'I Love the Inflation': Trump Reacts as US CPI Hits 3-Year High

[00:00:00]the latest inflation number which came out this morning. Could that be a good >> No, I love it. The numbers were great.

[00:00:05]You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now.

[00:00:14]Something you didn't know. Do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil.

[00:00:19]Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know about it? Iran until right now.

[00:00:25]We took out the other night 22 ships late at night with no lights cuz they don't have any radar cuz we blasted the crap out of it.

[00:00:34]We took out That's why oil's $85 a barrel. I mean, you take a look.

[00:00:39]Remember when I did this, I said, "Look, the one bad thing will be we hit the best economy we've ever hit."

[00:00:46]And I said to my people, I had Scott, I had Howard, I had Pete, I had all of them.

[00:00:51]I had Todd in the room. I said, "The one thing we have to do now, we had just hit the highest stock market in history.

[00:00:59]Highest 401(k)s in history. Everything was going well, and I said, 'I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran's going to have a nuclear weapon very soon.

[00:01:08]We have to go and attack.' So, we hit them with the B-2 bombers, which took a lot of courage. It was totally successful. We buried it very hard to get. But, now we had to make the second move.

[00:01:22]And I said, "You know, the bad part is the stock market will go down by a lot based on predictions of experts, like 25%. And it was worth it. To me, it was worth it not to have a nuclear weapon."