President Trump, on Friday, despite already giving an incredible response on his economic wins, sicced White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on reporters after he was accused of avoiding discussions about affordability and the economy.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump had earlier ridiculed an NBC reporter and touted his economic accomplishments after she accused him of misrepresenting economic data and the falling cost of Thanksgiving dinner this year, compared to Thanksgiving under Joe Biden.
“The Democrats are good at a few things: cheating on elections and conning people with facts that aren’t true,” Trump said after describing the so-called affordability crisis narrative as a “con job.”
Trump took questions during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban as the two leaders met to discuss trade, the war between Russia and Ukraine, and energy, Trump said at the start of the press conference.
After another question on affordability, Trump went off on the reporter with a series of questions and laid out how inflation, energy costs, and grocery costs are down, despite reaching historic highs under Biden. “Do you remember that the Biden administration had the highest inflation in 48 years, but most people say ever recorded? Do you remember that? Right? Do you remember it? Did they have the highest inflation in 48 years? Did they? Just answer me the question! You know the answer. The answer is yes!” Trump lambasted the reporter.
Prime Minister Orban could be seen laughing as Trump tore into the press.
After nearly four minutes of speaking, Trump asked Karoline Leavitt to give her own rebuttal to the press, where she slammed reporters for refusing to address the Trump Administration’s success and how “the previous administration created the worst unaffordability crisis in American history.”
Following the epic exchange, Orban joked with Trump that he wants Leavitt to move to Hungary and be his press secretary. “Karoline, the Prime Minister would like you to work for him in Hungary… please don’t leave us Karoline” Trump joked.
WATCH:
Reporter: You said affordability is a con job, and you said last night that you didn’t want to talk about affordability…
Trump: I talked about it. When did I not want to talk about it? I talk about it all the time. We are much better than Biden and all of them. Now, just so you understand, do you remember that the Biden administration had the highest inflation in 48 years, but most people say ever recorded? Do you remember that? Right? Do you remember it? Did they have the highest inflation in 48 years? Did they? Just answer me the question! You know the answer. The answer is yes! They had the worst inflation in 48 years. We have almost no inflation. We’re down now to 2% and we’ll be at maybe 1%. You want to always stay above 1% actually. You want a little tiny bit of inflation. We’re the perfect number.
They were at the highest level in recorded history. Okay? And when you talk about affordability, that one fact— now let’s talk about the second biggest subject after inflation, energy. We’re going to be a $2 gasoline. We’re going to be approximately $2 very soon. We’re a little bit above $2 right now for gasoline. Now, under Biden, it was four and a half, it even hit five, but it was $4, 3 and a half dollars, we’re going to be at $2 a gallon. So, gasoline is much less. Energy costs are less. When you have energy and when you have gasoline less, everything else follows. It’s such a big category. So, when you have lower energy prices, which I think you admit we do, substantially, that means everything else.
So, we are the victors on affordability. But if I watched that election, which I was not much involved in— I didn’t support Virginia, the candidate, didn’t do a lot of support for the other candidates. They asked me about Cuomo, and I said, Well, it’s a question, do you want a thug or do you want a communist? I mean, that was my response. So I wasn’t involved in that stuff too much, but, but I will say this, if you look at affordability, which they campaigned on, they lied because they talked about, “Oh, prices are up.” No, no. Prices are down under the Trump administration, and they’re down substantially. Energy prices are down by 30, 35, 40%, gasoline is way down, and the other big thing, as we started, inflation is way down. The biggest thing is inflation. The second biggest thing is energy. Energy is way down. And what’s also down? Gasoline.
Also, the biggest thing is inflation, and it’s way down. We took over a mess, the highest inflation in recorded history. Some people would say 48 years. I’ll take either one of them, but I believe it’s the highest inflation in recorded history. That alone makes it impossible for them to have done a good job, affordability-wise. One other thing, when I came into office, Viktor, two days into office, they were screaming at me about the cost of eggs. I was there for two days. Eggs had quadrupled. And I said, “Listen, I just got here, let me check it out.” And they were right. Eggs had gone up by three, four times. Within a period of a few months, we had eggs down to a normal cost. We did a great job on groceries and affordability. The only problem is the fake news. You people don’t want to report it. And in fact, I’d like to ask Karoline… Karoline, could you discuss that question that was asked and how it was asked in such a fake, disgusting manner by the fake news?
Leavitt: It’s very unfortunate that the reporters in this row refuse to address, sir, what you just said, which is that you inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history, and you are fixing it in 10 short months, and your entire administration has been tasked with this effort, from Treasury Department, to Agriculture Department, to the National Economic Council. Right here at the White House, they are slashing regulations. He signed the largest middle class tax cut in six months, in six months, in record time, putting more money back into the American people’s pockets.
So, affordability is what the American people elected the president to do, and he is doing it, and you guys refuse to cover it, and you refuse to cover that the previous administration created the worst unaffordability crisis in American history. And I’ve been watching the TV all day saying that he doesn’t want to talk about affordability. That’s what he’s working on every day.
Trump: That’s what I’m talking about right now, but you know why they refuse to cover it? Because they’re fake news. That’s why.
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