Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said it’s hard to say “something good” about the first 100 days of President Trump’s second term in the White House, comparing the administration to one of a dictator.
“It’s hard for me to find something good to say,” Raskin told reporters Tuesday outside the Capitol.
“Look, I believe that the autocrats and the dictators of the world are on the march, including President Xi [Jinping], including Kim Jong-Un, including [Vladimir] Putin, and I think Donald Trump should get off their team,” Raskin added, referring to the leaders of China, North Korea and Russia, respectively.
He also suggested Trump has no strategic approach to tariffs but just “pops out of his head with numbers” that have led to a 145 percent duty on imports from China, the world’s second-largest economy and one of the top U.S. trading partners.
“I certainly don’t want to crash our economy. I don’t want to crash the stock market. I don’t want to have a trade war against the whole world except for Vladimir Putin,” Raskin said.
“I’m not into destroying the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau or the Department of Education, or the Agency for International Development,” he added, citing agencies Trump has pushed to close.
However, the Maryland Democrat highlighted Trump’s moves to restore aid to some foreign programs and a 90-day reprieve for higher tariffs on every country except for China.
“He has also backed off a number of those things, so when he did, I appreciated the fact that he was at least listening to the negative opinion of the entire world and the country about things like trade war and tariff.”
Despite a drop in his approval rating, Trump has continued to assert the success of his campaign and administration.
“We’re here tonight in the heartland of our nation to celebrate the most successful first 100 days of any administration in the history of our country — and that’s according to many, many people. This is the best, they say, 100 day start of any president in history — and everyone is saying it,” Trump said at a rally in Michigan.
“We’ve just gotten started, you haven’t seen anything yet, it’s just kicking off,” he added.
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