Over the weekend, newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump sat for a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier — where things seemed to get super awkward, super quickly when the Fox anchor pressed Donald for an answer as to when the American people would see some relief on their pocketbooks as he promised, now that they re-elected him to the White House.
There’s certainly no denying that Donald Trump largely campaigned on the premise that the economic distress felt by millions of Americans lately is the fault of no one else but Joe Biden and the Democrats and, if re-elected in 2024, he solemnly swore to fix it all.
In fact, he quite literally stated that prices would “come down, and they’ll come down fast” and even went so far as to pointedly promise to “end inflation” — a campaign promise that multiple experts from both sides of the political fence largely credit from Donald’s victory over Kamala Harris this past November.
However, just mere weeks after that victory, before he was even inaugurated back into the White House, Trump began to back peddle on that promise… Hard. He infamously told NBC News that he actually could not “guarantee” that prices would see a decrease under his administration and then later told Time that “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.” — essentially preemptively setting the stage to go back on all of his campaign promises that earned him any votes among suffering Americans.
During his pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox’s Brett Baier, the anchor flat-out asked the president, face-to-face, when Americans could expect to see some financial relief on things like “groceries” and “energy.”
All Trump seemed to be able to do was quickly and awkwardly scramble to change the subject, without ever giving a straight answer to America’s biggest burning question.
“You said that tariff is a beautiful word. There are some signs in the market, consumer confidence that they’re a little jittery. So, if all goes to plan, when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy?” Baier asked. “Or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?”
“No, I think we’re going to become a rich – and look, we’re not that rich right now,” Trump blubbered in response. “We owe $36 trillion. That’s because we let all these nations take advantage of us. Same thing, like 200 billion with Canada. We owe 300 – we have a deficit with Mexico of $350 billion. I’m not going to do that. I’m not going to let that happen.”
According to a brutal analysis, as of last July, Donald Trump had added more than double what Joe Biden did to the national debt. Axios noted in that analysis, “If you exclude COVID relief spending from the tally, the numbers are $4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden.”
These days, Fox just seems to be trolling him over it.
You can watch a clip of Trump’s interview with Baier here:
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Bret Baier just asked Donald Trump what he is doing to bring down prices for the American people. Donald Trump delivered an incomprehensible rant. This is terrible. pic.twitter.com/64QMNi7KkA
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