Trump to GOP Donors: I Made Up Claim About Trade Deficit with Canada

TRUMP: “Trudeau came to see me. He’s a good guy, Justin. He said, 'No, no, we have no trade deficit with you, we have none. Donald, please...' Nice guy, good looking guy comes in, 'Donald, we have no trade deficit.' He was very proud because everybody else was getting killed with it. So I said, 'Wrong, Justin, you do.' I didn’t even know. Josh, I had no idea. I just said, 'You’re wrong. You’re wrong because...' It was so stupid. And I thought it was wrong. I said, 'You’re wrong, Justin.' He said, 'Nope, we have no trade deficit.' I said, 'Well, in that case, I feel differently.' I said, 'But I don’t believe it.' I sent one of our guys out, his guy, my guy, they went out, I said, 'Check, because I can't believe it.' 'Well, sir, you’re actually right. We have no deficit, but that doesn’t include energy and timber. And when you do, we lose $17 billion a year.' It’s incredible.”