This Might Be Scott Bessent’s Dumbest Take Yet... And That’s Saying Something

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Trump’s Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hit Maria Bartiromo’s show and delivered maybe the most ridiculous excuse yet for high beef prices:
In this episode:

• The bizarre, fact-free claim Bessent made on live television
• Why this isn’t “spin,” it’s pure improv — and terrible economic messaging
• How Maria Bartiromo clearly knew it was nonsense… and still let it slide
• Why voters deserve serious answers on inflation, not Oregon Trail fan fiction
• The growing clown-show problem inside Trump’s economic team

If this is the level of competence running the messaging shop… no wonder Americans feel gaslit.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Oh my lord, it looks like our Secretary of the Treasury,
Scott Bessett. Not only is he a farmer, but he's
a cowboy too. Remember that a few weeks ago was
talking about soybeans and he's arm a soybean farmer. Sure
you are man, you own farmland that you lease out
to farmers. Okay, you're not right, or you know a

(00:37):
bloody tractor out there, my friend. But anyway, my jaw dropped.
Yesterday he was on He was on Maria Bartoromo's program
on Sunday morning, and he was asked a question Maria
put on. Somebody actually had like a clip from somebody

(00:58):
from Omaha Steaks talking about the high price of meat,
and Scott Vessett, and I'm going to paraphrase here said
that beef prices are high. I'm not making this up.
Beef prices are high because immigrants from South America are

(01:19):
bringing their cattle with them as they come here and
they are infected with diseases. Who knew? Who knew? I
am Scott Vessons, he's a cow expert. Now and wait

(01:39):
a second, So illegal immigrants are coming from South They're
coming all the way down from South America and they're
bringing their cows. What is this the bloody Oregon Trail?
Are you kidne me?

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Scott?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Dude, If you don't know what the hell you're talking about,
shut up. That was one of the most ridiculous things
thinking of that movie. Billy Madison. Okay, we are all
dumber based upon Scott, based upon your interview yesterday. We

(02:19):
are all dumber from watching that interview. That's how bad
that was. It's you or Kevin Hassett at any given
point in time. You guys are killing brain cells with
the interviews that you're giving. They're nonsensical. I was gonna
compare it to, you know, the old John Lovett's character

(02:42):
from Saturday Night Live there the pathological liar. Yeah, yeah,
that's the ticket, remember that character. Anyway, I'm dating myself.
I guess neither here nor there. It's not even that.
It's nonsense. You went on National TV. All due respect, Maria,

(03:03):
come on, would you call him out on this? You
saw it in her faces, like this guy is full
of it right now. You could see it, but she
kind of just gave a little nod. Would you come on,
do your job, call out bs when you hear it.
Illegals are now importing cow diseases with their cows that

(03:26):
they're bringing into the country. Who knew? Watchdog on Wall
Street dot Com