.@LesterHoltNBC: “…back in July you said inflation was going to be temporary. I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is.”

President Biden: “You’re being a wise guy with me a little bit.” pic.twitter.com/acWhRDhLPn

— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) February 11, 2022

BUCK: Notice how Joe Biden gets surly when he’s asked a very straightforward question here, which is, “What’s your definition of ‘temporary’?” He said it was temporary, inflation would be temporary.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: So, Lester Holt is asking, not… This is not an aggressive question. We know what an aggressive question sounds like ’cause we had Donald Trump as president for four years and the press was basically like, “Why are you murdering everyone?” And he asked a very straightforward question. “You’re being a wise guy here.” And you sit there, Clay, you have to ask yourself, “I wouldn’t want this guy to be in charge of my car dealership, and yet he’s president of the United States.”

CLAY: I agree completely with that, and we were just talking about the age, but I also think wisdom has not come with age for Joe Biden because virtually every choice that he’s making, the Bidas Touch is a disaster. And the question is a good one, not only for Joe Biden, but he keeps talking about all these experts who tell him that inflation is gonna get better.

To be fair, every time inflation goes up, what are the headlines, Buck? “Experts Surprised That Inflation Exceeds Their Expectations.” If you’re wrong every single month many times in a row as the economists have been as it pertains to inflation — and also in predicting that inflation might become an issue when we were spending trillions of dollars like crazy — shouldn’t you adjust your examinations and not be surprised?

If, every day the mailman came and he punched me in the face, the first time he punched me in the face I’d be like, “Man. I didn’t expect to get punched by the mailman when I went out to go get my mail.” But, if he punched me in the face one day, and then the next day I showed up and he punched me in the face again, which is what inflation basically —

BUCK: You guys have aggressive mailmen in Tennessee, I gotta say.

CLAY: Yeah, I’m just saying. At some point if something that you don’t expect keeps happening, you should be adjusting your expectations. So, go back and look at every time these inflation results come out; all of the experts are surprised. Well, when do you say, “You know what? Maybe inflation’s a real deal. Maybe we should expect it as opposed to being surprised by it every time.”

BUCK: The only class of experts in American society that I think might still make the epidemiologist-Fauci-CDC apparatus look good by comparison are, quote, “mainstream economists.” They get it wrong every time.

CLAY: They get everything wrong.

BUCK: Everything wrong.

CLAY: Everything.

BUCK: All the time. Well, because they say what they think they need to say, generally, to get on TV and to get a profile going. But economists can’t predict squat.