Welcome to Bulwark Takes. I'm JVL here with my colleague, Sam Stein and Sonny Bunch,

and Donald Trump, like Marie Antoinette before him, had some messages for the little people

about Christmas. Sam, Sonny, before I let you guys off the chain, let's go to the tape.

We need, the one thing you need, you need steel. You know, you can give up certain products.

You can give up pencils.

It's under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two.

You know, they don't need that many. But you always need, you always need steel.

You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter.

Two or three is nice, but you don't need 37 dolls.

This is the second time he's gone on the doll thing.

Remember that before?

We had lost in the midst of time.

He has a real thing about the weakness of America's little princesses having 37.

I think it's always also 37 dolls.

37.

Is it always 37?

I think so.

I think that, again, we'd have to go to the archives for that.

It's such a specific number.

I don't really understand him.

Anyway, maybe Ivanka had had 37 dolls and he's always regretted that. Who can say? I mean,

let's just go. I grew up as a young conservative. And I would always hear tale tales of this Jimmy Carter person who sat America down and wore his cardigan and said, you got to turn your

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