Summary
Trump admitted it will be difficult to lower consumer prices, despite campaign promises to reduce grocery, energy, and overall inflation costs.
Trump told Time that achieving price reductions is rare without major economic downturns.
During the campaign, Trump blamed rising costs on Democratic leadership and proposed tariffs as a solution, but economists warn tariffs could raise prices further.
Inflation, a key voter concern, played a significant role in Trump’s election victory, though he has yet to outline a clear plan to deliver on his economic pledges.
It’s not “the economy stupid”
trump is a liar… This explains pretty much everything… None of his plans would work though if the electorate were educated…
Oh man. I wish I could see the faces being eaten.
They’re all currently in denial and even when prices increase further due to the tariffs they’ll just blame it on the previous administration.
Trust me, I’ve been trying to explain this to these people for a long time. Had a talk with one of them where I told them about this interview and their exact response was to blame Biden.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. They never accept responsibility for their choices, they just blame others when they fail and try to claim other’s successes as their own.
But surely a few realize their fuckup before they manufacture fault and rage to aim at others.
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There’s a saying in Spanish that goes “prometer hasta meter”. It’s very fitting, but I don’t know how to translate it in a way that doesn’t butcher it. Any help?
Promised, not delivered.
Nah, it’s missing the “rapey” connotations
Oh damn, even I misunderstood the original phrase. “Promised, screwed” but even that doesn’t quite get it. Hey I’m not a copywriter lol
Everyone iny social circle and at work convinced themselves that he would fix things immediately. I can’t tell you how many times I heard “as soon as Trump gets in the economy will get better” or “he’ll fix it”. He’s a liar. A big reason we’re here is he didn’t get called out enough for being a liar.
I’m pretty sure the only thing he’s interested in is revenge and he doesn’t care who gets hurt on his path to achieving it.
If people understood the very first thing about economics it would be glaringly obvious that his proposed tariffs would drastically raise grocery prices, and the prices of many other things. Unfortunately, people don’t understand, and the media carefully avoids explaining it to them.
Revenge and being shielded from prosecution. And he’ll get everything he wanted, courtesy of American voters (and especially non-voters).
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I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
Trump: “I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time.”
We need a Trump poster that quotes him saying,
“The Groceries.”
You need to watch the video of him at this non-chain grocery store and how confused/impressed he is at everything. And then the owner starts talking to him about it and Trump zones out completely and almost turns away from the guy he’s so bored and only there for the PR. The guy has never shopped for himself, and is so out of touch with everyday people. He has lived in a bubble of influencers, con men, and fixers for his whole life, and has no idea how anything around him actually works.
I can’t tell if this is satire or an actual quote.
Actual quote. One of his usual meandering word salads in a recent interview.
Jesus fuckin christ we’re so screwed.
Very. Hoping the country somehow survives this, but I’m not confident.
Shocker.
To the surprise of literally no one with more than three brain cells
Inflation soared above 9% in 2022 as a result of supply chain problems related to the coronavirus pandemic and strong consumer demand that had been buttressed by stimulus checks and other relief policies both Trump and President Joe Biden championed.
Jesus Christ we’re still blaming stimulus checks for inflation. Most people couldn’t pay more than a months rent at most with the stimulus they received and yet we’re supposed to believe that was a huge factor driving prices up? Saying stupid shit like this is exactly as bad as Trump’s ridiculous tariff proposals but because it’s not a Republican saying it we’re just supposed to accept it as gospel. Eat my ass HuffPo
I’m going to guess the small business loans didn’t help either
The ones that went to not small businesses (because handing out money doesn’t need any oversight). And got forgiven even though they weren’t used for payroll (another trickle down failure).
Exactly
Canada gave way more, inflation is under 2% now
Almost like giving more to the people who spend it on the economy, helps the economy. Who knew?
we’re still blaming stimulus checks for inflation.
Most western countries had inflation as high or higher than the US and did not provide stimulus checks. Gee, I wonder what the common denominator could be…? Certainly not a worldwide pandemic!
More people spending money can cause inflation if you have the same amount of goods.
How many months of rent is irrelevant because that’s not disposable income. If the stimulus didn’t meaningfully increase your disposable income dieting the pandemic you’re too rich to discuss it
A lot of people yelling that he’s not backtracking, that he’s just saying it’s hard. Did we not pay attention in 2016? “It’s easy, we’ll fix it in a day, I’ll do it faster than any other president”. Then it didn’t happen. Then it was hard, then it was in the works, then it was a concept, then it never came. We’re just going to have tons of repeats of the same old crap. I’m just waiting for the “who thought ending a war was difficult” quote to drop for Ukraine. (If it doesn’t just get handed over on a silver platter on day one)
Watch the market monopolize under him
This is how we finally achieve single payer healthcare in the US in the stupidest possible way and I wouldn’t bet against it this point: The Aetnited CigShield Corp!
That’s not single payer, that’s single provider (or, more correctly, single denier).
You are allotted one health, next!
Here you go:
But I need to restore my health, not my mana!
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