Trump Goes on Rant About Staying ‘Very Liquid’ When Fox Reporter Confronts Him Over Judge’s SNAP-Food Stamps Order

President Donald Trump went on a lengthy rant when Fox News Senior White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich confronted him over a judge’s ruling on SNAP benefits, including the suggestion that the US can’t pay because it needs to stay “very liquid” in case of war or other “catastrophe.”

News broke Thursday that Federal District Court Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits in full by Friday, which the administration is appealing.

Hours later, at a photo op with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, Heinrich confronted Trump about the ruling and the appeal, and their impact on Americans.

Trump first tossed to Vice President JD Vance, who spent several minutes hammering the theme of “the Democrat shutdown.”

But then Trump picked up the ball and riffed for several more minutes, including the liquidity chunk and a false claim about Walmart:

FOX NEWS SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT JACQUI HEINRICH: A federal judge said tonight that the administration has to fully fund SNAP. It’s the latest in the back and forth, and the Justice Department said they’re going to appeal it. What’s your message to folks as they work this out in the courts and in Congress as we’re heading into Thanksgiving?

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Do you want to go with it?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Yeah, look Jacqui, it’s an absurd ruling because you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do.

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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: And you know, one other thing, our country has to remain very liquid because problems, catastrophes, wars, could be anything. We have to remain liquid.

We can’t give everything away based on a number.

Here’s an example. When I was president, the number that you’re talking about was a tiny fraction of what it is now. Biden went totally crazy, gave it to anybody that would ask, gave it to people that were able-bodied, had no problem.

Anybody who would ask would get the number. And it’s many times the number of people around.

This wasn’t meant for that. It was meant for people that had real problems, in many cases people that were down and out, people that could be saved.

It wasn’t for people who could do whatever they want, the people that say, Well, I don’t think I’ll work. I’ll just, you know, collect this money.

Take a look at the number of what it was during my administration and what it was during the Biden administration. It went up many, many times my first term.

One other thing, a number came out today that was amazing. Walmart. I trust Walmart. Arkansas. Great place, Arkansas. A great company, Walmart. They announced today with, after many years, they do this every year for many years that thanksgiving For the United States of America, under Donald Trump as president, is 25 percent less for Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden’s administration.

So we talk about affordability. I think that’s the best chart. That’s better than a poll. That’s a better than anything I can think of.

So Walmart, which everybody trusts, and I trust, and everybody trusts Walmart, they’re not looking to do anything except give the numbers. And they have for many years, they talk about the cost of Thanksgiving and the cost of living through Thanksgiving and enjoying Thanksgiving.

For Joe Biden, it was 25 percent more than it is for me at a later time.

Watch above via The White House.