J: Mr. President, since you brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal, and it is cheaper, but it also contains less, as a part of the...
T: Well, I haven't heard that. You're telling me. Who are you with? Who are you with?
J: I'm with NBC News, sir.
T: Fake news. NBC. You're fake news. What a... NBC's gone down the tubes along with most of the rest of them.
J: If I may ask, why do you think there's such a disconnect between the economy that you're describing day-to-day and the way many Americans say...
T: Well, they feel better about our country right now, other than the shutdown, obviously, which is caused by the Democrats, could be ended by the Democrats in two minutes. They feel much better. We have more jobs. We just set a record on jobs. You do know that. We have more investment in our country than any country in history. We're over $18 trillion as of this moment, and we're going to be maybe at $20 or $21 trillion. By the time I finish up my first year, and there's been no country, China, no country in the world that's done anywhere even close to that number. Your friend Biden, as an example, in four years was less than a trillion. We'll be at $21 trillion in one year. So there's no country that was even close to that, and our country was a laughingstock all over the world. We have more jobs. We have more potential than any other country. And frankly, we're the hottest country right now. Victor said to me before, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. Think of it. We'll have $20, $21 trillion invested. We have auto plants pouring back in. We have AI pouring back in. We're leading China in AI by a lot. We're leading everybody in every category. There's no category that we're in second place.
So I just heard this yesterday that Walmart said that the Thanksgiving was 25 more expensive, 25% more expensive under Biden. That's a big, to me, that's a, that's a big number because Walmart's respected. I mean, Walmart is Walmart and, you know, they're giving you prices. So that would mean that the whole series of pricing and costs, you know, the groceries and everything else, it was a con job. It was a con job. Affordability, they call it, was a con job by the Democrats. The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on elections and conning people with, facts that aren't true. It was 25%. Walmart just announced it two days ago. 25% cheaper this year will be cheaper to have Thanksgiving than it was a year ago under sleepy Joe Biden.