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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Trump learns to say 'affordability,' but doesn't seem to grasp its meaning

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki looks at Donald Trump's callous disregard for Americans who are struggling to cover living costs while he learns that "affordability" is an important political buzzword but all of his policies only make things more expensive.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Because the Trump administration is hell-bent on preventing critical food assistance from reaching the American people, because the Trump administration is just as close and as cruel as they were before the Republican Party took a beating in elections across the country.

0:15.0

Late tonight, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to immediately pause a federal judge's ruling that required the administration to fully fund SNAP food assistance for the month of November.

0:26.0

Now, the administration, this just happened in the last few hours, asked the Supreme Court to intervene by 9.30 p.m. Eastern time tonight.

0:33.4

That's about 28 minutes from now.

0:35.3

We're going to be watching the docket all hour.

0:37.4

We're going to update you as soon as we learn anything, if we learn anything, and that would be telling as well, and we'll talk about that too. But in the meantime, a lot has happened this week, not just the Lincoln bathroom redo, as I mentioned with Chris, but I wanted to start our show tonight with two truths and a lie. I'm going to tell you about three news items.

0:54.7

And you try to guess which one of them is a lie. And if you already know all these stories,

0:58.4

don't tell your spouse or your friend sitting on the couch with you or whoever you may be

1:01.5

watching this show with right now. Let them make their own guesses. Okay, so here's the first one.

1:07.0

Trump branded wine is now being sold tax-free at government-run stores.

1:12.1

Okay, that's one of them.

1:13.9

And number two, Trump's biggest political donor, the world's richest man, you may have heard of him, Elon Musk, is now on track to become the world's first trillionaire.

1:24.0

And finally, number three, this year's Walmart Thanksgiving meal is cheaper because of how much more affordable things have become under Trump's presidency.

1:32.3

Okay.

1:33.3

Take your guests, share with your neighbor, talk to your friend on the couch.

1:37.3

Now, if you guess Trump wine, unfortunately, that is in fact real.

1:41.3

Trump wine is now being sold at Coast Guard run military stores tax-free.

1:45.5

Nothing sketchy about that at all. If you guessed Elon Musk, unfortunately, that too is also real.

1:52.7

Despite Tesla's plunging sales, market share in profits, and the general toxicity of Musk's personal

1:58.7

brand these days, Tesla's shareholders voted yesterday to give Musk a

2:02.9

trillion dollars worth of stock over the next decade, which brings me to the lie.

2:09.9

Mr. President, since you brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal, and it is cheaper, but it also

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