{"id":1519417,"date":"2022-06-16T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519417"},"modified":"2022-06-16T17:34:53","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T21:34:53","slug":"the-american-people-are-really-really-down-biden-admits-in-new-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-american-people-are-really-really-down-biden-admits-in-new-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"The American People Are \u2018Really, Really Down,\u2019 Biden Admits In New Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-american-people-are-really-really-down-biden-admits-in-new-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1519417&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden admitted that Americans are \u201creally, really down\u201d during an interview with The Associated Press published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are really, really down,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-ap-interview-4d2c2f9015341f280d8078182601ec58\">told<\/a> the wire service. \u201cThey\u2019re really down. The need for mental health in America, it has skyrocketed, because people have seen everything upset. Everything they\u2019ve counted on upset. But most of it\u2019s the consequence of what\u2019s happened, what happened as a consequence of the COVID crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s comment coincides with sky-high inflation, rising gas prices, a years-long pandemic and more. Amid numerous crises, the president has seen his approval rating drop and more Democrats are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/democratic-party-hopes-joe-biden-wont-run-reelection-2024\/\">reportedly<\/a> quietly hoping he\u2019ll opt out of running again in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also pushed back on concerns of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/13\/stock-market-gains-erased-joe-biden-administration\/\">recession<\/a>, telling The AP that \u201cit\u2019s not inevitable\u201d and arguing that the U.S. is \u201cin a stronger position than any nation in the world to overcome this inflation.\u201d He denied that he was causing inflation, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it\u2019s my fault, why is it the case in every other major industrial country in the world that inflation is higher? You ask yourself that? I\u2019m not being a wise guy,\u201d Biden said, according to The AP.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7453205\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7453205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO: Gasoline prices are displayed at an Exxon gas station behind American flag in Edgewater, New Jersey, U.S., June 14, 2022. REUTERS\/Mike Segar\/File Photo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ultimately, the president pushed for Americans to be confident despite inflation, gas prices and more hitting their wallets hard. Speaking for himself, Biden said he\u2019s \u201cconfident\u201d that the U.S. is \u201cbetter positioned than any country in the world to own the second quarter of the 21st century,\u201d calling it \u201ca fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over two-thirds of economists believe the U.S. will see a recession in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2022\/06\/13\/recession-economists-survey-2023-inflation-interest-rates\/\">according<\/a> to a survey conducted in June by Financial Times\/Initiative on Global Markets.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/joe-biden-downplays-recession-fears-may-jobs-report\/\">dismissed<\/a> such <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/03\/biden-throws-shade-elon-musk-recession\/\">concerns<\/a> on June 3, saying during remarks on the jobs report that \u201cthere\u2019s every reason for the American people to feel confident that we\u2019ll meet these challenges.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/10\/biden-official-janet-yellen-wrong-inflation-america-recession\/\">(RELATED:\u00a0Top Biden Official Who Got Inflation Dead Wrong Says America Won\u2019t See Recession)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden admitted that Americans are \u201creally, really down\u201d during an interview with The Associated Press published Thursday.\u201cPeople are really, really down,\u201d Biden told the wire service. \u201cThey\u2019re really<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}