Name: BREAKING NEWS: Trump Takes Questions About Greenland, Economy At The World Economic Forum In Davos
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This was supposed to be a Nice fire chat, Mr. President.

Now you made the job for the moderator really easy.

I do have a few follow up questions if it's okay.

I don't think I should start with Greenland.

The US economy is doing really, really well.

But how to sustain this growth moving forward because there's always a recession looming around the corner.

Well, you know the one thing about economies and recessions is sometimes you get hit unexpectedly and there's nothing you can do about it.

All brilliant people, but there's nothing.

We had an economy going at levels like nobody had ever seen.

My first two and a half, three years and then I heard the word pandemic.

They came up with that name over a period of time.

But I heard the word pandemic and I had a poll come out that was so strong just prior to that.

And I was with the two best pollsters, McLaughlin and Fabrizio and they said Sir George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

If they came back and ran as president and Vice president, they couldn't beat you.

And then what happened is the following day I was told to stay tuned because there's something really bad happening in China.

There are bodies laying all over Wuhan, right around that certain building that we talk about.

I always said it came from Wuhan, it did come from Wuhan and they were body bags.

We saw it by satellite and they said there are strange things happening in China.

And so it began and we ended up with the COVID and the whole world suffered.

I don't think we got the credit we deserved.

We did something that Operation Warp Speed, which some people say was one of the greatest military feats ever.

We did a great job use our military, used a lot of people.

You get hit with things like that unexpectedly.

And when I left the stock market was higher than it was previous to the COVID coming up.

And that was, I called it a great achievement.

Those are a matter of being intelligent and having intelligent people on the other side.

But we can stop wars because that's sort of up to us.

But things like dust flying in the air, wherever Covid comes from or whatever comes, sometimes you have to be a little bit lucky.

But we are poised to have an economy like no other, not only in this country, but anywhere.

And you know, when you hear the kind of numbers that I can tell you that Scott Besant was with me the other day and he's looking at numbers.

Pretty much your whole life, Scott, you weren't going to be a football player.

I don't think Scott was not that great at football, but he was always good at numbers, right?

He said, I'd never seen anything like this.

We're poised to do things that no other country has ever done.

I hate to say it, but we need a little luck.

We don't want to get hit by something that nobody could have thought, thought.

Whoever thought we were going to hit by a pandemic.

You know, when I heard the word pandemic, I said, oh, that's an ancient problem.

World War I, they lost 100 million people.

A lot of people don't know the Spanish flu in World War I ended the war because all the soldiers were sick.

The soldiers were so sick on both sides and that war was raging and they were all dying from the Spanish flu.

So, you know, you don't know how that would have turned out.

And I always have to put a caveat in for it, but

we're poised to have the greatest growth of any large country.

When you look at what's happening in the United States, it's really amazing.

One thing that maybe keeps you up at night, I know you don't sleep that much anyway, Mr.

Is not the biggest expenditure on your budget how to get out of that impulse?

If we grow like this, we go from having at 37, 36, $37 trillion.

But we also are cutting expenses, you know, the old fashioned way.

I think we're going to be growing our way out.

I think we're going to be paying off debt.

We're taking in tremendous money from tariffs fairly.

And again, I'm using them judiciously, you know, Switzerland's a case study.

But I think growth, most importantly, and then cutting costs.

Now, if you take a Look at Minnesota, $19 billion in fraud and other things, people going to airports, they came into the country, they don't have 10 cents, and

they're leaving with hundreds of thousands of cash in their bags.

When we get to that, and our doj, Pam and Todd, and

all the people that work over there and all of the people that work in here, I can tell you, Scott Besant is working on that.

We're in there looking for where this money is coming from, how much it is.

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