The Adam Mockler Show - Trump Goon STEPS IN IT... Instant REGRET!

Episode Date: May 28, 2026

Click below for premium Adam Mockler content 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@adammockler/join 👉 https://adammockler.com/subscribe Adam Mockler breaks down Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s chaotic press conference after new economic data showed inflation rising, savings collapsing, and Americans falling further behind financially during Trump’s escalating Iran conflict. As the administration reportedly prepares for a possible $250 Trump bill while threatening allies abroad and insisting the economy is strong, critics say the White House increasingly appears disconnected from the realities facing ordinary Americans. JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdamMockler/ Discord: https://discord.gg/y9yzMU3Gff Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adammockler/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adammockler.com/ Twitter: https://x.com/adammocklerr/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@adammockler Contact: [e-mail] Business inquiries: [e-mail] Adam Mockler - Mockler Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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On screen now, you see the United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. You've likely seen this man before, as he is one of the principal economic advisors to the president. He helps give the president feedback on economic policy, and he leads the Treasury Department. Scott Bessent gave a press conference today because, you know, the economy's in the gutter. they need to spin, and Caroline Levitt is currently pregnant, or she's about to have her baby, or maybe she might have had the baby, I don't know yet, but Scott Besant is currently giving this presser, and Lord Have Mercy, it perfectly encapsulates why we are in such an economic catastrophe at this very moment. The President of the United States does not have any reality

tests around him, no walls to push back and tell him when terrified ideas are bad, when federal reserve. Bullying is bad, when inflation is bad. He's sitting there with no actual gauge on reality. He's not the one that's experiencing health care costs increasing, grocery costs increasing, gas prices increasing due to the failing Iran war that is now on month three when they said it would be four weeks long. So Scott Besson comes out and he's actually asked about the Iran deal. He's asked about a lot of this. And then he ends up saying at the very end, no more questions. He's so overwhelmed with the catastrophe that he says, no more questions. So we're going to break all of this down. If you appreciate the atomography, make sure you drop a like.

Let me just start with this photo that's going quite viral. This is Scott Besson holding up a proposition for a $250 Trump bill. Now there is a law that says sitting presidents, or sorry, living presidents and sitting presidents cannot be on currency in this manner. So they're trying to change the law for Donald This is what Congress, this is what our lawmakers are focusing on on the Republican side, not reigning in his war powers or his tariff powers, not helping the economy, but creating a $250 Trump bill and changing the law so they can do so. Even Peter Ducey from Fox News asks about this. It's disgusting. How long until we see your signature next to President Trump's face on a $250 bill?

Well, again, as Treasury Secretary, I have two mandates for U.S. currency. At present, no living person can be on U.S. currency and the currency must stay in God we trust. So right now there is proposed legislation in front of the House and front of the Senate to change the first requirement so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on a $250 bill. So it's all in the hands of the, it's all up on Capitol Hill. Look at our politicians. Look at United States politicians. We are plagued with problems right now regarding health care prices, the prices of insulin in almost all states.

We are plagued with a war that we can't rain in right now. There are about a hundred better things that I could think of Congress doing. Why don't we ban Congress's ability to trade stocks? Why don't we ban the president's ability to trade stocks? Why don't we add guardrails onto our government or to money in politics? Nope, nope, nope. That would actually change things for once. Let's just add Donald Trump's face to a $250 bill.

Caitlin Collins of CNN then begins to press Scott Bessent even further on this exact points and the economic point of it all. Very well done. Watch. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. I had two questions for you. But just to follow what you said about the 250. Well, you'd call me doctors, you only get one.

I'll shoot for two. You said that it's up to Congress. The President's face is on a $250 bill, but it is actually the Washington Post that's reported two political appointees from the Treasury Department who have asked agencies to be ready to do that. Do you think politically it's a good idea to put his face on a $250 bill when people are struggling

to afford gas in the streets? I don't really understand this Washington Post article that who hears from the Post? Yep. Terribly written, terribly edited. Because basically what it says is that Treasury is following the law and that we've created the bill and that it's up to Congress, but that we followed the bill and it's up to, I didn't really understand what the story was.

So, anyway. Are you involved in that two of your political appointees? Yeah, of course, but we prepare for everything if it gets passed. Just like we were ready six months in advance for the one big beautiful bill for tax guidance. Kaelin is making a really good point here. They're already allocating resources and personnel towards getting ready the $250,000, bill before Congress has even passed this law. So that shows where their priorities lie. Donald Trump is allocating resources towards the UFC building, the ballroom, the pool, the

reflecting pool, all of his side personal projects, like putting his name or his face on the currency, his name on the buildings, and yet people are struggling. We actually got some bad economic data earlier today that we're going to dig into later in the video. We're going to go deep into some policy and some econ later in the video just talking about the data that we got today about PCE inflation and then Bessing gets pressed on it. But to continue, Caitlin Collins keeps pushing. So we have to prepare in advance. You can't draw something up the day before. Politically, do you think it's a good idea that when people are struggling to afford gas and groceries? Look, I think it has, I think that it's bifurcated that do you think we should have a 250th anniversary

the celebration? Well, that's happening anyway, but putting the president's face on a No, no, no, but Caitlin, it's not happening anyway. It's happening because it's being funded by private citizens, by the federal government, by state governments, by municipal governments, to celebrate our country. And I don't think that there's anything untoward about having the President of the United States, the person who was President of the United States on the 250th anniversary bill. You don't think there's anything untoward about it? It's illegal.

There's nothing untoward about it. you guys are changing the laws to do it at a time when Trump is enriching himself at the expense of the American people. It's getting to a point where Trump's enrichment is like zero-sum, meaning every single dollar that he gains in the stock market via crypto, via corrupt deals, is a dollar that is taken directly out of the pocket of the American people. It's like a zero-sum corruption scheme that is screwing over all Americans, so Trump can make 3,000 trades in the course of six months, make $200 million off of that, $3 billion, $4 billion off of cryptocurrency, and then cut deals with countries and give them chips if they invest in his personal companies.

It's absurd. I might make a video all about Trump's corruption later today. Subscribe if you want to see that, but to continue. Scott Besant then just tells a flat out lie. This is just such an offensive lie to tell. He says President Trump is the only one that's been able to get Iran to come to the table and talk about their nuclear program. Dog, the entire reason we're in this mess is because Donald Trump scrapped the JCPOA that Obama created.

We cannot let them rewrite reality like this. It's the most infuriating part. ...orish uranium and that they can't have a nuclear program. And to be clear here that this administration, President Trump has done something that no other administration is able to do. We have gotten the Iranians to talk about their nuclear program and to perhaps commit to not having one. They literally... That has never happened before. That literally is exactly what happened 10 years ago, almost to the date.

Scott Bessent then begins to get pressed on the PCE inflation numbers that came out today that were rather brutal. Now, PCE stands for personal consumption expenditures, and it's the government's favorite, most broad measurement of how much prices are rising across the economy. It's not just like one specific sector or one specific input. but it's a giant tracker for what Americans are paying for everyday life. So groceries, rent, gas, health care, flights, all of it combined into one tracker. And people care about this because the Federal Reserve uses this number

when deciding interest rates in the health of the economy. So earlier today, Heather Long says, according to her, Justin, PCE inflation in the United States jumped to 3.8% in April, the highest in three years since May of 2020. 23 like after COVID. Core PCE rose to 3.3% the highest since fall of 2020. This is where we're kind of getting into some numbers. We're getting a little bit wonky here, but it's necessary. The monthly gains were a tad smaller than expected, but that's little comfort on Main Street where people are facing the highest inflation in three years and have their wage gains wiped out by said

inflation. Then she shows, Heather Long says, this is stunning. Personal savings rate, April of 2025, which is one year ago was 5.5%. The personal savings rate in April of 2026 is 2.6%. That is a stunning, sharp plunge in the amount of savings Americans have. It underscores how squeezed Americans are right now with higher prices and incomes not keeping up with those higher prices. So people's savings are being cooked. At the same time, when inflation continues to rise, it's all correlated to really tighten Americans. then says, yikes. You can see how Americans are getting squeezed financially right now. Personal incomes in the U.S. fell in April after adjusting for taxes. The savings rate fell to 2.6% in April. So incomes, savings are falling while inflation is rising. All right, back to Scott Besson. How is he answering for this?

There's new government data that shows that Americans are now saving a smaller share of their incomes than at any time over the past four years. Are you seeing signs? that American households are dipping into their savings to pay for the higher cost of things like gas and groceries. And does data like that concern you right now? So a low academic literature would tell you lower savings rate can mean one of two things. The kind of the Dumer view that you took

or that people have more competence, or it could be something else because, for instance, stock market gains or 401K gains might not show up in savings. So they're looking at that. think that they can draw down their household savings. This is the most out-of-touch thing I have ever heard. Everything is up right now in price. Healthcare is skyrocketing.

Flights are skyrocketing. Groceries, rent, gas, housing, all of it is skyrocketing. And Scott Besant thinks people have extra funds to put in the stock market, and the stock market gains is actually why they have no savings. No, it's because people's savings are being eaten by the inflation caused by this war. To continue, Scott Besant then begins to have to answer questions about Iran, and it does not go well for him. It goes even worse for him. He gets asked about Donald Trump saying yesterday that we might have to strike Oman, that Oman might have to watch out. People were like, wait, why is he

threatening one of our allies? It's actually helping mediate negotiations. Why are we threatening everybody now? Scott Besson gets asked about this. President Trump said, Oman will behave just like everybody else where we will have to blow them up. Are you guys back there in the West Wing making plans for a new war with Oman? Again, I think the president wanted to punctuate freedom of navigation in the street. I had a call with the Omani ambassador this morning, and he assured me that there were no plans for tolling the strait. As he said, our countries have had 200 years of good relations. He wants to have another 200 more.

And I told him that this was a non-starter, and he did not want to risk either the Oman. Yeah, all of the countries that I want to have good relations with, I threatened to bomb rather than just calling them. Why would you publicly threaten to bomb Oman and then admit that we've had 200 years of good relations? You can just send a phone call to countries like Oman in the same way that we could have called South Korea who were allies with, but instead Trump put insane tariffs on them and threatened them to hell, even though we didn't really have any. tariffs in the first place on them. So this is just deranged BS. Scott Besant is running cover for Donald Trump

as Trump threatens war with Oman because Trump could not get Iran to open the strait by threatening to destroy their civilization. What part of the art of war by Sun Tzu says when you're humiliated on the global stage just continue to threaten to blow shit up and maybe it'll go your way?

Because it hasn't worked for Trump thus far. Thank you, Mr. Secretary. Is it in the U.S. interest to waive some sanctions on Iran or to unfree some of their assets before Iran has made concrete promises about getting rid of their nuclear program. Again, I'm not going to preview the deal, but I would think that the things would go very slowly in terms of that. So, you know, we'll see. Just to follow up on that, because it's our understanding that the U.S. has to continue.

on that because it's our understanding that the U.S. has committed to discussing the matter of sanctions relief during this negotiation period. So just to be clear, is sanctions relief for Iran on the table? Again, it is a multifaceted agreement, and nothing is going to be on the table until we see the Strait of Remus open, and the Iranians agree that they have to turn over the highly enriched uranium and that they can't have a nuclear program. This is painful to listen to. And to be clear. You don't know the reality of the situation. The memorandum of understanding that got updated today

essentially has the United States removing our forces, which is good. It's good to tone down the war. But then the straight opens, which is also good. And then we begin the nuclear negotiations for a 60-day ceasefire. The problem with this is, the main problem. I mean, it's a good thing. But the main problem is this is exactly where we were three months.

ago. On February 27th, the day before we launched the war, the straight was open, we were negotiating on nukes, and we were pushing forward and trying to create this type of deal. Instead, we got a war, and then we're going back to square one. It's disgusting. Let's watch Scott Besson shut down the final question after getting pressed by reporter after reporter after reporter. Is it accurate that the general counsel of the Treasury Department resigned over that? I will not be taking any other questions. I will not be taking any other questions.

Wow, the real show of masculinity from the Trump battle. I will not be taking any other question, says Scott Besson. I'm going to leave it there. If you appreciate these videos, drop a blue heart in the comment section below. And peace out.