Nor can he understand the intricate symbiotic relationships between national security, foreign policy, and immigration. No amount of correction penetrates: he is told repeatedly that Iran is in compliance with its nuclear weapons agreement, yet he insists on his belief about cheating he’s given the world history that makes South Korea’s partnership crucial to world peace, yet he wants to disrupt the relationship he’s presented with statistics proving that steel tariffs will weaken our economy, but he wants what he wants, etc. Multiply this thousands of times and apply it to all government issues (foreign policy, trade, immigration, etc.) and you begin to understand the problem of a person who never tells the truth because he lacks a basic understanding of what truth is and how one discerns it. “I had the view for 15 years I could play professional football. “That doesn’t mean they’re right,” Cohn said. Several times Cohn just asked the president, “Why do you have these views?” He brings him copious research and data and finally makes it as simple as possible by asking: which would you choose-to go into a mine and get black lung or to make the same salary doing something else? He is attempting to intrude into Trump’s belief that our trade agreements are disgraceful because we’re losing manufacturing jobs-despite the data that more than 80 percent of our jobs are not in manufacturing and that a trade deficit is not a bad thing since it allows people to spend more money on what they’re spending it on anyway-services. About a quarter of the way through this comprehensive history of everything leading up to the election of Trump and all the current events, Gary Cohn, the former president of Goldman Sachs who is the president’s top economic advisor, attempts to explain our economy to Trump.

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