Fox Host Straight-Up Tells Trump ‘I Know You’re A Big Athlete’ In New Interview: ‘You Not Only Watch Sports — You PLAY Sports!’

Fox News host Brian Kilmeade told President Donald Trump, “I know you’re a big athlete” in an aside during a new interview pegged to Trump’s upcoming summit.

Kilmeade interviewed Trump on Thursday’s edition of Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show, just ahead of his summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska tomorrow. The meeting on U.S. soil has raised eyebrows.

The host used Trump’s athletic prowess as the setup for a question about the summit:

KILMEADE: I know you’re a big athlete. You not only watch sports. You play sports. You always have to try to pre-think what’s going to happen. You have to picture how it’s going to happen, so you know how you act.

So the one thing that some people have said is, the incentive that could get his attention is economic incentives. Are you walking in that room with economic incentives for Russia in order to stop the fighting?

TRUMP: Well, I’d rather not say because I don’t want to play my hand in public, but whatever my hand is, economic incentives. And disincentives maybe are more important in a way, but incentives economically.

Russia’s got a tremendous potential. They have the largest piece of land by far.

KILMEADE: Right.

TRUMP: It’s massive. It’s got great wealth on it.

(CROSSTALK)

KILMEADE: But all they do is oil. All they do is oil and gas. They can’t even grow — they can’t even farm.

TRUMP: Well, but that’s OK. Oil and gas is a very profitable business.

KILMEADE: Yes.

TRUMP: That’s better than I make shirts, T-shirts.

(LAUGHTER)

TRUMP: Oil and gas, if you say that’s all they do, if you’re going to have one business, that’s good. That’s the business to have, and they have it.

So, they have a lot of advantages going over most countries, because of the fact they have oil and gas at massive numbers, like we do. And, yes, economic — economic sanctions are very powerful and economic incentives are very powerful, both.

Trump is an avid golfer whose exploits repeatedly went viral this summer. He played sports in high school, and played beach volleyball that one time in 1996.

Watch above via Fox News Radio’s The Brian Kilmeade Show.