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President Trump joked with manufacturing executives on Thursday during a business roundtable at the White House, goading the CEO of General Electric into telling a story about his success on the golf course and teasing the CEO of Lockheed Martin about her preference for Hillary Clinton.

After inviting the group of corporate executives gathered in the State Dining Room to introduce themselves one by one, Trump interrupted Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, to recall a golf outing the two had shared years earlier.

"Jeff actually watched me make a hole in one, can you believe that?" Trump told the table of business leaders. "Should you tell that story?"

Immelt obliged, drawing laughter from the room.

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"We were trying to talk President Trump into doing 'The Apprentice;' that was my assignment when we owned NBC," Immelt said, referring to an NBC reality show that starred Trump.

"President Trump goes up to a par three on his course he looks at the three of us and says, 'You realize, of course, that I'm the richest golfer in the world?'" Immelt said. "Then gets a hole in one."

"I've seen the magic before," Immelt added.

But Trump cut in with a correction to Immelt's version of events.

"No, I actually said I was the best golfer of all the rich people," Trump said.

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The president also joked with Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin, about her company's effort to cut more than $700 million from the cost of F-35 planes.

"You think Hillary would have asked for 700 million?" Trump said, referring to his Democratic opponent in the presidential election. "I assume you wanted her to win."

"You're going to do great and you're going to make more planes," Trump added.

The president focused on his economic message at the outset of the "listening session" on Thursday, repeating his assertion that the U.S. has suffered from lopsided trade agreements.

"The deals we have with other countries are unbelievably bad," Trump said. "We don't have any good deals."

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Trump touted his crackdown on illegal immigration as well.

"We're getting gang members out. We're getting drug lords out. We're getting really bad dudes out of this country," he said.

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Katy Perry regularly hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clintonduring election season, and it seems like all that time together translated into a style shift for the singer.

The Chained to the Rhythmsongstress stepped out in a chic gray pantsuit on Monday in London, doing a slight twist on what Clinton herself would wear. Perry spiced up her look with a zebra-print mock turtleneck, gold jewelry and dark green heels.

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Her newly platinum hair is a sharp-contrast to the Trump-like color she was sporting a few weeks ago.

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Perry drew a few comparisons to Clintonafter wearing a white suit and a Persist armband at her politically-motivated Grammys performance:

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Once a Hillary supporter, always a Hillary supporter.

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Donald Trump never missed a chance to taunt his predecessor with tweets about his love of the fairways. On Wednesday, No. 45 took heat from an increasingly Twitter-happy critic for his own golf hobby an avocation that takes him to the course pretty often.

Hillary Clinton, who lost the electoral vote to Trump, retweeted a Washington Post chart that showed the 45th POTUS spent 25 of his first 744 hours in the Oval on the golf course.

The Post estimated that Trump was at his his Mar-a-Lago resort for about a quarter of his first month in office, including a full days worth of golf.

Which would be about par for the course for a president were it not for Trumps constant bashing of Barack Obama for hitting the links.

@BarackObama played golf yesterday. Now he heads to a 10 day vacation in Martha's Vineyard. Nice work ethic.

While our wonderful president was out playing golf all day, the TSA is falling apart, just like our government! Airports a total disaster!

Im going to be working for you, then-candidate Trump said in August. Im not going to have time to go play golf.

The presidents aides claimed he played only a few holes last Saturday and Sunday, but Rory McIlroy spilled the beans on that alternative fact. McIlroy, in his first round of golf since sustaining a fractured rib in January, acknowledged that he played 18 holes with the president at Trump International in West Palm Beach last Sunday, according to a post from No Laying Up.

McIlroys admission forced the administration to own up to its fib. He intended to play a few holes and decided to play longer, said a Trump spokesperson. He also had a full day of meetings, calls, and interviews [for the new national security adviser].

Trump and his minions may prefer not to divulge the number of his golf dates, but Clinton and others want you to know the score.

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Hillary Clinton Loyalists Keep Braying That Election Loss Wasn't Her Fault Observer It has been more than three months since Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election, and her staff is still circulating blame for the embarrassing defeat. On February 20, Politico reported that Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta claimed there ... James Comey Had Better Treat Donald Trump Just Like He Treated Hillary ClintonNew Republic John Podesta: 'Forces within the FBI' may have wanted Clinton to loseFox News John Podesta: It's possible that forces within the FBI wanted Hillary Clinton to loseHot Air Washington Free Beacon -Daily Mail -Fox News Insider all 40 news articles »

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Republican US presidential nominee Donald Trump listens as Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton answers a question from the audience during their presidential town hall debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, US, October 9, 2016. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Hillary Clinton on Tuesday condemned a recent streak of "troubling" antisemitic incidents, and called for action first and foremost from US President Donald Trump.

"JCC threats, cemetery desecration & online attacks are so troubling & they need to be stopped," she wrote on Twitter. "Everyone must speak out, starting w/ @POTUS."

Also on Monday, 11 Jewish community centers across the United States were targeted with false bomb threats, the fourth such wave of harassing phone calls in five weeks.

The White House responded to a reporters query about the latest string of bomb threats called in to Jewish community centers by saying these actions are unacceptable.

Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom, read a statement, attributed to White House press secretary Sean Spicer, that was shared Monday afternoon by NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander. The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.

The statement did not specify that the threats targeted Jewish institutions, although it came in reply to a query about threats to JCCs.

Alexander posted Spicers response on Twitter, adding, @PressSec responds to my request for comment about wave of threats to Jewish community centers.

Separately, Trumps daughter, Ivanka, who is Jewish, condemned the threats in a Tweet that pointed to the fact that the targets were Jewish.

America is a nation built on the principle of religious tolerance, she said. We must protect our houses of worship & religious centers. She ended the tweet with the hashtagged acronym for Jewish community center, #JCC.

Shortly afterward, various Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee, urged the White House to issue an unequivocal denunciation of the bomb threats and other antisemitic acts.

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