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BREAKING: Fox News henchman Peter Doocy brutally confronts Donald Trump to his face for destroying the economy with his disastrous tariffs — while Elon Musk lurks in shame nearby.

What was supposed to be a Tesla sales pitch quickly devolved into a humiliating mess…

“President Trump, you’re buying a new car while there are some folks who will see this clip at home and they are struggling with their retirement accounts down at the moment, uncertainty about work ahead…” said Doocy.

“Well, I think they’re gonna do great. I think we’re, uh, our country had to do this. We had to go and do this,” said Trump. “They’ve taken away… Other countries have taken away our business. They’ve taken away our jobs.”

“Uh, I did it, uh, initially very strongly against — as you know China and some others in the first term — and it was a very successful term,” continued Trump. “We had no inflation.”

“We had the greatest economy in the history of our country and then we had COVID which we had to straighten out,” said Trump, conveniently eliding the fact that he botched the pandemic response.

The confrontation came during a PR event at the White House during which Trump touted his decision to buy a Tesla, a pathetic and transparent effort to boost the plummeting stock of his oligarch puppetmaster’s flagship company.

Elon Musk himself was present for the proceedings, wearing the trademark sunglasses that many have speculated are meant to hide his alleged ketamine abuse.

At another point during the tacky car salesman routine, Trump was confronted by a different reporter—

“Mr. President you mentioned the ups and downs in the stock market. You said it’ll go up, it’ll go down but do you and your tariff policies right now bear any responsibility for the turmoil we’re seeing this week?” asked a reporter.

“No, I think that uh… Biden gave us a horrible economy,” lied Trump. “He gave us horrible inflation and I think the, uh, market was gonna go very, very bad.”

The truth, of course, is that we are hurtling towards a recession because Trump decided to hit Canada and Mexico with punishing tariffs for no discernible reason beyond exciting his xenophobic base.

“Uh, if anything I have a lot of very smart people, friends of mine, and great businessman, they’re now investing because of what I’m doing,” Trump claimed. “Because long term what I’m doing is making our country strong again.”

“Financially strong. Militarily strong,” he continued. “And strong — and we want to get away — remember this, we have wars — when I left we had no wars. We didn’t have Ukraine and Russia. We didn’t have October 7th. We didn’t have that disaster that took place with the withdrawal from Afghanistan and you look at what’s happened there.”

Outside of the lie-riddled and inane remarks Trump spewed, the event itself was an utter disgrace. Using the White House to sell cars for a billionaire crony is a new low for the American presidency.