Donald Trump kicked off Monday morning vivid and early with a wide-ranging interview on CNBC, throughout which he reminded viewers {that a} second Trump time period would convey large cuts to the entitlements they’ve been paying into for many years.
“There’s a lot you are able to do when it comes to entitlements, when it comes to reducing, and when it comes to additionally the theft and the unhealthy administration of entitlements,” the previous president told CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” responding to a query about Social Safety and Medicare.
“I do know that they’re going to finish up weakening Social Safety as a result of the nation is weak,” he added, earlier than launching right into a attribute rant about his views on the Biden administration’s financial insurance policies.
However when requested about how secure the American economic system and authorities could be beneath his presidency, Trump supplied no precise coverage substance, as a substitute bragging that he had “100,000” attendees at a rally in Waco, Texas. “We had an amazing rally this weekend, we’re having rallies in Michigan — the rallies are greater than they’ve ever been.”
Host Becky Fast interjected as Trump rambled about how there was no enviornment sufficiently big to carry his supporters to ask if he cared that the U.S. credit standing had been downgraded by a significant score company final 12 months over the political turmoil fomented by Trump within the aftermath of the 2020 election. “Certain, but it surely’s not due to Jan. 6. We acquired downgraded due to incompetent folks, very incompetent folks doing incompetent issues,” he replied.
The interview coated a large berth of matters, together with the previous president’s view on a proposed invoice that would ban the social media app TikTok nationwide. Trump, who previously supported a ban on the app, said: “There’s numerous good and numerous unhealthy with TikTok. However the factor I don’t like is, with out TikTok you may make Fb greater — and I contemplate Fb to be the enemy of the folks together with numerous the media.”
The previous president went on to trace at conspiracy theories surrounding Fb’s position within the 2020 election by offering precincts with grant cash and poll “lock packing containers” that have been used to rig the election towards him.
“However do you imagine that TikTok is a nationwide safety risk or not?” host Andrew Ross Sorkin interjected. “I do imagine that,” Trump clarified. “However we additionally need to have an issue with [others]. You must have an issue with Fb and plenty of different firms too […] In the event you have a look at a few of our American firms — whenever you discuss extremely subtle firms — that you simply assume are American, they’re not so American. They deal in China and if China desires something from them they are going to give it, in order that’s a nationwide safety threat additionally.”
With Trump now the all-but-confirmed Republican nominee in November’s election, the previous president can also be touting how well-liked he’s amongst influential — and seedy by any commonplace however his personal — public figures. Trump bragged about having the endorsement of Hungary’s autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who visited the previous president at his Mar-a-Lago property final week.
On his opponent, Trump described Biden’s State of the Union because the ramblings of an “indignant and confused man,” who delivered a speech stuffed with “division and hate” — not that he would know something about that.
