Republicans tried to go to bat for President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he said he doesn’t think about Americans’ “financial situations” as a factor in talks to end his unpopular Iran war.
“Did he say that?” asked Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) when confronted with the president’s remarks by MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez in a clip reposted on his X account.
“I don’t have a comment about that mostly because I think he actually does care,” continued the senator before chuckling and walking away.
Less than two hours earlier, the president put his disregard for Americans on display in comments that critics say are a gold nugget for Democrats as they campaign for the midterm elections.
Trump told reporters outside the White House that Americans’ finances weren’t playing “even a little bit” of a role for him in the negotiations before naming what he claimed to be the “only thing that matters”: that Iran “can’t have a nuclear weapon.”
