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There are so many potential domestic and international third rails that a White House correspondent must be careful of when asking questions of a sitting U.S. President. In the case of President Trump, Iran, Venezuela, China and Ukraine all are weighty issues on the world stage, while the economy, ICE raids, energy and unemployment all make for volatile situations within America’s borders. Fortunately, White House correspondent Jon Decker knows how to navigate these thorny issues and get insightful answers to his questions. Decker, who hosts the podcast “Inside the White House Briefing Room” on the iHeart app, appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program from Detroit, where the President is visiting a Ford auto plant, to discuss just some of the hundreds of situations that are vexing Donald Trump this week.
Decker discussed with host Larry Mendte about the possibility that Trump may be the American commander-in-chief who gets to watch the Iranian theocracy enter its final days, as the Iranian people clamor in the streets for regime change and freedom: “The President putting pressure on Iran yesterday, announcing that he is imposing 25% tariffs on any country that does trade with Iran. That means China, that means Russia, that means other countries in the Middle East as well, and that, the President believes, will potentially have some effect in curtailing what we’re seeing in terms of the reaction from the Iranian government to these protests. Human rights groups have estimated that more than 500 protestors have already been killed in these protests by the government [and] more than 10,000 individuals arrested by the Iranian government.”
Meanwhile, Decker previewed one of the questions he intends to ask Trump at the Ford plant, if given a chance, about the future of electric vehicles: “Ford has canceled the F150 Lightning, that’s their all-electric version of that vehicle, and my question to the President [is] does he believe, as it relates to America, are electric vehicles essentially dead. Is that industry dead in America; I’m very curious to hear what the President has to say about that.”
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