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Trump says 'I love the inflation,' claims US taking millions of barrels of Iranian oil

President Donald Trump welcomed new inflation data showing prices rising 4.2%, saying the numbers were "great." He argued higher energy costs linked to the Iran conflict were temporary and claimed US forces were moving millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.

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00:00President, about the latest inflation number, which came out this morning, could that be a
00:04No, I love it. The numbers were great. You know what I really love? I love the inflation. You
00:09know why? Because as soon as this war is over, you know, I can say it now. Something you didn't
00:15know. Do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who
00:21doesn't know about it? Iran, until right now. We took out the other night 22 ships. Late at night,
00:29with no lights, because they don't have any radar, because we blasted the crap out of it.
00:34We took out, that's why oil is $85 a barrel. I mean, you take a look. Remember when I did
00:40this,
00:41I said, look, the one bad thing will be we hit the best economy we've ever hit. And I said
00:47to my
00:47people, I had Scott, I had Howard, I had Pete, I had all of them. I had Todd in the
00:53room. I said,
00:54the one thing we have to do now. We had just hit the highest stock market in history. Highest 401ks
01:01days in history.
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