'Barron's a very smart guy': Donald Trump speaks about his son's big future

Okay, we're going to take you back to the U.S. now, where Laura Ingraham is putting some tough questions to President Donald Trump. About the possibility of a recession, given the fact that you're trying to reorient the economy to a manufacturing economy again. I think if I didn't get elected, our country would be finished, to start off with. And I think I, now that I did get elected, I think we're going to have the strongest economy in the history of the world. And I had that economy in four years, with all the harassment, with all the crazy people after me, with all of the things that went on, even with COVID, and the strongest economy in the history of our country, at a stock market that went up 88%, 88%, number one in history. The other markets went up 66%, and I think like 71%. Will we see a recession in 2025? Are you ruling it out? We're going to have the strongest economic country in the history of the world, of the planet. We are taking in so much money. Now, some people are unhappy, because, you know, it has to come from somewhere. Some of it's going to come from Europe, because not everybody's going to be doing as much business maybe in Europe and other places. But I can only speak for the United States, and I am a nationalist, and I'm proud of it. I love this country. And I want to help other countries, too. Look, I'm the one, if it wasn't for me, they wouldn't be talking peace in Ukraine and Russia, because they're not Americans being killed. They're Ukrainian soldiers and Russian soldiers, and I'm trying to make peace. And again, it has not that much to do, other than we don't want to be paying. Bill, you know, Biden spent $350 billion on that war, got nothing for it. How do interest rates end up going down when we're servicing our debt to the tune of about $1.2 trillion a year, and there's still deficit spending in Congress? How do we do that? We have to pay off our debt. We have to start paying it off. Look, we're very underleveraged when you look at the asset value of this country. But we're overleveraged in terms of cash flow. We're going to have a big cash flow. We're going to take in — for years, we allowed our country to be raped and pillaged. Raped and pillaged. Terrible expressions. And that's what happened. Much of it was done by our friends. Look at the European Union. We can't sell cars to them, but they sell millions of cars to us. They don't take our agricultural product, but we take theirs. The days are changing. We're not going to let this happen. It's Barron's birthday on Thursday. Yes. And we've all, as a country, seen him grow up and see him really grow up. How often do you talk to him? Do you talk to him every day? All the time. What do you see for him? All my kids. I speak to all my kids. What do you see for his future, given his aptitude in certain areas? Business? Politics? Politics, what? I think business, and I think he could probably — you know, if you look at my kids, all my kids are sort of — they've been very good. They've been — they're very smart. Always good students. Always the big schools, the good schools. Hard to get into schools. Barron's a very smart guy. But Eric and Don, Tiffany, Ivanka, they're smart people. I'm lucky. Look, you have to be a little bit lucky, too. It's not like that. But they seem to be very — not only seem to be. They are very smart. And they're good kids. And they work hard. And they love our country, and they're proud of their father. And you know, we have a very good relationship. You talked the other day about how music was your aptitude as a child, that your father saw that you had a musical aptitude, and so it's kind of obvious in kids early on what they're good at. But is Barron's aptitude, in your view, business or politics? Maybe technology. He can look at a computer. I'd try turning off his — I'd turn it off. I'd turn off his laptop. I said, oh, good. And I'd go back five minutes later, and he's got his laptop. I'd say, how'd you do that? None of your business, Dad. No, he's got an unbelievable aptitude in technology. What do you do when you can't sleep? Because you don't sleep. You're like me. You don't sleep at all. I know. You just don't need a lot of sleep. But when you can't fall asleep, you wake up in the morning. How do you go back to sleep? Well, the only thing I totally admired about sleepy Joe Biden is the following. He'd go to a beach. He'd lay down in a cot, barely able to get his feet through the sand. He'd lay down, and within minutes, he's sleeping, and you have cameras watching him. I could never do that. I would never be able to sleep like that. That's about the only thing I think that was wonderful. It was a disaster. This man was a disaster. I don't sleep much. You don't sleep much. A lot of people that love what they're doing don't sleep much, I find. And so far, it's been okay.