West Palm Beach, Florida, USA (AP) – US President Donald Trump is cautious when talking about his duties to defend the rights to due process established in the Constitution and pointed out in a new interview that he does not know if US citizens and non -citizens deserve that guarantee.
He also said he does not believe that the use of military force is needed to turn Canada into the “51er state” and minimized the possibility of looking to run for a third mandate in the White House.
Comments in a broad and combative interview with the “Meet the Press” program of the NBC chain occurred while the efforts of the Republican President to quickly implement his agenda face winds against stronger with the Americans, when his second administration crossed the 100 -day brand, according to a recent NORC center survey for the investigation of public affairs and The Associated Press.
However, Trump made it clear that he is not moving away from a list of tasks that insists that the American electorate supported widely when they chose it in November.
These are some of the outstanding aspects of the interview with Kristen Welker of NBC that was recorded on Friday on his ownership of Mar-A-Lago in Florida and broadcast on Sunday:
Trump does not commit to due process
Critics on the left have tried to argue that Trump is undermining due process in the United States. In particular, they mention Case of Kilmar Abrego García, a Salvadoran who lived in Maryland and was deported by mistake to El Salvador and imprisoned without communication.
Trump says that Ábrego García is part of a violent transnational gang. The Republican President has sought to convert deportation into a test case for his campaign against illegal immigration despite an order from the Supreme Court that says the administration must work to return Abrego García to the United States.
Asked in the interview if both US citizens and non -citizens deserve due process as established in the 5th amendment of the Constitution, Trump was not conclusive.
“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,” Trump said when Welker pressed him.
The 5th amendment provides “due legal process”, which means that a person has certain rights when it comes to being processed by a crime. In addition, the 14th amendment establishes that no state can “deny any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of laws.”
Trump said he has “brilliant lawyers … and obviously they will follow what the Supreme Court said.”
He pointed out that he was pressing to deport “some of the most bad and dangerous people in the world”, but that the courts get in their way.
“I was chosen to get them out of here, and the courts are preventing me from doing so,” Trump said.
Military action against Canada is “highly unlikely”
The president has repeatedly threatened that he intends to turn Canada into the “51er State.”
Before his meeting at the White House on Tuesday with the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump is not moving away from the rhetoric that has enraged Canadians.
However, Trump told NBC that it was “highly unlikely” that the United States would need to use military force to turn Canada into the 51st State.
He offered less certainty about whether his repeated calls for the United States to take control of Greenland of Denmark, NATO ally, can be achieved without military action.
“Something could happen with Greenland,” Trump said. “I will be honest, we need that for national and international security … I don’t see it with Canada. I just don’t see it, I have to be honest with you.”
The president irritates himself to recession forecasts
Trump said the United States economy is in a “transition period”, but hopes that it works “fantastically” despite the economic agitation caused by its tariffs.
He offered a strong answer when Welker said that some Wall Street analysts now say that the possibilities of a recession are increasing.
“Well, you know, you say that some people on Wall Street say,” Trump said. “Well, I will tell you something else, some people on Wall Street say that we will have the best economy in history.”
He also diverted for the 0.3% drop in the United States economy in the first quarter. He said he was not responsible for it.
“I think the good parts are Trump’s economy and bad parts are Biden’s economy because he has done a terrible job,” referring to his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.
Trump reaffirmed his recent comments at a cabinet meeting that the children could have to have two dolls instead of 30, denying that it is a recognition that their tariffs will lead to the shortage of supplies.
“I’m just saying they don’t need to have 30 dolls. They can have three. They don’t need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.”
Trump minimizes conversations about a third term
The president has repeatedly suggested that he could seek a third mandate in the White House, although the 22nd amendment of the Constitution establishes that: “No person will be chosen for the position of president more than twice.”
Trump commented during the interview that there is considerable support to apply for a third mandate.
“But this is not something I am looking for,” Trump said. “I am looking to be four years old and give it to someone, ideally a great Republican, a great Republican to carry it forward.”
Trump’s previous comments on a third mandate sometimes seem more about causing outrage in the political left. The Trump organization is even selling red caps with the words “Trump 2028”.
But at times, he has suggested that he was seriously considering a third term. In a telephone interview at the end of March with NBC, Trump said: “I’m not joking. There are methods for which you could do it.”
So JD Vance in 2028? Marco Rubio? We do not rush
Trump said in the interview that Vice President JD Vance is doing a “fantastic work” and is “brilliant.” The Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whom Trump last week simultaneously commissioned as an acting national security advisor, is “great,” said the president.
But Trump said it is “too soon” to start talking about his possible successor.
You are sure that your movement “Let’s make the United States again” will flourish beyond its time in the White House.
“You look at Marco, you look at JD Vance, which is fantastic,” Trump said. “You look at – I could name 10, 15, 20 people right now sitting here. No, I think we have a tremendous game. And you know what I can’t name? I can’t name a single Democrat.”
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This story was translated from English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
