Donald Trump reacts to global market carnage, says sometime you need to ‘take medicine’
US President Donald Trump has addressed the global market bloodbath, saying he doesn’t ‘want anything to go down’ but claimed sometimes you need to ‘take medicine’.
While onboard Air Force One, Mr Trump was asked if there was a threshold of pain that he would not tolerate for the markets.
“I think your question is so stupid,” Mr Trump said.
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By continuing you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy.“I don’t want anything to go down, but sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something — and we have been treated so badly by other countries.”
Mr Trump said the US was in this position because the country had “stupid leaders that allowed this to happen”.
“They took our businesses, they took our money, they took our jobs,” Mr Trump said.
“They moved it to mexico, they moved it to Canada they moved a lot of it to china. It’s not sustainable. We’re not going to do it.”
Mr Trump claimed markets would soon straighten out and that the United Stated would be “strong again”.
“Now we have hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our country on a monthly basis,” Mr Trump said.
“It’s already started because I put tariffs on.
“Eventually it is going to straighten out and our country will be solid and strong again.”
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