audio version of the segment here > It's almost like the Democrats don't want the country to succeed
Jay Weber Show transcript 12-19-25
The November inflation number was released yesterday -mid-show- and so I mentioned it and moved on-because we only had the raw number.
It showed that-yet again-the so-called ‘economic experts’ were wrong, and it showed- yet again- that 2026 is likely to be a very strong year for this country, economically, and it showed-yet again- that the democrats and their media accomplices who are -by god-determined to pin all of their 2026 electoral hopes on an ‘affordability lie’ are going to have a very difficult time doing so.
It wasn’t until I was off the air that I saw how the circus clowns over on CNN and MS-nuts were treating this very strong CPI report: they were downright furious. Beside themselves. That we have yet another core economic measure that shows this economy is improving and the so-called ‘cost of living’ is dropping. That’s a combination of prices either dropping or at least…only slowly rising…against a backdrop of higher wages and more spending power.
Joe Scarborough and his little minions ‘on-set’ were genuinely agitated. PO’d. That president trump and his team have another positive economic indicator to use…with which to prove their relentlessly negative narrative is wrong.
Over at CNN-Listen to this: over at CNN, they brought in a professor of economics at Harvard…who almost apologized to the hosts for not being able to find a way to poop on this CPI report:.....
That might be my favorite soundbite of the week. The subtext is: sorry, Katrina, I know you asked me to come to the studio and crap on these numbers so we could trash Trump for a few minutes…but…. ah…i can’t spin it that way.
The president’s top economic advisor, Kevin Hassett, was asked to pop onto Stuart Varney’s show on Fox business…and couldn’t contain his excitement. More importantly than that, he walked the audience thru ‘how it is’ that all these government measures are turning out to be better than expected: because trump’s team-really has- done the heavy lifting to put new policies in place….and get back to supply side economics.
The democrats have spent weeks focusing on the price of three things. Three items at the grocery store: the cost of beef, coffee, and bananas.
And they have because market disruptions on the ‘supply and demand’ part of this equation have driven up the prices of those three things to noticeable levels. Out of all the items in the grocery store- industry challenges in the beef, coffee, and banana industry have led to eye-popping price increases.
Okay, so that’s what the highly dishonest democrats want to focus on. But I’ve been saying…check out egg prices, bakery, most dairy, most fruit and vegetables…etc. All those categories are lower in price than they were under Biden. Sometimes not by much-but lower.
You can play the ‘grocery game’ all day, but when you look at the figures that the commerce department put out yesterday…you see real improvement here. Real improvement- on the cost of living.
Compared to when trump took office grocery prices- by and large- are either staying the same or lowering slightly.It might not be the sort of magical progress that all sorts of Americans expected after Biden left office-but it’s progress.
Mortgage rates are down 12 percent since trump retook office. Down to about 6.2 percent not. And it is likely to fall further in the year.
I’ve been saying-since September-’this is an improving economy’. I’ve been saying since November ‘2026 is poised to be a very strong year, based on just about every economic measure you can point to.’
And so, I’m glad to hear other people with higher profiles start to say it. Newt Gingrich was on Sean Hannity’s show Wednesday evening after the president’s speech and said this.
NEWT GINGRICH: Well, look, I think that we're going to see a choice in 2026 between a Trump boom and the Democrats gloom. Literally that wide. I think the president is right. I'm a disciple of Art Laffer, I believe in supply side economics. You look at the trillions of dollars the president has brought in, in investment. You look at the trillions he's sold of American products. You look at the impact of the tariffs. You look at the impact of the One Big Beautiful Bill and all the tax changes. I would be shocked if we did not have a roaring economy by July of next year. And I think that's going to wash away an amazing amount of the news media's effort to, frankly, talk badly about America.
Gingrich also agrees with me that that speech was finally. Finally. The sort of message that trump and republicans need to have…and hammer on…over the next year.
I think that Gingrich and i were ‘getting it right’ yesterday, as all these other ‘pundit putz’s’ were working overtime to ignore the-content- of the president’s speech and try to find silly criticisms related to his presentation.
The democrats might be starting to understand that they are losing this ‘affordability’ gambit, rather than winning it.
I read a few ‘dc insider’ suggestions that this is the speech that Suzie wiles finally, finally, finally…convinced trump to make.
She has wanted focused, 20- minute speeches read off a teleprompter instead of Trump this rhetorical weaving and turning and ‘drifting’ that he does. Stop interjecting things. Knocking yourself off track: deliver a powerful and clear message.
Trump did. Everyone inside the white house was pleased. And the democrat’s over-the-top and silly reactions prove that they are the ones who were scared as they heard that speech….it wasn’t trump who was scared when he was delivering it.
He, JD, the entire Trump team, and every republican in congress now needs to take these talking points and these facts and figures…and go out and hammer on them for the next nine months.
The hard stuff is largely done. Now Trump and republicans need to make sure they message the improvements as they occur.
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