Trump Says Japan Is ‘Very Spoiled,’ Doubts There Will Be Trade Deal: Full Q&A

Trump Says Japan Is ‘Very Spoiled,’ Doubts There Will Be Trade Deal: Full Q&A

Voters.
Almost always they seem to go along with me because they know I’m working hard.
I have a nice high IQ. Like that.
You know, we like high IQ people, but. They know I make good decisions as well
with that. Trump was right about everything.
But, you know, I don’t like guys. Like they just keep saying no, I vote
no. I vote no.
No, nothing. Let him get something.
Let him get what he wants. Yes, but if you look at his voting
record, shows he gets. Well, he’s going to have an opponent.
He’s got he’s he’s going to have a big opponent, good opponent.
Who’s going to win. No apologies came out.
And it showed anybody I endorse against Massey.
Massey loses by 25 points. So.
He’s going to be think. I felt the Senate was going to be
tougher than the House. We got there, we got pretty much what we
wanted. It was an amazing package.
The biggest bill ever passed if we get this done.
You know, most of the people wanted seven or eight different bills.
And I thought that was tougher because it’d be 100%, there’d be nothing.
You could just build something for everybody by doing it this way.
So we’re happy about it. We’re happy with the result.
Well, they’re going to ask for certain changes, but I don’t know.
I mean, I guess what would happen if that happens?
You don’t have to run it fast, pass the Senate.
So, you know, it never ends. I don’t know if that’s going to happen.
Do you think it’s I guess it’s been done right on occasion.
That will happen with they make a change and they’ll get it back.
So I’ll go pretty quickly. But
I think the center was a very big move and they worked very hard.
I didn’t get along with Jealous. And he resigned.
That’s a good thing. Somebody that would really be great is
Fara. She grew up there.
But they live in Florida and have a very good life.
And they you know, they’re great people. She did fantastically running the RNC.
She’s even going to show this. Strike the number one show.
And Mark Levin is likewise I mean, they have the number one number two show over
the weekend. She’s a great person for a job.
You know, would always be. My first choice, which is to live there
now, which is there all the time in Paris.
And, you know, she really knows North Carolina well.
And I want to three times. I don’t know who the candidates are
going to be. I think you’re going to have one of the
congressmen step up and should do very well.
No, not at all. It’s so soon.
I had it out with this guy two nights ago and he resigned, you know, which I
was happy about. He did us all a favor. It appears to be.
No, I haven’t. You telling me this for the first time?
I think he’s done an amazing job on you.
Who are you? You with?
Good paper, actually. Are you concerned right now?
Yeah. It’s going to take a long period of
time. We’re going to have a lot of.
We’re going to have a lot of angst because it’s a tough it’s a tough thing.
But no, I think they’re doing an amazing job.
And, you know, we’re doing a lot of deportations.
We’re doing a lot of people, self deportations where they come in and they
deport and then they want to come back into the country and they can only come
back into the country under no circumstances unless they go out the
proper way. Otherwise, they’re never coming back.
No, I think it’s going very well. Look, I did a tremendous service when he
allowed this to happen to our. And I always said it’s the toughest
thing. You know, I had inflation and I got rid
of it when. I had a bad economy and we got to you
know, we set a new stock market high today.
We’re doing. Unbelievable.
The country is doing that. I always said the most difficult thing
is what happened at the border, allowing 21 or 25 million people to come into our
country. It’s the most difficult thing to do.
And I think I think we’re doing a fantastic job in getting them out.
But you have a lot of self deporting, a lot more than people understand that
those people are eligible maybe to come back in.
No, no, I’m not.
I’m not thinking about that. But I’ll be writing letters to a lot of
countries, and I think you’re just starting to understand the process.
We’ve dealt with Japan. I’m not sure we’re going to make it.
I doubt it. With Japan, they’re very tough.
If there’s ever a spoiler. I love your man.
I really like the new Prime minister, Shinzo Abe.
He was one of my closest friends. You know, the new prime minister is
great. He’s a very strong guy.
But they and others are so spoiled from having ripped us off for 30, 40 years.
That it’s really hard for them to make a deal.
You know, very. As an example which you.
They won’t take rice, and yet they desperately need rice.
You know that. But they won’t take rice.
They won’t take other products away. Think of it, they need rice so badly,
but they won’t take rice. I think that was an easy one for the
cards. As you know, they said that millions we
didn’t we didn’t give them one car In ten years, they won’t take any cars.
They’ll sell millions more. So, which.
I’m sorry, you can’t do that. We have a great relationship, great
reliance. And really a great
sort of a partnership in a way. But Andre, they’ve been very.
And those days are gone. So what I’m going to do is I’ll write
him a letter. So we thank you very much.
We know you can’t do the kind of things that we need and therefore you pay a
30%, 35% or whatever the number is that we determined, because we also have a
very big trade deficit with Japan. And it’s very unfair to the American
people. So
they maybe will be happy. They maybe won’t be happy.
But some countries we weren’t even allowed to trade.
But for the most part, we’re going to determine a number just very simply
wrote him a nice letter, probably one page or a page and a half at the most.
And it’s going to be essentially congratulations.
It’s going to be an honor to allow you to go and do business in the United
States of America, because it really is an honor to be able to do that.
But we never viewed it that way in this country.
And, you know, we took in $129 million already.
We haven’t even started. No inflation.
Our country is strong. Our interest rate should be three points
lower if our interest rate was three points lower.
That’s almost $1,000,000,000,000. Just by the signing of a pen.
But we have a moron. At the end of the day.
That is a moron. Speaking.
I do. I have I have two or three job choices
and no, you almost got me now.
I think we’re going to have a deal with India.
Possibly. And that’s going to be a different kind
of a deal. It’s going to be a deal where we’re able
to go in and compete. Right now, India doesn’t exempt anybody
in. It is going to do that.
And if they do that, we’re going to have a deal for less, much less tariffs.
Just. Thank you for showing me, by the way,
that you mentioned. Yes, it was a meeting ago. Well, they are open, is under
investigation. The other serious thing, I think, is one
of the most serious things I’ve heard. Mayorkas was a terrible, terrible
secretary. But he was given orders to do things.
And the people who gave those orders probably have.
Pardon my pardon. A lot of people.
The only one he didn’t find was himself. But I don’t know if I do to him what he
did to me. Problem is, he wouldn’t understand what
happened, so maybe it wouldn’t be so bad.
Right. Something else.
Oh. President Obama was a terrible
president. President Biden was the worst president
in the history of our country. President Bush should not have gone into
the Middle East to blow the place up. So I don’t give him high margin.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you.
I give Trump very high marks. Goodbye.

President Trump spoke with reporters about the chances of a trade deal with Japan, his tax bill and throwing his support behind a primary challenger for Senator Thom Tillis in North Carolina on Air Force One
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