White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped the media over its reporting on affordability under the Trump administration during a bilateral meeting between President Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (Saul Loeb//AFP via Getty Images)
Trump shot back: "I talked about it. When did I not want to talk about it? I talk about it all the time. We are much better than Biden and all of them now."
Trump called out to Leavitt amid his response, with her arriving at the meeting shortly after.
"They said, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about affordability.' The reason I don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows that it's far less expensive under Trump than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden," Trump said. "And the prices are way down."
Leavitt arrived to the meeting and promptly launched a takedown on the media for their coverage of the economy.
"It's very unfortunate that the reporters in this room refused to address, sir, what you just said, which is that you inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history, and you are fixing it in 10 short months," Leavitt said. "And your entire administration has been tasked with this effort, from Treasury Department to Agriculture Department to the National Economic Council right here at the White House, they are slashing regulation. He signed the largest middle class tax cut in six months. In six months, in record time. Putting more money back into the American people's pockets."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes a question from a reporter during the daily press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on Nov. 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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Orban's meeting at the White House comes as he calls on the U.S. to grant Hungary an exemption on U.S. sanctions placed on Russia in October as negotiations with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine slowed.
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