One of Donald Trump’s former chiefs of staff passed along a tip this week to a high-powered Canadian audience on how to deal with the president. Basically it amounted to this: Trump wants friends.

“The president’s a one-on-one guy, and he’s personable. He likes to be friends with the people that he’s talking to,” Reince Priebus, who served as Trump’s first chief of staff after his 2016 election victory, told a Canada-U.S. summit in Toronto.

“I would call the president often. I would go play golf with the president. I would do whatever you could to strike up a personal relationship with the president and talk about other things. Talk about Wayne Gretzky! The president loves talking about sports and golf.”

Priebus was framing this as a tip but also as a warning to Mark Carney or anyone wh

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