President Trump on March 11 downplayed the financial markets’ dramatic plummet this week, saying Americans may have to endure economic pain to “rebuild our country.’’
“Markets are going to go up, and they’re going to go down but, you know what, we have to rebuild our country,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt echoed those comments when she called the upheaval a “snapshot in time,” insisting the US is just in a “period of economic transition.”
