President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that bringing down grocery prices will be “very hard,” after he repeatedly promised during his campaign to cut costs, a major factor in winning over voters dissatisfied with the economy.
In a wide-ranging interview on Nov. 25 that was published Thursday as part of his Time “Person of the Year” honor, Trump said he would pardon people convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol within hours of his inauguration, sought to distance himself from anti-transgender messages that Republicans used effectively against Democrats in the election and described the Middle East as an “easier problem” to resolve than Russia’s war against Ukraine.