A curious claim from Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts has raised eyebrows in Washington: She says President Donald Trump personally phoned her after she delivered a blistering speech attacking his economic record.
According to Western Journal, Warren, whom Trump has long mocked as Pocahontas over her discredited assertions of Native American ancestry, took to X on Monday to allege that her National Press Club address on Trumps economy prompted a direct call from the president. The senator framed the alleged conversation as a policy-focused exchange on affordability, even as she continued her familiar partisan broadsides against Trumps leadership and motives.
This morning, I gave a speech noting how Donald Trump is driving up costs for families, sowing terror and chaos in our communities, and abusing his power to prosecute anyone who criticizes him, Warren wrote, reprising the standard Democratic narrative that blames Trump for virtually every ill in American life. I also laid out an argument for how Democrats should fight back and win.
In my remarks, I made it clear that despite promising to lower costs On Day One, Trump has done nothing but raise costs for families. I said that if he really wants to get something done, including capping credit card interest rates or lowering housing costs, he would use his leverage and pick up the phone. In Warrens telling, that is precisely what happened shortly after she left the podium.
After my speech, the President called me, and I delivered this same message on affordability to him directly. I told him that Congress can pass legislation to cap credit card rates if he will actually fight for it. I also urged him to get House Republicans to pass the bipartisan ROAD to Housing Act, which passed the Senate with unanimous support and would build more housing and lower costs. No more delays. Its time to deliver relief for American families, she added, casting herself as the one pushing Trump to act.
For now, the entire episode rests solely on Warrens account, as Trump has not, at the time of writing, confirmed or denied the alleged call on Truth Social or any other platform. Given the presidents well-known habit of responding forcefully to Democratic attacks, the notion of a calm, policy-heavy phone chat with one of his most persistent antagonists understandably invites skepticism.
Still, Warrens story intersects with an issue Trump has recently highlighted himself: the soaring cost of consumer credit. On Friday, Trump used Truth Social to denounce sky-high credit card interest rates and to propose a temporary cap, a stance thaton this narrow pointedges closer to populist economic regulation than to traditional laissez-faire Republican orthodoxy.
Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be ripped off by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration, Trump posted, explicitly tying the problem to President Joe Bidens tenure. AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%.
Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. The message underscored Trumps broader argument that he, not Biden, is prepared to confront corporate practices that burden working- and middle-class Americans.
What remains murky is how Trump would seek to impose such a capthrough legislation, executive action, or regulatory pressureand whether a Republican-led Congress would embrace this brand of economic populism. As CBS News noted, bank stocks dipped after Trumps initial post, signaling Wall Streets unease and hinting at the resistance any such measure might face from the financial sector and its allies on Capitol Hill.
For conservatives, the episode highlights a complex but increasingly familiar dynamic: a Republican leader adopting targeted, populist interventions to correct market distortions that have flourished under Bidens inflationary, big-government regime. Whether Warrens account of a private call is accurate or merely opportunistic spin, the real policy question is whether Trump can translate his rhetoric on affordability into concrete action that reins in abusive practices without surrendering core free-market principles.
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