Trump foresees “economic transition period” in the US and insists on tariffs

The US president Donald Trump He was interviewed this Sunday in the conservative chain Fox News, where he said to foresee a “Transition period“Economic marked by the tariffs that USA He has imposed or intends to impose on the assets of other countries.

Interviewed by the presenter Maria Bartiromo, and asked about some data that point to a recession this year, Trump He replied: “I hate to predict things like that. There is a transition period, because what we are doing is very large, we are bringing wealth to the United States again. ”

In the Air Force One, back from its weekend in Mar-a-Lago, Trump He clarified that it is normal to doubt the possibility that the United States enters recession. “Who knows? The only thing I can tell you is that we are going to raise hundreds of billions in tariffs and we will become so rich that we will not know how to spend all that money”

In parallel, the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, in an interview at NBC, said that “There will be no recession in the United States“And he argued that”Global tariffs are going to go down because President Trump has said: do they want to impose us 100%? We will impose 100%”

Trump He had to address the fluctuations in his government’s tariffs to Mexico and Canadathat concern the markets, and said that on April 2 the “will enter into force”reciprocal tariffs“, Insisting that they make sense because other countries are” scaming “their own, while last week he acknowledged that their economic policy may require”Small adjustments“For Americans.

Regarding reciprocal tariffs to the assets of those countries that take US imports, Lutnick He explained that “Some products that are made abroad may be more expensive, but Americans will be reduced, and that is the goal”

From his return to the White House, Trumphe has threatened tariffs Mexico and Canada, as well as to China, among other countries, and has applied the rates to, in some cases, temporarily reverse them, as in the case of the goods included in the T-MEC Agreement with its neighbors.

“We are going to attract jobs, we will reopen factories”, Promised in statements this afternoon to the press before landing in Washington.

Regarding the pause in tariffs to the automotive sector, fully integrated between the three countries, he declared that he did it because he wanted to “Help US manufacturers“And gave them”A little breath“, But said the levies”They can go up“Later.

Besides, Trump He refused to evaluate these policies according to the impact on the stock market and proposed the Chinese economic monitoring model: “If they look at China, they have a 100 -year -old perspective. We are going for quarters, and you can’t do so, you have to do the right thing“, said.