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]
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