DISCLAIMER: This article was first published in April 2025
To mark the first 100 days of the second Trump presidency, the president sat for an interview with ABC News’ Terry Moran in what was an at-times contentious discussion.
One more memorable moment involved a question about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump Administration deported to a prison in El Salvador, even as Trump lawyers admitted in court that he was deported mistakenly.
“The person that you’re talkin’ about, you know, you’re makin’ this person sound — this is a MS-13 gang member, a tough cookie, been in lots of skirmishes, beat the hell out of his wife, and the wife was petrified to even talk about him, okay? This is not an innocent, wonderful gentleman from Maryland …,” Trump said of Garcia.
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The president added of Abrego Garcia that “on his knuckles, he had MS-13.” Trump has shared a photo on social media, that appears to show the letters “MS-13” on Abrego Garcia’s knuckles, although experts have said the photo looks photoshopped, and an MS-13 member would be unlikely to have those exact letters on his fingers.
After this exchange, Moran cast doubt on the tattoos, at which point Trump said to him, “Hey Terry, You can’t do that. They’re giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you to do the interview because frankly, I’d never heard of you, but you’re not being very nice.”
The implication seems to be that if Trump agrees to give a television interview to a reporter, that reporter had better not challenge Trump in any way. In the same sentence, Trump also states that he chose Moran for the interview and that he had “never heard of” the reporter, who has worked for ABC News since 1999.
Trump when his interviewer fact checks him: ‘Don’t do that. You can’t do that. They’re giving you the big break of a lifetime. I picked you to do the interview because frankly, I’d never heard of you, but you’re not being very nice’ pic.twitter.com/1sw6BMf76N
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Also, in the interview, Trump talked about the price of eggs.
“They hit me the first week, ‘Eggs, eggs, eggs,’ like it was my fault. I said, ‘I didn’t cause this problem. This problem was caused by Biden. What’s the problem with eggs?’ And they said, ‘They’ve doubled it.’ Well, eggs are down 87% since I got involved,” Trump said. “And by the way — and there were plenty of eggs for Easter, which we just went through.”
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