President's Remarks on Financial Concerns: A Critical Reflection on Leadership Priorities

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]On yesterday, the president was asked about whether American financial concerns were motivating him to make a deal with Iran. His response was, "I don't think about Americans' financial situations." Do you think that's the right message? Do you think the president should be considering the financial total? I I don't know the context in which he made that comment, but I can tell you the president thinks about Americans' financial situations. I talk to him on average twice a day, sometimes three or four times a day, and we talk about it constantly. Um he's laser-focused on trying to resolve the conflict in Iran because if we get the Strait of Hormuz wind, we get the Strait of Hormuz reopened, and that will alleviate a lot of pressure with gas prices and other things in the economy.

[00:00:34]Now, we've done everything, the Republican Party under President Trump's leadership, have done everything that we possibly can to reverse the maddening inflation of the Biden years that was at 40-year highs. And all the the the gross misspending over the last several years to get the economy back humming again.

[00:00:50]And we've done that in the in the big beautiful bill, the Working Families Tax Cut, infused with pro-growth policies.

[00:00:54]We put in incentives for job creators and entrepreneurs and risk-takers, small business owners to expand and add more jobs, to increase wages. Those things are beginning to happen. You you we we put into into place the lowest um taxes, uh the biggest tax cut in American history to help out hard-working American families. The average American household has over $10,000 more in their