Trump’s “friendly” Fox interview devolves into DISASTER

You won't exactly find Trump doing many sit -down interviews with hostile outlets, and yet you're about to see even the friendly interviews go south pretty quickly.Here are a few different instances from this latest sit -down with Bret Baier of Fox News that doesn't exactly do Trump any favors.

Democrats and political pundits jumped all over this statement that you made the other day.You were asked when you were leaving.

Not even a little bit.The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.I don't think about America's financial situation.I don't think about anybody.I think about one thing.We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

That's all.

That's right.That's a perfect statement.I'd make it again.You can imagine how many people stopped the soundbite at, I don't think about America's financial situation.So what's your response to that framework?

Very simple.When people hear me say it, everybody agrees.Short -term pain.It's going to be short -term pain.But the pain is much less than people thought, because people thought that the oil would go up to $250.You know, it was $99 yesterday, $99 a barrel.

I thought it might go up to $200.I was OK with that.Not that I wanted it, but you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon.

Trump was given the opportunity to amend his statement from yesterday suggesting that he doesn't think about Americans financial situation and he took that opportunity to Double down.But his defense here in doubling down is that it's apparently not as bad as it could be, and that with oil at only a mere $100 per barrel, it could be way worse at over $200 per barrel.How's that for reassurance?Sure, you might have had your leg amputated, but you could have had both legs amputated.So for all those people out there who are right now struggling to afford gas in this political environment, the Republicans' message to you is simple.That's life.

And, uh, I mean that verbatim.

What about his promise in 2024 that if he was re -elected, gas would be under $2 a gallon because of his policies?

Well, gas prices were coming down until we had to deal with this situation.But, you know, that's life.That's dealing with the world we live in.I think the country gets the fundamental fact And I know I understand this, President Trump makes decisions that are in the best interest of our nation.250 years, greatest country in history, he makes decisions that are going to help our country and the long -term security and safety of the people he has.And I think you want a commander -in -chief like that.

You want a commander -in -chief who's willing to do tough things that he knows are good for us, all of us.All of your viewers, everyone in this country and frankly everyone around the world, it is good if Iran doesn't get a nuclear weapon.

But if someone's listening to you and they were paying $2 .98 a gallon of gas before the war started and now they're paying $4 .53.I mean, saying that's life might not, you know, make them feel better.

Those are your words.Those are your words, not mine.I'm saying you said this is the situation.

Quote, that's life.I wonder what Fox News and the GOP, including Jim Jordan himself, would have said if Joe Biden offered up that line to Americans.You think they would preach patience the way that Republicans are preaching it right now?In fact, we've already gotten the answer to that exact question.

I mean, I don't like to brag about all the expensive places I've been, but earlier today I went to the gas station.Gasoline and diesel fuel and oil is a product of the conflict in Iran.

How do you square that patience with impatience with gas prices under Biden when at times it's $3 .30, $3 .40?

I don't have to square anything with you.

OK?Politicians should not get a free pass on the ridiculously high energy prices under the Biden administration.

Do you think that the war should stop because of this?How patient can you be?Just because gas prices have come down a little bit, they're still really high.430 gas prices.Do you think the war in Iran has gone on long enough?

Isn't it funny how they suddenly found so much patience on this issue?Guess it must be the yoga or something.Bret Baier goes on.

Prices in America are still high.painfully high.They're going to drop like a rock as soon as it's over.Painfully high though now and could be creeping higher before it's done.Well, lower than Biden, excuse me, lower than Biden and much lower than people thought they'd be.This inflation number is going up, you're right, it's much lower than President Biden's was but it's going up under you.

I wonder if the shtick will ever get old, where Donald Trump continuously blames Joe Biden for everything.Isn't Trump supposed to be this strong man while Biden's a doddering old fool?And yet, here's this tough guy president still pointing and crying about his predecessor who hasn't been in office for two years, as if Joe is some all -powerful omnipotent being.Has someone on the right reminded Donald Trump that he's the president, that he wanted responsibility, he should probably take it?Maybe we should phrase it in the form of a question on one of those dementia tests, since that's apparently the only thing that Trump pays attention to.Here's another one from the interview.

Indiana had like eight people that had never lost an election.Some were in for 25 years.They had a 40 -point lead, but they didn't want to do or they didn't want to give someadditional people in Congress.Very simple.Redistrict.

And I said, you know what?If they don't want to redistrict, they're really... they're not for us.And I ran candidates that nobody ever heard of, but good people.And everyone won, other than one, because two or three people ran.Actually, it was very smart.But I won every... every one of them.

CNN did a poll.recently that said I'm 100 % approval in the Republican Party with MAGA, which is most of the Republican Party.So I think it's almost all of it now, actually.I'm at 100%.And Harry, whatever his name is, nice guy, Harry Enden, was jumping up and down.Do you think you're going to win the midterms?

I don't know.

I don't know.I can't tell you because a couple of factors.They got to pass The Save America Act.I really believe that's important.Because the Democrats cheat.This will keep them from cheating.

It'll make it much harder for them to cheat.Without cheating, they can't win.Because they have things like open borders where criminals can pour into your country.Men playing in women's sports are ridiculous.These are 98 % issues.You know, the fake news says, oh, these are 80 -20.

They're not 80 -20.Transgender mutilization of your child.

To correct the most egregious lie right off the bat, Republicans are going to get trounced in midterms.And that is a direct referendum on Trump himself, just like they've been getting trounced across the country in special election after special election, including in red states and red districts.Mar -a -Lago is now represented by a Democrat.So Trump may brag that 100 % of the most far -right voters in America are behind him, but saying 100 % of your most dedicated hacks are still hacks, even as you're losing non -magnorepublicans, independents, and democrats, is not the flex you think it is.When Trump was asked about the length of the Iran war, here's what he said.

Yeah, look, Vietnam lasted 19 years.Iraq was like 10 years.Korea was seven years.Another one was 14 years.Another was 12 years.Another one was nine years.

We're in there for two and a half months.The other thing they talk about, so we lost tens of thousands of soldiers in Vietnam.We lost tens of thousands of soldiers in practically every war.I've lost, and I wish we'd lost none, because I know those parents.I spoke to them.We lost 13 soldiers in two wars.

China got three tankers out this week filled with Iranian oil.Because we allowed that to happen.You did.

Pressure on all of the people.I want to do the job right.If it takes an extra four weeks, but think of it.We're in Vietnam for 19 years.I'm here, I'm doing this for two, two and a half months.

So despite Trump saying that his presidency would mean no new wars, now apparently the new bar is that we can totally stay at war as long as it's not as long as Vietnam.Is that the new standard?And if more Americans die, then Trump can just point to the fact that the Civil War had 750 ,000 deaths, so as long as we don't hit that number, we're still in the clear.If gas prices rise, Trump will just point to the fact that there were gas lines in 1975 as a way to prove that we're still good by comparison.And this is supposed to be the Golden Age?Because it doesn't feel much like the Golden Age when Trump's only defense against his piss -poor performance is to say, well, we're were not as bad as when something was the worst it ever was.

Also, notice how he casually breezes over 13 dead American soldiers.Republicans dined off of 13 dead soldiers in Afghanistan for years, literal years, which proves something pretty insidious to me, pretty disgusting to me.Either they stopped caring about dead Americans, nowthat Donald Trump is president, or they never cared about dead Americans and just used their deaths to score political points on Joe Biden.Take all the time you need with that one.So look, the reality is that this probably was intended to be a friendly interview, but Donald Trump has no leg to stand on here.

He is a failing president who hasn't fulfilled a single campaign promise.He vowed that costs would go down.They went up.He said he'd protect health care.He cut it.He swore no new wars.

We are in one right now.He promised transparency.And yet he's hiding the Epstein files.He vowed to be an America first president.And yet this country is poor, sicker and less safe than it's ever been.And it's all thanks to to him.

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