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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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