President Donald Trump responded during his town hall with Fox News to questions on whether his second term would be more about “retribution” than policy.
“There are questions about how much a second term of a Donald Trump presidency second term would be about retribution and looking backwards and grievances and how much would be looking forward,” Fox News anchor Brett Baier said.
President Trump quickly replied, “I’m not going to have time for retribution. We’re going to make this country so successful again, I’m not gonna have time for retribution.
“And remember this,” he added. “Our ultimate retribution is success.”
“There won’t be retribution,” President Trump reiterated. “There’ll be success.”
President Trump instead emphasized the policy successes of his first term, blaming the economic downturn that came about in the latter half of his presidency on COVID-19.
But as he has often done, President Trump insisted that his second term would focus heavily on restoring the economy by fixing energy policy and addressing inflation.
President Trump also disregarded the notion that he would act as a “dictator” during his second term in office.
“I am not going to be a dictator. I am going to manage like we did,” President Trump said.
