Trump already walking back core campaign promise on prices, inflation

Trumpland with Alex Wagner

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🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Despite making a promise of lowering prices an inflation a central part of his presidential campaign, and admitting that that promise was key to his being elected, Donald Trump is now waffling on whether that's even possible. Michelle Goldberg, columnist for the New York Times, and Faiz Shakir, founder and executive director of More Perfect Union, talk with Alex Wagner about Trump's walk back and what his post-election rhetoric suggests about his actual economic priorities.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to pardon January 6 rioters on day one of his presidency.
0:06.6	But I mean, I think most people imagine that was probably more figurative than literal.
0:11.2	Until now.
0:12.6	This is from Donald Trump's new interview with Time Magazine, which is out today.
0:16.9	Time magazine.
0:17.7	January 6 pardons.
0:18.8	Do you have in mind what the first 24 to 48 hours will look like?
0:22.2	Trump. I'll be looking at January 6 early on, maybe the first nine minutes, as in the first nine minutes of his presidency.
0:30.6	Just to be clear here, Donald Trump will become president again at exactly 12 p.m. Eastern time on January 20th of 2025. That is when he will take the oath of
0:40.3	office standing in front of the U.S. Capitol building. And nine minutes later, he will presumably
0:46.5	just be delivering the opening lines of his inaugural address. You probably remember the images of
0:53.5	January 6th rioters scaling the scaffolding at the
0:56.6	Capitol on January 6th. The reason not scaffolding was there was because of preparation for the
1:02.8	2020 inauguration. And it is from that very spot that Donald Trump is now suggesting he will
1:10.2	pardon the criminals who violently
1:12.6	tried to keep him in power just four years ago. If Trump really does follow through with that
1:18.9	promise, it will be a remarkable display of authoritarian-style leadership in his first nine minutes
1:24.8	as president. But that will not be the only bit of authoritarianism
1:29.5	creeping onto the stage on inauguration day. Well, I was even thinking about inviting certain
1:35.6	people to the inauguration, and some people say, wow, that's a little risky, isn't it?
1:40.2	And I said, maybe it is. We'll see. We'll see what happens. But we like to take little chances, but that's not a bad chance.
1:47.5	We like to take little chances. Little chances? Kind of seems like a big one. The risky people Donald Trump is inviting to his inauguration are the authoritarian leaders of China and Hungary, Xi Jinping and Viktor Orban. We told you last night about a report that Trump had allegedly vited Orban and Xi to the inauguration.
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