https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-couldnt-care-less-automakers-raise-prices-tariffs-rcna198731 President Donald Trump told NBC News in an interview Saturday that he would not fire anyone involved in the Signal group chat where military attack plans were inadvertently divulged to a journalist, and later added he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices due to new tariffs.
In the wide-ranging interview, Trump also discussed his commitment to annexing Greenland and reiterated that a military option was not off the table.
Following a week of headlines about Signal, tariffs and Greenland, the president waved off concerns that his agenda is causing volatility on Wall Street or decreasing consumer confidence, pointing to polling that shows that the share of Americans who believe the country is on the right track is at record highs.
“What I see is right track, wrong track. And the right track was the first time in like 40 years where it was right track,” the president said, at one point putting Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, on the phone as well. The two men were golfing in Florida on Saturday.
More from Trump’s interview with NBC News:
No concern if automakers raise their prices
The president said he “couldn’t care less” if foreign automakers raised prices after he announced he would impose 25% tariffs on all foreign-made automobiles.
Asked what his recent message was to motor industry CEOs, and whether he had warned them against raising prices, Trump said, “The message is congratulations, if you make your car in the United States, you’re going to make a lot of money. If you don’t, you’re going to have to probably come to the United States, because if you make your car in the United States, there is no tariff.”
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When pressed if he told CEOs not to raise prices, as reported in the The Wall Street Journal, Trump added, “No, I never said that. I couldn’t care less if they raise prices, because people are going to start buying American-made cars.” Trump continued, “I couldn’t care less. I hope they raise their prices, because if they do, people are gonna buy American-made cars. We have plenty.” Asked if he was concerned about car prices going up, Trump said, “No, I couldn’t care less, because if the prices on foreign cars go up, they’re going to buy American cars.” NBC News reported earlier this week that foreign auto parts would also be taxed at 25% even if the vehicles they go into are assembled domestically. Companies that import vehicles under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will get special consideration until the government establishes a process for levying the 25% duties, according to the White House. Until that time, USMCA-compliant auto parts will remain tariff-free. The president also said the tariffs would be permanent. “Absolutely, they’re permanent, sure. The world has been ripping off the United States for the last 40 years and more. And all we’re doing is being fair, and frankly, I’m being very generous,” Trump said. Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday came just weeks before his planned April 2 “Liberation Day,” when tariffs on a variety of consumer goods are set to take effect. They drew swift condemnation from international leaders like Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. In remarks on Thursday, Carney told reporters the tariffs were “unjustified” and that “the old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over.”
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Trump on Saturday maintained that he does not plan to further delay the imposition of the April 2 tariffs, and he would consider negotiating on that point “only if people are willing to give us something of great value. Because countries have things of great value, otherwise, there’s no room for negotiation.” Signal incident: Trump said he has no plans to fire anyone following news that national security adviser Michael Waltz added a journalist to a Signal app group chat with senior members of the Trump administration who were discussing plans to strike Houthi militants in Yemen earlier this month. “I don’t fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” Trump said, calling the story “fake news” throughout the interview. “I do,” the president said when asked whether he still has confidence in Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was also in the Signal chat and sent a detailed timeline of the planned strikes before they happened. “I think it’s just a witch hunt and the fake news, like you, talk about it all the time, but it’s just a witch hunt, and it shouldn’t be talked [about],” Trump added. “We had a tremendously successful strike. We struck very hard and very lethal. And nobody wants to talk about that. All they want to talk about is nonsense. It’s fake news.” Trump’s comments come as he has faced calls — including from his allies — to fire Waltz after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg wrote on Monday that he had been added to a chat group on a private messaging app with senior administration officials. In the chat, the officials appeared to discuss their plans to strike Houthi rebels, which the Trump administration has since repeatedly claimed were not classified.
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“I have no idea what Signal is. I don’t care what Signal is,” Trump said on Saturday. “All I can tell you is it’s just a witch hunt, and it’s the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to talk about. Because it’s been the greatest 100-day presidency in the history of our country.” Everything is on the table to obtain Greenland: The president on Saturday also said he has “absolutely” had real conversations about annexing Greenland, which is currently a semiautonomous Danish territory. “We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%,” Trump said. He added that there’s a “good possibility that we could do it without military force” but that “I don’t take anything off the table.” This comes one day after Vice President JD Vance visited Greenland with his wife, Usha, and spoke to service members at Pituffik Space Base, a U.S. Space Force base on the northwestern coast of Greenland. While there, Vance said, “Our message to Denmark is very simple — you have not done a good job by the people of Greenland.” Asked what message acquiring Greenland would send to Russia and the rest of the world, Trump said, “I don’t really think about that. I don’t really care. Greenland’s a very separate subject, very different. It’s international peace. It’s international security and strength.” “You have ships sailing outside Greenland from Russia, from China and from many other places. And we’re not going to allow things to happen that are going to be — that are going to hurt the world or the United States,” he added.
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Fantastic work, President Trump. Who cares if these foreign produced car companies raise their prices? American companies that manufacture in America will be cheaper due to 0 tariffs. It makes perfect sense and the liberal spin on this makes 0 sense. And yes, Greenland has benefited from American security for free for far too long, Denmark is not doing anything with or for that country and they'll live fantastically better lives as Americans.
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>>1396800 you have such a humiliating occupation
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>>1396793 >later added he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raised prices due to new tariffs. Even though he literally asked them not to?
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>>1396802 it's almost like he's mentally unstable
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>>1396793 Remember when Trump was anti-war? Or rather, remember when Trump pretend he was anti-war and a bunch of stupid people believed him? Good times.
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>>1396815 God we're really gonna try to do something stupid to greenland in the next year and start an international incident.
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>>1396816 That’s the plan. Fascists love war.
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there won't be any war you hysterical trannies. read the art of the deal. Its just high pressure negotiation tactics. Trump is literally famous for this shit.
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>>1396818 Well considering all he's accomplished is turning most of our long-time allies against us while blaming trade agreements he himself made, I don't think he's doing a very good job.
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"I will end this war within 30 days">plans to start three new wars MIGA
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>>1396830 >I will end this war on day 1 >I meant I will end this war in 30 days >I meant I will end this war in 2 months >I meant- Anonymous
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>>1396818 You said that about the tariffs too.
socialist Phoenix rises from the ashes
socialist Phoenix rises from the ashes Sun 30 Mar 2025 04:30:52 No. 1396849 Report >>1396816 tRump wants his name to go down in the anals of presidents to remember. When Canada eventually joins the United States in this century, he will get credit and be remembered for the important president that he really was. Mexico can join also, the United States of North America. What a guy USNA
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>>1396849 well, his name will certainly go down in the ... anals ... of presidents to remember.
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>>1396815 Trump was anti-dumb wars. A war with Canada or Mexico to acquire more land and resources is not a dumb war. It is the only reason a war should be waged. An actual good war would do a lot to fix this country. Drafting the zoomies and alphas would teach them some actual virtue and decency like obedience, hard work, and christian morals. War would unify this country like no other way. War would surge teh economy by bringing in massive resources and surging production. We have been going mad because we have not had a good war. War is as necessary to civilization as water is to life. War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, perpetual peace should be rejected as the absurd aberation it is.
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>>1396876 >Starting a war with our closest allies that would turn the entire rest of the planet against us is a good war there's no such thing as a good war, but that's especially a dumb war.
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>>1396877 They are not our allies. They are socialist countries who has stabbed America in the back. America has no allies. Maybe Russia will be an ally but the Dems burnt too many bridges with them so it will take time.
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>>1396876 I presume you'll be on the front lines?
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>>1396876 This poster lives in Russia. He wants to do nothing but sow discord in America
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>>1396883 I agree. He's a shitty larper as well
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>>1396878 >muh stabbed in the back myth Get new material.
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>>1396878 Annnd there's the russia shilling. Hi Ivan, how's the wife?
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I do wonder about nations like Greenland wanting independence but then can’t defend their own independence. They’ll ultimately demand/need NAFO to come to their defense yet cry foul when others are trying to have legitimate conversations about the best move. Why shouldn't the U.S. just take them by force like the Ukraine or Taiwan? I can’t understand why modern society treats borders as fixed and unmovable. This has never been the case in human history. If a nation is weaker than its neighbors, it will be bullied or conquered, and its peoples annihilated.
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Copied my response from a thread in /pol/, but concerning Greenland: >This seems to have a near correlation to the purchase of Alaska known as Seward’s Folley. Similar to Alaska, Greenland shares the same advantages including: untapped rare earth metals that are typically imported, control of the artic oil reserves that are held in the economic exclusion zone of the Arctic ocean, phenomenal defensive positions for early warning radars / ICBM interceptor missiles GBIs/NGIs, strategic control of the eastern portion of the northwest passage which is becoming a much more viable trade route, monitoring capabilities for submarines traversing the Denmark Strait. >I want to ping on the importance of the interceptors. China holds most of its missile fields in a position which would require them to launch over Greenland in order to hit the Eastern U.S. (which is closest). Forward deploying a defensive system in non-U.S. territory is a bad move especially since losing them could significantly deteriorate defense of the homeland. Since China and Europe are an even bigger threat now than ever, Greenland as a U.S. territory is becoming a necessity more than people generally realize. >This is solid defense doctrine and aligns with the Golden Dome system that this administration has put forth. Greenland is a key strategic asset. Trust Trump. Trust the plan. He has never let us down and proves each day his mastery of 4D chest.
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>>1396797 My grandparents and my mom mmigrated from Denmark into Wisconsin. I still have family there and have visited many times.
Vance is 100% correct. Greenlanders are like the Russians living in Ukraine. Everyday they pray for FREEDOM.
To all the future libtard replies, if you are as empathetic and caring of minority, underprivileged, and mistranslated groups as you hyppocrit champion yourselves to be, you'll get over your hatred for the US and it's current administration for 5 min to learn about the mistreatment these people have endured at the hands of the Europoors. Like Russia has freed the Ukraine from the degenerate leftists, America responsibility is to go into Greenland and establish a based government that lines up wiht our values.
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>>1396975 Shitty fucking larp. Even worse than your "nnormal" ones, faggot
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>>1396800 > Who cares if these foreign produced car companies raise their prices? It’d be nice if the nations & companies capitulated…
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>>1396976 I think a good number of posts on here are people being contrarian/edgy/evil because they think it's funny and/or want to fit in. Also, Russians.
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>>1396975 >Vance is 100% correct. Greenlanders are like the Russians living in Ukraine. Everyday they pray for FREEDOM. They literally could not find one person in Greenland who wanted to meet Vance and his wife. Trump Jr had to resort to bribing the homeless to make it look like there was support.
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>>1397070 Is it like *talk to the guy and become MAGA forever* never to be seen again?! Vance has a stigma attached to him that nobody is brave enough to disprove!
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>>1397072 Vance was supposed to visit Greenland for 3 days and left within 3 hours because they legitimately could find no one willing to meet with him.
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>>1397073 Guess he won’t be getting Greenlandian Electoral Votes in 2028… Poor sap.
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Why isn't greenland, yknow... greener? All the photos are just ice and rock.