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Laura Coates Live

Trump Addresses Nation, Blames Biden For Economic Woes

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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President Donald Trump made a series of false claims during his prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday night, most of which have been debunked before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tonight, Trump plays the blame game, and, by the way, the spin game in front of the entire

0:07.1

nation. But what do Americans really think about all of it? Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is here to respond. Plus, five days, no suspect. Cops are still searching for the Brown University gunmen, and they're asking for help from the public even more.

0:22.6

But there are still questions mounting over all the things they still do not know five days in.

0:28.6

And there's new video captioning Rob Reiner's son just before his arrest,

0:32.6

as he makes his first court appearance who's being charged with the murder of both his parents.

0:37.8

All tonight on Laura Coates Live.

0:46.0

While President Trump is taking his case directly

0:48.5

to the American people at a time when his mega coalition

0:51.7

is showing significant cracks.

0:54.1

Also, voters increasingly frustrated,

0:56.2

and that's taking it easy with the economy. So how did he start his prime time national address

1:02.6

tonight? Well, looking backwards on defense. Good evening, America. 11 months ago, I inherited a mess, and I'm fixing it. When I took office,

1:15.1

inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused

1:21.7

prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans.

1:29.0

This happened during a Democrat administration, and it's when we first began hearing the word

1:35.1

affordability. It's been a dictionary for a very long time. But nearly a year into his second term and Trump spent several minutes

1:46.4

railing against the prior Biden administration on everything. And I mean everything from the

1:51.3

economy to the border. And he wanted you to know that if you had a problem with anything that

1:55.9

has happened, it wasn't him you should be mad at. Then came the victory lap.

2:02.6

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

2:08.3

Much of this success has been accomplished by tariffs.

2:13.0

My favorite word, tariffs.

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