Why Trump Says Second Term Would Be Different Now

Former President Trump reiterated his plans to “make America great again” as the 2024 race enters its final days.

Trump sat down with Fox News host Sean Hannity at Mar-a-Lago and repeated the same campaign promises he has made on the trail, pledging to secure the border, fix the economy and the immigration system and use tariffs against foreign countries.

The 2024 GOP presidential candidate said a potential second administration of his would be different because he now knows “everyone in Washington.”

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Former President Trump during a campaign event in Greensboro, North Carolina, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. (Cornell Watson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

“I didn’t know anybody (in his first term). I wasn’t a Washington person. I was rarely there,” Trump said Wednesday on “Hannity.” “I know everybody (now). I know the good, the strong, the weak, the stupid. I know — I know everybody. And we want to make this country great again, and we’ve got to save our country.”

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He railed against the Biden-Harris administration for its handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, record border crossings and weak foreign policy, and pointed to Russia’s war on Ukraine and Israel’s war on Hamas, again claiming that both would never have started if he had been in the White House.

“We want to be respected again. We want to make America great again. And there’s nothing in the world I’d rather do. I don’t want to be on a beautiful beach. I don’t want to sit in a remote hotel where it’s very nice and watch TV or do something, I want to do what I do,” Trump said. “It’s so incredible.”

Former President Trump speaks to reporters while sitting in a garbage truck Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

The former president went to his rally in Green Bay, Wis., on Wednesday in a garbage truck after President Biden called Trump supporters “garbage.”

The White House denied that Biden was referring to Trump’s supporters and instead tried to blame comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who over the weekend referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally.

“Earlier today, I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico that Trump’s supporters spewed at his Madison Square Garden rally as trash—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s all I meant to say the comments on that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,” read a tweet on Tuesday evening from Biden’s Xformer Twitter, account.

President Biden delivers a speech at the Dundalk Marine Terminal in Baltimore. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters Wednesday on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews that she “strongly” disagrees with “any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”

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“You heard my speech last night and continuously throughout my career,” she said, referring to her closing campaign argument at the Ellipse. “I believe that the work I do is about representing all people, whether they support me or not.”