KJP: ‘The Reason We Have Chaos ... Is Because of What Donald Trump Did in His Administration’

GEIST: “President Trump can’t talk policy on Thursday, which remains an open question — we’ll see what kind of performer he is that night. One of the places he is undoubtedly going to go is to inflation, which everybody across the country is feeling despite all that economic data we talk about all the time that is so strong, the economy is thriving. Talk about things costing too much. He’ll look into the camera and say, ‘You know that your cereal costs too much,’ he’ll go down the list of groceries and gas. How will the president address that criticism?”
Jean-Pierre: “So, here’s the thing. This is something that we’ve been talking about for some time, right, the economy. You’re right, the data shows that the economy is indeed strengthening, it’s stronger. And we understand that we came out of a pandemic, a once-in-a-century pandemic, and the work that this president did, from the American Rescue Plan to the bipartisan infrastructure legislation, to the Inflation Reduction Act, all of these historic pieces of legislation has helped this country get back on its feet. So, yes, eggs and milk and there are grocery things that were up, it has gone down. It has gone down since 2022. Gas prices, because of the actions that this president took — and let’s not forget there was an invasion that Russia did, obviously, into Ukraine, that caused gas prices to tick up. The president took action, tapped the SPR, and we saw gas prices go down. The president has met the moment with every issue that we have had in front of us. The president obviously talks about that often. He’s going to have another opportunity on Thursday to speak to those issues. And, look, talking about Donald Trump, I just mentioned the Dobbs decision. The reason why we have chaos right now after the Dobbs decision, the reason why, after Roe v. Wade was overturned, overturned after it being constitutional law for 50 years, is because of what Donald Trump did in his administration. And now IVF is on the line, contraception is on the line. We have — I was thinking about, when I was sitting here before starting this conversation, there are some of us who have young children. Can you believe that we have more rights — we had more rights growing up than our kids? Than our kids. That’s because of the Trump Administration and what they were able to do. So there’s a lot here. There’s a big contrast in what we’re trying to do on behalf of the American people, the majority of Americans, what they want to see, and what we see congressional Republicans, extreme Republicans, doing.”