Stephen A. Smith Points Out Humiliating Reality to Trump

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President Donald Trump has been fact-checked with the humiliating reality of his massive electoral loss in a new interview. Trump, 80, sat down with sports journalist and…

President Donald Trump has been fact-checked with the humiliating reality of his massive electoral loss in a new interview.

Trump, 80, sat down with sports journalist and political commentator Stephen A. Smith for the latest episode of his podcast Straight Shooter, released on Thursday.

Smith asked Trump about Republicans’ disastrous midterm elections loss, noting several times that it had occurred despite the president repeatedly telling his supporters to vote as if he were on the ballot. Smith even corrected Trump when he bragged about his popularity.

Barely one minute into the interview, Smith asked Trump directly, “What happened?”

Launching into a lengthy diatribe, Trump said, “I wasn’t on the ballot and if you look at the numbers that I had just a short time before, they were a record.”

Trump went on to concede that “maybe”the war in Iran “was not unpopular as a war, but unpopular because of the fact that the gasoline prices were higher, oil prices,” adding, “I actually thought that that was something that people would be able to handle pretty well.”

“To the voter I think gas prices went up and that seemed to be I think the biggest impact,” the billionaire added.

Later in the interview, Trump said he was “disappointed” in voters over the public backlash to rising fuel prices, which hovered around $3.91 per gallon on Thursday, according to AAA Fuel Prices. That is about $1 more than the day before the war began.

“I don’t think it was the war, as much as what the war did, lifted up gasoline prices,” Trump said. “I’m disappointed in people because I really think it’s a very small... it’s really a very small thing to pay to get rid of a country... that would absolutely in my opinion use nuclear weapons on us.”

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