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Americano

The Donald Trump interview

Americano

The Spectator

Politics, News, News Commentary

4714 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a wide-ranging conversation at the White House yesterday evening, Donald Trump was in the mood to talk about everything under the sun – from the speedy success his second administration has had putting fear into the hearts of bureaucrats and Eurocrats, to why he believes there is a path to a balanced budget. He spoke to The Spectator's Ben Domenech for the first magazine interview of his second term, following a major day of international politics with his meeting with prime minister Keir Starmer.

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0:00.0

The change that you've done this time in terms of your approach, the speed is all anything.

0:09.0

It's the only thing people in this time to talk about.

0:10.8

They can't believe it.

0:11.7

They can't believe that you have put the fear of God into bureaucrats and bureaucrats so quickly.

0:18.2

And I just wonder, what is it that you learned from the last time around that may be factored

0:24.7

into how rapidly you started moving when you got back in?

0:27.7

So the last time, first of all of all of a sudden I'm standing in the White House

0:34.5

and they say, congratulations, you president, right?

0:40.3

But I didn't know people in Washington.

0:41.4

It's a big factor.

0:42.8

So I had to rely on people.

0:50.6

And I got many good recommendations, but I got some that I wouldn't have ever used again if I had known.

0:54.4

So I really got to know people really at a high level and under pressure.

1:01.6

So I always felt that if I could get back, I would have some great people. And you see the kind of people.

1:11.5

They're really doing it. Well, the interesting thing about those people included in that is, thank you so much, is last time around, the talk was about Trump's generals.

1:16.8

This time around from Mike Wals to J.D. to Tulsi to Pete.

1:22.5

They're all people who were making decisions on the battlefield, not in the boardroom.

1:28.5

What factored into that generational shift in terms of the experience?

1:30.6

Yeah, so it's very interesting. So I was able to get people that were great.

1:34.7

Like I'd see Pete.

1:37.1

I'd be interviewed by him.

1:39.4

And what he wanted to talk about was military.

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