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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trump, in one of his most defiant, powerful, and important
speeches of his entire political career, says that he is
tackling the affordability crisis head on, that he and his
administration have done historic things on the economy in the
last eleven months, and there's a lot more to come.
But his overall message, whether it's the tariffs, whether it's

(00:24):
tax cuts, whether it's the low gas prices, energy dominance,
they are obviously a very favorable attitude towards the private sector,
focusing on rising wages for middle and working class folks
out there. He has put the pieces together, the building
blocks for an economic boom that he says will usher

(00:48):
in a golden age. Did you watch his speech? Did
you like it? Did you not like it? And on
the issue of the economy and affordability, cost of living
over the last eleven months, how would you grade Trump?
What grade would you give him? Is your life better

(01:09):
under Trump than it was under Biden? Worse under Trump?
The same? Six one seven two, six, six, sixty eight
sixty eight. Let's go right back to Mary in Florida.
She's telling other people who are grumb you know, I'm
not happy or dissatisfied with Trump over the last eleven months.
You know, hold your horses, take a breath. Give this

(01:33):
man a chance. He hasn't even been a year that
he's been in office. He's working hard, he's putting the
pieces together. These things take time. Mary, please pick up
where you left off.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
I mean, jesf, you couldn't have said it better in
your lead in to all of this. So you're talking
about the fact that he's laying the ground mark in
what he's doing. And all I've won is for Republicans
to have a little bit of trust in him and
give him the opportunity to fix this. It took Joe

(02:09):
Biden four years to put our country in the situation
that it's in right now. Give this man at least
a year and a half to waive the groundwork. That's
all I'm asking to do. And the other thing, honestly,
around the midterms, we had no ground game. Even in Miami.

(02:34):
People weren't coming out to vote. So what leave gone
and Larry Trump gone? We need to fix the ground game.
In my opinion, that's what needs to happen. I'm not
my life isn't better. I mean, I'm retired, my husband's retired,
we moved to Florida from Massachusetts. It's tough right now,

(02:58):
but I see what he's doing to get this economy moving,
and I'm going to give him that year and a half.
I'm going to give it to him. And I was
a little upset with Grace the other day because I
listened to you for the past four years even longer,
and I felt like she has this underlying hate for Trump,

(03:21):
and it came through like I just don't understand. Give
this man a little bit of a break. Is he
a braces, Absolutely, But I think it's his abrasiveness that
has got us into the situation where we're deporting immigrants,
illegal immigrants, and we're getting this country back on for

(03:44):
app That's it.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Oh, Mary very well said, and thank you very much
for that call. Look, let me just make an observation
and take it for what it's worth. Mary lives in Florida,
the Freedom State. The previous caller from Virginia, Tom the
truck driver. I don't know if he was calling from

(04:07):
Virginia because he's on the road a lot, but you know,
he had a Southern accent, which I find very charming.
So I assume either he lives in Virginia or one
of the southern states. Now, I know Virginia has been
trending blue, but they still have a lot of Republicans
in the legislature. They had a recent Republican governor, so
it's still a competitive two party system. My point being,

(04:29):
there are real checks and balances on Democrats. Okay, when
someone like Michael writes his email, I really sympathize with
him in this sense. Michael lives in Massachusetts, as I do,
obviously in a very deep, deep blue state. I mean,

(04:50):
I'm just giving out the facts. The cost of living
in blue states is a hell of a lot higher
than it is in red states or even purple staf
It's not even close. The cost of living in Illinois
sky high, state of New York, sky high New Jersey.
Ay yi yai. You think what we pay in energy

(05:12):
in Massachusetts is bad, you got to see what they're
forking over in New Jersey. Turn moon bats are even
crazier than our moon bats. So what I'm saying is,
in a way I feel for Michael because I look
at you know, places like say Florida or Texas or whatever.
Everything there is just so much cheaper. But that's by

(05:33):
virtue of being in a red state. So to me,
there are many things that take energy. Yeah, Trump's gonna
try to drive down the cost of electricity. He spoke
about it at length yesterday. He's gonna build a lot
more electricity generating plants. He wants to really wipe out
all these green energy regulations. He's going to do everything

(05:55):
possible to try to lower the cost of energy and
what we pay our bills. But a lot of this
is happening at the state level. And I'm telling you,
living in Massachusetts as a taxpayer, you feel every day
like there's a target on your back. Everything is expensive,

(06:17):
more regulations, more taxes, more fees, more of my money
being stolen. And so part of what I'm asking is
is this really something Trump could fix? Is this more
of a state issue than a federal issue. I'm just
throwing it out there. Six one seven two six, six

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sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay, let me
ask you, did you watch this speech last night? I'm
just curious and what did you make of Trump's speech?
I thought it was a very powerful commanding speech, a
speech that is resetting the narrative, especially going into twenty
twenty six. But that's me. I want to hear from you, Okay,

(07:04):
before I go lines are jammed, before I go back
to the phone lines. This is from Robert on messenger.
I'm getting a lot of texts, a lot of emails
siding with Michael, who I read his email on air.
A lot of disagreement, but also a lot of agreement.
So I want to be fair to everybody. They're all

(07:25):
Trump supporters, they're all Conservatives, they're all maga. So to me,
we're all part of one big family. That's what the
coon That's what Cooner Country is. Cooner Country to me
is like my extended family. And so at the kooner
Man's table, like my family, everybody gets to say we
are a free speech zone. So everybody, you know, as

(07:45):
my with Mike, like with my Italian in laws, just
let it all out, don't hold it back, just let
it all out. Okay, this is from Robert. Jeff I
agree with Michael one hundred percent. At seventy four and

(08:06):
still working part time, I'm sorry to hear that, Robert.
I mean, it's great to work if you want to work,
but if you're working because you have to help pay
the bills, that's I don't like that. I mean, that's
that to me is not that to me is not America.
But anyway, let that go. At seventy four and still
working part time, My expenses went up in Trump's first year,

(08:32):
especially electricity and property taxes. Food is still way too high.
Big ticket items are very expensive. Mine and my wife
pay has not gone up. Costs have to home repairs
or upgrades are prohibitively expensive. The rate of increase may

(08:55):
have slowed down, but not significantly so for my family,
there has been no meaningful decrease in expenses. Interesting. Interesting,
So basically the same. I mean, he was treading water
eleven months ago, and Robert seventy four years old, who

(09:17):
has to work part time, is still treading water eleven
months later. Interesting. Okay, this is from seven eight one Jeff.
By the way, you can text the cooner man seven
zero four to seven zero Jeff to address Michael, your brother,

(09:39):
with all due respect to him, he does not understand
the dynamics of inflation, time and prices, the insiduous part
of inflation. And please listen to this because this is
this is one hundred one thousand percent accurate. The insiduous
part of inflation is that it's almost impossible to bring

(10:01):
prices down appreciably once Biden level inflation happens. Inflation is
not magic. It cannot be done and undone with the
magician's tricks. It is a certain and predictable product of
borrowing and printing money the nation does not have. And

(10:25):
once that quote unquote counterfeit currency is injected, like drugs
into the arm of the economy, terrible things happen. Prices
rise because more billions of dollars are chasing fewer and
fewer products. That drug like money can't get secked out
of the economy anymore than the fentanyl coursing in the veins.

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The exception is energy, if the nation can export its
natural resources to international markets. That's why gas prices are
coming down relatively quickly. The only practical and time tested
way to address inflation domestically, and that was Trump's argument
last night, essentially, is to grow the economy at a

(11:11):
rate that outraces the rate of inflation, so over time
people have more actual wealth to spend. That's the only
way it works. Don't blame Trump, this is Obama's and
Biden's mess. I mean the jargon is real wages. Okay,

(11:35):
that's the jargon, But essentially he's right. Once you have
that level of inflation we had under Biden, it stays.
It's like it's like tar it just sticks to everything
in the economy. It's very hard to wring out that
kind of inflation. So the only way to really do

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it is to grow out of it, where you're making
more money and more money and more money, and so
after a while you're making more than enough money to
start covering the higher cost of everything. And by the way,
that's how Reagan. Basically Reagan grew us out of the
inflation of the nineteen seventies. I mean inflation was it

(12:20):
was inflation was curbed, it was crushed. You know, we
had inflation, what was it, two percent under Reagan, but
it was double digits what he inherited. So you crush inflation,
it doesn't keep going up, and then the economy booms
and people are just making more money and making more
money and more money and more take home pay, and suddenly,

(12:43):
you know, the cost of a bottle of coke didn't
go down under Reagan, the cost of groceries didn't go
down under Reagan. It stayed what it was under Carter.
It just didn't go up anymore. But then people were
just making more money and more money and more money,
so everything becomes more affordable again. So that's why Trump

(13:04):
is saying, We're gonna crush inflation, and then I'm gonna
make sure that your take home pay keeps going up.
I'm gonna give you more tax cuts. You're gonna have
more money in your pocket. You're gonna keep more money
in your pocket, and eventually you're gonna be able to
start affording things again. But what Trump is saying is
not the way I'm phrasing it. But Rome wasn't built

(13:27):
in a day, and he's basically saying, I need eighteen months.
I'm eleven months in. Give me seven more months, and
by June of next year, this economy will be roaring
like no like, agree, disagree. Eddie in Maine. Thanks for

(13:53):
holding Eddie, and welcome. I'm good, Addie. How are you?

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (14:01):
Very good?

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Like your first start.

Speaker 4 (14:02):
I want to wish you, your family and the staff
all are very merry Christmas and a happy new Year.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
Thank you all the best to you, Eddie. Merry Christmas,
Happy New Year to you and your family, Thank you
very much.

Speaker 4 (14:13):
I voted with President Trump three times. I wish him
to hope I could vote for him a four times.
You can't blame him for everything, but I do get
a little depressed when I hear about all these these
illegals and making all this frinking money. And I'm my
wife and I are vote in I early seventies. We
still have to work part time to survive. But that
has nothing to do with Trump. Well it was our
own financial brother. But look at go and then me

(14:37):
see these politicians. Everybody's walking out with Megan. Now they're
talking begins a dollars how much they expect President Trump
to do. He can only do so much. Hey, you
just can't. I mean he just started in the office,
really only not even a year yet what he has
done and I feel secure. I don't know about everybody else.
I'll vote for him again without blinking and writing. What

(14:58):
do you say yet, Eddie.

Speaker 1 (14:59):
Look, I can only speak from my experience. I feel
much more secure. I feel much more safe. He's stopped
the invasion at the border. He's making the country energy dominant.
He's going as aggressively as he can on these mass deportations.
The fentanyl, the drugs. He has cut a lot of

(15:19):
it off coming in. I could go on and on.
I think he's had incredible accomplishments. I personally feel that
my standard of living, my cost of living, has gotten better.
I'm just being honest with you, but that's me. Everybody
has a different story. What I want to ask you
is this, Eddie, and I think this is Look the

(15:40):
reason why I'm saying this or I'm kind of harping
on it as a host of this great show. Never,
never in the last ten years have I seen so
many Trump supporters. I'm talking you know, like you people
who voted for him three times. I were with him

(16:00):
through thick and thin. After January sixth, when he was
in the political wilderness, he was there president. They stood
by him. I've never heard the kind of criticism of
him from MAGA and the listeners of this show that
I have, I would say, over the last three or
four months. And the argument is this, Eddie. They feel

(16:21):
that he's fake, focusing way too much on foreign affairs,
and he hasn't focused enough on the economy and on
affordability and bread and butter issues. That's their criticism. Do
you agree or disagree. What say you.

Speaker 4 (16:41):
Like I said, I backed President Trumpell back from the game,
but I think they were respecting too much. We respected
him to solve everything overnight, and it's not possible. It
might take him the four full years to solve everything.
But we just have to wait. We voted for the guy,
and we gotta have faith in the guys. That's the
way I look at it. I mean, like I said,

(17:03):
he runs again. He got my vote. I don't care
what anybody said.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Eddie, thank you very much for that call. Six one
seven two sixty six sixty eight sixty eight is the number. Okay.
President Trump delivers a very very important speech last night.
UH even his own administration is saying it's a landmark speech.
What he the themes he outlined yesterday. He wants the

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Republicans to run on and govern in twenty twenty six.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay. President Trump addresses the nation. UH
talks about the state of the country. He didn't just
talk about the economy. He talked about UH, prescription drugs.
How he's got trump RX coming in the in January

(17:53):
to help lower prescription drug costs. He says that healthcare
costs are gonna come down. He telling Republicans he's ordering
them repeal and replace Obamacare. I will sign that bill.
He also said they're going to push forth very aggressive
housing reform to drive down the costs of housing and

(18:16):
make it easier and more affordable for people to buy
and own a home. Obviously, he talked about the border,
his successes at sealing off the border, deportations, the threat
of drugs and fentanyl, and how much success they've had
in stopping that flow pouring into our nation. But much

(18:38):
of the discussion last night his speech, I would say
the meat and potatoes. The core of it was the
economy and the argument that he was making, and that
I do agree with him on, In fact, I agree
with them one thousand percent, is that the economy is
improving and it is clearly doing much better than under

(19:00):
I think to me on that there's no question inflation
is down, gas prices are lower, employment is up, and
the big tax cuts, including no tax on tips, no
tax on overtime, no tax on social security, don't even

(19:20):
take effect until twenty twenty six next year. So I'm
feeling good and more optimistic about the future. But that's
me I want to hear from you. Six one seven
two six six sixty eight sixty eight and it's the
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(19:46):
Marios Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Was President Trump's address
last night on the economy in your view? Was it
an accurate picture of how the country's doing better and
he's only going to continue to do better or was

(20:08):
it really just politics as usual? Like what Michael said
in his email, Politicians of either party, they quote unquote
cook the books. They go out and say, oh, look
at this jobs report, look at this inflation report, and
you're just getting You're just getting political spin that. As
Michael said, my life has not gotten better. It's been

(20:31):
the same under Trump. Some things are lower, other things
are higher, and in the end, I'm still struggling as
a middle class person. So I want to ask you
did you think his address was an accurate picture A.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Or B?

Speaker 1 (20:49):
It was just politics as usual? A accurate B. Politics.
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Janet in the great state of North Carolina. Thanks for
holding Janet, and.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
Welcome Hi, Jeff, Thank you so much for what you do.
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
Every morning we're just so I mean, I don't know
if you come on it five fifty nine or if
you come on it six oh one here in North Carolina,
but we are always every day.

Speaker 5 (21:57):
What I want to say, yeah, thank you Jackey, You're
so welcome. Oh my gosh. Obama has worked very hard
on transforming America for his how he did it for
eight years and his puppet Biden did it for four more.
The greatest thing Trump has accomplished is too so far
slow down Obama's goal, although he is still working to

(22:24):
destroy the United States of America. That's all I have
to say. A Merry Christmas, Jeff.

Speaker 1 (22:29):
Thank you, Merry Christmas, Janet, and all the best to
you and your family. Look, I think Janet is right
Obama and Biden, and really, let's be honest, Biden's presidency
was Obama's third term. The real puppet master was the
dear leader. Okay, Biden was just a pathetic frontman, Okay,

(22:49):
the demented, really the fool, the buffoon, and he was
just the front guy. He was the puppet and Obama
terms and that's what it was. Three terms of the
deliberate destruction of the United States of America. And it's

(23:10):
very easy to destroy, it is very hard to rebuild.
And if you look at the last eleven months just objectively,
you know, kind of like a year in review, really,
what did Trump do? He's just been undoing Obama's mess,
cleaning up Obama's mess. He's reversing everything Obama has done.

(23:33):
In a way, this is not a criticism, you have
no choice. But he's not really offense. He's playing defense
in the sense that he's trying to undo the damage
of his predecessor. It's not like he came in. You know,
you get you know, you pass the baton and you
inherit something and you got peace and prosperity and you

(23:54):
can build upon that. No, he's got to rebuild from
the ground floor. I mean, Obama blew everything. It's like
he took the foundations of a house, and he blew
it up in the name of fundamentally transforming the United
States quote unquote, he destroyed the border. He flooded our
country with twenty million illegals. You know, as Trump rightly

(24:17):
pointed out yesterday, he goes, you allow twenty to twenty
five million illegals, and then you give them money checks
so they can go and live in hotels and motels
and get rental apartments and live in house in homes.
What do you think that's going to do to the
rental market. It's gonna send rent soaring. What do you

(24:41):
think that's gonna do to inflation. You just imported twenty
million people and handed out checks like candy printing money.
It's all debt. Of course, inflation is gonna skyrocket. Of
course everything's gonna go through the roof. Of course crime
is going to explode. Of course, drugs are going to explode.

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So you know, as Trump said, look this, I inherited
a massive hole. I'm just digging out and digging out,
and digging out and digging out. I'm just trying to
remind all of you how bad it was the mess
that I inherited. So he listed how much hotels cost

(25:23):
skyrocketed under Biden. How much housing skyrocketed under Biden. How
much gas five freaking bucks a gallon, five bucks a gallon,
How much food went up, how much energy went up? Everything?
And how take home pay real wages kept going down

(25:44):
and down and down. He was crushing and destroying the
middle class on purpose. Never mind what he did abroad.
Obama basically gave Iran a nuclear way on a silver platter.
They had a nuclear weapons program, They were on the

(26:05):
verge of a breakout that the ball in Afghanistan, and
then they resettled all of these Islamic migrants, so called refugees.
We now find out many of them terrorists in our country.
So Trump is saying, look, you know, we're cutting off fentanyl.

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We're deporting people as fast as we can in the
face of massive resistance. I've stopped the invasion. I'll play
the cut where he says, remember Biden in the media
said you couldn't stop the invasion at the border. You
needed legislation. No, you just needed a president to had
the will. He goes, I'm giving you the biggest tax

(26:47):
cut in history. It can only kick in next year.
I just got elected this year. So when you pass something,
it's for next year. We're operating on last year's budget.
So Trump is basically saying like, please just give me
some time. I'm working my rear end off. But he goes,

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please remember where we were and look at where we
are now. And look, this is one of the great strengths.
But you know, the Irish have a great saying, every
great strength is a weakness, Every weakness is a strength.
If you're big and strong, you tend to be slow
and cumbersome. Right. If you're small, well, you're not maybe

(27:33):
a strong, but you're very quick and nimble and flexible.
So one of the great strengths of the American people
are character or national character. We're a very efficient people
because we're an impatient people. We want things now, so
we love to innovate. We're very dynamic. We have a

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consumer need or a desire, let's fill it. Come on now, now,
let's go. But that also makes us extremely impatient, and
that's what we don't have, that virsue of patients. That's
one of the things we don't have. But that's because
we're an innovative, dynamic people with very high expectations. So

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it's both a curse and a blessing. Right, that's every
strength is a weakness, every weakness is a strength. So
I think a lot of it is. Trump is not
a miracle worker. And look, I'm sorry he inherited a
much bigger mess in twenty twenty one than he did

(28:38):
in twenty seventeen. Well you're gonna say, but Jeff, there
were two terms of Obama. Yeah, but he had to
be careful. I mean, he did a lot of damage,
don't get me wrong, but he still had to be careful.
Under Biden, it was like Obama on steroids. And remember

(28:58):
Obama lost the House. Yes, he lost the House in
his first term, and then he lost the Senate in
his second term. So what I'm saying is, yeah, he
did tremendous damage, but the Republicans were able to block
a lot of Obama in his first two terms. Under Biden,

(29:22):
they had almost i mean no opposition whatsoever, at least
for the first two years. And even then, the Republicans
had a very small majority in the House and a weak,
feckless majority, so they had a lot more runway to
destroy our country. And that's when Obama really went to town.

(29:48):
So you know, look, I said this to my wife
over and over, and she can testify to this. When
Trump won on election night, I cried. I got the news.
I was sleeping in bed. It was about maybe what
two two thirty in the morning, I can't remember now.
But when they called it for him officially over, Kamala

(30:09):
and I cried. I literally cried, and I asked her
to slide down beside me and we prayed. I said, please,
let's pray to God. I want to thank him because
I believe he saved our country and I'm never going
to forget that. We were staring down the barrel of communism.
We were staring down the barrel I believe of the

(30:29):
end of the United States of America. We would never
have survived a fourth by sorry, a fourth Obama term.
I can tell you what Kamala wanted to do, if
you want, I can go through it step by step.
This woman is crazy. There would be no coming back.

(30:52):
Let's not forget that, and then the other thing, and
she can testify to this. I said, it's going to
take a generation to undo the damage of the Biden presidency.
If we're lucky a generation, that's ten years. I'm not

(31:14):
making that up. You know how heart it is to
deport twenty twenty five million illegals, Like, do you understand
how hard that is? Do you know how heart it
is to undo the kind of inflation that we had
under Biden? The kind of massive economic damage? Do you

(31:34):
know how heart it is to undo all of the
Islamic terrorists that he allowed to pour into our country?
This just to use let's say, Somalia, Look what you're
doing in Minnesota, all brought in by Biden, Maine, all
brought in by Biden. Now they're in North Dakota, for
God's sake, during Fargo. North Dakota they have a Somali

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Heritage Day. And I'm not picking on the Somalis. I
can go community after community after community, eighty to ninety
percent welfare rates, leeches, parasites, mooching off the system. Many
of them Islamists, Muslim fundamentalists like you know, Elon, some

(32:20):
people did something Omar, who hate our country to its
very core. These are fifth columnists that Biden deliberately allowed
to come in. You know, just snap your fingers and
it all goes away. So I'm not making excuses for Trump.

(32:45):
I'm just saying, look, i don't want to repeat myself.
It took Reagan two and a half years. Only by
the middle of nineteen eighty three did the economy really
begin to turn around under Reagan. Reagan got slaughtered in
the eighty two midterms, and he passed his program very
quickly first one hundred days, but it took about two

(33:08):
and a half years to undo the damage of the
Carter years. So what I'm saying is it takes time.
Now if we're, you know, in June of next year, July, August, September,
and it's still not working well, then we have to

(33:28):
do an assessment because something didn't go right. But you look,
all I can tell you is this is inflation going down. Yes,
our gas price is going down. Yes. Are the costs
of many things going down? Yes? Are is employment and jobs?

(33:51):
Are they going up, especially for Native born Americans? Yes,
our real wages rising. Yes. Is investment pouring in. Yes.
So I'm like, well, the trend lines are good. None

(34:12):
of the trend lines are bad. In fact, even the
deficit six hundred billion dollars lower under Trump six hundred billion.
Now that's a two trillion dollar deficit that he got
from Biden. But still that's in other words, are deficits
coming down? Yes, now it's a trend. I want it

(34:36):
to be a wave, but the trend lines are good,
so let's just keep going. So that's why, if you
want my honest opinion, I'm like, no, I'm optimistic. I
think he's got the secret sauce. And Mama is cooking
in the kitchen, you know, or grandma's cooking in the kitchen.

(34:59):
And the next year, we're gonna eat six one seven two, six, six,
sixty eight sixty eight, and we're gonna eat a good
CJ in Boston. Thanks for holding CJ, and welcome CJ.

(35:22):
Did we lose you? CJ? Are you there going? Once?
Going twice? Brian and Bill Rick, Thanks for holding Brian,
and welcome.

Speaker 2 (35:39):
Jeff.

Speaker 6 (35:39):
Good morning and Merry Christmas.

Speaker 1 (35:40):
My friend, Merry Christmas, Brian, all the best to you
and your family.

Speaker 7 (35:46):
Thank you, thanks for taking the call.

Speaker 6 (35:48):
Look, yeah, Rome was not built in a day, for sure, right,
but Jeff, I voted for a guy who told me
he could build Rome in a day.

Speaker 8 (35:58):
And now I'm here.

Speaker 7 (35:58):
In give me eighteen months, give me two years. Things
have not gotten any better for me. They've gotten slightly worse.
I would say, only because this past year is the
first time my boss only they could not afford a
pay raise. I also have an adult son that is

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self employed, so he gets his health insurance through the exchange.

Speaker 6 (36:27):
He takes the monthly tax credit. He's looking at a.

Speaker 7 (36:30):
Pay cut of about five to six hundred dollars a
month if he loses that tax credit. And because he's
a single parent, I'm going to have to step in
and help him out, which is gonna hurt me even more.
My biggest problem with President Trump is not that prices

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aren't coming down as quickly, is that he made us
a promise, and he made us a lot of other
promises too that he hasn't been able to keep.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
So it makes me.

Speaker 8 (37:01):
Doubt anything that he says right now.

Speaker 7 (37:04):
It makes me doubt if things are really going to
get better in eighteen months for me, or two years,
or if ever.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Again, Brian, if you don't mind me asking, and again
if I'm getting too personal, please tell me I won't
get offended. You said there were certain promises that he
made that he hasn't delivered on. Can you just do
you mind expounding on that? What specific promises do you
feel he betrayed and that has impacted or bothered you.

Speaker 8 (37:34):
Please go ahead, Ryan, voting prices on day one. If
I heard that once, I heard it a thousand times.
On other stuff is not as significant to me.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
But you know, the Epstein file, he made a promise
to do it and then he ran away from it,
which makes me doubt his motivations on that. The war
in Ukraine, that was another.

Speaker 4 (38:02):
One allusion for it.

Speaker 6 (38:06):
I just it's it's again those issues on it is
important to me, is the economic issues.

Speaker 4 (38:12):
But it's it's getting to a.

Speaker 6 (38:14):
Point now where I just doubt anything that the guy says.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Brian, you kind of broke up on us just a
little bit, so I just want to recap it. I
understand you're saying economics is number one for you. Of course,
it's your mean, it's your livelihood, it's your you know,
how you feed your family. But you're saying, look, he
said he was going to cut us loose from the
Ukraine War. He hasn't. He was going to stop all aid,
he hasn't. That he was going to release the Epstein files,

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and he fought it tooth and nail, So you feel
that he's light on those two fronts,