""I can't say affordability is a hoax because I agree the prices were too high. So I can't go to call it a hoax because they'll misconstrue that," Trump said. "But they use the word affordability.And that's the only word they say. Affordability. And that's their only word. They say, 'Affordability.' And everyone says, 'Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.' No. Our prices are coming down tremendously from the highest prices in the history of our country.""
"The affordability message wasn't all denial. He suggested Americans could solve their financial woes by cutting back to "one or two pencils" and "two or three dolls " per kid. He issued a warning before fully veering off topic: "Again it's a thing called tariffs. I told you, I was about to say. You know, because I love the Weave. You know what the Weave is? You go here, ping, bing, bing. You always have to get back to the right location.""
Trump asserted that worries about Americans’ economic struggles are exaggerated, claiming prices are "coming down very substantially" and criticizing the focus on "affordability" as politically motivated. He acknowledged that prices had been too high but insisted they are falling from historic highs. He suggested families cope by buying fewer items, mentioning "one or two pencils" and "two or three dolls" per child. He raised tariffs and described a rhetorical approach he calls the "Weave," and he admitted that he had previously used the phrase "shithole countries" about Haiti and African nations.
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