Say the word harmless and watch your own shelves shake.
0:04We're not [music] touching anything.
0:07That's your economy's mistake.
0:09>> Your mistake.
0:10>> Six months. Six months. You [music] said weeks. You said quick. You said done.
0:14You said Now let me read you something off your own sign. Not mine. Yours, the one outside in your own town in your own line. 585. Diesel all time record never been that high. [music] Not in 2008. Not in '22. Right now, this week. Under you.
0:30>> Under you.
0:30>> Gas broke four [music] bucks on a holiday weekend. First time that ever happened ever since the beginning. And I [music] want you to hear this part real clear. We didn't do a thing. We just stood here. Right here.
0:41>> Check your own [music] pump.
0:42>> Check it. Check your own shelves.
0:45>> Check it before you talk about breaking me.
0:47>> Breaking me.
0:48>> Go check yourself.
0:49>> Check yourself.
0:50>> Now walk inside. Past the pump. [music] Grab a cart. Coffee up 20 beef at a record. That's a start.
0:55>> That's a start.
0:55>> We beef at a record in [music] the country of the cow. How? How? Explain that to me now.
1:00>> How?
1:00>> And groceries jumped the most [music] in three years in a month. Half your people say their food bill is the thing they dread the most. The most. And every truck that moves that food to that shelf runs on the diesel that just broke itself.
1:10>> Broke itself.
1:11>> Trucks [music] cost up. Shelves cost up.
1:12Cart cost up. You're out. And they go on TV like they don't know what it's about.
1:16Your peeps be saying their goal number one is words, not mine. [music] Keep the oil and gas cheap. How's that going? Read the sign.
1:24>> Read it.
1:25Check your own pump. Check it.
1:28>> Check your own [music] shelves.
1:30>> Check it before you talk about breaking me.
1:32>> Breaking me.
1:33>> Go check yourself.
1:34>> Check yourself.
1:36>> Now let me be straight with you for 10 seconds.
1:39We're hurting, too. [music] Our prices went up 89%. Food went up more. Our money's [music] worth less than it's ever [singing] been. Kids in my city are eating on credit.
1:50I'm not going to [music] stand here and pretend we're fine.
1:55But here's the difference. And this is the whole song.
1:58>> We've been hungry before, [screaming] we know the recipe.
2:03You haven't, and you're already asking who's to blame.
2:07>> The blame.
2:10>> Two-thirds [music] of your own country said it wasn't worth the cost. That's not my number, that's your poll.
2:14>> You lost.
2:15>> You started a war and you hit the worst it's been [music] since 2001, and the interest on your debt now costs more than your guns.
2:20>> More than your >> Read that again, the interest costs more than the army. That's not a war you're fighting, that's a mortgage [music] on the army.
2:26Your vice president says >> I wouldn't call it a war.
2:28>> Your president says [music] >> Small potato.
2:30>> What's it for?
2:31>> What for?
2:31>> 18 families were like a word about the size of the potato.
2:34>> Go tell that to their eyes.
2:36>> Go tell them.
2:36>> You aimed it [music] at me, it curved, it came back, it hit, and you're still holding the thing and calling it a hit.
2:42>> A hit.
2:42>> A hit?
2:43>> Check [music] your own pot. Check it.
2:45>> Check your own shell.
2:47>> Check it.
2:47>> Before you talk about breaking me >> Breaking me.
2:50>> go check yourself. [music] >> Check yourself.
2:53>> Check your own pot.
2:55>> Check it.
2:55>> CHECK YOUR OWN POT.
2:58>> [music] >> YOU WENT to break a country >> A country.
3:00>> and you broke your own record instead.
3:02>> Your own.
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