Good for Tom Brady that he’s finally getting all this publicity. Poor little guy has flown under the radar in obscurity for so so long. I’m just so glad to see that Tom Brady is finally now in the national discussion.
Ok, turning the sarcasm font off now.
Donald Trump went on Colin Cowherd‘s show today and talked a multitude of topics, including daily fantasy sports, and Tom Brady. He talked about Tom Brady so much that Trump is really drifting towards singing this song below:
Some excerpts from “The Herd Special: the Donald Trump interview.”
Donald trump on the idea that candidate Jeb Bush doesn’t actually want to be the President:
“I think he is under a tremendous amount of pressure. I had an expression which I really felt and I talked about a ‘low-energy individual’ and I believe that he is a very low-energy individual. And if you’re dealing with China, these people send in fierce, fierce negotiators, these are fierce people.”
“And we don’t need low energy. I don’t think Rubio is going to make it, to me he is a lightweight and you see that. We need very strong people because our country is being taken away like candy from a baby, that’s what is happening to our country.”
“We need strong people; we need the Tom Brady of negotiators, we need the Tom Brady of dealers. We can’t continue to make horrible, horrible trade deals or stupid deals with Iran where we’re giving them $150 billion. People are tired of it and I think that’s why I’ve resonated, they’re just tired of it.”
Donald Trump on his friendship with Tom Brady:
“Tom is somebody – and I tell him all the time – I think he is one of the great athletes. Tom is one of those few people who ends up doing better under pressure and you’re born with that. They have all sorts of psycho-analysts and everything else, but you’re born with it and I’ve seen it over the years. You don’t see it often, it’s very rare, but you’ll see it with the great champions and Tom is one of them.”
“You’ll see it with different people where they do better under pressure, but there aren’t many of them, but when you have them, it’s very special to see.”
Donald Trump on whether running for President is potentially damaging to his powerful business brand:
“It’s not good for business and it’s not a positive from that standpoint. But I’ve seen so many things go so bad and you look at what’s happening with our country, whether it’s that Iran deal, which is such a catastrophe – which could have been good. If you look at our trade deals with all of the different countries that we deal with, they’re all terrible; we don’t make good deals anymore. I just looked at it and I said, ‘I’m going to do it.’
“It takes courage to run for President. Believe me, they really come at you 15 different ways, but I really didn’t care, I just wanted to do it.”
Donald Trump on if he can effectively relate to average Americans given his personal wealth and the fact that he is rarely told “No”:
“It doesn’t happen often, but the thing is that we really have connected. I’ve dealt in the construction industry, with the unions, with the construction workers, with the non-unions, I’ve dealt with everything and I have a great relationship with people. The police, the firemen, the builders, construction trades, I’ve always had a great relationship.”
“Mitt Romney didn’t connect, if you look at it. So many people sat at home and didn’t want to vote for him for whatever reason. But we are connecting and I think we’re connecting when I go out and do a speech, there are thousands and thousands of people.”
Donald Trump on being willing to not take the absolute best deal in a negotiation, but understanding that it might be what is best for the country:
“I can see it happening. You are not always going to get the absolute best deal, but we can do a lot better than we’ve been doing. With China as an example, $400 billion a year of a trade imbalance, with Japan a $75 billion a year trade imbalance. In other words, we are losing tremendous amounts of money and I could go country after country and give you the numbers. It’s frankly amazing that we even exist if you look at all of these numbers.”
“But the truth is, we cannot continue to do that. We’ve rebuilt China, we’ve lost our jobs and our base and our manufacturing.”
“And that’s what I do great at and that’s what I’ve been really good at and I filed my papers and people we’re really impressed when they saw my financials. So I’m really happy I’ve done it and it’s been wild and the polls just came out a little while ago that show that I am easily No. 1 and I hope to take it to the end and do something that makes you very proud and very happy.”
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