Speaker 1: And now for a moment of clarity.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump is desperately trying and failing to divert attention
away from the economic blowback sparked by his war of
choice with Iran. Right now, Trump is moments away from
holding a roundtable event in Las Vegas. He wants you
to forget about sky high gas prices and an uptick
in inflation. Instead, he's touting his limited note tax on
tips policy, which sunsets, goes away, disappears, stops ends before
he leaves office. When Trump departed the White House today,
he told reporters gas prices are quote not very high.
Reality check. The national average for a regular gallon of
gas stands at four dollars and nine cents a gallon.
That's more than a dollar higher than before the war,
and voters are yeah feeling it. A new Ipsos poll
shows that twenty four percent of American say the cost
and benefits of Trump's war are worth it. For nearly
seven weeks now, Trump has failed to effectively explain why
America is at war, and yet he seems more focused
on a petty, one sided feud with Pope. A public
is spat if you will. That's dividing just parts of
Maga and the country. But after days of taunting the
Pope for daring to criticize the war, Trump now claims
there's no feud at all.
Speaker 3: I'm not fighting with him. I have a right to
disagree with The Pope can say what he wants, and
I want him to say what he wants. But I
can disagree. If the Pope would allow ran to have
a nuclear weapon, you can't do that. I have nothing
against the Pope. His brother's Maga all the way, like
his brother Lewis.
Speaker 2: It's like the Holy Spirit found him. Michael. I don't
know what spirit that was, but that wasn't holy because
half of that was a lot of gobble. I mean,
you know, ending it with you know, the president's brothers Maga,
I mean, what does that mean? First off, you know,
the Pope has never said he wants a ron to
have a weapon of mass destruction like nuclear weapons. What
he said is he wants peace. And Donald Trump claiming
that the Pope can say whatever, were clearly not because
it seemed to really get under your skin when he
said something that you didn't agree with. So which is it?
And like everything that we've seen Jackie. This president is
all over the map. There is no effective way for
him to have the kind of conversation about anything because
from one moment to the next, we don't know where
he stands.
Speaker 1: That's right, I mean, you had this White House, you
had the President take the rare step of deciding to
delete a tweet after there was so much blowback that
figures on the religious right even came out and criticized him,
and then in the very next breath, doubling down on
why he decided to compare himself to Jesus. Pete Hegseth
taking to the podium today to again compare the president
to Jesus and compare reporters to the Pharisees jd Vance,
challenging the Pope as well, telling him to be better
versed in what he was talking about, to stay out
of politics. So obviously a ton of mixed messaging coming
from the White House. But at the end of the day,
all of these people speaking to the audience of One
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