President Donald J. Trump welcomes members of the press to the State Dining Room Monday, January 14, 2019, with food from Domino’s, McDonald’s, Wendy’s and Burger King. Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)
"The View" needled President Donald Trump about a rambling speech at a McDonald's event this week in which he told franchise owners, "There’s never been a time like this."
Indeed, the Los Angeles Times reported over the weekend that prices have risen so high at fast food landmark McDonald's under Trump's leadership that "traffic from one of its core customer bases, low-income households, has dropped by double digits."
“We are looking at affordability," Trump promised in his remarks. "We are going to bring it down for everybody because not everybody understands the fact that a great stock market is great for everybody."
"The word is affordable," Trump continued. "And affordable should be our word, not theirs, because the Democrats got up and said ‘affordability, affordability’ and they don’t say that they had the worst inflation in history, the highest energy prices in history, everything was the worst. What they are great at is lying."
Republicans lost in the off-year election earlier in November, where voters indicated the economy was a problem for them. Since then, Trump was mocked for discovering the word "affordability" after first denying that there is an affordability crisis, the Associated Press reported over the weekend. He maintained in his speech that grocery prices were coming down.
After playing the clip of Trump's speech, the co-hosts of "The View" laughed as Joy Behar quipped, "Thank you, grandpa."
"Everyone who has been to the grocery store knows this isn't true," she continued.
Behar also pointed to a Fox News clip in which the network had an expert suggesting they don't need to buy presents for everyone this holiday season.
"See, that's how great Trump's economy is. His own mouthpieces are telling you to stiffen, nana," she continued.
"I'm nana," Behar lamented. "I need slippers, okay?"
"So what happened to prices going down on day one?" she asked the panel of co-hosts.