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Let’s Talk Affordability

Velshi

MS NOW, Ali Velshi

Politics, News, Versant Media, Weekend News, News Commentary, Ms Now, Ali Velshi, Versant, Government

4.7793 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi is joined by Michael Green of Simplify Asset Management, Thom Hartmann from ‘The Thom Hartmann Program,” former Gov. Roy Cooper (D-NC), MS NOW Contributor April Ryan, and Mary Trump from ‘Mary Trump Media’

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0:00.0

Good morning. It's Sunday, December 21st. If there's one takeaway from Donald Trump's

0:11.3

grumpy address to the nation on Wednesday, it's that his administration may finally be

0:15.7

catching on to America's mood on the state of the economy. A string of recent surveys have

0:20.5

shown that the public is continuing to sour on Trump's handling of the economy. A string of recent surveys have shown that the public

0:21.3

is continuing to sour on Trump's handling of the economy. According to a recent Associated Press

0:26.2

Nork poll, Trump's approval rating on the economy has slipped to 31%. That's the lowest it's been

0:32.0

across both of his presidencies. And rather than get on TV and assure Americans that he feels

0:37.2

their pain and is

0:38.0

working around the clock to try to fix it, Donald Trump interrupted the season finale of Survivor

0:42.6

to basically yell at America and insist that the economy is not that bad. You're just imagining it.

0:49.6

I am bringing those high prices down and bringing them down very fast.

0:55.2

Already, I've secured a record-breaking $18 trillion of investment into the United States,

1:01.7

which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings, and far greater national security.

1:08.7

The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was down 33% compared to the Biden

1:14.3

last year. The price of eggs is down 82% since March and everything else is falling rapidly.

1:21.9

Prices on electricity and everything else will fall dramatically. Our country is ready to fail.

1:27.7

Totally failed.

1:28.9

Now, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.

1:34.8

Yeah, take that.

1:37.3

There's a lot of lies in there, but don't let him gaslight you.

1:40.9

The cost of living is actually not going down.

1:43.0

It's going up across the country.

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