President Donald Trump addressed economic stress at a White House press availability on Wednesday.

REPORTER: Is there any concern, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning? Could that be a good thing for Republicans? PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: you know what I really love? I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know I can say it now, something you didn’t know, you know we’ve been taking out millions of barrels of oil. Nobody knows it. You know who doesn’t know about it? Iran, until right now. We took out, the other night, 22 ships. Late at night, with no lights, because they don’t have any radar because we blasted the crap out of it. We took out – that’s why oil is $ 85 a barrel. I mean, you take a look. Remember, when I did this, I said, look, the one bad thing will be we hit the best economy we’ve ever hit. And I said to my people – I had Scott, I had Howard, I had Pete, I had all of them. I had Todd in the room. I said, the one thing we have to do now – we had just hit the highest stock market in history. Highest 401Ks in history. Everything was going well. And I said, I hate to do this to you guys, but Iran is going to have a nuclear weapon very soon. We have to go and attack. So, we hit them with the B-2 bombers.

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