{"id":8156,"date":"2025-12-09T18:25:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/09\/president-trumps-politico-interview-democrats-lost-control-i-took-it-back-the-white-house-gov\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T18:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T18:25:01","slug":"president-trumps-politico-interview-democrats-lost-control-i-took-it-back-the-white-house-gov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/2025\/12\/09\/president-trumps-politico-interview-democrats-lost-control-i-took-it-back-the-white-house-gov\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s Politico Interview: Democrats Lost Control \u2014 I Took it Back &#8211; The White House (.gov)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a wide-ranging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/12\/09\/donald-trump-full-interview-transcript-00681693?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nname=playbook&#038;nrid=a78bbdeb-959a-4bbc-b083-b7dbe744f560\">interview<\/a> with Politico, President Donald J. Trump reflected on the progress of his second term as it approaches the one-year mark \u2014 detailing how he is reversing the economic wreckage left by Biden, unleashing an investment surge, slamming the door on illegal border crossings and maritime drug smuggling, and restoring an America First posture abroad.<\/p>\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998435265417740393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/potus-politico.jpg\" alt  ><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Here are some of the key moments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Democrats love to say, \u2018Affordability, affordability,\u2019 but then they never talk about it. They\u2019re the ones that gave us the high prices. I\u2019m the one that\u2019s bringing them down.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998405400899530760?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI inherited a total mess. Prices were at an all-time high when I came in. Prices are coming down\u2026 Look at energy.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998418096491553014?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe have $18 trillion being invested. Car companies are moving back that left us years ago. AI is coming in at levels never seen before. Factories are opening up all over the country\u2026 Ultimately, you know what it reduces itself to? Jobs. You\u2019re going to have jobs like you\u2019ve never seen in the United States.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998404851730944033?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhen I go on a trip, I only have one place in mind \u2014 it\u2019s the United States\u2026 Most of my time is spent here, but when I do go outside, it\u2019s only going outside for here. For instance, settling and solving the problem with China. That has a huge effect in the United States.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998405705989038415\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI want to see people that contribute. I don\u2019t want to see Somalia. I don\u2019t want to see a woman that marries her brother\u2026 then becomes a congressman and does nothing but complain.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998400281151754334\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTwo years ago, a year ago, under Biden, this country was out of control; millions of people pouring through, totally unchecked, totally unvetted. And now, we have nobody coming in\u2026 Nobody ever talks about that anymore. They should talk about that.\u201d \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998406727570522473\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cObamacare was set up for insurance companies to become rich\u2026 They\u2019ve been paid trillions \u2014 not billions \u2014 trillions of dollars and what I\u2019m saying is very simple: I don\u2019t want to pay them anything. No money for the insurance companies\u2026 I want to pay the money directly to the people and let the people get their own healthcare. But you know who\u2019s fighting me on that? The Democrats.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998413085279687034?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTrillions of dollars goes to the insurance companies. I want that money to go to the people and let the people go out and buy their own healthcare. It works like magic, but you know who doesn\u2019t want it? The Democrats because they\u2019re corrupt people \u2014 because they\u2019re totally owned and bought by the insurance companies.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998411911193333989?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[Zelensky] is going have to get on the ball and start accepting things\u2026 because they\u2019re losing. They\u2019ve lost territory \u2014 long before I got here\u2026 You certainly wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s a victory.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998393396516311371?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI hate to see young, beautiful people being killed.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998393778223104366?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI have no vision for Europe. All I want to see is a strong Europe. I have a vision for the United States \u2014 America First. It\u2019s \u2018Make America Great Again.\u2019\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998398448928792795\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe save 25,000 people every time we knock out a boat. On average, they kill 25,000 Americans. I don\u2019t like doing that, but the drugs coming in through the sea \u2014 they\u2019re down by 92 percent\u2026 Nobody wants to drive boats to America loaded up with drugs anymore.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998401342897897602?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201c[Birthright citizenship] was meant for the babies of slaves\u2026 That case was not meant for some rich person coming from another country, putting a foot in our country, and all of a sudden their whole family becomes United States citizens.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998412422344827172?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m one of the people that survived, but they weaponized the government. We had the most weaponized government\u2026 They indicted me. I came out good \u2014 here we are in the White House. Things are looking nice, but they were vicious\u2026 They\u2019re sick people.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1998401944407117951?s=20\">Watch<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, President Donald J. Trump reflected on the progress of his second term as it approaches the one-year mark \u2014 detailing how he is reversing the economic wreckage left by Biden, unleashing an investment surge, slamming the door on illegal border crossings and maritime drug smuggling, and restoring an America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpinitiate.com\/echo-test\/demo973e36f5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}