Trump: We Were Number One When I Left; Biden’s Problems Are All ‘Self-Inflicted Stuff’

RUSH EXCERPT:

TRUMP: “Well, I went and took a test. As dr. Ronnie Jackson, who is a great guy, now a congressman, and they love him in Texas – he said “he aced it.” I don’t think he ever saw anyone a sit. I immediately said, because they started passing the false narrative – “I think I will know when the time is coming. Maybe, you will too when your time is coming.” No, I aced it. I thought it was very important, because they started to put out “did he say this?” What I turned out to say was all right. We made a lot of great decisions decisions. When you watch the press conference, I don’t want to be the one to say “but that’s not a normal situation going on here” they were mostly very soft questions. Peter asked a good one. A little tougher than they anticipated, but that was a very soft press conference. Most of it was not really questions. They were just giving statements, sort of saying how wonderful things are, but things are not wonderful for our country. Our country is in a terrible way, in a position I don’t think we’ve ever been in. If nobody is respecting our country anymore. It is a day and night from what we had. We were spectre. I don’t want to say we were feared, but we were respected, at a minimum. I tell you what, they knew we weren’t playing games. None of these things would’ve happened. He wouldn’t have had inflation, Ukraine problems with Russia. It was all working out. Everything was fine. I got along well with them. They understood me, I understood them. You were going to have big problems with many things. This is all self-inflicted stuff. If you look at energy, I think the biggest component of what has happened, with respect to inflation, is energy. We did not need anybody. We were exporting energy, making a fortune. We were going to be double the size of Russia and China, double their size. We were number one when I left, and adding in a year that we would be bigger than both of them combined. That’s something nobody ever thought would have been possible. Instead, we gave up the mantle. We looked like a bunch of very sad.”