Investing Icon Warren Buffett on Trump, Apple, and Airlines

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Warren Buffett sat down with CNBC for nearly three hours yesterday to discuss a variety of issues relating to politics and business. On President Trump, Buffett had this to say:


So I will judge President Trump after four years based, number one, on how safe the country has been kept. I mean, that is the number one job of the chief executive of the United States. And that's not an easy job. And I'm not thinking of random killings or anything like that, I'm thinking of weapons of mass destruction. I mean, that's my number one worry. And that's the number one test I have. Secondly, I'll judge him, to a degree, although, they have less control over this – well, they need a little luck on weapons of mass destruction too, but how the economy does overall. And then third, I'll judge him on how if the economy does well, which I expect it to do, how wide the participation in that in a better economy extends. And those are the three primary tests I would have applied to Hillary Clinton or to Donald Trump.

Read the rest of the transcript here.

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