“You have gasoline that hit $1.98 yesterday in a couple of states. You have gas lanes way down. The price of oil has dropped substantially. The prices of groceries are substantially down.
“You know, when I came in, they hit me with eggs. I just got there. I was here for one week and they started screaming at me, eggs have gone through the roof. And there was screaming at me, the press. The fake news like you, you’re fake. And the fake news is screaming at me, like, about eggs. I said, I’ve only been here, this is my seventh day.
“They said, you won’t have eggs for Easter, which is coming up, Happy Easter, everybody. You want eggs for Easter. And we did an unbelievable job and now eggs are all over the place and the price went down 92%.” – Trump, after telling a reporter that she’s “not being truthful” about prices.
REPORTER: “How long can Americans expect economic pain to last?”
TRUMP: “They’ve already seen it get much better because if you were truthful (which you’re not) the price of gas and eggs have gone down…and they were screaming at me, the press, the fake news, like you, you’re… pic.twitter.com/NFa2v5QVLk
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