President Trump goes one-on-one with Chris Wallace | Full Interview

and hello again from fox news in washington today from the white house we're on the president's patio just outside the oval office president trump you've agreed to answer all manner of questions no subject off-limits thank you and welcome back to fox news sunday thank you very much let's start with the surge of the coronavirus across the country in recent months you still talk about it as quote burning embers but i want to put up a chart that shows where we are with the illness over the last four months as you can see we hit a peak here in april 36 000 cases it's cases a day cases then it went down and now since june it has gone up more than doubled one day this week 75 000 new cases more than double chris that's because we have great testing because we have the best testing in the world if we didn't test you wouldn't be able to show that chart if we tested half as much those numbers would be down but but this is burning embers sir this is a foreign but i don't say i say flames we'll put out the flames and we'll put out in some cases just burning embers we also have burning embers we have embers and we do have flames florida became more flame-like but it's uh it's going to be under control and you know it's not just this country it's many countries we don't talk about it in the news they don't talk about mexico and brazil and still parts of europe which actually got hit sooner than us so it's a little ahead of us in that sense but you take a look why don't they talk about mexico which is not helping us and all i can say is thank god i build most of the wall because if i didn't have the wall up we would have a much bigger problem with mexico but sir we have the seventh highest mortality rate in the world our mortality rate is higher than brazil it's higher than russia and the european union has us on a travel ban yeah i think what we'll do well we have them in a travel ban too chris i closed them off if you remember i was the one that did the european union very early but when you talk about mortality rates i think it's the opposite i think we have one of the lowest mortality rates we had 900 deaths in a single day we will take this week ready do you please get me the mortality right yeah kaylee's right here i heard we have one of the lowest maybe the lowest mortality rate anywhere in the world you have the numbers please because i heard we had the best mortality right number number one low mortality right i hope you show the scenario because it shows what fake news is all about you said we had the worst mortality rate in the world and we have the best all right it's a little complicated but bear with us we went with numbers from johns hopkins university which charted the mortality rate for 20 countries hit by the virus the u.s ranked seventh better than the united kingdom but worse than brazil and russia the white house went with this chart from the european cdc which shows italy and spain doing worse but countries like brazil and south korea doing better other countries doing better like russia aren't included in the white house charge california locking down again florida deadliest day of the entire pandemic uh hospitals at capacity a number of places around the country shortages of testing shortages of personal protective equipment for nurses and doctors a lot of people say this is because we don't have a national plan you talk about states we don't have a national plan do you take responsibility for that look i take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job too i have to get everybody in line some governors have done well some governors have done poorly they're supposed to have supplies they didn't have i supplied everybody now we have somewhat of a surge in certain areas and other areas we're doing great but we have a surge in certain areas but you don't hear people complaining about ventilators we've got all the ventilators we can use we're supplying them to other countries we go out into parking lots and everything everybody gets a test we find if we did half the testing with all of that being said i'm glad we did it this is the right way to do it i'm glad we did what we're doing but we have more tests by far than any country in the world but sir testing is up 37 well that's very good i understand cases are up 194 it isn't just the testing has gone up it's that the virus has spread the positivity rate has increased there are many of those cases many of those cases are young people that would heal in a day they have the sniffles and we put it down as a test many of them don't forget i guess it's like 99.7 percent people are going to get better and in many cases they're going to get better very quickly we go out and we look and then on the news look if you go back to the news all of your even your wonderful competitors you'll see cases are up well cases are up many of those cases shouldn't even be cases cases are up because we have the best testing in the world and we have the most tested no country has ever done what we've done in terms of testing we are the envy of the world they call and they say the most incredible job anybody's done is our job on testing because we're going to very shortly be up to 50 million tests you look at other countries they don't even do tests they do test if somebody walks into the hospital they're sick they're really sick they test them then or they'll test them in a doctor's office but they don't go around have massive areas of testing and we do and i'm glad we do but it really skews the numbers i'm going to do you a favor because i'm sure a lot of people listening right now are going to say trump he tries to play it down he tries to make it not seem as serious as it is 75 000 cases a day show me the death chart well i don't have the doubt the death chart is a thousand cases a day excuse me it's all too much it shouldn't be one case it came from china they should have never let it escape they should have never let it out but it is what it is take a look at europe take a look at the numbers in europe and by the way they're having surgeries are 6 000 in the whole european union they don't test they don't test like it's impossible that they don't have the viruses badly it's possible that they don't test that's what's possible we find cases and many of those cases heal automatically we're finding in a way we're creating trouble certainly we're creating trouble for the fake news to come along and say oh we have more cases look we did something that nobody's ever done not only the ventilators where we're supplying them all over the world we did a testing program the likes of which nobody's ever done before the head of the cdc dr redfield said this on tuesday i do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be probably one of the most difficult times that we've experienced in american public health do you agree with dr redfield i don't know and i don't think he knows i don't think anybody knows with this this is a very tricky deal everybody thought the summer it would go away and we'd come back in the fall well in the summer it came they used to say the heat the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out remember and then it might come back in the fall so they got that one wrong they they got a lot wrong they got a lot wrong the world health got a tremendous amount wrong they basically did whatever china wanted them to and will save now almost 500 million dollars a year which is nice but the world health got a lot wrong but this is one of the sharpest criticisms of you i agree people say that you talk about the world as you'd like to see it rather than follow the science no well let me let me just ask the question sir why on earth would your administration be involved in a campaign at this point to discredit dr fauci who is the nation's top infectious disease expert because we're not if one man from my administration doesn't like him because he made a few mistakes look dr fauci said don't wear a mask dr fauci told me not to ban china it would be a big mistake i did it over and above his recommendation dr fauci then said you saved tens of thousands of lives more than that he said you saved tens of thousands of lives dr fauci has made some mistakes but i have a very good i spoke to him yesterday at length i have a very good relationship with dr fatcher but sir this week this weekend your white house put out a series of statements so-called mistakes that dr fauci has had made one of your closest aides one of your right-hand men daniel's daniel scavina put out this have you seen this dr dr fawcett who shows him as a leaker and an alarmist oh i don't know that he's a little why he's a little bit of an armist that's okay a little bit i'm going to learn a little bit of an alarm system let me just say dr fauci at the beginning and again i have a great relationship with him i spoke to him at length yesterday dr fauci at the beginning said this will pass don't worry about it this will pass he was wrong dr fauci said don't ban china don't ban china i did he then admitted that i was right you made mistakes too i guess everybody makes i was gonna say you said at one point it's one person coming in from china and we have it under control it's going to be just fine when you have 15 people and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero that's a pretty good job we've done i think we're going to be very good with the coronavirus i think that at some point uh that's going to sort of just disappear i hope i'll be right eventually i will be right eventually you know i said it's going to disappear i'll say it again but it's going to disappear and i'll be right i don't think so right i don't think so you know why it doesn't describe it because i've been right probably more than anybody else then there are masks from the first day that the cdc said that people should wear mass on april 3rd you said you weren't going to you wore a mask for the first time in public at walter reed this weekend question the cdc says if everybody wore a mask for four to six weeks we could get this under control do you regret not wearing a mask in public from the start and would you consider will you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks no i want people to have a certain freedom and i don't believe in that no and i don't agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask everything disappears hey dr fauci said don't wear a mask our surgeon general terrific guy said don't wear a mask everybody was saying don't wear a mask all of a sudden everybody's got to wear a mask and as you know masks cause problems too with that being said i'm a believer in masks i think masks are good but i leave it up to the governors many of the governors are changing they're more masked into they like the concept of masks but some of them don't agree i do say this schools have to open young people have to go to school and there's problems when you don't go to school too and there's going to be a funding problem because we're not going to fund when they don't open their schools we're not going to fund them we're not going to give them money if they're not going to school if they don't open two points on that first of all what the federal government gives is only is eight percent ten percent and you know what uh that's a lot of money and you're going to take them you know where the money goes it goes overwhelmingly to disadvantaged kids and children with disabilities let this i wouldn't just put send more money so that schools be safer let the schools open did you ever see the statistics on young people below the age of 18 the state of new jersey had thousands of deaths of all of these thousands one person below the age of 18 in the entire state one person and that was a person that had i believe he said diabetes one person below the age of 18 died in the state of new jersey during all of this you know they had a hard time and they're doing very well now so that's it the stimulus bill is running out the end of this month the republicans say they want liability limits which the democrats don't like you say that you want a payroll tax cut which even some republicans are cool to well a lot of republicans like it will you only sign a bill that has those two provisions well we're going to see but we do need protections because businesses are going to get sued just because somebody walked in you don't know where this virus comes from they'll sit down at a restaurant they'll sue the restaurant the guy's out of business so we do need some kind of a you know immunity you do need it just like you need immunity for the police okay whether they like it or not you need immunity for the police but they do need a form of immunity you don't know if they caught it and nobody's ever going to be able to prove it one way or the other you can't put these you know the people out look the democrats don't want to do that because they're total they're totally captured by the lobby of lawyers the lawyers lobby is probably the most powerful in the country what about the payroll tax cut uh i want to see it i want to see if it's win the bill uh i'll have to see but yeah i would consider not signing it if we don't have a payroll tax cut yes hot enough that you're here mr president it's hot it's about uh well sort of almost record-breaking you know we wanted to do it inside this was your choice but i wanted you to sweat a little bit well we both are there has been a spike in violent crime in america in recent weeks we've seen deaths up in new york deaths up in chicago shootings how do you explain it and what are you going to do about it i explain it very simply by saying that they're democrat-run cities they're liberally run they're stupidly run we have forced them in seattle to end the chop because you know we were going in that following day you probably have heard it we were getting ready to go in we were all set and when they heard that we were going they set their police force liberal democrats have been running cities in this country for decades poorly why is it so bad right now uh they've run them poorly it was always bad but now it's gotten totally out of control and it's really because they want to defund the police and biden wants to fun sir he does not look he signed a charter with bernie sanders i will get that one just like i was right on the mortality rate did you read the charter that he agreed there's nothing about the funding oh really it says abolish it says let's go all right let me give me the charter please all right chris you've got to start studying for this he says defund the police he says defund the police they talk about abolishing the police they talk about illegal aliens i look forward to seeing that meanwhile the george floyd murder has reignited the issue of racism in policing in this country i want to give you a couple of statistics nationwide blacks are twice as likely fewer in absolute numbers but in terms of per capita blacks are twice as likely to be shot and killed by police as whites are in minneapolis over the last five years police used force against blacks at a rate seven times that against whites can you understand why blacks would be angry at that of course i do of course they do many whites are killed also you have to say that i mean many many whites are killed i hate the sound but this is going on for decades this is going on for a long time long before i got here you know if you look at what's going on in portland those are anarchists and we've taken a very tough stand if we didn't take a stand in portland you know we've arrested many of these leaders if we didn't take that stand right now you would have a problem like you they were going to lose portland so let's see what this says here prosecution sanctuary cities incentivize illegal alien expand asylum abolish immigration detention no that's not what we'll find okay this thing is many pages long end prosecution of illegal border crosses support deathly and these are the worst things i'm not disagreeing with you on any of those i'm disagreeing about defund police the white house never sent us evidence the bernie biden platform calls for defunding or abolishing police because there is none it calls for increased funding for police departments that meet certain standards biden has called for redirecting some police funding for related programs like mental health counseling this week you said that black lives matter and the confederate flag are both matters issues of freedom of speech but in the case of the confederate flag there are a lot of people who say these were traitors who split from this country fought this country in large part to preserve slavery is the confederate flag offensive it depends on who you're talking about when you're talking about when people proudly have their confederate flags they're not talking about racism they love their flag it represents the south they like the south people right now like the south i say it's freedom of of many things but it's freedom of speech so you're not offended by it well i'm not offended either by black lives matter that's freedom of speech and you know the whole thing with canceled culture we can't cancel our whole history we can't forget that the north and the south fought we have to remember that otherwise we'll end up fighting again you can't you can't just cancel all this but let me ask you this when it gets to be more than just cancel well maybe this is cancelled culture the national defense authorization act the ndaa you have threatened to veto it because in the bill and this is supported by republicans as well as democrats it would rename army bases named for confederate generals now this is a bill that funds military operations it gives soldiers a pay raise you're going to veto that because they'll get their pay raise hey look don't tell me this i got soldiers the biggest pay raises in the history of our understood of our military i got soldiers brand new equipment brand new jets brand new rockets brand new 2.5 trillion i did more for the military than any president that's ever had this because i think that fort bragg fought robert and lee all of these forts that have been named that way for a long time decades and decades the military says they're for that excuse me i don't care what the military says i do i'm supposed to make the decision fort bragg is a big deal we won two world wars nobody even knows general bragg we won two world wars go to that community where fort bragg is in a great state i love that state go to go to the community say how do you like the idea of renaming fort bragg and then what are we going to name it you're going to name it after the reverend al sharpton what are you going to name it chris tell me what you're going to name it so there's a whole thing here we won two world wars two world wars beautiful world wars that were vicious and horrible and we want them out of fort bragg we want to out of all of these forts that now they want to throw those names away and no i'm against that and you know what most other people are and i even i don't believe in polls because i see the fakest polls i've ever seen but that poll is a 64 thing which actually surprised me we won world wars out of these out of these military bases no i'm not going to go changing them i'm not going to say you'll be each of them i might yeah i might at mount rushmore on july 3rd you said that we face a far left fascism in this country and then you said this our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes but that were villains you said our children are taught in school to hate our country where do you see that i just look at i look at school i watch i read look at the stuff now they want to change if 1492 columbus discovered america you know we grew up you grew up we all did that's what we learned now they want to make it the 1619 project where did that come from what does it represent i don't even know so slavery that's what they're saying but they don't even know they just want to make a change cancel culture i hate the term actually but i use it better they cancel people hate i think so yeah i think so look at the professors look at what's going on in the colleges if a conservative goes on a college and look we have as many as them excuse me i think to the best of my knowledge we're sitting at the white house and the oval office is right behind me we have as many as them but who's them the liberal radical left and i'm not talking all i think liberal i i could tell you i like a lot of liberal people like like a lot of liberal governors and senators but but chris we have a radical left destructive ideology and it's being taught in our schools and don't act like you're surprised to hear this there are books written about it and we can't let that go on we can't let them change the true meaning of what we're all about and that's what they're trying to do and i don't want it to happen not on my watch it's not going to happen on my watch mr president you'll be happy to know that fox news has a new poll out today and you're going to be the very first person to hear about it in the national horse race joe biden leads you by eight points 49 to 41 that's i think three four points slimmer than it was a month ago and on the issues people trust biden more to handle the coronavirus by 17 points on race relations by 21 points and even on the economy they trust biden moore by one point i understand we still have more than a hundred days to this election but at this point you're losing first of all i'm not losing because those are fake polls they were fake in 2016 and now they're even more fake the polls were much worse in 2016. they interview 22 percent republican well how do you do 22 republican you see what's going on uh i have other polls that put me leading and we have polls where i'm leading i have a poll where we're leading in every swing state and i don't believe that you're first of all the fox polls whoever does your fox polls they're among the worst they got it all wrong in 2016. they've been wrong on every poll i've ever seen i must tell you no i'm just telling you and and let me let me ask you this so in the economy so i've always lead on the economy by a lot i know which is why i would like to put two sentences together they wheel them out he goes up he repeats he they ask him questions he reads a teleprompter and then he goes back into his basement you tell me the american people want to have that in an age where we're in trouble with other nations that are looking to do numbers on us so let me ask you a direct question no i'm going to ask you a direct question about joe biden is joe biden senile i don't want to say that i say he's not competent to be president to be president you have to be sharp and tough and so many other things he doesn't even come out of his basement they think oh this is a great campaign so he goes in i'll then make a speech it'll be a great speech and some young guys start writing vice president biden said this this this he didn't say it joe doesn't know he's alive okay he doesn't know he's alive do the american people want that number one number two i built the greatest economy ever built anywhere in the world not only in this country anywhere in the world until we got hit with the china virus we got hit with a virus shouldn't have happened and we had to close up we saved millions of lives now we've opened it up got to go back to school we're open we've got to do things we had the best job numbers we've ever had last month we should have good ones coming up in two weeks look i built the greatest economy in history i'm now doing it again you see the numbers the numbers are through the roof the democrats are purposely keeping their schools close keeping their states close i call to michigan i want to have a big rally in michigan do you know we're not allowed to have a rally in michigan do you know we're not allowed to have a rally in minnesota do you know we're not allowed to have a rally in nevada we're not allowed to have rallies well and these democrat run statements some people would say that that's a health risk some people would say it's fine i mean but i guarantee you there's some issues after time everything was gone 100 they still wouldn't allow it they're not allowing me to do it so they're not that they're not allowing me to have rallies but i got to tell you if i may sir respectfully in the fox poll they ask people who is more competent who's got whose mind is sounder biden beats you in that well i tell you what uh let's take a test let's take a test right now let's go down joe and i will take a test let him take the same test that i took incidentally i took the test too when i heard that you passed it yeah how did you do it well it's not the hardest task no but it has a picture and it says that and it's an element no no no you see that's all misrepresentation that's what it was on the web it's all misrepresentation because yes the first few questions are easy but i'll bet you couldn't even answer the last five questions i'll bet you couldn't they get very hard the last five well one of them was count back from 100 by seven and let me tell you you couldn't answer you couldn't answer all right what's the question many of the questions i'd get you the test i'd like to give it but i guarantee you that joe biden could not answer those questions okay and i answered all 35 questions correctly you you talk about how you're winning campaign's going well why did you replace brad parscale isn't that because he's a great digital guy uh we all like him a lot but i have somebody that i that was involved you know they're all they were all on the 2016 campaign and we have cory and we have all the people and actually steve bannon's been much better not being involved he says the greatest president ever i mean he's saying things that i said let's keep steve out there he's doing a good job but they're all being they're all involved if joe biden got in first of all he won't call the shots the people the radical left people that surround him will call religion will be gone okay life you could forget about that the whole question of life supreme when you say life you mean abortion absolutely a hundred percent that whole question which is a very you know it's always been a 50 50 thing it's actually trending a little bit more toward once religion is going to be gone what does that mean look at what they're doing to the churches they won't let the churches even open if they want to stand in a field six feet apart we've had churches that wanted to stand in fields six feet apart there has never been an administration that's done so much as i have from tax cuts to regulation cuts to rebuilding the military to getting choice for the vets nobody's done the things i've done nobody in three and a half years no other president has been able to do what i've done you're running in large part on the economy you've built it once now we have the coronavirus you're going to build it again and in fact you had great jobs numbers in may you had solid jobs numbers in june but i want you to look at some projections the nonpartisan congressional budget office says the unemployment rate at the end of the year will be ten and a half percent jp morgan says in the fourth quarter gdp will contract by 6.2 percent with states now rolling back some of the reopening and and well there are a lot of republicans there are a lot of republican states like texas but here's they'll be open very soon just ask my question there's no reason for california to do to be doing what they're doing all right except for november 3rd with the states shutting back the reopening in a lot of cases new lockdowns won't the economy still be a problem for you on elections i don't think so i think the economy is expanding and growing beautifully now the democrats want to keep it closed as long as possible because they think that's good for election but i think the economy is doing very well now we're coming back and we're coming back at a level that nobody would have thought possible and we and by the way take a look at another i mean a gauge whether you like it or not the stock market the stock market nasdaq hit its all-time high two weeks ago and it's beaten at 14 different times okay the stock market dow etc is a thousand points away from its all-time high meaning very close we're going to have a stock market perhaps on november 3rd that's the highest in history i want to talk to you about obamacare since the pandemic hit millions of people have lost their jobs and thereby lost their health insurance and almost a half a million have signed up for obamacare your administration just announced that you're signing on to a lawsuit to overturn obamacare and replace it why does it make sense to overturn obamacare which people now are relying on democrats are going to say the man who's wanted to kill obamacare is going to take away the protection for pre-existing conditions first of all we got rid of the individual mandate pre-existing conditions will always be taken care of by me and republicans 100 but you've been in the office three and a half years you don't have people we haven't had uh excuse me you heard me yesterday we're signing a health care plan within two weeks a full and complete health care plan that the supreme court decision on daca gave me the right to do so we're gonna solve we're gonna sign an immigration plan a health care plan and various other plans and nobody will have done what i'm doing in the next four weeks the supreme court gave the president of the united states powers that nobody thought the president had by approving by doing what they did their decision on daca and daca is going to be taken care of also but we're getting rid of it because we're going to replace it with something much better but we got rid of already which was most of obamacare the individual mandate and that i've already won on and we won also on the supreme court but the decision by the supreme court on daca allows me to do things on immigration on health care on other things that we've never done before and you're going to find it to be a very exciting two weeks your niece mary trump has written a book about you and your family and one of her main points is that she says your dad fred trump senior damaged the whole family and here's what she says about what you learned from your father he learned to become the killer you mentioned the man who needs to succeed at all costs who will do anything um to get attention financial rewards and to win do you see any truth in that my father liked to win my father was a very good man he was a strong man it's disgraceful that she said that she was not exactly a family favorite we didn't have a lot of respect or like for her i would have never said that except she writes a book that's so stupid and so vicious and it's a lie my father was a great wonderful man let me just ask you this question this is not a person that i spent very much time with very little time and now i'm glad you've developed a pretty thick skin over the years from decades of attacks in new york tabloids now from the press here and your political opponents here in washington but even for donald trump does it hurt you at all to be attacked in such personal terms by a member of your own family uh it hurts me more about attacking my father not being kind to my mother i have a mother who was like a saint she was incredible she was an incredible woman and she was nasty even to my mother she's a very scarred person she was not much of a family person but look let me just tell you my father was i think he was the most solid person i've ever met and he was a very good person he was a very very good person he was strong but he was good for her to say the kind of things a psychopath that he was a psychopath anybody that knew fred trump would call him a psychopath and you know what if he was i would tell you and i would say you know chris i was with my father and it was impossible my father was he was tough he was tough on me he was tough on all of the kids but tough in a in a solid sense in a really good sense for her to say i think the word she used was psychopath what a disgrace she ought to be ashamed of herself that book is a lie some people were surprised when you agreed to this interview to sit down with me what are you going to ask especially because of some of the mean tweets that you've said about me mike wallace wanna be nasty and obnoxious i will tell you after that one my son peter who you've met called and he said nasty no obnoxious maybe but here's the question one of your beef seems to be that i put democrats on the show and i ask them questions and and i guess the question i have is don't you understand it's my job to put democrats on as well as republicans and to ask them probing questions just like i asked republicans i'm not a big fan of fox i'll be honest with you they've changed a lot since roger ailes and i watch people like swalwell who i don't even know he goes on the show he got less than one percent all of a sudden he's on being interviewed for endless yeah but i i interviewed an answer wait i interviewed nancy i answered i uh interviewed using one tweet after i interviewed nancy pelosi and in the interview i asked her specifically about the fact in february you were in chinatown pitching tourism while the virus was spreading if the president underplayed the threat in the early days speaker pelosi didn't you as well isn't that legitimate to talk to the speaker of the house look i know you very well i respect you a lot i respect your father a lot i thought he's one of the most talented journalists there are and you likewise are a very talented person i do think this i think you are very uh uh i think you are toward the democrat side which is okay i mean it's not true if watch the james comey interview i did in december 17 significant errors in the fisa process and you say that it was handled in a thoughtful and appropriate way yeah he's right i was wrong but you make it sound like you're a a bystander an eyewitness you were the director of the fbi well a lot of this was going on sir sure i'm responsible for that's why i'm telling you i was wrong i was overconfident as director in our procedures you couldn't do as tough an interview with comey i i'd like to think i treat everybody the same it just seems to me that you are very prone to be nice to the democrats and maybe i'm wrong about that chris but it's an honor to be with you it's fine i love it i love it that it's close to 100 degrees your choice again yeah i know that so i'm not saying you're going to lose i am not saying that we saw how you turned it around last time i don't think i'm going to lose at all but if you did how crushing would it be first of all let me just tell you something i know everyone wants to know that because they'd love to see me lose fine i'm not i have not seen that i've been written off do you know how many times i've been i'm not doing it this time don't don't do it because but how crushing would it be and you know why i won't lose because the country in the end they're not going to have a man who who's shot he's shot he's mentally shot let him come out of his basement go around i'll make four or five speeches a day i'll be interviewed by you i'll be interviewed by the worst killers that hate my my guts they hate my guts there's nothing they can ask me that i won't give them a proper answer to some people will like it some people won't like i agree with that but look you answered let biden sit through an interview like this he'll be on the ground crying for mommy he'll say mommy mommy please take me home well we've asked him for an interview sir he can't do an interview he's incompetent there's a number you don't mention it's called the enthusiasm number the enthusiasm for trump is through the roof i haven't mentioned it even higher than last time the enthusiasm for biden is non-existent everyone knows each other but the enthusiasm against you okay that's his only shot right that's his only shot i agree and those people know i'm doing a good job but there's something in my personality that they don't like because look nobody's done what i've done biden wants to come in and ruin our country triple your taxes he wants to do things he wants to add regulations that i've all cut and we still have regulation a lot of regulation but i've cut it down to a level that nobody's nobody ever thought possible he will destroy this country but it won't be him it will be the radical left the same type ideology that took over venezuela one of the richest countries in the world they now have no water they have no food and they have no medicine that's going to happen two final questions a few wins in general not talking about november are you a good loser i'm not a good loser i don't like to lose it i don't lose too often i don't like something but are you gracious you don't know until you see it depends i think mail-in voting is is going to rig the election i really do uh are you suggesting that you might not accept the results of the election i have to say look hillary clinton asked me the same thing no i asked you the same thing in the debate there is a tradition in this country in fact one of the prize of this country is the peaceful transition of power and that no matter how hard fought a campaign is that at the end of the campaign that the loser concedes to the winner not saying that you're necessarily going to be the loser or the winner but that the loser concedes to the winner and that the country comes together in part for the good of the country are you saying you're not prepared now what i'm saying is that i will tell you at the time i'll keep you in suspense well chris and you know what she's the one that never accepted her great she never accepted her loss and she looks like can you give can you give a direct answer you will accept the election look you i have to see no i'm not going to just say yes i'm not going to say you know and i didn't last time either whether it's in 2021 or 2025 how will you regard your years as president of the united states i think i was very unfairly treated uh from before i even won i was under investigation by a bunch of thieves crooks it was an illegal investigation but what about the russia what about the good parts there no i want to know this i have done more than any president in history in the first three and a half years and i've done it suffering through investigations where people have been general flynn where people have been so unfairly treated the russia hoax it was all a hoax the mueller scam it was all a scam it was all false i made a bad decision on one bad decision jeff sessions and now i feel good because he lost overwhelmingly in the great state of alabama here's the bottom line i've been very unfairly treated and i don't say that as paranoid i've been very everybody says it it's going to be interesting to see what happens but there's tremendous evidence right now as to how unfairly treated i was president obama and biden spied on my campaign it's never happened in history if it were the other way around the people would be in jail for 50 years right now that would be comey that would be brennan that would be all of this the two lovers strzok and paige they would be in jail now for many many years they would be in jail it would have started two years ago and they'd be there for 50 years the fact is they illegally spied on my campaign let's see what happens despite that i did more than any president in history in the first three and a half years mr president thank you thanks for talking with us thank you thank you very much

Channel: Fox News

Views: 8,346,432

Keywords: Fox News Channel, Fox News, Fox News Sunday, news, politics, Chris Wallace, Donald Trump, President Trump, coronavirus, coronavirus surge, China US, coronavirus red states, Coronavirus testing, coronavirus graph, face masks, reopening schools, schools, school funding, US education, Trump administration, CDC, cancel culture, mainstream media, Democrats, 2020 protests, statues taken down, federal funding, Trump rally, confederate flag, trump chris wallace interview

Id: W6XdpDOH1JA

Length: 40min 7sec (2407 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 19 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/gmb92]

Eventually it Will Go Away might as well be his campaign slogan. It's like ignoring warnings on a category 5 hurricane, refusing to prepare, pretending it's a hoax, encouraging people to stay in town and go to restaurants while it's happening, blaming forecasters for projecting 160 mph sustained winds instead of 170, and spin the resulting devastation by saying other hurricanes were more deadly. And this one went away.

"Vote for me. Eventually I will go away."

[u/AStrangerWCandy]

Does anyone know what the hell he was talking about when he was talking about his complete healthcare plan he’s signing in two weeks that he’s now empowered to unilaterally do because of the DACA ruling? That struck me as something new I hadn’t heard before ...

[u/electric_creamsicle]

There were a bunch of posts when the clips from this interview came out, but this is the full interview with a few edits. I think this is the longest interview I've seen with Trump in a few years. I think the edits are good in some cases and bad in others. The edit for the mortality rate was good although I wish they would've dived into why there were differences between the two referenced charts. If they fact checked him there, I'm very surprised they didn't fact check him more (although I'm only 10 minutes or so in).

I'm really surprised Fox released bits of this interview early and also that they released the whole thing mostly unedited. I know Chris Wallace is definitely on the more unbiased side of news at Fox, but the network as a whole releasing this sort of feels like a sign that Fox may be trying to distance themselves from Trump, but also Trump sort of just repeats his same shtick and for the most part Chris lets him even though he challenges him in some cases.

I don't think there's anything new here to be said about Trump. He lies about things in a way that let's him be technically true like COVID "eventually disappear". I think the big piece of news is that Fox released this entire interview.

[u/myhamster1]

TRANSCRIPT HERE. May be faster and more tolerable than listening.

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Trump throwing out nonsense again and again. Baseless optimism is a feature because he'll say anything to make himself look good.

I'll quote some highlights in the next post, edited to leave the crux of the responses.

[u/electric_creamsicle]

Since I hadn't seen it before this interview, here's a link to the VA's copy of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment that Trump says he aced. I think the test is administered by someone else with audio and visual cues. As you can see, it's a test for parkinsons and the bar is pretty low.

[u/Unitmonster555]

This interview was extremely uncomfortable to watch. Cringeworthy, even. Trump was clearly embarrassed after being cornered by his own words and actions throughout most of the interview, and I have a feeling his campaign staff were shaking their heads and eye-rolling while watching this. I think Wallace gave one of the best interviews we’ve seen of trump. He asked tough questions and (for the most part) didn’t allow trump to side step the questions. I honestly don’t understand what people see in trump, and I would be very curious to hear what his fervent supporters think about this interview after watching it in its entirety. Politics aside, you have to admit this was not his greatest moment.

[u/motorboat_mcgee]

The more I see Trump talk, the less I want to see debates, and would rather the candidates hold townhalls where they don’t interact with each other. I don’t really care to see Trump and Biden focus on each other so much, I want to hear what their policies are for fixing the ills of the nation.

[u/TimKearney]

This was definitely interesting. Trump did better than I expected simply by lasting the entire interview, and even handled a couple of things relatively well (namely his response to questions about Mary Trump's book and his father).

But it was still mostly just... bad. It's been a few hours since I watched the interview and off the top of my head:

• Claims that the virus is mostly affecting kids, they "just have the sniffles" and will be all better in a single day
• On the virus just going away - "eventually I'll be right"
• But also "I don't think that masks will make it go away"
• "Beautiful World Wars" wtf?
• Doubling down on the claim that kids are systematically being taught to hate America - "just look at all the stuff"
• Won't say Biden is "senile" but will say he's not mentally all there in 10 other ways

There's plenty more of course but the thing that really sticks out in my mind is how hard Trump is pushing the idea that Biden isn't mentally competent. I think he's betting too heavily on that, especially with his claims that Biden has been keeping a low profile because he's incapable and his specific claim that Biden couldn't possibly survive a 40 minute interview with Wallace. I suspect we will see Biden do exactly that in the very near future.

While I do have to admit that if Biden fails to rise to this challenge, it would look pretty bad for him, I also believe the bar for this challenge is incredibly low for all the stock Trump is putting into it.

[u/EmergencyThing5]

Does anyone know what Trump was talking about when he said they would be releasing a healthcare plan in 2 weeks after Wallace said that he has no Healthcare plan after 3.5 years. He said that the Supreme Courts ruling on DACA gave him the right to do it. Was he referring to an expected, upcoming DACA order, and just answering a question he wanted to respond to that wasn’t asked? Or is there really a significant healthcare initiative expected to be kicked off soon? Really confused, and Chris Wallace immediately pivoted to the Mary Trump book after he said it.