Fox News host criticizes Donald Trump’s attempt to pin the struggling economy on Joe Biden
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From the November 14, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Five
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): The places with the highest rent -- Boston, New York City, and San Francisco -- it's because it's all of these young kids that have just graduated from college. They want to go to the city and find love and find a great job, and they can't because the migrants have the homes and the boomers are sitting on them and they won't let anybody build. That's the problem.
EMILY COMPAGNO (CO-HOST): Gillian?
GILLIAN TURNER (CO-HOST): Well, why doesn't the administration make that the messaging then? Because what we're getting is 'it's all Biden's fault,' and, to some degree, you can blame your predecessor, but we're coming up on a year. How long is that going to have currency for? You've got to own it at a certain point, and if that's what the underlying problem is, people should start saying that.
So far, we have the vice president, as you mentioned, Emily, was blaming the crisis -- the housing affordability crisis on illegal immigrants. You have the president saying essentially today, in his Truth Social post, that affordability is a scam, it doesn't even exist, it's a buzzword. It's actually people's, like, lived experience, and --
WATTERS: Well, they're also looking at Instagram every day and everybody's a billionaire. So, they need --
HAROLD FORD JR (CO-HOST): Everybody is not a billionaire.
WATTERS: -- realistic.
TURNER: I remember sitting in this chair, having --
WATTERS: They look like it when I go on Instagram.
TURNER: -- this conversation with you at this table, when the Biden campaign was telling people that things were a lot better than they thought they were. They were telling people that -- not to believe their wallets.
GREG GUTFELD (CO-HOST): What are the staples? Look at -- gas, eggs, butter.
TURNER: I just don't think that's good messaging.
FORD: Housing and electricity.
GUTFELD: Oh, definitely housing and electricity. Thank you, liberals. I'm talking about food.