Donald Trump would prefer that voters not worry about inflation. But it’s hard for them to ignore.
Filling up a basic Ford F-150 truck now costs about $100, up $30 from a year ago. Mortgage rates have jumped to levels that have depressed home sales. And for the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen faster than paychecks, making the average family poorer.
One week before midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his second term, Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs, even as he insists the country has entered an economic “golden age.” The same frustration that powered his comeback two years ago could now cost Republicans control of Congress.
He didn’t fail to stop it, he succeeded in worsening it.
Whoever wrote the headline is—intentionally or not—diverting the blame for the inflation from Trump.
He can’t even use the “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” because his actions torpedoed the economy. And that… NO ONE could have foreseen from the Great Businessman.
He and his cohorts profited and solidified the grift. HIS business is on the up.
Which is fair. Republicans are in charge of all 3 branches of government, and have gone along with everything Trump wants.
Weird how often things become a sort of mystical force of nature when Republicans are involved. Even when their policies can be tied directly to higher inflation.
The morale is to bully mainstream media. It gets you more favorable treatment.
I mean, inflation was effectively down to a bit over 2% in the weaning months of the Biden admin, which means it had been (for all intents and purposes) stopped.
I think it’s fair to say that (thanks to tarriffs, deregulations, and wars) Trump created inflation.
Came here to say this. What should be made clear in the headline is that donnie fucked up an economy that was called the envy of the world.
Twice. He achieved that twice. He did it in the first term when he failed to address COVID properly, and then people put him back in office where he’s already done more damage in half the time. I’m almost certain that our place on the world stage is irreversibly gone. And people continue to cheer as he yanks more and more jenga blocks without even the courtesy of a test poke. They’ll continue cheering when the tower comes crashing down. They are too dumb to recognize how fucked they are.
You should read the book Blockers. It’s infuriating as fuck.
And that’s just one author and one book. Who knows how many stories there are out there yet to be told - or may be never told - about how much donnie and his brainless accomplices have done to fuck this country up.
And as far as I know, not even one of them has paid the price for doing it. Yet.
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Why would you say that I’m not capable of reading an actual book? The fuck did I do?
I have no idea how I misread that comment to be about trump reading a book, my bad
It’s the logical outcome of his actions and anyone with 3+ brain cells knew this would happen.
They outlined everything neatly and none of that would be beneficial for the economy.
in order to ‘fail’, one must at least ‘try’. there was not even an attempt to. just some smoke and mirrors such as whining to europe about their own fuel reserves.
At the start of his the year it wasn’t so bad but it hasn’t been below 3% since the massive bombing campaign started. Recent inflation has been overwhelmingly driven by oil prices.
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Exactly.