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Gabrielle Canon

Trump scolds air traffic controllers and blames rivals for economy in interview

Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump at a town hall in Greenville, South Carolina, on 20 February 2024.
Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump at a town hall in Greenville, South Carolina, on 20 February 2024. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

Donald Trump chastised overwhelmed air traffic controllers, cast blame and doubt in response to poor economic indicators and claimed that increased access to food stamps had put “the country in jeopardy”, in an exclusive interview on Fox News on Monday evening.

Speaking with Laura Ingraham, the president shared his thoughts on a wide range of topics from housing mortgages to foreign policy, interspersed with insults flung at his political opponents that were teed up by Ingraham’s questions, including Gavin Newsom, the California governor and Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader.

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