UNGAR-SARGON: That’s interesting, and, obviously, everything you said is correct. He messed up. He called it Iceland. I never heard him say the word Azerbaijan correctly, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t bring peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Just like him being too lazy to pronounce it correctly doesn’t mean the record doesn’t exist. That doesn’t mean he didn’t cut our deficit by 20% in one year. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t actually committed $18 trillion.
Philip: What that actually means is – I mean, look –
UNGAR-SARGON: No, there isn’t.
PHILIPPE: — the White House’s own — wait. The White House’s own website, Batya, puts the amount of major investments announced during Trump’s term at $9.6 trillion. So even his own government says that’s not true.
UNGAR-SARGON: No, that’s the website. But, I mean, I can tell you who created–
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Philip: I don’t know what to say—. What I want to say is——
UNGAR-SARGON: They are included in actual trade deals, like South Korea, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates.
Philip: That’s a bit of a problem.
UNGAR-SARGON: I was actually reciting to you what he had done, and you told me that I could – I wanted to recite the actual list of accomplishments.
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Philip: But here’s the thing. This isn’t – this isn’t – wait a minute. This is not a debate about his achievements.
UNGAR-SARGON: For example,
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Philip: But wait, Bhatia. This isn’t really an argument about his accomplishments. It was an argument about whether he could deliver a speech while telling the truth. That’s the problem.