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Though President Donald Trump hosts press gaggles and greetings through all hours of the day and night, the president usually reserves his solo prime-time speeches from the White House for developments in national security or world warring. The last time Trump beckoned the press with as much pomp and circumstance as he did Wednesday night was over the summer, when he announced that Operation Midnight Hammer dropped 14 unprecedented bunker busters on the heart of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability.

Trump’s December address wasn’t about achieving peace in the Middle East, but it was about tackling the only issue arguably harder to solve and more important to the public: the cost of living.

LOW HOUSING SUPPLY REMAINS TRUMP’S BIGGEST OBSTACLE TO WINNING VOTERS’ ECONOMIC APPROVAL

Couched within a litany of his second-term accomplishments, Trump conceded that although former President Joe Biden created the worst inflationary crisis the country had suffered in 40 years, Trump has inherited the responsibility. And the fact is that voters remain upset with the hangover of Bidenomics. The same 9 in 10 people........

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