Dr. Austan Goolsbee talks about President Trump’s first UN speech

I agree with a lot of what you said, Bill. President Trump needs to come off as a statesman and a diplomat when confronted with an international crisis. Most of the time I tell people to ‘be themselves’, but for Trump that’s the worst possible advice you could give him. 

Lately, President Trump has stayed much more on script than in the beginning of his term. So, I do believe he is capable of delivering this message in a non- bellicose way, if he wants to. That is the wild card, we don’t know if he wants to act presidential or not. 

The only topic I hope that he doesn’t bring up tomorrow is the refugee situation. When Trump talks about refugees a lot of the time he relates it to terrorism which would infuriate much of the UN.