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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.
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No kidding, he just lied his ass off like he always does and the dickless MAGAT drones just slurped that jizz right up without ever stopping to think about how insanely fucking stupid the promis was to begin with…
Given how us dickless folks voted maybe that’s not the insult to use for those brainless jackasses
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).
Shocker.
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)
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
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.
I don’t think we need a headline or a news story to know this … nothing he says means anything. The next four years is just going to be a never ending parade of bad faith, anger and anxiety.
I think this is just his handlers and the media setting up a backstory so that, when people start complaining about prices not coming down, their side have something to point back to to say, “Hey, no, we told you it was an issue!”
I just hope it’s only 4 years.
I’m hoping he dies in less than that.
Then we get Just Dumb Vance and the christian taliban as our overlords. An even worse cult.
Vance doesn’t have the same cult of personality that Trump has. With him in charge I suspect the infighting would make it impossible for them to get anything done.
As long as you’re going to hope, hope they all die.
Promises Made, Promises Kept*!
<p></p>* = Promises will not be kept
Promise *bullshit = new Promise; delete bullshit;
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
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
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!
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?
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
It thinks it’s time we do our own Vandalism campaign similar to their stupid Biden I did that stickers. It clearly worked despite it being braindead.
He’s saying this because his administration will absolutely approve the Kroger Albertsons merger
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/10/nx-s1-5114999/kroger-albertsons-merger-ftc-lawsuit-court-ruling
Because if monopolies are known for anything, it’s reducing prices to benefit the consumer. /s
Yes, that’s what the article I linked says.
Kroger and Albertsons saw their $24.6 billion merger blocked on Tuesday by judges in two separate cases, one brought by federal regulators and the other by the Washington state attorney general.
However that’s likely temporary until the Trump administration is in. It’ll probably be passed within the first year. Kroger and Albertsons just need to settle their current suit and re apply to the Trump administration.
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Please respond to this comment when you get your answer. I too am interested. I hope I’m wrong to be honest
I’ve been unfortunately correct before about this bullsit tho.
That was 2 days ago. Late yesterday, Albertson’s pulled out and sued Kroger over failure to get it done.
Like I said, all that needs done is for the suit to be settled, happens all the time with large mergers or when companies reincorporate.
The damages being sought are for leverage for a new merger agreement or a reincorporation. It doesn’t matter that Kroger pulled out early. https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/resources/newsletters/commercial-business/how-merger-litigation-works-now/
But of course, Mon ami. Surely the ravings of one such as l’orange simply could not be believed?
Trump only took presidency for two reasons:
To not go to jail/be prosecuted.
Fame.
Keep pissing in the wind, to those thinking he’ll do even less of a quarter of the things he ‘promised’ to do. Has the first 4 years with this guy told anyone anything? Dumb Americunts.
Reason #3: To gift as much public and foreign money into his pockets as possible.
Britain’s worst mistake by far, and we have many charges to answer. I’m ashamed of my country for creating this monster.
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Or didn’t vote!
Oh man tell me about it. The ones who voted Trump, yeah. But the vast majority that decided to stay home? I have less savory words for.
At least the ones who voted Trump cared. They may have been bamboozled, but they did show up.
Too many others just didn’t give a fuck about the direction of our country to take 15 minutes out of their day for an average of once a year.
Exactly. Like I’m going to feel whatever for the opposite side of the aisle here. But the fuckers who looked at the state of affairs outside and was like “nah, fuck it”. Oooo, that’s a whole other feeling that’s not pleasant one bit.
I do really hope that everyone understands that the default nature of the universe is to be undone, including the niche that humanity inhabits, and that are continued still being here state requires some input from us. Get up off your collective asses and do something for fucks sake. Somehow I don’t believe it’s a tall task to press a fucking button. Which one we can debate, but at least PUSH ONE OF THEM.
But don’t you see? Making the world an objectively worse place for everyone, especially marginalized people, and makes the harm to the biosphere more likely to be catastrophic and irreversible will totally load to it getting better. Everything works exactly like my maladaptive ADHD coping strategies from before my diagnosis and treatment - pushing things to the brim of annihilation will surely result in a better world and not just buckets of unnecessary human suffering and possible extinction.
/s
Can we crosspost to Leopords Ate My Face on behalf of every Trump voter who cited the economy as their reason? Or not yet?
“But the leopard won’t eat my face”
Not yet, this is just walking back the lie. When his tariffs and deportation drives us into a 2nd great depression then is appropriate leopards eating faces moment.
Oooooh… what… a surprise. Well. Too late now…
