A radio interview about tariffs took an unplanned turn this week when Trump started talking about a job he’s constitutionally barred from having again.
On Real America’s Voice with host Steve Gruber, Trump was making his usual case for his tariff policy when the topic drifted somewhere more revealing. “Well, I use and I say I’d love to be the next guy in office,” he said, before explaining the compliment he’d been building toward. “The next guy in office is going to look like a super genius because all these plants will be open. All these jobs will be in here. It’ll be a rebuilt country and he’s going to get credit.”
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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 31, 2026
The 22nd Amendment caps presidents at two terms, a technicality that hasn’t stopped Trump’s team from teasing a third run at varying levels of seriousness for months now. Merchandise has already caught up, with the Trump Store currently stocking red MAGA-style “2028” caps.
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Tariffs remain Trump’s favorite talking point regardless of what the data actually shows. Speaking at a General Motors rally this week, he claimed “car companies are doing better than they’ve ever done,” attributing it directly to his trade policy with a simple: “All because of Trump.”
That claim sits uneasily next to consistent reporting showing rising consumer prices, a war in Iran driving gas costs upward, and approval ratings that have stayed low throughout. His newest round of tariffs, duties of 10% to 12.5% imposed on 60 economies over what the administration called insufficient enforcement of forced-labor import bans, took effect right as a separate set of stopgap levies expired following a Supreme Court loss. Australia’s trade minister responded fast, calling the tariffs “completely unjustified.”
Gruber also handed Trump an opening to circle back to one of his other fixations. “I made a prediction on this program that before you left office that Greenland would be under our operational control. It’s still incredibly important to defending the Western Hemisphere, isn’t it?” he asked.
Trump’s answer made his priorities clear enough. “Greenland’s important, you know, from our standpoint. Not from their standpoint, but from our standpoint.”
That framing hasn’t sat well with European allies.
Speaking in Ankara last month alongside Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Trump called Greenland “an important part” of U.S. interests and repeated a debunked claim that the island is currently surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships. “That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” he told reporters there.
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