Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions" in economic interview today [View all]
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Trump Crumbles When Pressed on Economic Policy in Tense Interview
The former president attempted to "weave" his way through an interview with Bloomberg News, but couldn't escape his own policy black hole
Bloomberg Editor-In-Chief John Micklethwait did not take it easy on Trump, and it quickly became clear that the former president has no conception of the mechanics of or the potential ramifications of the economic platform he’s running on. Bluntly, the former president was incoherent when pressed with real questions about his policies.
Micklethwait spent most of the interview attempting to break Trump out of what the former president repeatedly referred to as “the weave,” his term for his rambling digressions — with ever-decreasing intelligibility — and general inability to focus on a given topic for more than a few seconds during his rallies and interviews.
When questioned about the specifics of his plan, and if he was aware of its pitfalls, Trump seemed ignorant of basic economic principles, insisting that other countries, not American consumers, would pay for the tariffs.
When Micklethwait asked Trump to address a report by The Wall Street Journal estimating that his economic proposals would raise the national debt by upwards of $7 trillion, the former president fell back on his standard playbook: bashing the interviewer...
read more: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-crumbles-pressed-economic-policy-bloomberg-interview-1235134459/
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Trump appearance at the Economic Club of Chicago is off the rails. First he's confronted on his tariffs, and he dissembles and rants like an idiot in front of a room of economists (and a moderator) who know better.
excerpt from transcript:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219569269