WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump declared that inflation “has been defeated” and the US border is “totally closed” as he pitched tariffs, tax cuts, and new trade claims in a political push he said is aimed at winning the midterm elections.
Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Tuesday, Trump said his administration had delivered “the most dramatic one-year turnaround of any country in history, ” arguing that the US economy had rebounded rapidly after what he described as a troubled inheritance.
“Just after one year of President Trump, our economy is booming, incomes are rising, investment is soaring, ” he said, adding that America was now “respected all over the world.”