KEY POINTS
  • Trump's comments were made in an interview with Geraldo Rivera, of the Fox News network, while in Puerto Rico
  • Trump visited the island on Tuesday, two weeks after Maria destroyed Puerto Rico's entire infrastructure system

In an interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump said that Puerto Rico's debt will have to wiped out.

"They owe a lot of money to your friends on Wall Street and we're going to have to wipe that out. You're going to say goodbye to that, I don't know if it's Goldman Sachs, but whoever it is you can wave goodbye to that," Trump said on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News, according to a Reuters report.