„As soon as I got elected, they stopped.“
During the first interview after reaching the 100-day milestone of his presidency, Donald Trump said he believed that he was the one who got China to stop manipulating its currency.
Speaking to CBS‘ John Dickerson on „Face the Nation, “ Trump said that China stopped manipulating its currency as soon as he came into office.
„W hen they talk about currency manipulation, and I did say I would call China, if they were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure, “ Trump said. “ And then I get there. Number one, they — as soon as I got elected, they stopped. They’re not — it’s not going down anymore, their currency.“
Dickerson briefly interrupted to fact-check Trump, saying, “ But that had been true before. That had been true… during the campaign, sir.“
“ No, not true to the extent that we’re talking about, “ Trump replied. “ Much more important than that, as to when, but, you know, it did stop. And I was talking about it all during the campaign.
