HUNT VALLEY, Md. (TNND) \u2014 President Donald Trump called the White House\u2019s recent DoorDash stunt \u201ctacky\u201d on Thursday.<\/p>\n
He said during a Las Vegas promotional event for his economic policies that the Monday McDonald\u2019s delivery <\/a>to the Oval Office, by a woman wearing a \u201cDoorDash Grandma\u201d shirt, wasn\u2019t believable.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a little bit of a \u2013 you know, I mean, to be honest it was a little tacky,\u201d Trump said. \u201cYou know, they come up with these crazy ideas like McDonald\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n The delivery driver, Sharon Simmons, knocked on the door of the Oval Office on Monday with two McDonald\u2019s bags. She and Trump then talked about the tip tax deduction, often referred to as \u201cNo Tax on Tips,\u201d that the president enacted through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year.<\/p>\n \u201cThis doesn\u2019t look staged, does it?\u201d Trump joked to reporters.<\/p>\n The stunt marked the beginning of a week during which the president has tried to shift focus to his fiscal policies and away from the economic consequences of the Iran war, which has tightened Americans\u2019 belts.<\/p>\n Trump noted during his event on Thursday how the stock market has hit record highs during his term and said that higher energy prices have caused \u201cfake inflation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of people thought that inflation would be through the roof and the stock market would crash. Well, we just hit an all-time new stock market, so \u2013 it’s amazing,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n Inflation rose .9% from February to March, mostly because of higher gas prices, the Labor Department said last week. The monthly increase was the largest since the summer of 2022, when prices soared in the aftermath of the pandemic.<\/p>\n The stock market has been resilient throughout Trump\u2019s second term, though, holding strong through some of the president\u2019s most disruptive actions like his start of the U.S.\u2019s war against Iran and the \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs announced last spring.<\/p>\n The economic turmoil has worsened Americans\u2019 mood about their finances. Consumer sentiment in the University of Michigan\u2019s long-running monthly index fell <\/a>by nearly 11% from March to April, continuing a decline that began with the start of the war.<\/p>\n Survey Director Joanne Hsu noted that economic expectations would likely improve as supply disruptions from the war end and gas prices normalize. Iran\u2019s near shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical Gulf oil passage, has reduced petroleum <\/a>production and increased gas prices by more than a dollar since the conflict began in late February.<\/p>\n