October 15, 2024 Heather Cox Richardson
After Trumps bizarre performance last night in Oaks, Pennsylvania, when he stopped taking questions and just swayed to his self-curated playlist for 39 minutes, his campaign this morning canceled a scheduled interview with CNBCs Squawk Box, according to co-host of the show Joe Kernen. The campaign did not, though, cancel a scheduled live interview today with Bloomberg News and the Economic Club of Chicago. That interview echoed last nights train wreck.
Trump showed up almost an hour late to the event with moderator John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News. When he arrived, things went downhill fast. Micklethwait asked real questions about Trumps approach to the economy, but the former president answered with aimless rants and campaign slogans that Micklethwait corrected, repeatedly redirecting Trump back to his actual questions. Trump quickly grew angry and combative.
When Micklethwait corrected Trumps misunderstanding of the way tariffs work, Trump replied in front of a room full of people who understand the economy: It must be hard for you to, you know, spend 25 years talking about tariffs as being negative and then have somebody explain to you that you're totally wrong. Referring to analysis that his plans would explode the national debt, including analysis by the Wall Street Journalhardly a left-wing outlet, as Mickelthwait pointed outTrump replied: What does the Wall Street Journal know? Theyve been wrong about everything. So have you, by the way
.. Youve been wrong about everything
. Youve been wrong all your life on this stuff.
Much more here: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/october-15-2024