This morning, President Donald J. Trump and his administration were on the airwaves in force as they explained how, in just seven weeks, the Golden Age of America is here.
Here’s what you missed:
President Trump on Sunday Morning Futures
- On pausing tariffs on certain imports: “I wanted to help the American car makers — until April 2nd. April 2nd, it becomes all reciprocal — what they charge us, we charge them.”
- On Democrats’ disgusting behavior during his joint address: “There’s something wrong with them. I can’t even believe it … They were talking about men playing in women’s sports … Republicans were going wild and the Democrats were having their little signs up — their little signs, their little, tiny signs … It’s unbelievable. They don’t get it.”
- On resurrecting American shipbuilding: “What we’re doing is we’re building a tremendous foundation for the future … You just saw one of the biggest shipbuilders in the world in the Oval Office … He’s announcing a $20 billion investment in the United States.”
- On Ukrainian President Zelensky: “He took money out of this country, under Biden, like candy from a baby … I just don’t think he’s grateful.”
- On Russia: “Nobody has been tougher on Russia than Donald Trump … The biggest job they’ve ever done was the pipeline, Nord Stream 2… They were going to supply Germany and everybody else all over Europe. And what did I do? I stopped it.”
- On the Panama Canal: “The Carter administration gave the Panama Canal, for $1, gave the Panama Canal to Panama for no reason … We’re taking the Panama Canal back.”
- On protecting Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security: “I’m not going to touch Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. Now, we’re going to get fraud out of there … Everybody wants us to get the fraud out, and therefore you’ll make it better.”
- On DOGE: “What [Elon Musk] has done is unbelievable … He has found hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fake contracts.”
- On education: “We want to bring the schools back to the states because we have, literally, we have the worst education department and education in the world … We’re ranked at the bottom of the list, and yet we’re number one when it comes to cost per pupil.”
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Face the Nation
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett on This Week
- On the February jobs report: “In just one month alone, after losing 110,000 manufacturing jobs, we made 10,000 in February alone — 9,000 of them were auto jobs.”
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick on Meet the Press
- On tariffs: “We’ll unleash America out to the world, grow our economy in a way we’ve never grown before. You are going to see over the next two years the greatest set of growth coming from America.”
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Fox & Friends Weekend
- On government funding: [The continuing resolution] “freezes spending while allowing the government to continue to function, allowing ICE agents and Border Patrol to continue their mass deportation effort, allows President Trump’s cabinet continue to identify waste, fraud, and abuse across the federal bureaucracy — so the president supports this CR, and we’re hopeful and expect Republicans to get on board so we can pass it and continue moving forward implementing President Trump’s agenda.”