Ted Cruz Cracks Up Trump, Others In Oval Office With Car Purchase Joke

And you'll see those results very soon. Anybody else want to say a few words? Oh, Ted, Ted, I can't believe it. I'm easy to miss. It's very rare that I would miss. Go ahead, Ted. Well, Mr. President, I want to congratulate you on behalf of everyone here for the leadership that you're showing. And this is a victory today for consumers. This is a victory for affordability. Your critics like to say the word affordability. Under Joe Biden and the Democrats, they put mandate after mandate after mandate on cars and trucks, and they drove the price up thousands and thousands of dollars. And with the actions you're taking today, and you put on top of that the one big, beautiful bill, you know, most of the senators here on the Senate Commerce Committee, and on the Commerce Committee, we worked together to zero out the CAFE standards. We wrote that into the law, that the CAFE standards went to zero. What does that mean? It means you can now, as a consumer, buy the car you want. It also means people's lives will be safer, because what these regulations did is they forced cars to be more expensive and made of plastic instead of steel, because you had to make them lighter to comply with these standards. So you'd get in a wreck and people would die. The result of what you're doing, you're literally saving people's lives, and you're making it where families can afford to get a new car. These actions will drop the cost of cars and trucks thousands of dollars. That makes a real difference. And I'll make one final point. You know, about half the members here are car dealers, and I will say my good friend, Roger Williams, out in the lobby, he tried to sell me a car, which didn't surprise me, but I just want to give props to Mike Kelly. He showed he was savvier, because he tried to sell you a car, and you can afford a much nicer car than I can. So well done, Mike Roger. You just went to the wrong customer. That was $100 cheaper. The thing that Ted just said, it's true. Plastic instead of steel. And people died because of that. The plastic was plastic in an auto accident, and it broke up, and people were shattered because of that crazy deal. But it's a really good point. Go ahead. And, Mr. President, I'll tell you, the Senate Commerce Committee, on January 14th, we're going to have a hearing with all the big three there and Tesla, and the entire hearing is going to focus on how your leadership has reduced the burdens on carmakers. That's lowering costs. That's giving consumers more choices, and it's producing more jobs in America. And it's highlighted. That's a real record of success. Yeah, well, we're really, it's an honor. And, you know, they were going by California. We had, like, two different countries, California and 15 that followed California, because you had 15 states follow California. And the rules from California were just like everything else. That's why people are leaving. That's why it's such a mess. It's got such, there's a state with such unbelievable potential. But what they did with the car industry is incredible. And that was, you know, the car companies didn't know what to do because they had two standards, and you can't build two different cars for the same country. And what we're doing today is very big. Would anybody like to say something? Would you like to say something, my friend? I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Mr. President, thank you once again. We love you, Brian. Oh, I love you, too, Mr. President. I love you, too.