President Donald Trump told Time magazine that he is finalizing 200 deals with other countries that are set to be “finished” in three to four weeks.
The president did not go into detail about any of those deals, including which countries they are with, but said that he “100%” had made the deals. His comments come at a time when markets have shown volatility over any news about what his administration’s eventual tariff policy will be.
“At a certain point in the not-too-distant future, I will set a fair price of tariffs for different countries,” Trump told the magazine. “Some of them have made hundreds of billions of dollars, and some of them have made just a lot of money. Very few of them have made nothing because the United States was being ripped off by every, almost every country in the world, in the entire world.”
The president went on to say that when he sets tariff policy, he will “set it fairly according to the statistics, and according to everything else.”
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He indicated they would be rolled out in the coming weeks.
“I’ll be finished,” Trump told Time. “Now, some countries may come back and ask for an adjustment, and I’ll consider that.”
The hour-long interview published Friday was a debrief of his first 100 days in office, the first of multiple expected interviews. (Trump was also scheduled to sit down with journalists from The Atlantic this week, according to a post from the president on Truth Social.)
Trump insisted to Time that he is living up to campaign promises.
“I have solved more problems in the world without asking for or getting credit,” Trump said.
When asked about how he is expanding the power of the presidency (this week Trump released 2028 merchandise) he told Time he doesn’t see it that way.
“I don’t feel I’m expanding it,” he said. “I think I’m using it as it was meant to be used.”
The president also touched on his immigration policy as a handful of Democrats spent recess traveling to El Salvador to meet with Maryland resident Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was wrongfully deported to the country.
“I leave that to my lawyers. I give them no instructions,” Trump told Time, addressing the Supreme Court weighing in on the matter. “They feel that the order said something very much different from what you’re saying. But I leave that to my lawyers. If they want — and that would be the attorney general of the United States and the people that represent the country. I don’t make that decision.”
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Amelia Benavides-Colón is a NOTUS reporter and an Allbritton Journalism Institute fellow.
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