MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace ripped President Donald Trump and his Cabinet officials over their failure to address the country’s affordability crisis.
“All the marble and all the gold in the world cannot plaster over the fact that the American people, by and large, are furious at Donald Trump over his failure to tackle their No. 1 issue: the rising cost of everything,” Wallace said Tuesday on “Deadline: White House.”
During an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump had dismissively called the issue a “con job by the Democrats.”
“Rising prices isn’t a con job cooked up by Democrats,” Wallace responded. She noted the increased costs of grocery staples, such as beef and coffee, and added: “Trump has never, ever, ever, had a grasp of any of the facts, but particularly those around the cost of things for normal people, or even the realities of the way normal Americans live.”
She said the ignorance about everyday struggles doesn’t end with the president. On Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeated Trump’s “con job” claims on “Morning Joe,” contending that the administration “inherited an affordability crisis.”
Wallace said Trump and his Cabinet are “wildly out of touch” and are “trying and failing to gaslight the American people on the cost of living.”
The MSNBC host added: “Trump and his crew of uber-wealthy Cabinet officials and billionaire tech bros keep telling us and showing us that they couldn’t give a rat’s behind that the American people are screaming at the top of their lungs about their economic anxiety. They make clear over and over and over again that they don’t care.”
You can watch Wallace’s full commentary in the clip at the top of the page.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
