Donald Trump tells Bloomberg editor ‘you’re totally wrong’ over claims he will increase US debt [Video]

18:50 EDT 15 Oct 2024, updated 08:23 EDT 16 Oct 2024

Donald Trump clashed with his interviewer during a series of tense exchanges over his plan for big tariffs and other policies at the Economic Club of Chicago.

Trump was asked repeated questions about his plan to slap tariffs of as high as 100 percent on imported goods Tuesday.

‘To me the most beautiful word in the English language is tariff,’ Trump said. ‘And it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm,’ he said – in an early acknowledgement of the disputes that would follow.

‘I know you’re an anti-tariff guy,’ Trump told his questioner, John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News.

‘You could be plunging America into the biggest trade war,’ Micklethwait told him. ‘You’re going to basically stop trade with China… That is going to have a serious effect on the overall economy … The overall effect could be massive.’

Trump countered: ‘I agree. It’s …