After announcing they will probably buy back even more than 4 billion in bonds, he claimed they the underlying fundamentals are wort more than they reflect as if they were buying it for arbitrage and not to lower the yield rate, he then said the current budget deficit is misleading it's only higher because of the tariff refunds.
So then a reporter asked the obvious followup, so it was artificially lower in previous reports because of the tariffs right? Well no.
Of course it was that was the point of the tariffs to try and offset some of the money lost rom the tax cuts, well that and so Trump could solicit bribes from countries