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Donald Trump: “We should be at 1%. We should be leading the world. Instead…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Donald Trump and President Marcos Discuss US-Philippines Relations and Trade

Published | Video Starts at 06:34

It's a little bit of combination of thinking, but it's something you sort of have or you don't have. They don't. This the job he's done is just terrible. He ought to raise interest rates. You know, we would. We should be at 1%. We should be leading the world. Instead, we're paying 4%. And if you look at what that means, that's over a trillion dollars in interest that we have to pay. That with the striking of a pen, we would be saving more than $1 trillion. (06:34–06:41)

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Asserts that the U.S. should have a 1% interest rate but is currently paying 4%.

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