'You wouldn't have this job!' Trump melts down as new CBS reporter pushes him on economy

President Donald Trump grew agitated when newly-hired CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil pressed him on persistent inflation numbers on Tuesday — and seemingly reminded him that he only got the job he's currently in thanks to the administration's legal machinations.

"The inflation numbers came out," said Dokoupil. "Overall not bad, but grocery prices—"

"Well, they're overall very good," said Trump. "Good for us. Good for our country. Joe Biden had the highest inflation numbers in history." (This is not even close to true.) "I have it down to a level that people have not seen in nine years."

"Mr. President, help me understand," said Dokoupil. "When I travel the country, and I go all over the place, and I talk to everyday Americans, they tell me they don't feel it."

"They're going to now. I've only been here for 11 months, okay?" said Trump. "And the first few months were really rough if you look at them, because I inherited a mess. I inherited a mess of crime, I inherited a mess of inflation, I inherited a mess of places closing up and going to other countries. And now we have the hottest country in the world. Tony, we have now the hottest country in the world, and a year ago our country was dead. We had a dead country. You wouldn't have a job right now, if she [Kamala Harris] got in. If she got in, you probably wouldn't have a job right now."

It's possible that Trump simply meant that without him, the economy would be worse to the point of layoffs in newsrooms. However, this also comes after the Trump administration personally shepherded through a deal that merged CBS' parent company Paramount with Skydance, and brought in right-wing commentator Bari Weiss to head up CBS, who in turn hired Dokoupil to his current position.

So far, the changes at CBS have been met with distaste from the audience, as viewership has declined by 23 percent compared to last year.