U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the U.S. economy and affordability at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, U.S. December 9, 2025. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The top priorities of MAGA adherents attending President Donald Trump’s Pennsylvania rally were roughly in tune with those of the rest of American voters: Inflation.

Conservative media company Right Side Broadcasting Network, known for their live stream coverage of Trump rallies and America First events, sent host Matthew Alvarez to Trump’s Pennsylvania rally at Mount Airy Casino Resort on Tuesday to interview Trump fans waiting in line and inside the venue before Trump took the stage.

What they caught on tape was not exactly the issue Trump focused on.

“I would like to see [Trump] talk more about grocery prices because he’s the guy that can do it. And he’s done it,” said one woman Alvarez interviewed. “I would like them to say to the Democrats, you talk about affordability. Okay. What’s your policy that’s different than mine that’s going to help the American people? And if you have it, why don’t we work together in the Congress now and fix it? … So I’d like to see the golden age come, stock market go up, crypto go up, prices come down, wages go up, manufacturing comes back.”

Another fan, while demanding Trump “get rid of immigrant freeloaders,” also asked Trump to “lower fuel prices.”

“And that’s it?” asked Alvarez.

“That’s the biggest thing,” the fan confirmed.

But Trump didn’t really address his tactics for lowering U.S. inflation, be it fuel or groceries. Instead, he resorted to scolding voters who were unwilling to do with less.

“You can give up certain products, you can give up pencils because under the China policy, you know, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need one or two,” Trump told fans at the Pennsylvania stop.

This prompted one CNN anchor to call Trump “an out of touch, literally gold-gilded president who outright refuses to recognize the economic reality for the vast majority of Americans.”

“He’s putting 37 gold things on literally one [Oval Office] wall while he's asking families to tighten their belts at the holidays to live without more than two pencils or two dolls in the name of an economic policy that everyone knows is making inflation worse,” said MS NOW host Nicole Wallace.

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