The president said he had not heard criticism of his response the last time Sean Hannity of Fox News asked him the question, but said there was “more to do” in his next term, again without naming any specific policies. goals.
At one point, Trump said, “We have to get our manufacturing back,” before immediately claiming that it had already been done, saying that “it had brought it back very large.”
“We are doing it, be it commerce, if it is military, everything made in the United States. It is very important. Made in the United States … We have to recover our manufacturing, and I have brought back very large,” he said.
“But we have to do our own pharmaceuticals, our own drugs, prescription drugs, we have to do our own things … So we have many things that we can do. We have done a lot, but we have many things that we can do.”
In a way, Trump’s approach mimics the way he ran his first campaign, which few expected him to win. In that race, Trump followed divisive rhetoric and a vague plan to “Make America Great Again” without setting a clear government agenda for a potential presidency. After taking office, Trump’s agenda became clearer, but often still seems ad hoc.
During the last line of questions about a possible second term, the President also said there was “more to do” in trade deals before promoting the “incredible” ones he had already done.
“Our country will be so strong at the end of our first term. It will be great. It would have been phenomenal. They hit us with the plague. At the end of the second term, there will be a level that no one will have seen in the country,” Trump said.
CNN’s Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
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