President Donald Trump immediately changed the subject when Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked when Americans would “be able to feel prices going down,” ignoring prices in favor of talking about the national debt.
Trump spent months promising to “end inflation” and that prices would “come down, and they’ll come down fast” if he was elected — an issue that many experts on every side of the political spectrum credit for his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
But Trump changed his tune just weeks after that victory, first telling NBC News that he could not “guarantee” prices would come down, and then telling Time “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”
During Trump’s pre-Super Bowl LIX interview with Baier, the anchor asked Trump, “when do you think families would be able to feel prices going down, groceries, energy?” and even gave him the extra option “Or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?”
But Trump blew off the issue of prices to focus on tariffs and the national debt:
BRET BAIER: 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? Or are you kind of saying to them, hang on, inflation may get worse until it gets better?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, I think we’re going to become a rich – and 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 going to do that. I’m not going to let that happen.
As of last July, an analysis showed Trump had added to the national debt more than double what President Joe Biden did. Axios noted, “If you exclude COVID relief spending from the tally, the numbers are $4.8 trillion for Trump and $2.2 trillion for Biden.”
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