Legendary. That’s what President Trumps seems capable of being every single time he faces questions or sits down in front of a journalist for an interview. And he did not disappoint today!
During an interview with the Editor-In-Chief of Bloomberg, the conversation with President Trump ranged the full spectrum of topics. (And we’ll get to those.) But the defining moment came when John Micklethwait argued that he had been relatively “kind” to President Trump, and in the same breath pushed back against President Trump’s assertion that the Wall Street Journal (which he will be sitting down with tomorrow!) has been “wrong about everything”. Watch this!
Trump is a legend.
He sits down with Bloomberg hack, tells him to his face that he is fake news, and the crowd of business people are all cheering him on in agreement.
This is exactly why the MSM didn’t want Trump to have crowds at the debates.
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) October 15, 2024
JD Vance was quick to highlight the moment as he shared Charlie Kirk’s post on X, and said President Trump had basically walked right into the “lion’s den”, having agreed to sit down with a very liberal journalist (as opposed to Kamala’s choice of Bret Baier, I might remind you)… “reminding the people who’ve screwed up the country that they’re not as smart as they think.” BOOM!
This entire interview is incredible. President Trump walking into the lion's den and reminding the people who've screwed up the country that they're not as smart as they think. https://t.co/PFt8b4KlIO
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 15, 2024
Besides those classic “Trump moments” where he simply eviscerated the liberal talking points of Bloomberg’s top news guy, the hour long conversation also included a question about which state Trump believed was the most critical to win. Here’s Fox News with details of that section of the interview.
Micklethwait spoke about the economy to start, but later got into the state of the presidential race, asking the former president which state he believed was most critical to deciding the election.
“They say Pennsylvania. I think we’re doing very well there. I think you look at Michigan, too, and I’m doing very well,” Trump said. “We’re way up in Pennsylvania. We’re way up in Michigan. We’re doing very well in Arizona. In fact, somebody said they’re going to pull the plug in Arizona – they’re going to give it up because it looks like we’re quite a ways ahead.”
ADVERTISEMENTA RealClearPolitics polling average as of Tuesday afternoon showed Trump slightly ahead in Pennsylvania, as well as in Arizona and Michigan.
Trump went on to say that the Republican Party is “the party of common sense.”
“Forget about conservative, liberal. We’re, let’s say, conservative, but we’re really a party of ‘We need borders. We need fair elections. We don’t want men playing in women’s sports. We don’t want transgender operations without parental consent,’” Trump explained. “It is 99.9% common sense. It really is common sense. I say we’re really a party of common sense, and we want to have great people in our country.”
Compared to the tension and stress that seems to well up inside Kamala Harris when she happens to find herself under the light of cameras and the expectation of having to articulate something resembling a clear line of thought, President Trump’s “acuity” seemed spectacularly on display during the conversation.
Check out how cool he remained when Bloomberg’s man tried to paint his comments as being delegitimizing because of it’s brash harshness. Again, Trump wasn’t having any of that false logic!
TRUMP: “Gavin Newscum. He’s the Governor of California.”
BLOOMBERG: “Newsom.”
TRUMP: “Newscum, I call him.”
BLOOMBERG: “There are CEOs out here if they said things like that about a rival CEO…”
TRUMP: “They don’t have to go through what I have to go through.” pic.twitter.com/UTuNzsXYNF
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 15, 2024
He even seemed at one point to settle in to a very relaxed mode of discourse — simply talking about what was clear and poignant to him, rather than trying to regurgitate some processed set of talking points. Here’s more from the Fox News story I referenced earlier.
Trump added: “I have a good heart. I have a heart where I want people to be taken care of. But I don’t want to take in people where millions of people – 21 million people at least have come in the last three and a half years unvetted, unchecked. We don’t know anything about them.”
Micklethwait also hit Trump on his plan for tariffs on foreign goods, but Trump fired back, explaining that foreign countries will pay a “100% tariff on everything sold into the United States.”
Earlier this year, Trump rolled out a plan to eliminate China’s most favored nation trade status and impose universal baseline 10% tariffs on imports. In private, Trump has even floated tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods. Economists have warned that increasing tariffs would also cause an increase in prices for everyday goods due to American companies relying on cheap raw materials from China.
ADVERTISEMENTMicklethwait said Trump’s plans would “have a serious effect on the overall economy.”
“It’s going to have a massive effect – positive effect. It’s going to be a positive effect,” Trump replied. “It must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you’re totally wrong.”
Micklethwait fired back at Trump, saying he could be “plunging America into the biggest trade war.”
“No, there are no tariffs – all you have to do is build your plant in the United States and you don’t have any tariffs,” Trump said. “That’s what I want.”
The former president’s response was met with applause from the audience.
“The higher the tariff, the more likely it is that the company will come into the United States and build a factory in the United States so it doesn’t have to pay the tariff,” Trump explained.
Here’s a clip of that moment — so you can see with your own eyes President Trump consoling the New-liberal editor for how hard it must be to spend your entire life talking about tariffs negatively… only to “have somebody explain to you that you’re wrong”. Epic!
Interviewer: You’re talking about 10-20% tariffs on the rest of the world. That is going to have a serious effect on the rest of the economy.
President Trump: “I agree it’s going to have a massive effect — positive effect… it must be hard for you to spend 25 years talking… pic.twitter.com/zyb1GfXCTi
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) October 15, 2024
Please don’t miss this. President Trump sat on a stage, relaxed, and without notes or a teleprompter (or hidden WIFI earings), and schooled the Editor-In-Chief of Bloomberg News about the economic impact and synergetic mechanisms of international financial diplomacy.
And he did so in a way that was so elegant and concise, that you could (if you already had this in your head) miss the brilliance — and assume he just has an oversimplified view of how things work in the area of finance.
Keep in mind that President Trump didn’t make his money from his elected office, like every other politician in Washington. He didn’t get handed an empire from his father – he learned lessons, and won, and lost, and got back up again, the hard way. He is RICH… because he UNDERSTANDS MONEY. Not because some pedigree or accreditation (like that needed to become the Editor-In-Chief of Bloomberg, for instance). No — President Trump is the real deal, in a world of phonies and fakes. And they simply don’t know how to handle it… because they have forgotten (or never knew to begin with) what it’s like to deal with someone like that.
Do you know what these folks ARE used to? They’re used to people like Kamala Harris, completely unwilling to “step into the lion’s den”… unless the lions have been muzzled, with hidden chains to keep them at arms length, and protective editing available for later — in case one happens to land a paw strike that she’d rather no one see. Which is why she DECLINED to sit down and have exactly this same interview – even though it would have been with a left-leaning journalist!
The Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief just exposed Kamala for turning down the same hard-hitting economic interview that Trump is about to give before the Economic Club of Chicago.
“She has declined”
BRUTAL. pic.twitter.com/RHA89RfFiJ
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 15, 2024
Micklethwait attempted to lay the same tired “violent” accusations about the 2021 transition of power at President Trump’s feet, but according to The Hill, Trump was having none of it, and consistently set the record straight.
Micklethwait asked Trump if he would commit three weeks before Election Day to a peaceful transition of power, particularly after the violence and chaos that followed his 2020 defeat.
“Well you had a peaceful transfer of power,” Trump responded.
“Come on President Trump, you had a peaceful transfer of power compared to Venezuela but it was by far the worst transfer of power in a long time,” Micklethwait said.
“I left. I left the morning that I was supposed to leave. I went to Florida. And you had a very peaceful transfer,” Trump said…
That repeated mantra of trying to get President Trump to say in advance that he will accept the outcome of an election before it has even happened, precluding any possibility of election integrity concerns is becoming more and more of a red flag to me.
I seriously worry that this repeated push to pin President Trump down on the record saying he will abide by whatever the outcome is purported to be, WITHOUT QUALIFYING IT WITH VERIFICATION, is a trap of significant implications. I am very glad Trump seems completely unwilling to put his head in that noose.
As the event came to a close, with all the excitement and electric energy of one of Trump’s iconic rallies, the crowd gave him a standing ovation.
Standing ovation and huge applause for President Trump following his interview with Bloomberg at the Chicago Economic Club!
The crowd absolutely LOVED it! pic.twitter.com/59NHAU6TdK
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) October 15, 2024
While President Trump wondered allowed to the Bloomberg journalist what it must be like to have someone tell him he’s wrong after so many years of hearing to the contrary, I personally wonder what it must feel like — as the liberal hack he is — to orchestrate an interview setup like this, only to have it play into President Trump’s hands.
As the saying goes, “Facts are stubborn things“. All it takes is the determination and resilience to stick to them, and you can overcome the twisting of those facts with nothing more than the light of day to expose the deceit.
Determined and resilient; that’s my President.
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