The Hard Truth About Trump's Economy | Guests: Rylie Barnes & Riley Beesley | 9/18/26

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The Glenn Beck Radio Program, we're glad you're here. I've got good news to share with you. Really good news. Everybody is really down in the mouth, and you feel it at the gas pump. You do feel it at the gas pump. But the gas pump is misleading you to see bad everywhere. The numbers are pretty staggering that are just coming out. I'm gonna give you those here in just a second. First, let me tell you about relief factor. More than a million people have tried relief factor, but here's the number I care about. Two thirds of them go back and get more month after month. You can get anybody to try something for all sorts of reasons. I tried it because my wife told me I had to try it. Commercial recommendation, curiosity, whatever. But when you try it, you're not gonna continue to take it. You're not gonna continue to buy it if it's not working. Two-thirds say it works for them. It works for me. It's a supplement that helps your body respond to inflammation the way it is supposed to. And inflammation is the cause of most of our disease and also our frequent pain. So try the three-week quick start. 1776, see why so many people say Relief Factor gave them their lives back. It's relieffactor.com. 800, the number four relief. 800, the number four relief. relieffactor.com.

All right. I know how everybody feels right now. Because I feel it. I feel it every time I go to the gas pump. I go to the gas pump and it cost me, you know, 80, 90 dollars to put, you know, fuel in my tank. And I'm like, what, what, how? This can't last, it can't last. And I know that diesel is over six bucks a gallon and that can't last because that's baked in to all of the tractors, so our farming, all of the trucks, the diesel in the trains that move everything. I mean, it's bad.

But is that what is really happening?

Yes, those numbers are real, but what are the rest of the numbers?

We just got numbers out. The poverty rate in the United States just fell to the lowest on record ever. Not the lowest in a decade, the lowest since we started counting.

The lowest poverty rate in the history of the United States. I don't know, let's take a moment. Shall we? Ba da da da da da da da. That's worth celebrating.

By the way, he only likes the rich people. Lowest poverty rate in history.

Same report, real median household income in 2025 was $87,460.

That is an increase of $2,250 in one year. That is the highest on record going back to 1967 Now, that's real meaning after inflation. So that's not a bigger number on a paycheck that buys less, that number is after inflation. So that's more groceries, more house, more gas in the tank than the year before, in one year. Now, so you know, this is really unusual. Those numbers don't usually travel together. Usually when the top does well, the bottom gets left behind. This time, the floor came up. I thought that couldn't happen. I thought the free market was just the worst thing for, all they cared about was rich, rich, rich, rich, rich.

Now, this week, the Atlanta Fed has come out with their GDP Now model. This runs the estimates of what the economy is actually doing right now. So you don't have to wait, you know, until the end of the quarter. You want to know what's happening right now? Let's look at the, let's, let's look at the, the, the speed. Where are we going? On September 10th, it read 4.4 percent real GDP. Let me give that number to you here with some perspective. Biden, his first quarter in his last year was 1.6. Second quarter was 3.0. Third quarter was 3.1. Fourth quarter was 2.4. Okay? So he's about 3 percent, 2.8 percent for the year, his last year. Let me go back. What did I just say that was? 4.4. September 10th, real GDP read 4.4. However, if you check it, what was it, last night? Is it the, yeah, 16, two nights ago. If you check it two nights ago, that number was up from 4.4 to 5.1. 5.1 annualized. Do you know what that means? 5.1, that's not a recovery. That's a boom. Remember when China was just slaughtering everybody? Their economy was just out of control. They're building these ghost cities and everything else. And it was bogus. But you remember that? That number was 7 to 8% GDP. We're at 5.1 and it's real.