During a press conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, Donald Trump addressed questions regarding the current economic situation in the U.S.

He criticized the Biden-Harris administration, stating that their policies have resulted in significantly higher prices for basic necessities, including food. Trump emphasized that people are “voting with their stomachs.”

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“People are voting with their stomachs, meaning they’re going to the grocery store, they’re paying 50, 60, 70 percent more on food than they did just a couple years ago,” Trump remarked.

He also pointed out that during his presidency, gas prices were below $2 per gallon, whereas now they have risen to $5 per gallon or more. According to Trump, the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce gasoline prices have only had temporary effects.

Trump criticized the administration’s decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in an effort to lower gas prices, arguing that it has depleted U.S. energy reserves. “We’ve never had it this low,” Trump said, referring to the current reserve levels. “He’s using that to keep the gasoline prices as low as possible. He’s sucked all of the oil out, essentially the gasoline, to keep the price down a little bit, and it’s had very little impact.”

He further stated, “You know, that’s meant for wars, it’s meant for like, tragedy. It’s not meant to keep a gasoline price down so that somebody can vote for Biden, or in this case, Kamala, who by the way is worse than Biden.”

At the start of his remarks, Trump warned, “We have a lot of bad things coming up, you could end up in a depression of the 1929 variety, which would be a devastating thing.”