President Donald Trump sharply criticized a reporter on Sunday evening after facing questions about the economic fallout caused by his aggressive tariff policy. Returning to Washington, D.C., following a weekend golfing at his Florida resort, Trump encountered plunging U.S. stock futures that signaled further market turmoil.
Responding to speculation triggered by his recent Truth Social post implying intentional market disruption, Trump firmly denied the notion. “That’s not so,” Trump insisted. The president argued that global leaders had reached out to negotiate tariff reductions, although he provided no specifics.
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Trump continued to vigorously defend his policy, describing it as both necessary and successful, despite baseline tariffs just taking effect on Saturday and increased reciprocal tariffs scheduled to activate on Wednesday.
“Those tariffs next year will make us $1 trillion, in addition to the $1 trillion thousands of companies are going to relocate back into the United States,” Trump asserted confidently. He cited alleged economic rebounds already occurring across the nation. “In North Carolina, people are already starting to move furniture back in.
In Detroit and Michigan, which I won because of what I said, what I’m telling you, car companies are starting to open up. In Indiana, a big one is under construction, for example, Honda. But they’re moving in like nobody’s ever seen this before.” Trump argued passionately against the continuation of trade deficits with China, asserting such imbalances were harmful to the U.S. economy.
“So it’s unsustainable for us to allow China to have surpluses of $1 trillion,” he emphasized. “We will be taking in over $1 trillion over the next short period of time with the tariffs that I’ve already instituted. They’re already in place. Now, what’s going to happen with the market? I can’t tell you, but I can tell you our country has gotten a lot stronger, and eventually it will be a country like no other.
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It will be the most dominant country economically in the world, which is what it should be.” When pressed further by another reporter regarding the level of economic distress he was willing to accept, Trump reacted sharply. “Mr. President, is there pain in the market at some point you’re unwilling to tolerate?” the reporter asked.
“I think your question is so stupid,” Trump snapped back. “I mean, I think it’s – I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something, and we have such a horrible as we have been treated so badly by other countries because we had stupid leadership that allowed this to happen. They took our businesses, they took our money, they took our jobs, they moved it to Mexico, they moved it to Canada, they moved a lot of it to China, and it’s not sustainable.”
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