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Trump: ‘I Don’t Think About Americans’ Financial Situation’

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Issues, Washington, Politics, President, Campaign, Scarboro, Brezinski, News, Giest, Ms Now, Congress, Government, Election

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Trump: ‘I Don’t Think About Americans’ Financial Situation’

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0:00.0

Mr. President, to what extent are American's financial situations motivating you to make it feel?

0:08.0

Not even a little bit. The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.

0:14.0

I don't think about American's financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing.

0:20.0

We cannot let Iran

0:22.5

have a nuclear weapon. That's all. That's the only thing that motivated. I don't think about

0:28.7

Americans' financial situation. President Trump with that admission to a reporter yesterday,

0:34.3

the comment came as he was leaving the White House, headed for his big summit

0:38.9

with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. I mean, really, Willie, come on. Like, Democrats are now

0:49.2

going, wait, is he, is he a, is he saying that opening? For us? This is, this is the nightmare of the American Firsters who said, oh, we don't want to get involved in over. You know, worry about us here at home. And all of the people, Tulsi Gabbard, that said, he will never get you into wars. He will worry about you. He will never do this. He will worry about you. J.D. Vance, the same. you can go down the list of everybody. You can go down the list of all of the talkers that said the same thing.

1:14.1

And he, about you. J.D. Vance, the same. You can go down the list of everybody. You can go down the list of all of the talkers that said the same thing.

1:14.6

And he literally is saying, I'm not worried about you. I don't even think about you. I'm worried about an endless war.

1:23.7

Which, by the way, the New York Times and others followed, we haven't, as the CIA analyst told me

1:30.5

weeks ago, we're just, we're just like the numbers we're making up are just, they mean nothing.

1:38.6

Iran is locked and loaded still. Yeah, and has missiles that can reach the Strait of Hormuz if it wants,

1:44.4

so we're going to get into that reporting as well. But that clip we just played, that's clip

1:48.3

and save for Democrats throughout this campaign season. He's been showing that he doesn't care

1:53.4

about Americans' financial situations since the beginning of this war as gas prices and food prices

1:58.6

have risen. Now he's just saying it out loud. I actually

2:01.6

don't care. And I was thinking back, Joe, to like all those times where you had to interpret or

2:06.7

spin a president being out of touch, George H.W. Bush, misreading the grocery scanner or whatever.

2:12.3

And now you have a president just saying, I don't care about your financial situation.

2:17.4

And the financial

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