Interviewing Trump on His Plans for the US Economy
Business leaders don’t love all of Trump’s policies, but after several twists in the presidential campaign, he’s earning vocal support in some surprising quarters.
Illustration: Félix Decombat for Bloomberg Businessweek
Interviewing a presidential candidate in person before a monumental election is always a coveted opportunity. But after President Joe Biden’s disjointed debate performance raised doubts about his candidacy and Donald Trump escaped an assassin’s bullet in Pennsylvania, examining the GOP nominee and his economic agenda for a cover story in Bloomberg Businessweek became even more of a journalistic imperative.
Trump has an aggressive plan for the US economy and American companies that includes radically higher tariffs, a lower corporate tax rate and mass deportations of immigrants that could further constrict an already tight labor supply. Without this, he says, “you can fold up Businessweek, because I don’t think it’s gonna be worth a damn. I think the whole country will go down the tubes.”