Jon Decker recaps President Trump's address to the nation

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Last night. If you missed the president's speech, I thought,
all in all, it was pretty optimistic. He touted the
economy for sure. Let's listen just a little bit here,
some of.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
That here at home. We're bringing our economy back from
the brink of ruin to last administration and their allies
in Congress looted our treasury for trillions of dollars, 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.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Yep, there were a lot of facts he ran down too.
For a little bit of a recap on this. John Decker,
our White House correspondent, John, good morning, Welcome in.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Hey there, how are you doing. JT. Good to be
with you today.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Fantastic, fantastic. So yeah, he blamed a lot of the
bad issues on Biden. I inherit it. We can't just
flip the switch and all of a sudden boom, we're
back to normal. But he did tell the fact that
we've been working hard and things are going to be
better at twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Right, And that's what people obviously want to hear, and
that's what everyone hopes for. Who wouldn't hope for that.
I'm certainly hopeful for that. And what I've said before,
and I think it's true, is that you know, whether
it's President Trump or any other president, or any politician
for that matter, you can say a lot of things,

(01:13):
but it's how you feel. You know, how do you
feel when your economic situation? You're reminded of it every week,
you go to the grocery store, you fill up your
gas tank. And so the President's speech last night was fine,
but I think for most Americans, they just want to
see a situation where they don't have so much anxiety

(01:35):
about their economic situation. And hopefully the President has said this,
the Treasury Secretary has said this, Kevin Hassett, the President's
chief economic advisor, has said this. They believe that the
economy will rebound very strongly. In twenty twenty six, you.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Know, he ran on border security and crime and cleaning
up the illegal immigration that Joe Biden had, you know,
with his open border policy, and we were infiltrated, we
were invaded basically. With so much of that and the
war on drugs, I mean, he's been doing that very well,
and he has the approval ratings according to Fox Newspaul

(02:13):
recently fifty one percent approval rating when it comes to
border security. But then you look at the economy part
of it, as you mentioned, and that's where everybody I
think over many administrations, and it seems every administration, the
biggest concern for people when it comes to it is
the wallet and how I am doing in my own
home and what can we do or not do because

(02:34):
of where the economy is. And like you said, every
economist I've spoken with over the last eleven months has said, look,
the president knows what he's doing here. The tariffs are
going to be a bit of a hurdle to jump over,
and it's going to be painful for everybody initially, but
long term it's going to bounce back. So I thought
the overall messaging last night was good. I thought he

(02:54):
needed to do that going into the holidays, because you're right,
so many people are concerned about this, and we shall
see if the fruit will bear as much as he
wants it to and predicts it will coming up first
of the year. But I got to tell you the messaging,
a lot of people say, if Trump would just do
that a little bit better, and how he says it
to folks and really touch on the exact points as

(03:15):
opposed to dancing around with eight hundred percent increase and
growth in this price or that price. Your thoughts on
the messaging last night relative to everything.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Else, Well, you mentioned border security, and the president should
take a victory lap on the issue of border security.
He made some promises campaigning for president, and he's achieved
all of those goals, all of those promises. But you know,
the American public fickle. You know, you meet a goal
and then, you know, I think the public is like, okay,

(03:44):
check mark, let me check that box. Now, what are
you going to do about the economy? So the president
doesn't get a lot of credit for that, and I
think he should. You know, you look where our border
security was a year ago and where it is today.
Tremendous progress. It's just focusing on the economy. It's pretty basic.
It's pretty easy, but it's easier said than done. And

(04:06):
we'll get some information today, by the way, JT. The
latest information in terms of where the inflation picture is
when we get another piece of data coming from the
federal government.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
All right, very good, John, Thank you so much, buddy.
I appreciate you