ I said, ‘but I don’t believe it.’ I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said, ‘Check, because I can’t believe it.’

‘Well, sir, you’re actually right. We have no deficit, but that doesn’t include energy and timber. … And when you do, we lose $17 billion a year.’ It’s incredible.”

The Office of the United States Trade Representative says the United States has a trade surplus with Canada. It reports that in 2016, the United States exported $12.5 billion more in goods and services than it imported from Canada, leading to a trade surplus, not a deficit...............




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Analysis: Trump’s closed-door fundraiser transcript, annotated

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He doesnt know what trade is. He doesnt know what constitutes trade or

deficits, which country trades what.

He knows NOTHING about it as he knows NOTHING about business.

Believe me yet? Everybody?

[dalton99a]

3. "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

- William T. Kelley, Wharton professor

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. And I wonder if trump himself actually took tests or if he paid someone to do it for him.

We know he is a complete and total idiot, always has been, and knows absolutely NOTHING about anything let alone business.

Where is that thread of mine


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210346943

Go there and help me please.

[dalton99a]

2. "The only thing I ever heard him do is just babble like he always does."

- Stormy Daniels' friend, to Washington Post

[Wellstone ruled]

4. This whole story will come back to

bite every one in the USA. Professor Kelly said it best. And the prof is now in real time.

There was a time decades ago,when American Products were banded in Canada or if allowed in,the Duty was pure brutal.

You just can not fix STUPID.

[3catwoman3]

5. He is such an ignorant...

...clod.

[Olafjoy]

7. My friends in Canada

We have good friends in Victoria. They watch what is going on in the USA and are horrified. Although they know we are progressive activists, I have started to sense that they are pulling away. It makes me really sad, but I can’t blame them. I hope the blue tsunami will bring them back. I resolve to work even harder on the midterms.

[Siwsan]

8. Unless PM Trudeau verifies this conversation, I'm going with voices in his head.

Or he's just plain lying, as usual. One would think that, by now, he'd understand that nothing he says, whether in a meeting or a fundraiser, is ever likely to remain secret.

[VOX]

9. Everything I mean EVERY WORD out of 45s mouth is a LIE.

All that fucking moron knows how to do is spin bullshit. Whether it’s a simple “joke,” or an opinion, or speaking to the “fake media,” everything he says is untrue. He makes shit up, lies, ducks and dodges, or just tells out-and-out whoppers.

What 45 actually knows would rattle around loosely inside a thimble. And that’s being generous.

[BSdetect]

10. He can't even talk coherently about the coversation. Gibberish "transcript".

[John Fante]

11. Trump is the dumbest world leader in history.

Simple as that.