{"id":29832,"date":"2017-08-01T17:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/?p=29832"},"modified":"2017-08-01T17:01:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T00:01:22","slug":"trump-gdp-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franklycurious.com\/wp\/2017\/08\/01\/trump-gdp-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Embarrassing to Have Trump as President"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PresidentSo I deal with foreign countries, and despite what you may read I have unbelievable relationships with all of the foreign leaders. They like me. I like them. You know, it’s amazing. So I’ll call, like, major\u201a major countries, and I’ll be dealing with the prime minister or the president. And I’ll say, how are you doing? Oh, don’t know, don’t know, not well, Mr President, not well. I said, well, what’s the problem?<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, GDP 9 percent, not well. And I’m saying to myself, here we are at like 1 percent, dying, and they’re at 9 percent and they’re unhappy. So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people. You know, a lot of people say — they say, well, but the United States is large. And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it’s pretty amazing how many people they have. So China’s going to be at 7 or 8 percent, and they have a billion-five, right? So we should do really well.<\/em><\/p>\n

–President Donald Trump
\nTrump’s Wall Street Journal<\/em> interview<\/a><\/p>\n

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