Newsmax's Michael Savage: “The American worker right now is hurting badly. ... Prices are too high, inflation is too high, jobs are not here for the people who work for them, and they're being shafted primarily in the tech industry.”
Savage: “When do you think Trump was last in a supermarket? ... This administration is now almost 100% tone-deaf to what's actually going on down on the elbow-thrashing level of reality.”
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From the November 23, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Savage Nation
MICHAEL SAVAGE (HOST): I think the American worker right now is hurting badly. I think the economy is in the [BLEEP] no matter what the Trump administration might want to be selling or telling us.
You know, you can't tell people what they're supposed to be experiencing. Maybe they don't know what's going on. I remember that when Bush was president a long time ago, they put him through a supermarket toward the end of his administration to show that he's a regular guy. And they showed Bush Junior checking out of a supermarket. He said, oh, golly gee, look at that. Look at that. It actually scans things. He had never been in a supermarket before.
When do you think Trump was last in a supermarket? See, if I were his advisor, I'd have him go to a supermarket, not just give meals to people in McDonald's. I'd like to see him actually go in and see what people are experiencing.
So I'm trying to tell you that unless the Trump administration straightens out where they're heading right now, they're going to lose the midterms in a landslide. Now, having said that, I don't want it to happen. I'm the strongest anti-communist you're ever going to find. My father fled communism. I know what communism does. Ask anyone who fled a communist country what's coming here unless we stand up to the communist front in this country, like Mamdani and occasional cortex and the others? OK, so we have a real job to do here. And really, I'm just trying to help steer the ship of state in the right direction. They're not listening, of course. I'm not in the in-crowd, as I was in the first administration.
This administration is packed with Democrats and packed with people who are undermining Trump, as far as I can tell. Maybe not overtly. One of them — even the Treasury secretary came from George Soros. Do I have to say anymore? So why would he hire a Treasury secretary who worked for George Soros? Well, you could say, well, the man is competent. He knows what he's doing, he's nonpartisan and he's a good money manager. I would say, OK, that makes sense. But if he worked for Soros, Mr. Bessent, which he did for years, I would say it has somewhat shaped his outlook on life if he already didn't agree with Soros. That's number two. And then you have Susie Wiles, who is his chief of staff, who is an individual who ran the governor of — Desantis' campaign for years, I believe. I think that's the background. And she's very competent and she's running the White House right now. Is she doing a good job? Well, to some extent, yes. What would the alternative be?
You say, well, you're bashing Trump day and night. Why don't you stop? I understand where you're coming from, but I have to tell you something. It doesn't mean I have to agree with every one of his policies. Moreover, I'm terrified that Democrats could win the midterms and then the presidency. I'll tell you as I sit here, that's what I see coming. I believe that the last election — and don't fool yourself and tell me it was four blue states and it doesn't matter. You're the only one left on Earth who actually believes that lie. It was the magnitude of the losses that matter, not the losses per se. It was the magnitude of the losses.
And so this administration is now almost 100% tone-deaf to what's actually going on down on the elbow-thrashing level of reality, as the Chinese put it in the old days. Anyone could be a saint, the Chinese poets used to say. In their privacy, in their own home, sitting at home, they act like they're noble beings. But you know, the test of a human being is down on the elbow-thrashing level of reality. And I will tell you, on the elbow-thrashing level of your humanity, where the average American lives, the prices are too high, inflation is too high, jobs are not here for the people who work for them, and they're being shafted primarily in the tech industry by Chinese and by Indians. Period. End of story.