Fox & Friends is very impressed with Trump for reportedly losing over $1 billion

Fox & Friends quickly came to President Trump's defense after a report that he racked up more than $1 billion in business losses, arguing that if anything, he comes out of the story looking great.

Trump's favorite morning show spoke after The New York Times obtained financial documents showing that Trump's businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994.

"He's a bold businessman, which is chronicled here," Brian Kilmeade said in response to the story. Kilmeade went on to argue that the article shouldn't "surprise anybody" and that the business practices described in the story "make sense" because Trump wanted to "take chances." He added, "And guess what? Not all of us win on everything we buy."

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Co-host Ainsley Earhardt took things a step further, though. "If anything, you read this and you're like, 'Wow, it's pretty impressive all the things that he's done in his life,'" she said. "It's beyond what most of us could ever achieve." Brendan Morrow