Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 193
The Magnificent Seven
“Well, very simply, you have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead. He’s got to get the Speaker of the House and everybody else in a room, and they have to make a deal. You have to be nice, and be angry, and be wild, and cajole, and do all sorts of things. But you have to get a deal.”
— Donald Trump, on Fox News during the government shutdown in 2013.
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