Inside the Bizarre Donald Trump CNBC Interview
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Donald’s rambling interview on CNBC’s Squawk Box with Joe Kernen veered from his escalating conflict with Iran to oil prices and the economy, as he defended his approach and took shots at the Federal Reserve. The segment also spotlighted Kevin Warsh’s Fed nomination, now in trouble after Senator Thom Tillis said he won’t back it until a Justice Department investigation into Jerome Powell is resolved. With U.S.-Iran talks uncertain and markets on edge, the interview underscored the chaos, contradictions, and pressure building around both foreign policy and the economy.
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| 0:00.0 | The Saudis are not, are they taking it economically on the chin to the point where they want you to end this? |
| 0:16.0 | Or are they saying finish the job? |
| 0:18.0 | I spoke to him yesterday. |
| 0:19.0 | He wasn't asking for anything. They're fighting. You know, they're helping us. They're helping us on the straight. They're helping us all over. The ones that aren't helping are NATO. You know, NATO said to me, no, we'll send somebody as soon as it's over. I said, that's not really, you know, we don't need them. We'll never need them, actually. They'll need us. They need us desperately because they're a paper tiger. |
| 0:39.8 | But I've said that. |
| 0:41.0 | By the way, I've said that for a long time. |
| 0:42.6 | Before I was in politics, I used to say it. |
| 0:44.7 | I was not in politics, but I sort of enjoyed it, and I liked watching things. |
| 0:50.1 | I always said they were a paper tiger. |
| 1:05.7 | Yeah. So I always said they were a paper tiger. Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's dive it. |
| 1:10.2 | Donald appeared on CNBC's Squawkbock this morning with Joe |
| 1:14.0 | Kernan for yet another one of his wide-ranging, propulsive, engaging, riveting, sorry, I tried, |
| 1:23.7 | incoherent and rambling interviews. They discussed the unconstitutional, illegal war of choice with Iran that Donald got us into, what it could mean for oil prices and the broader economy, as well as inflation. |
| 1:37.7 | Donald defended his bumbling approach to foreign policy while taking shots at the Fed along the way, as if those two things |
| 1:47.0 | have any relation in our reality, the conversation, as I said, bounced around a lot, mostly because |
| 1:54.5 | Donald couldn't stick to answering the question asked of him, but it was also the usual mix of bluster, tough talk, |
| 2:03.9 | puffing himself up, and economic grievances. |
| 2:08.6 | For example, on the economy, Donald told Kernan, quote, you want to see a bad stock market? |
| 2:14.3 | Try blowing up the Middle East, unquote. |
| 2:19.9 | Well, that's one way to do it. Take a look. |
| 2:25.9 | Will you be disappointed if your new Fed chair, if he gets approved, doesn't cut rates right away? I would. But let's talk about Iran first. Iran, if you, I'm looking at your numbers |
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