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President Donald Trump departed Washington, D.C. Thursday afternoon, to travel to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida for the weekend.
While aboard Air Force One, the president walked to the back of the plane to chat with reporters, and addressed multiple issues in the news, including the new tariffs he just announced on Wednesday.
Earlier on Thursday, President Trump had likened the initial phases of his new tariff announcements to a surgery.
“THE OPERATION IS OVER! THE PATIENT LIVED, AND IS HEALING. THE PROGNOSIS IS THAT THE PATIENT WILL BE FAR STRONGER, BIGGER, BETTER, AND MORE RESILIENT THAN EVER BEFORE. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” he wrote in a Truth Social post.
Trump then spoke to reporters as he left the White House Thursday afternoon, and said, “I think its going very well. It was an operation, like when a when a patient gets operated on. It’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. We have six or seven trillion dollars coming into our country…the markets are going to boom.”
President Trump: “I think its going very well. It was an operation, like when a when a patient gets operated on. It’s a big thing. I said this would exactly be the way it is. We have six or seven trillion dollars coming into our country…the markets are going to boom.” pic.twitter.com/hhrGOFgX2J
— CSPAN (@cspan) April 3, 2025
While in flight to Florida, Trump said, “This is a patient that was very sick… We’ve lost 90,000 plants since NAFTA… and about 6 million jobs. It was a sick patient. It went through an operation on Liberation Day. And it’s going to be a booming country.”
.@POTUS: “This is a patient that was very sick… We’ve lost 90,000 plants since NAFTA… and about 6 million jobs. It was a sick patient. It went through an operation on Liberation Day. And it’s going to be a booming country.” pic.twitter.com/IHoNZ3VSqg
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) April 3, 2025
During his candid interaction with the media, Trump also responded to reports that he had fired a few individuals on Wednesday, and commended independent journalist Laura Loomer, who visited with him in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
He explained that Loomer has on occasion recommended people to work for him who she has vetted and confirmed to be reliable.
WATCH the full exchange in the video below:
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