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WASSINGTON – President Donald Trump is not responsible for the downsizing economy and expressed uncertainty whether he must support the Constitution to carry out the deportation agenda, and said he has not run for office for the third White House during a broad interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
An interview with Trump and host Kristen Welker comes when he marked his first 100-day office of his second term as a Media Blitz.
The president is promoting his work on the promises of the 2024 Central Campaign. This is driven by rising economic unrest as his approval rate reaches new lows, including the spread of tariffs and the nationwide crackdown on immigration.
There are five takeaways from the interview as Trump is watching the rest of his second season.
Trump says he doesn’t see him run again in 2028
In an interview aired on May 4th, Trump said he hadn’t considered running for a third term as president in 2028, and admitted that he was not allowed to do so after repeatedly coming up with ideas since returning to the White House.
“I haven’t seen that,” Trump said on Trump’s online store, even if Trump’s organization recently started selling “Trump 2028” hats.
“I say this. So many people want to do it on me. I didn’t have that strong demand,” Trump said. “But that’s something you’re not allowed to do as far as I know. I don’t know if that’s the constitution that you don’t allow it.”
Serving a third presidential term is expressly prohibited by the 22nd amendment, saying, “a person must not be elected more than once in the President’s office.”
“I added that I had a great four years and want to hand it over to someone else,” Trump said.
Trump says he is responsible for the “good part” of the economy
Trump once again refused to be held responsible for the state of the economy, denounced his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, after U.S. domestic production shrank at 0.3% annually in the first three months of the year.
“It’s partly now,” Trump said when asked when the economy would become him. “And I really mean this. I think the good part is the Trump economy, and the bad part is the Biden economy, because he’s doing a terrible job.”
Trump said economists have warned that his tariffs could raise consumer prices, but he could “cut costs.”
The first quarter GPD covered the first three months of the year, with the first three weeks being led by Biden. Biden’s last day was January 19th.
Amidst the turbulent stock market, Trump declared last week that “it’s not Trump’s stock, it’s Biden’s stock market.” However, after stocks have skyrocketed over the past week, Trump has promoted his recent turnaround.
“In the end, I’m responsible for everything,” Trump said. “But I’ve only just three months past here. But the stock market, look at what happened in the last short period. Was there no nine or ten or even eleven days?
Trump says he doesn’t know if he has to support the constitution
Trump said he doesn’t know if the constitution should be maintained because he defended the administration’s actions to eliminate people in the country illegally.
Trump’s comments followed the Supreme Court last month that he said his administration must “promote” the release of Kilmer Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker and father of three who were illegally deported to an El Salvador prison without trial.
“I don’t know,” Trump said when asked if he needed to support the Constitution. “Again, I have to respond by saying that I have great lawyers who work for me. They are clearly going to follow what the Supreme Court said.”
The Trump administration said there was no need to request the release of Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, where he was originally from. Democrats and other critics argue that such statements indicate that the administration has refused to follow the country’s Supreme Court.
He appealed whether anyone agreed to a legitimate procedure under the fifth amendment of the Constitution – it said “no life, liberty or property will be taken away without a legitimate process of the law.”
“I don’t know. That might say, but if you’re talking about it, we’re going to have to do a million or two or three million exams,” he said.
Trump officials accused Abrego Garcia of being a member of the MS-13 gang and said if he was returned to the US he would be deported to El Salvador due to immigration status. Abrego Garcia denied that he is a member of MS-13 or other gangs.
Trump doubles the fewer kids
Trump said little girls in America don’t need to own so many dolls. He doubled the example he made last week to double to protect universal tariffs on imports that could surge in prices of many goods, especially imports from China.
“I don’t think we need a beautiful baby girl – it’s 11 years old – we need to have 30 dolls,” Trump told Welker. “What we were doing in China was incredible, so I think they could have three dolls or four dolls. We had a trade deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars with China.”
The Trump administration has imposed a total of 145% tariffs on imports from China, but has suspended mutual tariffs on goods from other countries for three months. Trump’s baseline 10% tariffs on other countries remain in effect.
Nevertheless, Trump said his doll scenario is not a perception that American prices could rise or that shelves in stores could be empty under his economic agenda.
“No. I think tariffs are great for us,” Trump said. “I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
More and more experts told USA Today that it had predicted a recession by the second half of the year, spurring tariffs and Trump’s drastic federal layoffs, immigration removal and other actions.
Trump says if the US economy falls into a recession, it will be “alright”
Trump downplayed the economic unrest caused by his tariffs and said that even if the US plunges into a short-term recession, everything will be “alright.”
“It’s all fine,” Trump said, claiming that the US is in a “transition period” following his sudden new tariff implementation last month.
When asked if he was worried about the economic recession, Trump said he wasn’t. “No, I think we have the biggest economy…” he said, but he added that he can’t rule that out.
As the Trump administration negotiates trade deals with more than 170 countries, Trump did not rule out the possibility that some of the tariffs could be permanent.
“No, I don’t. Because if someone thinks they’re going to leave the table, why are they built in the US?” Trump said.
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