Following Republicans’ sweeping defeats this week in off-year elections, President Donald Trump says Republicans need to focus on affordability.
“As Republicans, you have to talk about it,” he told Bret Baier of Fox News. “Because if you don’t talk about it, you know, I saw that they kept talking about affordability. Well, [former President Joe] Biden was a disaster with affordability. He had the highest inflation rate in the history of our country, but you have to talk about it. It’s no good if we do a great job, and you don’t talk about it. And I don’t think they talk about it enough.”
Trump called it the party’s “biggest problem.”
“I think the biggest problem is Republicans don’t talk about it. They don’t talk about the word affordability. And the Democrats lie about it.”
“You know, [Republicans] have this new word called affordability and they don’t talk about it enough, the Democrats did,” he continued. “And the Democrats make it up because we took over a mess. Think of energy. Energy was so expensive, and now I have it down to half what it was.”
Trump boasted that energy, gas, and grocery prices are down.
“Groceries are way down, other than beef,” he said. “Now, beef is going to come down. You know, we have to do that.”
“You remember when I started, eggs were up by four times what they were previously,” he said. “I was two days in the office, and they tell me about eggs. I solved that.”
Trump said “we’ve got to” continue to get prices “way down.”
“Look, when I took over, and I said this, inflation was so bad under Biden, remember, he had the Inflation Reduction Act. It was a scam. And he tried to lower inflation. But he caused the inflation, then he tried to lower the inflation,” he said. “He took over my economy where inflation was at 1%, which is perfect, 1%. He drove it nine or 10 times higher than that in a short period of time. When I took over it was a mess. I have inflation way down. I have it down to a normal number right now, lower than a normal number, in my opinion, I think.”
