Transcript: Donald Trump interviewed by 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker

A lot of headlines have come from Donald Trump's Meet the Press interview.  He promptly set the tone attack.  Hyperbole uber alles.  The most disturbing thing is that more Americans were motivated to vote for him than for the eminently sensible Kamala Harris.  Though the Presidential margin was 1.5% - the Republicans took both houses of the Congress, and have solid control of the Supreme Court.

He knows what won him votes: immigrants, crime, and taxes.

- GWC

December 8, 2024

Full transcript: Donald Trump interviewed by 'Meet the Press' moderator Kristen Welker

KRISTEN WELKER:

Thank you so much for being here. You are the first president since Grover Cleveland to win non-consecutive terms. Republicans now have control of the House and the Senate. What do you plan to accomplish in your first 100 days in office?

PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP:

Well, we’re going to do something with the border, very strong, very powerful. That’ll be our first signal — first signal to America that we’re not playing games. We have people coming in by the millions, as you know, and a lot of people shouldn’t be here. Most of them shouldn’t be here. But we have jails being emptied into our country. We have mental institutions from all over the world being emptied into our country. So we’ll be doing that. 

We’re going to be extending within that period or as soon as we can the Trump tax cuts, because you know they’re coming due and they’re very substantial for people. It would be very — and I think it will anger a lot of people, frankly, if we don’t get an extension of that. That’s what led us to one of the greatest economies ever. And those two things are going to be very vital, very important. 

We’re going to be focusing on crime in the cities, and we’ll work with Democrat governors. Most of them are, as you know, if you look at the 25 worst places, they’re just about all Democrat-controlled cities and states. And we’re going to be working with Democrat governors and Democrat mayors, and I look forward to doing it. But we have to do something about crime, and mostly in our cities.