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President Donald Trump promoted the GOP as the “party of common sense” during a wild Bloomberg economic interview in Chicago on Tuesday.
Trump faced numerous hostile questions from Bloomberg News’ editor-in-chief John Micklethwait at the Economic Club for nearly an hour.
“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,” Trump stated.
“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,” he continued.
One highlight included a moment when Trump called out Bloomberg News as fake news. Trump running mate JD Vance was quick to comment on the viral moment.
“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,” Vance posted to X.
Other key moments included Trump’s response to inflation. He flatly responded to claims about concerns under his leadership, answering, “”I had four years of no inflation.”
Trump also outlined his plan to stop American jobs from being moved overseas.
“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,” he noted.
Trump’s campaign released a statement following the interview stating “he put on a master class outlining his plan to return American citizens and businesses to the successes they enjoyed during his first term.”
The statement added, “Kamala could NEVER.”
The campaign statement concluded with a strong contrast between Trump and Harris.
“It laid bare the starkest contrast yet between the economic triumphs of President Trump and the abject failures of Kamala — and above all, it was the perfect illustration why Americans trust President Trump to manage the economy,” it read. “President Trump did it once with record success — and he’ll do it again.”
