No other president would have done what I did, no other president. I know the presidents, they wouldn’t have done it. And it had to be done.
If you didn’t do it, it wouldn’t be sustainable, you wouldn’t have had a country. So I’m honored to have done it…. It does take guts, it even takes guts for our country to go through it. That’s why I say be cool, just be cool, it’s gonna work out. And it’s working out, I can tell you, working out maybe faster than I thought. But I said, it’s gonna take a little conditioning. It’s a transition. It’s really, I think it’s a transition to greatness. It’s gonna be greatness.PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP, April 9, 2025
President Trump’s big vision today seems to be nothing short of a full structural regime change and a reordering of the global financial and economic trading system. Whether one shares this vision or not, or thinks it is possible or not, it is important to try to understand it to grasp where this train may be heading.
In this Economics Weekly, we attempt to outline this vision, how the president thinks it can be achieved, what the barometers of success are, and what could derail it.