It's Monday, May 5th, 2025 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the Gist. I'm Mike Peska.

Donald Trump was interviewed by Kristen Welker on Meet the Press Sunday.

And all the things that you would expect from an interview with Donald Trump.

It had the clear inaccuracies.

I have it down to $1.98 in many states right now.

When you go that much lower on energy, which is ahead of my prediction, because I really thought I could

get it down into the $2.50s. We have it down at $1.98 in numerous places. Cheapest gas in the country, I could find $219 at a dollar 98 in numerous places.

Cheapest gas in the country I could find 219 in the Texaco station in Mississippi, cheapest in Texas, 226 at a circle K outside of San Antonio.

I hope I don't cause a run on those particular gas stations, but if you go, tell them the gist sent you.

Trump and Welker also got into a ridiculous back and forth about dollies.

Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls.

And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally.

Are you saying that your tariffs will cause some prices to go up?

No, I think a tariff is going to be great for us because it's going to make us rich. But you said some dolls are going to cost more.

Isn't that an acknowledgement that some prices will go up?

I don't think a beautiful baby girl needs, that's 11 years old, needs to have 30 dolls.

I think they can have three dolls or four dolls. When you say they could

have three dollars instead of 30 dollars, are you saying Americans could see empty store shelves?

No, I'm no, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying they don't need to have 30 dollars. They can have

three. They don't need to have 250 pencils. They can have five.

And of course, the headlines that were generated from Trump being reflectively disputatious.

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