President Donald Trump downplayed the prospect of a recession days after previously dodging the topic during an interview that added to uncertainty circling Wall Street.
“I don’t see it at all,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday at the White House. “I think this country’s going to boom, but, as I said, I can do it the easy way or the hard way.”
During a photo opportunity with Elon Musk and a fleet of Tesla vehicles on the South Lawn, Trump said that the “hard way to do it is exactly what [he is] doing” before promising that “the results are going to be 20 times greater.”
“Markets are going to go up and they’re going to go down. But you know what? We have to rebuild our country,” he added. “Nope, doesn’t concern me. I think some people are going to make great deals by buying stocks and bonds and all the things they’re buying. I think we’re…
