Trump is already backing off his most important campaign promise

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Trump is already backing off his most important campaign promise

President-elect Donald Trump’s

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— his first network TV sitdown since winning the election — was a mixed affair. At times, he tried to sound almost measured: Trump told the

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that he would work with Democrats to find a way to preserve Dreamers’ legal status. He said he would not ban

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,

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or order the

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But as always, Trump’s more aggressive impulses inevitably got the better of him. Not long after promising not to go after his foes, Trump said the

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“committed a major crime and they should go to jail.” He told Welker that

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from the Capitol attack on his first day in office. And

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his choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, he flirted with the

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that vaccinations are responsible for increasing diagnoses of autism.

Arguably the most significant moment of all, though, came near the beginning of the wide-ranging interview. During the campaign,

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of 10-20% on all imports — and 60% on goods from China. Welker asked whether he could “guarantee” that Americans won’t pay

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under those tariffs.

“I can’t guarantee anything,” Trump replied. He noted (correctly) that

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, even as he implemented new tariffs. But those tariffs were on a much smaller scale. Multiple studies project his sweeping new proposal would

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or even

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a year.

The

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isn’t lost on Trump. “I won on two things,” he told Welker later in the interview. “I won on the border, and I won on groceries.” And yet even Trump, who has built a career on bluffing and promising the impossible, couldn’t pretend that his plan to avoid future price increases will work.

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show annual increases of

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, well below the spike in the middle of Joe Biden’s presidency. But

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to

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are already warning that they may have to

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And just as Trump got credit for the low inflation in his first term, he will take the blame for any price hikes in his second.

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