<p>President Donald Trump was ready to rumble when he crossed paths with reporters on Tuesday afternoon, calling out several directly over what he considered to be stupid questions.</p>
<p>In one instance, Trump responded to a question about the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report — which showed an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-rises-to-highest-level-in-three-years">uptick</a> in inflation largely driven by higher energy costs — and pushed back immediately on the suggestion that his policies might be causing it.</p>
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<p>&#8220;You promised to bring inflation down. It&#8217;s now at its highest level in three years. Are your policies not working? What&#8217;s happening?&#8221; the reporter asked (3:45 mark).</p>
<p>&#8220;If you go back to just before the war, for the last three months, inflation was at 1.7%,&#8221; Trump pushed back, arguing that his policies had been working well before the launch of Operation Epic Fury — and that the cost of the war was what was reflected in the latest reports. That cost, he insisted, was worth it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Now, we had a choice. Let these lunatics have a nuclear weapon. If you want to do that, then you&#8217;re a stupid person, and you happen to be, I mean, I know you very well,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Anybody that wants them to have a nuclear weapon is a stupid person.&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump went on to say that he expects to see oil prices drop — and inflation along with it — when the war with Iran is over.</p>
<p>Another reporter <a href="https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/2054262466582851800">challenged the president</a> about the projected cost of the White House ballroom currently under construction, asking how he accounted for the fact that the cost had increased dramatically.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have a ballroom that&#8217;s under budget, it&#8217;s going up right here,&#8221; Trump said, pointing across the White House lawn. &#8220;I&#8217;ve doubled the size of it because we need that, and we&#8217;re right now on budget, under budget, and ahead of schedule.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The price has doubled!&#8221; one reporter exclaimed.</p>
<p>&#8220;I doubled the size of it, you dumb person!&#8221; he shot back. &#8220;I doubled the size. You are NOT a smart person.&#8221;</p>
<p>He went on to explain that he had decided to double the size in part because of things that had happened &#8220;in the last year,&#8221; likely a vague reference to at least one of the three assassination attempts against him.</p>
<p>Trump was leaving the White House on Tuesday to head to China for several days of meetings with President Xi Jinping.</p>

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