Impeach Pete Hegseth?

All right, guys, uh, we are five weeks out from election day, and the numbers that may end up being more predictive than any poll are these: $4.50 a gallon for gas, $6.50 for diesel, and consumer sentiment now at its second lowest level in history, lower even than the height of the pandemic or the 2008 financial crisis.

And it isn't just Democrats.

Republican consumer sentiment is now down 20% since January, which does raise questions about whether, uh, this kind of messaging from Donald Trump is moving the needle.

We have the best economy we've ever had.

I've reduced the prices, but they like to say affordability, but they're the ones that caused the affordability problem.

I don't have to know anything about you.

Your 401[k] has doubled in a short period of time.

It's doubled.

You're twice as wealthy as you were a short time ago, every one of you, and that's because of me.

Have a good time, everybody.

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[laughs] You're twice as wealthy, and that's 'cause of me.

Have a good time.

Mm-hmm.

That's it.

Yeah.

That's the closing argument.

Uh, so the White House is trying to, uh, limit the damage of what they've done in the last couple years with an assortment of gimmicks now.

Uh, Trump's reportedly still weighing an export ban on diesel, um, and in that appearance, uh, on Monday in the Oval, uh, that was an announcement that a Minnesota company will spend $15 billion to build a new steel plant in Iowa that could create 1,700 jobs when it opens in 2030.

You think that, you think that'll do it?

We'll have the midterms in 2030 maybe.

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I think it's a smart idea in the short term in Iowa.

I mean, I was talking to some- a friend in Iowa today who said, like, the Democratic reaction is, um...

Do you guys remember when Trump brought the CEO of Foxconn to the White House and announced they would open a plant for, like, 13, to make 13,000 new jobs in Wisconsin in 2017?