唐纳德·特朗普总统表示，美国经济强劲，并坚持认为民调显示美国人感受到了经济痛苦在周一晚上播出的福克斯新闻频道采访中是“假的”。
特朗普表示，有关经济的坏消息相当于“民主党人的骗局”，并补充说，民主党人向主要新闻网络主播“灌输”经济不好的信息，然后“每个主播”都“完全按照他们说的做”。
“我永远不会忘记，他们用了‘制造’这样的词，”特朗普在采访中说。“你还记得‘制造’这个词吗?这是一个“人造”经济。没人用这个词。每个锚打破了“制造。”他们言出必行。这是一个被操纵的系统。"
在政府的最终估计中，美国经济第二季度的年化增长率为3.8%，高于第二次估计中发布的3.3%，也远远超过了最初估计的3%。但是9月份消费者价格上涨了3%最新的政府数据显示，与一年前相比，通货膨胀率达到了1月份以来的最高水平。通胀数据低于经济学家的预期。
特朗普为他对经济的处理进行了辩护，称成本正在全面“下降”。
“那么你准备好了吗?成本大幅下降，”特朗普说。“汽油价格将很快触及2美元，或2美元左右。汽油现在是2.70美元，在拜登和瞌睡虫乔的领导下是4.50美元。当汽油价格下跌，当能源价格下跌——每个人都同意能源价格下跌——我们钻探，你知道，钻探，婴儿钻探。我们要像野生动物一样。”
根据AAA的数据，周二美国每加仑汽油的平均消费者价格为3.072美元，该公司称一年前的平均价格为3.083美元。
特朗普也受到了他的政府推出的压力50年的抵押贷款期权这在社交媒体上受到了批评，因为批评者指出，延长的还款时间表意味着美国人将支付比短期贷款更高的利息。
福克斯新闻频道的主持人劳拉·英格拉哈姆(Laura Ingraham)向川普建议，更长的贷款可以被解释为“给银行的赠品”，只会“延长美国人彻底拥有住房的时间”
特朗普对英格拉哈姆进行了反击，称“这意味着你每月支付的费用更少。”
“你要在更长的一段时间内支付。这不是一个大的因素。这可能会有一点帮助，”特朗普说。“但即使利率上升，经济也是有史以来最强劲的。你问我，回到你问题的开头，你谈到了价格。我们能源不足。我们的利率下降了。”
特朗普还被问及东翼有争议的拆除为正在建造的大型舞厅让路。
“嗯，首先，东翼是一个美丽的、小的、微小的建筑，建于很多年前，它被翻修、扩建、解散，柱子被拆除，它与最初的建筑没有任何关系，”他说。“这是一个可怜的、悲伤的景象，我本可以在它周围建一个舞厅，但事实并非如此——顺便说一下，我们正在建造世界上最大的舞厅之一。”
“但东翼，那栋建筑翻新了20次，包括在顶部加了一层，这很糟糕，”特朗普继续说道那是在一个普通的砖砌小窗户前。它看起来像地狱。它和原来的建筑没有任何关系，我不想为了一个还可以的舞厅而牺牲一个很棒的舞厅，把它留在正中间。"
Trump downplays economic woes as partisan spin, saying, 'Costs are way down'
President Donald Trump said the U.S. economy is strong and insistedpolls showing Americans are feeling economic painare "fake" during an interview on Fox News that aired on Monday night.
Trump said bad news about the economy amounted to a "con job by the Democrats," adding Democrats "feed" major news network anchors with the message the economy is bad and then "every anchor" does "exactly what they say."
"I'll never forget, they used a word like 'manufactured,'" Trump said in the interview. "You remember the word 'manufacture'? It's a 'manufactured' economy. Nobody uses that word. Every anchor broke in 'manufactured.' They do exactly what they say. It's such a rigged system."
The U.S. economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.8% in the second quarter in the government's final estimate, besting a 3.3% rate issued in its second estimate and far exceeding a 3% initial estimate. Butconsumer prices rose 3% in Septembercompared to a year ago, with inflation at its highest level since January, the most-recent government data showed. The inflation reading came in lower than economists' expectations.
Trump defended his handling of the economy, saying that costs are "way down" across the board.
"So are you ready? Costs are way down," Trump said. "Gasoline is going to be hitting $2 pretty soon, or around $2. Gasoline is at $2.70 now and it was at $4.50 under Biden, under sleepy Joe. When gasoline comes down, when energy comes down -- and everybody agrees energy is down -- we drill, you know, drill, baby drill. We're going like wild."
The average consumer price for a gallon of gas in the U.S. was $3.072 on Tuesday, according to AAA, which said the average price was $3.083 a gallon a year ago.
Trump was also pressed about a rollout by his administration fora 50-year mortgage option, something that faced criticism on social media as critics pointed out that the extended payoff timeline would mean Americans would pay more in interest than they would through the life of a shorter loan.
Laura Ingraham, the Fox News host, suggested to Trump that longer loans could be construed as a "giveaway to the banks" and would simply be "prolonging the time it would take for Americans to own a home outright."
Trump pushed back on Ingraham, saying that “all it means is you pay less per month.”
"You pay it over a longer period of time. It's not like a big factor. It might help a little bit,” Trump said. "But even with interest rates up, the economy is the strongest it's ever been. You know, you asked me, just to go back to the beginning of your question, you talked about prices. We're down on energy. We're down on interest rates."
Trump was also pressed about thecontroversial demolition of the East Wingto make way for the large ballroom that's being constructed now.
"Well, first of all, the East Wing was a beautiful, little, tiny structure that was built many years ago, that was renovated and expanded and disbanded and columns ripped out, and it had nothing to do with the original building," he said. "It was a poor, sad sight, and I could have built the ballroom around it, but it would not have been -- we're building one of the greatest ballrooms in the world, by the way."
"But the East Wing, that building was renovated 20 times, including adding a floor to the top, which was terrible, Trump continued. “It was at a common brick little, tiny windows. It looked like hell. It had nothing to do with the original building, and I didn't want to sacrifice a great ballroom for an okay ballroom by leaving it right smack in the middle.”
