Donald Trump blew off Bret (of Fox News, of course) Baier’s question about his promise to cut prices when he was sworn in, by refusing to address the question instead spewing nonsense about the national debt.
BAIER: You said the tariff is a beautiful word. There are some signs in the markets, consumer confidence, that they’re a little jittery.
So, if all goes to plan, when do you think families will be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy, or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?
TRUMP: No, I think we’re gonna become a rich, look, we’re not that rich right now.
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 gonna do that.
I’m not gonna let that happen.
Bret Baier should have insisted on an answer here. Inflation was a key issue for stupid fucking voters who elected this imbecile. Instead of asking for a follow-up, Baier jumped to the topic of his election win. Nice cover-up.
When President Biden was in office, nothing was more important to Fox News than rising food prices.
Fox News flooded their programs with COVID supply chain inflation segments that blamed the Democrats.
The federal deficit and trade deficits (not the same thing, Grandpa Syphilis!) have nothing to do with price gouging from corporations or rising costs of products.
Trump could’ve responded to Baier’s question and discussed the conspiracy around the 1969 moon landing, and the Fox News host would not have batted an eye.
Fox News is utterly complicit with all of Trump’s failures.
(Frances Langum contributed to this post.)
