President Donald Trump said this week that he will remain flexible on his economic policy, especially as it relates to tariffs, because he wants to have the ability to make adjustments as needed.
Trump made the remarks while speaking to reporters inside the Oval Office on Wednesday during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin.
The remarks were featured in an exchange with a reporter from NBC News, which Trump slammed as “one of the worst networks on television.”
“Let me just tell you, I have the right to adjust,” he said. “And I was called by the automakers, as an example, General Motors, Ford, etc…, the big three, the big four, and they asked me to do them a favor. Could I delay it for a period of four weeks so that they’re not driven into a little bit of a disaster for them? They actually love what I’m doing, but they had a problem. And I’m not like a…