Trump presses journalist to accept the doctoral photo as real: “Why don't you just say yes?” | Donald Trump

Donald Trump opened an ABC journalist in a tense television interview to mark 100 days of his second term in which he, among other things, prompted the correspondent Terry Moran to agree to agree that a doctoral photo was actually real and said to him: “Why don't you just say yes.”

The 40-minute interview in the Oval Office stood away from the course when Moran Trump pressed on the case of Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian man living in Maryland who was deported despite a protective court. When Moran pointed out that the Supreme Court of García had ordered García's return to the United States, and suggested that Trump had the authority to comply with a single phone call, the President was bursting.

“I could,” said Trump – weeks of persistence from his government that he couldn't – but added: “I am not the one who made this decision. We have lawyers who don't want to do this.”

“You are the president,” said Moran and said, after talking about each other, Trump said: “No, no, no. I follow the law. You want me to follow the law. If I were the president who just wanted to do something, I would probably hold him exactly where he is.”

“The Supreme Court says what the law is,” emphasized Moran.

The exchange continued to deteriorate when Trump insisted that García had MS-13 tattoos on his ankles, while Moran-gently disagreed after several times after Moran and tried to switch to a new topic-from which the image that Trump refers to was obviously changed.

“Why don't you just say: 'Yes, he does it?' [have a gang tattoo] And, you know, keep going to something else, ”said Trump.

The US President added: “You do such a bad service … So people no longer believe the news because they are fake news.”

Then he claimed that he chose Moran to lead the milestone interview, “because I honestly never heard of you” and added: “Hey, they give you the big break of a life, you know – you do the interview.”

In the meantime, Trump stood for his controversial economic and immigration policy, even when Moran crowded him on possible consequences.

In his steep tariffs against China, which reached 145% in some goods, Trump rejected widespread economic concerns regarding the price increases for American consumers. “It will be fine for everyone,” the president insisted despite the analyzes of Moody's and other financial institutions that predicted thousands of dollars of additional costs for American families.

“It will increase the prices for everything, from electronics to clothing to the construction of houses,” said Moran.

“You don't know. You don't know whether China will eat it or not,” countered Trump, claiming that his tariffs were necessary to commit trade -off weights that made the US economy “not sustainable”.

When his proudest performance was in the first 100 days, Trump pointed out his border policy and claimed that his government had reduced illegal crossings by “99.9%”.

When asked whether he recognizes the legal proceedings for deportations, Trump seemed to question the specified procedural requirements. When asked whether he recognized that according to the US law, every person who is suspended is entitled to a hearing, Trump replied: “When people come to our country illegally, there is another standard.

Even as Moran, the podcaster and Trump supporter Joe Rogan cited, who warned that deportations without proper procedure “we will become monsters while we fight”, only offered vague assurances to be “careful” while we “have to do something”.

In Ukraine, Trump described the continuing conflict as “bidens war” and told his recent meeting with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the basilica of St. Peter in Rome. Although he condemned Russia's rocket attacks in civilian areas, he also said that the Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “peace” – a claim to the ongoing offensive operations in Russia.

If he was asked directly whether he trusted Putin, Trump distracted: “I don't trust you. I don't trust many people. I don't trust you” before I “respected” this Putin.

Trump also refused to clarify whether the United States would continue military help to Ukraine if peace negotiations fail, and said: “I want to leave it as a big, fat secret because I don't want to ruin a negotiation.”

When Trump had been contested in relation to his use of presidential powers – including revoked security checks and the target of law firms with regulatory threats, Trump defended his actions by saying that he was “pursued like no other president”.

And when the interview packed the interview, Moran Trump asked immediately for consideration that he became an authoritarian to which the President replied: “I would hate her to think. I do one thing: I do America great again.”