The 28 wackiest lines from Donald Trump's interview with Maria Bartiromo
Whoa boy.
Donald Trump sat for an interview with new Kennedy Center board member (and Fox Business News, um, personality) Maria Bartiromo on Sunday.
I got a hold of the transcript and went through it line-by-line. The lines you need to see are below.
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To the Lines!
“And the country was very poorly run for four years. You know better than anybody. Nobody covered it better than you, frankly.”
What Trump means here is that Bartiromo covered it the way he wanted her too. And away we go!
“So I rebuilt our military.”
“I.”
“I said, no matter what I do, they're going to sit there angry, insolent. You just see it. I mean, you see it. You can feel it. No matter what I say, no matter what I do, no matter who it is, they won't stand, they won't applaud, they won't clap. They will just sit there with sour faces.”
He’s talking about Democrats in Congress here. And I think this is true. I also think it’s not a smart strategy for Democrats to win back some of the independent and loosely-affiliated voters who chose Trump in 2024.
“I think -- I think the country's got a big light over it right now. And I have been told this by even other foreign leaders.”
Leaders of other countries have said the U.S. has a “big light” over it? Is that something we should be concerned about?
“We had Modi. We had everywhere. We had from France to India to about 12 that want to come in.”
“We had everywhere.”
“I believe that, if Kamala had won, meaning that whole ideology, Kamala and Biden and Obama, that whole group of people, if they had won, I don't think we would have had a country any longer.”
This feels, er, slightly overwrought.
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