Meanwhile, you're one of your favorite people.
Lawrence Jones is live in Sturgis.
Lawrence, take it away. You have some people that have
some questions for you.
I love that. Mr. President,
how you doing? Mr. President,
we're live from Sturgis. Say hello to the the,
the
so so the people have some questions for you.
Mr. President, I want to bring in Brett.
He was talking about he he has his daughter,
his grandchildren now living with him.
And he says you're concerned about the economy.
What is your question for the former president?
So, Mr. President, I appreciate you giving our time
here. One of the big concerns is what are you
going to do about bringing down the rent and things
like that in the economy?
Because out of eight children that I'm a father and
a stepfather to,
five of them are struggling and I'm giving them part
of my income on a regular basis.
How are you going to make the economy
not just just the, you know,
the food and and electricity,
but bring down the, you know,
the rent prices, the housing prices so that these kids
can survive
and without their parents help?
Such a good question, Mr.
President. You're right. I hear it very well.
And I, I tell you,
first of all, I, I love the people that you're
with.
I know that I must have at least
99, perhaps 100% of all of them.
And I think they're incredible.
We are going to drill,
baby drill. We're going to bring down the cost of
energy.
Energy is what caused the worst inflation,
I think in the history of our country.
Food prices are up 50%,
sometimes more. You look at bacon.
Bacon is quadrupled. You can't order bacon.
You can't order anything. We're living horribly.
We have the worst inflation we probably ever had in
our country,
and it started because of energy.
We're going to drill, baby,
drill, and then we're going to have China and all
of these countries that were treating us good.
When I was there toward that,
I mean by that it took me a long time
to get them to behave properly.
All of these countries are going to,
again, stop. Like four years ago,
I could ask you, you were in great shape.
You had low energy costs,
you had low food costs.
Everything was good. You could buy a house.
You had low interest rates,
2% interest rates. You had gasoline at
$1.87, now it's $5. And by the way,
going up and going up very substantially,
but you had gasoline at
$1.87 a gallon. Nobody talks about that anymore.
Nobody even can believe it's going to happen.
It's going to happen again.
We've got to get the energy prices down and everything
else is going to be tumbling down with at the
prices because what Biden has done to the
economy is so horrible and what he's done to inflation
in our country is just very distressed.
Mr. President. Mr. Perfect said the way I
it's the perfect transition, Mr.
President, because I met Linda at the airport yesterday and
when I talked to her and I said what is
the number one concern?
She's concerned about Kamala Harris and her energy policy.
What is your question for the former president,
Mr. President? What can we do to achieve a permanent
long term energy solution to keep US energy independent?
Such a great question, Mr.
President Russian. It's such an important question.
And look, we're run by people that are not smart
people,
OK, not smart people. We have more liquid gold,
you've heard me say this a million times
under our feet than any other country.
Russia, Saudi Arabia, you can add them all up.
We have more than anybody.
We were energy independent four years ago.
And now we're we're begging Venezuela for oil.
Venezuela, they don't even have oil.
They have a tar. You have to take tar and
you have to refine it.
It's terrible process. We have the best,
the most beautiful, the best,
highest quality oil under our feet.
Texas and numerous other places.
We have the best stuff.
We don't use it because Biden does.
He talks about the environment.
You know, it's amazing. They talk about the environment and
yet we refined the Venezuelan tar,
OK, we refined it and it goes up into our
air.
It's done in Houston, the only plant that can do
it.
We are going to bring the energy cost down.
Everything else is going to be tumbling and we we
don't need energy from any other country.
We have and we have to fill up the strategic
reserves again.
That's down. It's the lowest number it's ever been.
He's using the strategic reserves,
which is meant for military,
which is meant for war and very important things.
He's using it to try and keep gasoline prices down.
And we can't allow that to happen.
We have to fill up the strategic.
I was filling that up at levels that they've never
seen before.
We have to fill up the strategic reserves immediately.
We can't let people use that to fill a car.
We will have the energy prices to a point where
they're as low or lower than they were four years
ago.
But remember, I had you down to
$1.87 a gallon and that was beautiful.
They were good times. Thank you,
Mr. President, It was a good time.
I drive drive a big truck,
so I remember that. Got one last question for a
lot of folks here talking about Social Security,
and this gentleman has a question on that point.
Yeah, Mr. President, a lot of seniors,
their only income is Social Security.
Last year they had adjustable income of
1.2%. Meanwhile, inflation was probably 7%
or higher. How about making it mandatory,
whatever inflation is that, that would be the income for
the Social Security instead of this
1.2% Pathetic, pathetic adjustment. Mr.
President, I got it. It's a great question.
We, we can do a lot of things to help
the people.
People in Social Security are being killed.
And one of the things I'm doing is no tax
for seniors on Social Security.
And I'll get it done quickly.
No tax for seniors on Social Security.
And for all your waiters and waitresses and everybody else
out there,
drivers, we're not going to have any tax on tips.
No tax on tips. Remember that.
No tax on tips, but we're going to have no,
no tax for seniors on Social Security.
And they are ruining, they're going to destroy Social Security
because millions of people are coming on to our country
and they're putting them on Social Security.
They're putting them on Medicare,
they're putting them all of our things.
They're destroying it. You will.
They are destroying Social Security.
We're going to make. And remember,
I was there for four years.
I didn't raise the age they wanted to raise the
age they wanted lots of things.
I said no way. We left Social Security the way
it was.
Well, now we're doing no tax for seniors.
You deserve that. We have plenty of other things.
We have, I told you about liquid gold.
We have more than anybody else.
We don't have to do that.
We don't have to hurt people on Social Security.
So we are going to do no tax on for
seniors and Social Security and also no tax on tips
for the waiters that are standing right next to you.
So, Mr. President, I'm going to send it back to
the couch.
But the people here are going to kill me if
I don't ask you.
They want to know, will President Trump be at the
next Sturgis right here to be with the people.
Are you ready? I love Sturgis,
I love it. I love
it. And I love that state.
And that state we win by so much.
The answer is absolutely yes,
I will be there.
Absolutely yes. Thank you, Mr.
President, thank you. Thank you to the couch.
That is exactly what they wanted to hear.
Lawrence and Sturgis, very nicely done.
And Mr. President, thank you very much for taking 1/2
an hour to chat with us today.