Megyn Kelly: American people want Trump to focus on affordability, inflation, and health care, “but he's doing something that's going to worsen all of those problems”
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Megyn Kelly: American people want Trump to focus on affordability, inflation, and health care, "but he's doing something that's going to worsen all of those problems"
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From the April 13, 2026, edition on SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
BRANDON WEICHERT (GUEST): Even if it's a temporary blip, how supply chains work is it will have — I mean, just remember the supply chain disruptions in COVID. You know, when we ultimately reopened, those supply chain disruptions, higher prices, higher inflation rates were with us for years after we reopened in 2020 from the COVID shutdown. So this notion that, oh yeah, it'll be a temporary blip, it is -- even if the price of energy came down, those knock on second and third order effects are still going to be rippling through the entire economy for months and possibly years to come. So we're talking about now entering into recessionary, you know, recessionary — recession possibly coming in the fall.
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MEGYN KELLY (HOST):The bottom line is in all of the polls, all of the polls show what the American people want is for the president to focus on affordability.
WEICHERT: That's right.
KELLY: On their wallets, doing something about the inflation, doing something about health care, doing something about the enormous costs that they're facing. And not only is he not, but he's doing something that's going to worsen all of those problems.