Biden’s baffling response when reporter asks him if his top domestic issue is abortion or inflation 

President Joe Biden cast a strange look at a Fox News reporter who asked him whether abortion or inflation was his “top priority in the country.”

The president may have spotted a trap: he’s long listed inflation as his top priority, but Republicans are hammering him on the issue, with a key price indicator 8 percent higher than last year, despite his efforts. Meanwhile, his party has recognized the Supreme Court’s abortion decision as a political winner as elections approach.

“Just to clarify for voters in the medium term, the most important domestic issue: inflation or abortion,” reporter Peter Doocy asked him at the end of an event about the infrastructure bill and new manufacturing efforts in the US.

“They are all important. Unlike you, there’s not one thing,” Biden rebuked Doocy, in an extra twist.

“It’s across the board, domestic – ask me about foreign policy too. There are multiple, multiple, multiple problems and we should be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, you know that old expression,” Biden told him, as White House escorts thanked the press and tried to close the event.

His answer came a day after Doocy put the same question to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

She took the opportunity to overturn the Supreme Court ruling dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

Biden appeared to have another shot at Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy. Last year, he apologized after calling him a “stupid son of an ab***.”

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“The president will continue to talk about issues that matter to the American people, and abortion is one of them. A majority of the American people disagree with the Supreme Court decision that… dobbs decision. That is – a majority of people disagreed with that,” she said.

“When it comes to the economy, the president has made it very, very clear. When it comes to inflation, that’s his top economic priority, and he’s doing everything he can to make sure we lower prices for the American people,” she said.

Biden and Doocy have struggled in the past, with the president calling for an apology earlier this year after calling Doocy a “stupid son of an ab****.”

The clash came at an event where Biden announced the government would push $2.8 billion to 20 US companies as part of the bill to boost battery production for electric vehicles and improve the electric grid.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm also appeared at the event, each at a separate desk. Biden sat in front of a screen that read “Future made in America.” It also featured images of buses, batteries and vehicles.

“Look at that screen — pretty good,” Biden said of the props.

“So great,” Granholm said.

“It’s been four or five tough years for the country. But many people here are still having a hard time. But there are some real bright spots: 10 million new jobs have been created just since my presidency.’

He also pointed to 3.5 percent unemployment and nearly 700,000 manufacturing jobs.

“Where the hell does it say we can’t be the production center of the world?” he said.

He called the infrastructure bill, which he has touted at public events across the country, an “investment that only happens once in a generation.”

“The future of vehicles is electric. But the battery is an important part of that electric vehicle. And right now 75 percent… of that battery production is done in China.”

Through Zoom, executives joined the effort to boost the production of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

The clash came in Biden’s second public event of the day.

He previously denied releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a political move to lower gas prices ahead of the midterm elections.

“It’s not politically motivated at all,” he told reporters at the White House of his decision to release 15 million barrels.

He lashed out at the Republicans and asked, “Where have they been for the past four months?”

“If the oil price falls, we should also see the price of the gas station at the pump fall. That’s how it should work. But that’s not what’s happening,” he said.

“Reduce the price you charge at the pump to reflect what you pay for the product. You’re still making a significant profit,” he told oil companies. Your shareholders will still do very well and the American people will get a break they deserve and get a fair price at the pump too.”