“Their best argument so far for any of this is the same one that we got about Tinker Bell being able to fly: you have to believe,” he declared.
“Luckily, we have a businessman in the White House right now,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) in an appearance on Fox Business.
“The president did write the book, ‘The Art of the Deal,’” said Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, in an interview on Fox News.
“Trump is a master negotiator and he knows the art of the deal,” said Stephen Moore, a former Trump 2016 campaign adviser and an economist at The Heritage Foundation.
Stewart swiftly questioned Republicans for insisting Americans “trust” Trump by bringing out a copy of “The Art of the Deal” and flipping to chapter nine.
“It’s about how smart Trump is about his casino in Atlantic City.′ Oh, oh, ‘I built the casino in Atlantic City, I’m a business genius.’ Whatever happened to the casino, Donald?” said Stewart of the Trump Plaza hotel and casino, which opened roughly three years before the publication of his 1987 book.
“Trust me,” he quipped.
Check out Stewart’s Monday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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