Top Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett got an uncomfortable reality check on Fox News Thursday as an unusually persistent anchor laid down the facts.

Martha MacCallum told Hassett that Americans are searching for answers on affordability like never before, and most are pinning the blame squarely on President Donald Trump.

MacCallum played a clip of CNN’s Harry Enten highlighting a surge in Google searches for “affordability,” up 110 percent compared to last year, and noting that cost-of-living concerns now outrank nearly every other issue, including the economy itself.

“He won on affordability and the cost of living in 2024—and he has completely lost the plot,” Enten said.

Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, tried to push back, insisting, “No, he absolutely has not

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