Trump’s Speech, Line One: “I Inherited a Mess

In America. Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years.

Okay, so this is just not accurate. It's about three seconds in and already the President is lying. Sorry if that sounds less than precise or like a political scientist, but it's a liar. It interesting that one of the late night talk show hosts called this a set of a fireside chat, a liar side chat. Inflation at the end of Biden's term was 2.47%. It is true that inflation did spike earlier in his predecessor's term, but inflation was 2.4% at the end of Biden's term. Today, according to most credible estimates, it's 3.1%. So inflation has gone up. So we're about five seconds into the speech and he's already trying to essentially sell a demonstrable lie. Let's see where we go from there.

And some would say in the history of our country, which caused.

Well, he says some would say that's one of his unique verbal ticks. What he really means is he's saying that it's the worst inflation in history. Nobody else has. But he doesn't want to say he's the only one who says that. So he says some are saying that's an extraordinarily imprecise rhetorical flourish he uses. And it's, it's comical in many aspects, but becoming less comical to others. All you have to do is go to Google, type in inflation. United States over the last 50 years, you'll see numerous times where inflation was much higher than it was than at any point during Biden's term of office.

Prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable.

We. But when he says prices are higher than ever before, you could say exactly the same thing for virtually every president of the United States. Even if there's a tiny 1% inflation rate, prices are going to be higher under any president's tenure. Prices were higher than ever before under President Trump's first term. It's not particularly meaningful and to suggest that it is is demagoguery for millions.

And millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration and it's when we first began.

So his signature now slur. Apparently it's now considered cute and clever among conservative talk show hosts, podcasting bros and others to not actually say a Democratic president or a member of the Democratic Party. It's somehow considered cute to say Democrat Party. I don't know that it's. Well, of all the Slurs. He does. I guess that's one of the more innocuous ones. But again, it's sort of demeaning. The office of the White House demeaning the notion of a presidential address, to use the same sort of lingo slang of shock jock, talk radio host, conservative.

Broadcasters hearing the word affordability. Our border was open because of this.

So he's talking about affordability. He said that was a big issue, a real issue. He's great on it. Then he called it affecting fraud, a Democratic hoax in the last couple of weeks and now he's trying to embrace affordability. Again, a lot of mixed messaging there of this.

Our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails meant so.

To say our country was invaded by 25 million people is absolute sham and a scam and demagogue. Not true. Was there more immigration and were there more refugees coming into the country under Biden than the previous administration? Yes. But to just say hordes of 25 million people coming into the country, demonstrably a falsehood.

Jails, mental institutions and insane asylum. They were drug dealers, gang members and even 11,888 murderers, more than 50% of whom killed more than one person. 3. This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to.

According to every statistic from reputable law enforcement data sources, refugees and immigrants commit violent crime at a statistically lower percentage than native born Americans. You'll never hear Trump admit that, but it is in fact our country and.

It can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women's sports. Transgender for everybody.

Crazy transgender for everybody. Let me ask you, I want to know from you specifically if you're watching or listening, did you personally have an immediate family member, a female, a girl playing in junior high school, middle school, high school, college sports, who then had to compete against a transsexual person and your daughter, the female in your family then lost? I'm not saying it didn't happen, but to elevate this to a national crisis suggests that someh now the previous administration was essentially beating the bushes at every high school, encouraging kids to become transsexuals to pete in athletic events, former boys to then compete in girls sports is just outlandish demagoguery. It's a fake, phony issue. And here he is promoting it again. Crime was not at record levels during the Biden administration. Crime continued to go down, certainly in most major cities, most Democratic cities, or to use the lingo of Trump, the Democrat cities saw crime go down ever since the pandemic. Of course he would never admit that.

Words such as that just absolutely forbidden. We had the worst trade deals ever made and our country was laughed at from all over.

So the worst trade deals ever. No, there's simply no evidence of that. The stock market was at an all time high, trade was at an all time high and the American economy after Covid did remarkably well. Yes, there was inflation, remarkably lower inflation than most other major Western Democrats. But our economy thrived under Biden. People's 401ks soared under Biden. And to just to suggest otherwise, just absolute demagoguery. Here's the part that I don't see anyone on the and by the way, I'm a sane, sensible centrist. I'm not giving you Democratic spin. I'm giving you a perspective based on facts analysis in the real world. So I've never yet seen an honest conservative say, look, okay, if you're going to fault Biden for having inflation go up, you have to then also blame Trump for having lost more jobs under his tenure as president in the first term than any US President since Herbert Hoover. And of course the rebuttal for most conservatives and Trump apologists would be, well, that's not fair. That was Covid. You can't blame that all on President Trump. Everybody lost jobs. True, every western democracy and a lot of other places too saw inflation spike during COVID It was a simple function of all of a sudden a lot more demand for products because people couldn't buy services like going to restaurants. So inflation skyrocket everywhere in the world because of worldwide supply chains. You cannot give President Trump pass on presiding over more people losing their jobs in his term than any president's Herbert Hoover and not somehow say okay, Biden deserves pass for inflation too. It's simply illogical. And anyone who does so is complete black. They're not giving you straightforward, honest analysis. And additionally, there are plenty of countries in Western Europe, other G7 nations that saw inflation go as higher higher than ours and they did not fiscal stimulus stimuli to the same level we did. So you can't say it's the unmitigated fault of Biden, as of his plan.

From all over the world. But they're not laughing anymore over the past 11.

Okay, again, he's just saying Americans were being laughed by demonstration. What does that even mean? I mean we are living in a world of 8 billion people. Certainly there's some people who laughing at any American. Jimmy Kimmel made fun of Joe Biden. Yeah, people laughed at that. But the idea that somehow the groundswell around the laughing at America because of our policy, again, that's just absolute, unmitigated nonsense. We're only a minute and 28 seconds into this speech. I've already lost count at how many lies, distortions, fabrication and outright items of demagogic nonsense have been uttered.