Trump rings opening bell at NYSE in front of Time ‘Person of the Year’ cover with Melania and daughters by his side

President-elect Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange Thursday — after praising his wife, Melania, as a “great” and “popular” first lady and vowing to make the American economy great again.

Donald Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. AP

Standing in front of his 2024 Time “Person of the Year” cover with Melania and his two daughters, Ivanka and Tiffany, Trump thanked the NYSE for allowing him the privilege to ring the bell along with his wife and vowed to bring the economy back to its former strength during his first term in office.

“We’re going to have a tremendous run. We have to straighten out some problems, some big problems in the world. When we left, we didn’t have any of these problems. We didn’t have Russia, with Ukraine. We didn’t have Israel, October 7. We didn’t have the Afghanistan disaster,” Trump said.

“We had no inflation, and we had a very strong economy. And we’re going to do that again, but I think we’re going to even up it, because now we have experience that we didn’t have.”