“We now have the hottest country in the world. And a year and a half ago, our country was dead. We had a dead country,” he told Dokoupil, before bringing up his prediction about what would have happened if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election.
He continued: “You wouldn’t have a job right now. If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now. Your boss, who’s an amazing guy, might be bust, okay?”
His boss, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison, is a friend of Trump’s, who had promised to bring more conservative reporting to the network.
Trump continued: “Let me just tell you, you wouldn’t have this job. You wouldn’t have this job, certainly, whatever the h– they’re paying you. Our country is rocketing right now. We have the hottest country in the world. If they got in, we would be Venezuela on steroids.”
Dokoupil, evidently rattled by the president’s charge, came back to his comments at the very end of their discussion, telling Trump: “For the record, I do think I’d have this job even if the other guys won.”
Without hesitation, Trump fired back: “Yeah, but at a lesser salary. Thank you very much.”