 I sat in the dining room off the Oval Office. He sat there for three hours, three hours watching, begging, being begged by his vice president and a number of his colleagues on the Republican side as well to do something. A former president. All over the world we respected. And then he comes in and we're now left at. We're like a bunch of stupid people. Trump blamed the president for rising prices that frustrated Americans. The president talked up economic gains on his watch, saying he rescued the economy from freefall and chaos