Bernadette Keogh

And he's promising there's going to be more money in people's pockets.

And there are some really significant points within there.

So he's talking about that price of gasoline, that petrol price, well under $3.

He says he wants to drive it down to $1.99.

And he was highly political.

He was speaking about the Democrats quite a bit, blaming them for what he was talking about was an inflation disaster.

So, again, he's running over all these tariffs in the hope that those opinion polls could change and the polls that matter, as politicians always say, is the one where people go into that polling booth.

And what do you think the American public will make of what they heard in this speech?

You know, it's really difficult to say because President Trump uses these words and exactly these words in other contexts.

So, for instance, when he was talking about people from overseas coming from insane asylums, from hospitals and from prisons, that, for example, was very, very closely echoing what he wrote on Truth Social off the back of the death of Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old National Guard from West Virginia who was shot up the road from where I'm talking to you from today.

now so an awful lot of the words will be very familiar to americans whether or not that translates into the modern era of people turning on their television or their smart devices and listening to every word of the president who knows now this was his last public commitment before christmas where will he and the first lady be celebrating

Traditionally, at this time of year, he does go to Mar-a-Lago in Florida.

He spends an awful lot of time there.

Now, although I don't have his exact schedule here, the reason he does that is he gets gatherings of people that he's very close to.

And certainly, Melania is supposedly not really a big fan of all the building work at the White House.

Walking past it, as I have the privilege to do, is that east wing is being worked upon.

You can hear that clattering, not just down Pennsylvania Avenue, which is often shut off to allow trucks down there.

but anything I imagine for peace and quiet from politics as well as the physical noise in the White House.

Sean Dilley in Washington.

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