33 posts from Monday, November 17, 2025

You know Biden, Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst, definitely the worst president in the history of our country, but a man who didn't do a good job in any way, but you know, he said, "I can't stop the people from coming in because I don't, I need an act of Congress, and I can't get it." He said, "You don't need an act of Congress." All you have to do is say, "Nobody comes into..." I didn't get an act of Congress, so I had a very safe border the first time, the first four years, but now I have a really safe border. But I didn't have to go to Congress to do that. You're the president. It's a very strong presidency, and you say, "Stop the people from coming in." And they listen to me, and nobody comes in. I mean, literally nobody, other than if they come in legally, we have a good process for coming in. You have to learn, you have to show that you can love the country. But, yeah, Biden was just a terrible president. You know, what he did with inflation, what he did with other things, we had the highest inflation in the history of the country, now we have almost no inflation. But what he did with allowing millions of people to come in, now the difference is I'm moving them out, I'm getting them out.

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People do say, "What do you recommend for growing your children?" And I've seen so many children, I've seen so many brilliant children of brilliant people go bad and become tremendous failures. And I find that so much of it's caused by drugs, alcohol, you know, different substances. And I always would say to my kids, "No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes." I'd say, "No cigarettes, too." You know, it's not of the same, but if you can avoid it, because if you don't start it, you don't have a longing. I mean, I have friends that long to have a cigarette. They quit smoking, but they long, and they see somebody with a cigarette, it's like they're caged lunatics, okay? But even more so with drugs and alcohol. And I would always tell my kids, "No drugs, because no drugs or alcohol." I said, over the years, I've seen really smart parents have really brilliant kids, and the kids are a disaster because they got hooked in drugs. And when you're hooked, it's hard to get off. And if you never start them, like, I've never had a drink in my life, and I don't take drugs. I have no longing, but people that do, the drugs they don't talk about as much, but when they see, when you have a person that suffered with the alcohol curse, and they're out to dinner and they see, you know, some of your wonderful whiskey or whatever, when they see that coming down the plank, they say, "Oh, man, does that look good?" If you never start, it's so easy. No, I have other problems. You know, I've got plenty of problems like everybody else, but it's just not a problem that I have. And I always say, "No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes." Ivanka said to me when she said, "Dad, you're driving me crazy. Stop saying that." I'd say it all the time. Whenever I see them, "No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes." I think it worked, but who knows? You never know.

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The staff said, "Do your Privacy Act review and get out these documents." Well, they didn't do the Privacy Act review. They did the Mar-a-Lago raid. That was the whole point of the Mar-a-Lago raid, was to get back Crossfire Hurricane. And that's what led to the three years of the law fair against President Trump after he left office. Four indictments for non-crimes— What about January 6? January 6 was part of that, where these Democrats and even some Republicans were trying to use January 6 to try to get rid of MAGA more broadly.

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The real thing that is going to happen, that is going to give Americans real purchasing power increases, it's going to be through growth. We passed the one big beautiful bill. I am also the IRS commissioner, and I can see that working Americans, thanks to the president living up to his campaign promises, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans, if you buy an American car, there are going to be substantial refunds in the first quarter of '26. Working Americans will change their withholding, and they will get a bump up in their real income. So I would expect in the first two quarters, we are going to see the inflation curve bend down, and the real income curve substantially accelerate. And when those two lines cross, Americans are going to feel it. But, Maria, I will tell you what we are not going to do. What we are not going to do is tell the American people that they don't know how they are feeling, which is what the Biden administration did. They said it was a vibe session, you don't know how good you have it, and we are working every day to get these prices down.

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>> Well, first of all, if you look at the history of inflation, what happened was that there was right away Democrat spending in Joe Biden's term. And we got inflation up almost to 10%, it averaged 5% over the four years. And that has created a situation where, for example, mortgage rates went up. And so the typical payment for a monthly mortgage payment almost doubled. But a bag of groceries that cost $400 a month when President Trump left office is $500 or $515 when President Trump came back this time. And so that there's this really big hole that's been dug. And then the question you could also ask as an economist is, how do I summarize all those different prices and everything? And one of the ways you could do it is just look at purchasing power, the real wage. Purchasing power, I'll just finish this and then I'll get back to you. The purchasing power dropped by about $3,000 under Joe Biden because the wages didn't keep up with prices. Under President Trump, it's already gone up by about 1,200. We understand that people still feel the pain of the high prices, but we're closing the gap and filling the gap fast.

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