Fox’s Laura Ingraham Straight-Up Asks Trump ‘Will We See A Recession In 2025?’
Fox News host Laura Ingraham straight-up asked President Donald Trump if he could rule out a recession, which Trump has pointedly refused to do on multiple occasions.
Trump’s repeated refusal to rule out the possibility of an impending recession and policies like his whiplash tariff war and mass deportations have created uncertainty and cratered the stock market. Some of his cabinet and senior officials have followed suit, even as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said there will be no recession.
In an interview that aired on Wednesday night’s edition of Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle, the host took several opportunities to confront Trump over recession fears, citing a Fed report that said a recession “could actually happen” — to which Trump replied “Everything could happen.”
Ingraham finally just bluntly asked, “Will we see a recession in 2025? Are you ruling it out?”
Trump’s answer conspicuously did not include a “no”:
INGRAHAM: There is a lot of talk about a possibility of a recession, and CNBC had a report from the Fed saying they can’t rule it out. It could actually happen.
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TRUMP: Everything could happen.
INGRAHAM: What can you say to Americans tonight who are concerned about the possibility of a recession, given the fact that you’re trying to reorient the economy to a manufacturing economy again?
TRUMP: I think, if I didn’t get elected, our country would be finished, to start off with.
And I think I — now that I did get elected, I think we’re going to have the strongest economy in the history of the world. And I had that economy in four years. With all the harassment, with all the crazy people after me, with all of the things that went on, even with COVID, I had the strongest economy in the history of our country.
I had a stock market that went up 88 percent, 88 percent, number one in history. The other markets went up 66 percent, and I think like 71 percent.
INGRAHAM: Will we see a recession in 2025? Are you ruling it out?
TRUMP: We’re going to have the strongest economic country in the history of the world, of the planet. We are taking in so much money.
Now, some people are unhappy, because it has to come from somewhere. Some of it’s going to come from Europe, because not everybody’s going to be doing as much business maybe in Europe and other places. But I can only speak for the United States. And I am a nationalist, and I’m proud of it. I love this country. And I want to help other countries too.
Look, I’m the one. If it wasn’t for me, they wouldn’t be talking peace in Ukraine and Russia, because there are not Americans being killed. They’re Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers, and I’m trying to make peace. And, again, it has not that much to do, other than, we don’t want to be paying.
But Biden spent $350 billion on that war. Got nothing for it.
Watch above via Fox News Channel’s The Ingraham Angle.
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