President Donald Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said on Saturday that he did not dismiss anyone involved in the cat in the signal group where the attack plans inadvertently disclosed to a journalist before a military strike, and later added that he “does not care” if the manufacturers were increased prices due to new prices.
In the big interview, Trump also discussed his commitment to annexing Greenland and reiterated that a military option was not out of the table.
After a week of big titles on the signal, prices and Greenland, the president has feared that his program causes the volatility of Wall Street or the confidence of consumers decreases, stressing that the part of the Americans who believe that the country is on the right track is in high records.
“What I see is a good track, a bad track. And the right track was the first time in the same thing, 40 years when it was the right track,” said the president, also putting Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland on the phone. The two golf men in Florida on Saturday.
More Trump’s interview with NBC News:
No concerns if car manufacturers increase their prices
The president said that he “does not care” if foreign car manufacturers increased prices after announcing that he would impose prices of 25% on all foreign manufacturing cars.
Asked about his recent message to the CEO of the automotive industry, and if he had warned them against the price increase, Trump said: “The message is congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you will earn a lot of money. If you don’t, you will probably have to come to the United States, because if you win your car in the United States, there is no price. ”
Once pressed if he had told CEOs not to increase prices, as indicated in the Wall Street Journal, Trump added: “No, I never said that. I don’t care if they increased prices, because people will start buying American manufacturing cars.”
Trump continued: “I don’t care. I hope they will increase their prices, because if they do, people will buy American manufacturing cars. We have a lot. ”
When he was asked if he was concerned about the fact that the prices of cars increased, Trump said: “No, I don’t care, because if the prices of foreign cars are increasing, they will buy American cars.”
NBC News reported earlier this week that foreign automotive parts would also be taxed at 25% even if the vehicles in which they arise are assembled at the national level. Companies that import vehicles under the US-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) agreement will benefit from a particular consideration until the government is establishing a process of recovering 25% of tasks, according to the White House.
Until this time, the automotive parts in accordance with the USMCA will remain without a price.
The president also said that the prices imposed were permanent.
“Absolutely, they are permanent, sure. The world has been getting the United States for 40 years and more. And all that we are doing is just, and frankly, I am very generous,” said Trump.
Trump’s pricing announcement on Wednesday came just A few weeks before his planned on April 2 “Liberation Day” when prices on a variety of consumer goods should take effect. They Attracted the rapid conviction of international leaders such as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
In remarks on Thursday, Carney told journalists that prices were “unjustified” and that “the old relationship we had with the United States according to the deepening of the integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over”.
Trump argued on Saturday that he does not plan to delay the imposition of April 2 prices more, and he would plan to negotiate on this point “only if people are ready to give us something of great value. Because countries have great things, if not, there is no room for negotiation. ”
Signal incident
Trump said that he did not intend to dismiss anyone who was new that the national security advisor Michael Waltz added a journalist to a group of signal applications to discuss with higher members of the Trump administration who discussed plans to hit Houthi activists in Yemen at the start of the month.
“I do not dismiss people because of false news and because of hunts with witches,” said Trump, calling the “false news” history throughout the interview.
“I do it,” said the president when he was asked if he always trusted Waltz and the defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who was also in the signal cat and sent a detailed schedule of the strikes provided before they occur.
“I think it’s just a witch hunt and the false news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it’s just a witch hunt, and it shouldn’t be heard (from),” added Trump. “We had an extremely successful strike. We hit very hard and very deadly. And no one wants to talk about it. All they want to talk about is nonsense. This is false news. “
Trump’s comments arise when he was confronted with calls – including his allies – to shoot Waltz after the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, wrote on Monday that he had been added to a discussion group on a private messaging application with senior administration officials.
In the cat, the officials seemed Discuss their plans to hit the Houthis rebels, which have been classified on several occasions.
“I have no idea what the signal is. I don’t care about the signal,” said Trump on Saturday. “All I can tell you is that it’s just a witch hunt, and it is the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to say. Because it is the greatest presidency of 100 days in the history of our country.”
Everything is on the table to get Greenland
The president also declared on Saturday that he had “absolutely” had real conversations on the annex of Greenland, which is currently a semi-autonomous Danish territory.
“We will have Greenland. Yes, 100%,” said Trump.
He added that there is a “good possibility that we can do it without military force” but that “I do not remove anything from the table”.
It comes one day after that vice-president JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife, USHA, and spoke with soldiers at Pituffik Space Base, an American space force base on the northwest coast of Greenland.
During his stay, Vance said: “Our message to Denmark is very simple – you did not do a good job by the inhabitants of Greenland.”
Questioned on what message to acquire Greenland would send to Russia and to the rest of the world, Trump said: “I don’t really think about it. I really don’t care. Greenland is a very separate, very different subject. It is international peace. It is international security and strength. ”
“You have ships that sail outside Greenland from Russia, China and many other places. And we are not going to allow things to happen that will be injured in the world or the United States,” he added.
