Good evening, I'm Jim Sudo, Anderson is off tonight.

We're going to ask you to take a moment now to evaluate the statements and decisions

in just a single day of the sitting president of the United States.

This is not a question intended to be based on party affiliation or personal preference,

simply the facts.

President Trump departs for the crucial G7 summit in Beirut's France tonight, but not

before reportedly grumbling about having to go at all, or reportedly discussing new

tariffs on his hosts there, America's oldest ally, or escalating a trade war with China

with global consequences, or calling his hand-picked Federal Reserve Chairman the country's

enemy more so than the Communist leader of China.

Or we might add, when markets took a massive hit as a result, joking about it.

And again, this is all all of it at the end of a week in which he canceled a state visit

with another ally because that country, Denmark, would not sell us Greenland.

And he compared himself to the Messiah, by the way, all of it, other than the Messiah

and Greenland stuff, happened just in one day today, most notably this.

The Dow and Justre industrial's lost some 624 points on the day.

It came after these tweets from the President, quoting now, we don't need China, and frankly

would be far better off without them.

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative

to China.

Hereby ordered, he said, which of course no President can do.

And as we mentioned, he also lashed out at Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell tweeting,

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