‘Gobbledegook’: Trump Brutally Roasted Over Rambling Answer On How He Would Lower Prices If Elected

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Former President Donald Trump raised eyebrows over the weekend when asked by host Sharyl Attkisson on her syndicated program Full Measure for the “specific mechanics” of how he would bring down prices. Trump’s reply was later posted in full online by NBC News political reporter Sahil Kapur and it quickly received a bevy of criticism, including from former Foreign Policy magazine editor in chief David Rothkopf who called it “Gobbledegook.”

“Kamala Harris has been very short on specifics when it comes to economy other than saying she wants an opportunity economy. What are the specific mechanics of how prices come down? You know, the steps that would be taken in a second term for you?” asked Attkisson in the transcript shared by Kapur.

Trump replied, “So first of all, she can’t do an interview. She could never do this interview because you ask questions like give me a specific answer. She talks about her lawn when she was growing up. This woman is not equipped to be president.” He continued:

She’s not equipped to deal with President Xi – I took in hundreds of billions of dollars with him. And Putin, we had no war with Putin. Remember, and I’m just going to go off just for this. With Bush, they took a lot. Russia. With Biden, they’re trying to take everything. With Obama, they took a lot. With Trump, Russia took nothing. Just remember that. It’s a little, a little chart. But what happened, and when you look at what took place, was so sad.

When they took over, they cut the oil way down, and oil started going through the roof. It was going to go to $10 a gallon. It was going to go to numbers that nobody has ever seen. And so they went back to the Trump drilling. They said, let it go back. That was the only good thing. But they stopped, because I would be there, but four years later, I would be triple what the number was. Right now, they’re just about even where I was. But they only did that because of the fact that they eventually have an election coming up. And you remember at the beginning what happened? That’s one of the reasons that Putin went in, because it went to $100 a barrel instead of $40 a barrel. And he could fight all the wars he wants with those kind of numbers, because he’s a big seller of oil and gas.

So what happens is they went back to what I was doing, just to reopen. Just reopen. It wasn’t hard. It’s so crazy what they want to do. They’re going to destroy lives. They’re going to destroy – what they have done to this country, and especially in the sense of allowing millions and millions of people come in, because that’s something. You know, we can fix the gasoline situation, and we can fix the – anything.

Attkisson followed up, “Do prices come down magically, because it’s not them?”

“They come down with energy, and they come down with interest rates. We’re going to get, as I told you, we’re going to get energy down by 50% in 12 months. We’re going to have it. It’s going to be a major smash on energy. If you look at the energy for and I’m not just talking about cars, I’m talking about air conditioning, heating, your basic energy operating a bakery, operating any kind of a business, it’s all having to do with energy,” Trump replied, adding:

That was where they started wrong when they cut way back on what I did and again, just so you understand, they then let it go back to where it was, which he was a very smart thing. Otherwise you would have had, I think you would had a depression, if you want to know the truth. But energy was rising at a level that nobody had ever seen, and then they said, go back, go back.

They would tell people, go back to your wells. Go back to drilling, go back to fracking, do whatever you have to do. But if they win the day after, they’re going all the way. They were only doing that because of an election coming up. They’re going all the way. It’s madness, and what they’ve done to our country is mad.

Notably, domestic oil production has hit multiple all-time highs under President Joe Biden – including outpacing production during Trump’s time in office.

Below are some additional replies to Trump’s answer:

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