{"id":449851,"date":"2026-02-28T06:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:56:13","slug":"donald-trump-79-weirdly-takes-credit-for-improving-pals-sex-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449851\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump, 79, Weirdly Takes Credit for Improving Pal\u2019s Sex Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump has bizarrely begun crediting his economic policies for improving people\u2019s sex lives.<\/p>\n

Speaking in Texas on the latest leg of his so-called \u201caffordability and economy tour,\u201d the 79-year-old billionaire gloated to the crowd about a police officer he knew, whose wife \u201ctreated him like a dog\u201d but now viewed him as a financial genius thanks to his retirement savings improving.<\/p>\n

\"MelaniaPhoto Illustration by Victoria Sunday\/The Daily Beast\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cIs anybody unhappy with the job I\u2019m doing?\u201d the president asked the crowd in Corpus Christi, Texas. \u201cYour 401ks have doubled, right? Have they doubled?\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI have a policeman\u2026 this wonderful, tough policeman from New York. He\u2019s taking good care of us. And he said: \u2018Sir, it\u2019s so good. My married life has gotten so much better.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201c[I asked] why? \u2018My wife thought I was a loser. Financially, I couldn\u2019t make any money because my 401k was dying for years, and now she thinks I\u2019m the smartest financial genius ever. It\u2019s made my sex life good. It\u2019s made my life good. It\u2019s given me a tremendous boost in life, sir.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"CORPUSPresident Donald Trump departs after speaking at the Port of Corpus Christi in Texas. Roberto Schmidt\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a big, tough cop,\u201d Trump reiterated. \u201cHe said, \u2018My wife treated me like a dog, and now she thinks I\u2019m a financial genius.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

After two days away from the public spotlight, Trump headed to Texas on Friday to push affordability ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The visit was his first post-State of the Union trip, and came ahead of next week\u2019s bitterly fought Senate primary showdown between four-term incumbent Senator John Cornyn, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Congressman Wesley Hunt\u2014all of whom have promoted themselves as Trump allies.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe warring parties, Ken Paxton (L) and John Cornyn, are fighting it out to be the Republican choice to run in Texas. Getty Images <\/p>\n

It also emerged after Trump\u2019s top White House aides held a strategy meeting earlier this month, warning administration officials that the economy would be a top-tier issue for voters.<\/p>\n

The meeting, hosted by Trump\u2019s chief of staff Susie Wiles, also urged administration officials to stay on message about affordability as the midterms approach in a bid to counter the president\u2019s unpredictable behavior and tendency to go wildly off-script.<\/p>\n

But speaking at the Port of Corpus Christi on Friday afternoon, Trump often did exactly that. He veered into his usual rant about the 2020 election being rigged, teased that he might try to run for an unconstitutional third term, and launched yet another racially-charged tirade against Somali-born Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. <\/p>\n

At one point, the president even suggested he would nominate Texas Senator Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court, telling the crowd: \u201cHe is such a pain in the a**, but he\u2019s so good and so talented.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sen.Trump teased that he might nominated Texas Senator Ted Cruz to the Supreme Court. Heather Diehl\/Heather Diehl\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

Trump did, however, come back to boasting about the economy, even as the latest figures from his own Commerce Department showed that economic growth slowed to an annual rate of 1.4 percent\u2014well below expectations and a significant drop from the previous quarter\u2019s 4.4 percent pace.<\/p>\n

Inflation has also accelerated, according to the latest data, with the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rising 2.9 percent over the year in December 2025, the highest level since March 2024.<\/p>\n

\"CORPUS President Donald Trump arrives to speak at the Port of Corpus Christi on February 27, 2026 in Corpus Christi, Texas. Roberto Schmidt\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

However, Trump gloated about the stock market doing well, which he said had helped retirement savings grow for Americans\u2014including that \u201ctough policeman\u201d from New York.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s up. Has anybody gone down with their 401ks? Because if you do, you\u2019re a loser,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The story was not the only bizarre anecdote Trump has told in recent weeks. <\/p>\n

Earlier this month, during an unhinged press conference<\/a> where the president railed against the Supreme Court for striking down his tariff policies, Trump pivoted to an unrelated anecdote about a steel factory president from Georgia who wanted to kiss him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were in Georgia, and I said to the owner\u2014I made a speech at a factory that makes steel products\u2014and I said, \u2018How are you, nice to meet you, how\u2019s business?\u2019\u201d Trump recalled.<\/p>\n

Trump then claimed the man said, \u201cPresident, I\u2019d love to kiss you.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a very powerful man. I don\u2019t want to be kissed by that man,\u201d Trump told reporters at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump has bizarrely begun crediting his economic policies for improving people\u2019s sex lives. Speaking in Texas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[84,4954,1294,4176,54291,4174,4175,7335,118068,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-449851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-j-trump","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-finance","12":"tag-maga","13":"tag-personal-finance","14":"tag-personalfinance","15":"tag-sex","16":"tag-trumpland","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}