On Thursday, President-elect Donald Trump was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year.” In the wide-ranging interview accompanying the recognition, Trump said he didn’t view his road to his second White House term as a “comeback,” saying that “I’ve always been here.”
Trump was asked, “Everyone across the political spectrum recognizes the nature of your comeback, the historical nature of comeback, your resilience. What do you understand about the American psyche that your opponents do not?”
In response, the President-elect said, “See, I don’t view it as a comeback. And people have said it was the greatest comeback in political history, and beyond even political history plus. They said, add sports and add everything else. But I don’t view it that way. I think I ran a great campaign. I think I was popular.”
He said he thought he “did a very good job the first term,” and that even with Covid at the end of his term, “we did a very, very good job that people are starting to recognize.”
“But you take a look at those first few years, we’ve never had an economy even even close to that. So I don’t, I don’t view it as a