TJ Walker challenges Trump's inflation claims from his White House address, fact-checking assertions about price spikes under Biden and drops under Trump. Walker says the numbers are cherry-picked: overall inflation sits around 3.1%, and Trump's examples like eggs down 82% or 100% private-sector job growth don't hold up to scrutiny.
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Driving up prices and everything at levels never seen before. I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast. Let's look at the facts under the Biden administration.
Oh, now he's got a PowerPoint slide. Interesting. So he's claiming he's bringing down prices. Nobody believes this. Ask yourself, are you paying less at the grocery store than you did a year ago? No or not.
Administration car prices rose 22% and in many states, 30% or more. Gasoline rose 30 to 50%. Hotel rates rose 37%. Airfares rose 31%.
Okay, so talk about sleazy, cheesy and dishonest. He's looking at price increases for over four years for Biden and he's holding himself accountable for for 11 months. And he's cherry. But notice he doesn't seem to have a lot of food here. Sporting event tickets down 9%. Really? Have you been to a professional sporting event lately? It certainly appears as though like a lot of things this administration does, the numbers are just absolutely made up, just completely made up out of thin air or cherry picks.
And now under our leadership, they are all coming down and coming down fast.
Then, then why is inflation 3.1% according to most independent experts and surveys? It's not horribly high. I mean, let's be fair, inflation has been much higher under both Democratic and Republican presidents in the last few years. It's not that high above the benchmark that the fed shoots for of 2%, but it's still higher than it was under Biden.
Democrat politicians also sent the cost of groceries soaring, but we are solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving Turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden.
That's just not true. I've seen numerous estimates showing cost of a Thanksgiving Thanksgiving dinner, which by the way, if you only have turkey at a Thanksgiving dinner, you're not going to have Grandma and Granny and Uncle Joe come back again. You have to have stuffing and cranberry sauce and other things. And price of your groceries for thank till Thanksgiving dinner in 2025 went up, not down from 24.
The Biden last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since March and everything else is falling rapidly.
Everything else is not falling rapidly. It's unmitigated lie and it's not done yet.
But boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's going on.
Nobody can believe what's going on. Well, that may be one of the most truthful statements Trump said in this White House address.
Here are just some of the efforts that we have underway, you will see in your wallets and bank accounts in the new year. After years of record setting falling incomes, our policies are boosting take home pay. And at a historic pace. Under Biden, real wages plummeted by $3,000. Under Trump, the typical factory worker is seeing a wage increase of $1,300 for.
This is just all complete made up stuff. I mean, I could put up a graph saying 9 out of 10American women think I have the best hair in the makeup stuff. Guess what? It's not true.
For construction workers, it's $1,800. For miners, we're bringing beautiful coal, it's $3,300. And for the first time in years.
There are virtually no coal miners in America. They weren't before Trump took office. There are hardly any now. There are dramatically more estheticians in America than there are coal miners. There are dramatically more people working in nail salons. Coal is still an important source of fuel in America. Like coal, mining itself just doesn't require many workers. And it is insignificant in terms overall, economic.
Wages are rising much faster than inflation. Remember that rate wages, Just look at wages.
So how does that actually happen? And this is mercury area economics. When wages rise quickly, that's when you.
See inflation are going up much faster than inflation. How big is that? Very importantly, there are more people working today than at any time in American history.
And okay, that's true. There are more people working today than at any point in American history. Guess what? Every president in the history of the United States can say that at some point in their term. Although by the end of Trump's first term, that wasn't true. What he could say is more people lost their jobs in his first than any president since Herbert Hoover. So again, to state something that's just automatically true for everyone, as if it were a distinct positive attribute to your administration, is not an outright lie. But it's kind of cheesy and sleazy.
And 100% of all jobs created since I took office have been in the private sector. Think of that. 100% of all jobs have been in the private sector, rather.
So what does that even mean? It sounds like he's trying to take credit for decimating our public sector workforce. Abusing so many public officials, firing air traffic controllers are ruining their lives. Yeah, if you, if you don't have any new government employee, that does mean new jobs would come from the private sector. But even that's not true. That would suggest not a single American soldier has hired not a single person has enrolled in the military in the last 11 months. That's not credible. Obviously, every day there are new people enrolling in the United States military. Guess what? They're government workers. They are not private workers. So again, just monsterable falsehood rather than.
Government, which is the only way to make a country powerful and great. This historic trend will continue.
Wait a minute. He just said we have the strongest military in the history of the world and anywhere in the world. Which is true. And he just said the only way to make a country strong is, is through private sector hiring. Well, you can't have it both ways. We have the strongest military because we hired them to work for the government.
You already I've secured a record breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States, which means jobs, bribes, jobs, wage increases, growth, factory open and far greater national security. Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs. My favorite word, tariffs, which.
Okay, now he's being honest. At least it does appear as though favorite word to say that's why we have investment is bizarre distortion. Now, it is true that by putting such large tariffs on so many countries, a lot of countries said, hey, this guy's clearly acting like a mob boss, we can bribe him. If we just say we're going to build some plant in Texas, he'll maybe get rid of the tariffs for us. So it is true some foreign investment has come in because of these tariffs, this extortion. Now, the other price there is that Americans are no longer trust partner in the world arena. Americans are, if not being laughed at, at least being being shunned. People are, they cannot count on America and American business and American government fairly. So we're losing a lot of trade partners around the world because of this. But yes, technically some investment has come in because countries have come to the conclusion they need to bribe Trump in order to not be punished through excessive tariffs.
