President Donald Trump attempted to take credit for parts of the economy which he considers \u201cgood,\u201d while blaming former President Joe Biden for other parts he considers \u201cbad.\u201d<\/p>\n
In an interview on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press Sunday, Kristen Welker confronted Trump about whether the economy \u2014 good or bad \u2014 now belongs to him having now the 100-day mark in his second term.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe economy shrank in the first quarter,\u201d Welker said. \u201cYou\u2019ve been arguing all week that this is President Biden\u2019s economy. Is this now your economy, sir?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I think certain aspects of it are,\u201d Trump said. Costs are. I was able to get down the costs. But even that, it takes a while to get them down, but we got them down good. We lost five to six billion dollars a day with Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cWe\u2019ve essentially cut off trade relationships by putting that much of a tariff on. And that\u2019s okay. We\u2019ve gone cold turkey. That means that we\u2019re not losing. You know, we lost a trillion dollars to China. A trillion dollars. That means we\u2019re not losing a trillion dollars when we go cold turkey because we\u2019re not doing business with them right now. And they want to make a deal. They want to make a deal very badly. We\u2019ll see how that all turns out, but it\u2019s got to be a fair deal.<\/p>\n
Welker followed up by trying to get him to commit to a timeframe when he would take full ownership of the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen does it become the Trump economy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt partially is right now,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cAnd I really mean this. I think the good parts are the Trump economy and the bad parts are the Biden economy.<\/p>\n
The Meet the Press moderator confronted Trump on whether he is evading accountability.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you take responsibility when [the stock market] drops?\u201d Welker asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cUltimately, I take responsibility for everything,\u201d Trump said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve only just been here for a little more than three months. But the stock market, look at what\u2019s happened in the last short period of time. Didn\u2019t it have nine or ten days in a row, or 11 days, where it\u2019s gone up? And the tariffs have just started kicking in. And we\u2019re doing really well. Psychologically, I mean, the fake news was giving me such press on the tariffs. The tariffs are going to make us rich. We\u2019re going to be a very rich country.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch above, via NBC.<\/p>\n\n
President Donald Trump attempted to take credit for parts of the economy which he considers \u201cgood,\u201d while blaming former President Joe Biden for other parts he considers \u201cbad.\u201d In an interview on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press Sunday, Kristen Welker confronted Trump about whether the economy \u2014 good or bad \u2014 now belongs to him having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/13197489778031873956.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15234,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15232\/revisions\/15234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otrxio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}