This was an example of a totally delusional mad man, claiming that since the tariffs were announced, that America is already better off. And when he was specifically asked if he had spoken to any taxpayers before he announced the tariffs, he claimed that he'd spoken with the BIGGEST taxpayers in the country and they all agreed that tariffs were the way to go. Yea, I'm sure the only thing he talked to the BIGGEST taxpayers in the country about was how Congress was going to slash THEIR taxes. You can bet that these people don't give a rat's a## what the price of groceries are. And after making a statement that he was not going to adjust any of the tariffs, that what he's set them at is where they're going to stay, he then volunteered that many countries are already coming to him and asking for a better deal, with China at the top of the list, and he says that he'll work with them, but only IF they're willing to payback all of the trade imbalances that have existed for the last 20-years or so. This is a person who has no idea how things work in today's world, and he's still talking about how America is going to be so rich once the tariffs start getting collected. There's no question about it, Trump still thinks that tariffs are paid by foreign governments and corporations. That's the only explanation that makes any sense, otherwise we're dealing with a person who has totally lost touch with reality.
And at the end of this 16-minutes of, I don't how you would describe it, he goes back into campaign mode claiming the during his four-years in office that there was absolutely NO inflation, NO unemployment, NO wars, NO crime, NO problems at the border but that Joe Biden destroyed America by throwing open the borders, causing the highest inflation in the history of the country, the highest unemployment, that when he left office the American economy was in the toilet, and that he, Donald Trump, has already gone a long way to saving the country.
And when someone asked him about the stock markets, he said that they 'have to take their medicine', whatever that means. I wonder what he's going to say when he sees that the international markets are already crashing in Asia (Japan's Nikkei opened down over 2,600 points or nearly 8%) and that the DOW futures are already down over 1,300 points ahead of tomorrow's opening and the NASDAQ futures are down nearly 900 points. Monday is looking like it's going make last Thursday and Friday's drops seem like mere bumps in the road.
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