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President Donald Trump spoke briefly to reporters outside the White House on Thursday while departing for Marine One, answering an important question about what he anticipates will happen to the U.S. economy in the wake of his important reciprocal tariff policies implemented on April 2.
The president told the press that he was on his way to a golf tournament at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, where he will be speaking at the LIV Golf event.
One reporter asked the president for his reaction to reports that the markets were “way down” on Thursday, presumably as a response to the new reciprocal tariffs slapped on foreign countries.
“I think it’s going very well,” Trump said. “It’s an operation like when a patient gets operated on – it’s a big thing…I said this would be exactly the way it is.”
He touted the nearly $7 trillion in U.S. investments that will soon boost the domestic economy, thanks to his work securing pledges from big companies like Apple, Meta, Hyundai, and beyond.
“The markets are going to boom, the stock [market] is going to boom, the country is going to boom and the rest of the world wants to see, is there way they can make a deal?” he continued.
Trump reiterated how much other countries have “taken advantage” of the United States on trade for many years. “…You’ll see how it’s going to turn out,” he said. “Our country’s going to BOOM.”
True to form, the president described his tariff policies earlier in the day as a type of “operation” that would ultimately yield positive results.
He wrote on Truth Social, “THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
