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  • Do you look at what's going on now in the campaigning and

  • do you miss it any way and do you look at them and go, you're making big mistakes?

  • >> [LAUGH] I don't miss it.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> It's always good to get

  • out of Washington, which can sometimes be a little depressing.

  • What will, to get out of Washington or to, what part is depressing?

  • >> Well, Washington.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> That's, I would think so.

  • >> Yeah. >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> I mean, really.

  • >> Yeah, no, but- >> You're probably not kidding-

  • >> I'm kinda not kidding.

  • >> Yeah, I mean, what was the biggest surprise for

  • you when you became president, what surprised you the most?

  • Well, the fact is that

  • most of the time if something reaches my desk, it means it's really hard,

  • which is why they bumped it up to me cuz nobody else could figure it out.

  • And when I came in, the economy was collapsing.

  • We were about to go into a great depression.

  • We had to make a whole bunch of decisions about saving the auto industry or making

  • sure that business has got back on their feet, or the housing market would recover.

  • And you're having to make big bets with incomplete information.

  • You're not sure that everything's gonna work.

  • And I think that part of what's happened in this Instagram.

  • You know, Twitter culture is that we expect quick answers

  • without sacrifice, without having to make choices, and politicians play into that.

  • But the truth of the matter is, you know the world is a big complicated place.

  • The good news is that we're generally going in the right direction,

  • and my hope is that we'll continue to do so.

  • >> That's everybody's hope, but let's talk about me.

  • I feel like.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Don't you think if more people danced.

  • >> Yes. >> And just had fun instead of,

  • everyone takes everything so seriously and I think that we have these people,

  • I'm kinda kidding there, obviously, but I think we have people that

  • we all have the one thing in common which is we just want a good quality of life.

  • >> Right. And

  • then we had these people that feel one way and if someone feels another way,

  • we tend to hate them and it's just- >> That's not helpful.

  • >> No, it's not helpful.

  • >> The amount of stuff that is just put out there on the internet or on

  • sometimes news broadcasts that are just factually inaccurate, is surprising.

  • And it's really hard to catch up.

  • Since I came into office, we reduced the deficit by two thirds.

  • But if you ask the average person, they're sure that spending has shot up.

  • And the reason is because there are a bunch of folks who say that.

  • We're wildly overspending even though we aren't.

  • >> Right. >> And that's just one small example, but

  • it happens all the time.

  • And that's something that we have to fix partly by people paying more attention

  • to what's going on every single day.

  • And it's hard because people are busy.

  • They're dropping off their kids, they're working.

  • They're, you know, trying to figure out how they get some exercise,

  • do some push ups and.

  • >> Speaking of her.

  • >> Okay. >> What do you and Michelle disagree on.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Well.

  • >> Like what do you fight about.

  • >> After about, 15 years

  • I finally figured out that she's always right.

  • So. >> [APPLAUSE]

  • >> So then surprisingly we just

  • stopped fighting.

  • >> And there's no more fighting.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> Well, she's a cheater,

  • you know that, when you talk about the push ups.

  • I'm not even gonna, I'm not gonna argue about it anymore.

  • >> [LAUGH] >> But she's a cheater.

  • So look at how far down I went, and look how-

  • >> You're so upset about that.

  • >> I am so because she didn't go down all the way and

  • she claimed she had longer arms and so she's, listen,

  • it was very impressive that she kept going but she didn't go down as far as me.

  • >> Okay. >> Look at, look.

  • >> She's going down pretty far.

  • >> No, no, no.

  • Not as far down as me.

  • [LAUGH] Look.

  • >> I mean those are good, you have good form.

  • >> I have better form than her [LAUGH] and I.

  • >> You have good form.

  • [APPLAUSE] >> All right.

  • Listen. [APPLAUSE]

  • [LAUGH]

Do you look at what's going on now in the campaigning and

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