34 posts from Wednesday, August 14, 2024

On my first day back in the Oval Office, I will sign an executive order directing every cabinet secretary and agency head to use every tool and authority at their disposal to defeat inflation and to bring consumer prices rapidly down. We'll do it very rapidly. When you look at the costs of groceries, the costs of bacon, where it went up four and five times, bacon, I don't order bacon anymore, it's too expensive. It will be a whole of government effort to raise the standard of living and make American life affordable again. It's going to really be a very important thing, because it's not affordable. Even if you're doing a little bit better, you've lost all of your money because of inflation. It's been out of control for a long time. And don't forget, now eventually it's starting to maybe get under control, but you're already up 50, 60, 70 percent in so many items. You look at car insurance, I couldn't believe when I looked at those numbers this morning. I was studying numbers and I looked at the car insurance numbers. It's incredible. And that's just one of many. You can go through many, but the groceries, just to put it in simple terms, people go to the grocery store and they have less than half a deal. In fact, I had something here. I did have something I would show you. Wait a minute. I don't know if you've seen this. I used it once. I have it, I do have it. Look at this. Look at this. So, this is tic-tacs, right? I don't know if I like the company. I've never met, I have no idea, they're so lucky. Look at all the television. This is the greatest commercial they ever had. But that's what happened. This is inflation. This is tic-tac. This is tic-tac. This is inflation. This is what's happened. I just happened to have, somebody gave me this one today, I said, I think we'll put it up as an example of inflation. But you know what? Inflation is destroying our country. It's destroying our families. We will target everything from car affordability to housing affordability to insurance costs to supply chain issues. We have the worst supply chain we've ever had in the history of the country. To the price of prescription drugs, I will instruct my cabinet that I expect results within the first 100 days or much sooner than that.

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-Did everybody the other night see Elon and me? [ Cheers and applause ] He's great. That was one of the most successful shows ever done. I mean, that was -- A lot of people like him. I think they're like me, too, come to think of it. But he's great, and he gave us his full endorsement. He's a great guy, but he basically -- You know, he's a guy who doesn't need this stuff. What he wants to do is see our country be great again, and he understands. And it's very hard for him to endorse the opposing party. It's not easy. It's very hard. But, you know, he really cares about our country, and he knows the opposing party has destroyed -- really destroyed our country and will destroy our country and permanently destroy our country, and he can't watch that. But we had a great chat for 2 1/2 hours. 2 1/2 hours being grilled by Elon, and we had a good time, actually. We're talking about something we love, our country. Much easier when you love something, right?

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>> On election day, we're going to tell her that we've had enough, that we can't take it anymore, Kamala, you're doing a horrible job. You were a terrible Attorney General, you were a terrible district attorney, you're the worst vice president in history. Kamala, you're fired, get out of here, go, get out of here. Get out, boom. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you. >> [APPLAUSE] >> Thank you.

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In four short years under President Trump, we passed the largest tax cuts in history, the largest regulation cuts in history. We unleashed American energy and real income surge by more than $4,200 in just a short number of months. I mean, we, we, it was, nobody, you never had it so good. Now you're not doing so well ahead today. We had the strongest economy in history. There's never been a country that had an economy like us. I gave Harris and Biden an economic miracle and they quickly turned it into an economic nightmare with a nation wrecking agenda ripped straight out of Kamala's San Francisco liberal playbook. What they've done to poor San Francisco, well, we're going to, we're going to try and bring that back to Harris and Biden waged war on American energy, threw open our borders, flooded the country with low wage migrant workers, passed the green news scam, racked up almost $10 trillion in debt and buried our workers in job killing regulations costing $10,000 per family. That's a lot of money. You don't have to imagine what a Harris presidency would look like. You're living through the misery right now, except it will get worse. And you're paying the price, a price like nobody's ever paid. And we're disrespected all over the world as a country. We were respected before Putin respected us, President Xi of China respected us. Kim Jong Un of North Korea respected us. We were respected by everybody in the world today we're being laughed at.

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Kamala Harris wants to be in charge of the entire U.S. economy, but neither she nor her running mate is the beauty, isn't he? He signed a bill. He wants tampons in boys' bathrooms. I don't think so, tampons. But they've never held a private sector job in their entire professional careers, and it's no wonder they're both socialists. They're actually beyond socialists. I think they skipped over socialists. That's why I think when people find out — because you don't know who these people are — I think when people find out who they are, I personally don't think they can do well in the election. They've destroyed this country. What they've done, when you look at San Francisco, what happened to — and she was the one that started it years ago. She was district attorney. Then she was the attorney general of the state of California. California is a disaster now. Now, Gavin Newsom hasn't helped very much, but it's a disaster. She was the one. This November, voters are going to give radical liberal Kamala Harris the opportunity to try something new, a real job in the private sector for the first time in her life. It's nice. Kamala has declared that tackling inflation will be a day-one priority. Think of it. It's not her, but day one for Kamala was three and a half years ago. Why hasn't she done it?

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Her radical liberal policies have caused horrific inflation, decimated the middle class, and gutted the finances of millions and millions of American families. Real incomes are down by over $2,000 a year. Per family, I mean, that's a lot of money. They're down by that, and it's actually much more if you figure it a certain way, if you add some other categories in, it's much more than that. But down by $2,000, since she took office and it was just announced that real earnings were down, once again, at a record rate. The Harris price hikes have cost the typical household $28,000, congratulations. Hope everyone's happy. Credit card debt has exploded, and it's exploded to the highest it's ever been, and the cost of a typical monthly mortgage has tripled, tripled, and probably more than that if you think about it. We were at about 2.4%, and now you're up to 10% and even 11%, but you're really not there because you can't get the money even if you want to pay it. In July alone, 350,000 people were added to the unemployment rolls. Kamala Harris wants to talk about her fantasies, and they are fan... everything she says. If I say something, she said that's what she's going to do too, I say, what are you doing? But she wants to talk for the future about these fantasies, but really what she needs to explain is the present suffering that she's caused along with Joe Biden. And by the way, they're a team, you know, she's trying to throw him overboard, she doesn't want to know who he is anymore, she doesn't want to talk about him anymore. She says, let's not bring this guy in, let's not bring him in. No, no, they were a team. She appointed her as boarder czar, and she did the worst job in the history of borders, I will tell you. Does anyone here feel richer under Kamala Harris than Crooked Joe than you were during the Trump administration? Is anything less expensive under Kamala Harris and Crooked Joe? We had inflation that I don't believe we've ever had inflation like that. You can go back a long way. Are you better off now with Harris and Biden than you were with a person named President Donald J. Trump? Do you know him? He's a nice gentleman, nice gentleman. With four more years of Harris, your finances will never recover, they're never gonna recover. Our country will never recover, frankly, more importantly, it will be unrecoverable. Vote Trump and your incomes will soar, your savings will grow, young people will be able to afford a home, and we will bring back the American dream bigger, better and stronger than ever before. Thank you. Thank you. Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Thank you very much. Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump! Vote Trump!

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