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 isn’t “struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs.” He has no intention of doing that. He never had any intention of doing that.
And by “golden age” he means “gilded age.” There’s a big difference.
He didn’t fail to stop shit. He exacerbated the problem intentionally to enrich himself and his cronies.
Biden already stopped inflation - Trump only needed to leave things alone long enough for the numbers to stabilize.
This is new inflation directly caused by Trump
Failed to stop? He purposefully exacerbated it for the benefit of himself & the rest of Epstein class.
Trump failed to stop inflation.
Trump actively fueled inflation.
Despite his lies during the campaign, everything he did made inflation much worse than if he had done nothing at all.
You don’t understand he made billions, so everything is fine. Now vote for him again, he will make more billions.
I keep seeing these articles and can’t help but think that they said this about Republicans a lot right before they corrupted elections and won anyway.
Its all theater to distract and placate
The Republicans have been the party of inflation since the Nixon Shock. If the money in your pocket is dissolving, then you’re encouraged to invest in businesses to save for retirement. Then once you’re dependent on those investments, you’ll defend them.
They want every American drowning in debt. They want us living paycheck to paycheck. They want us to fail and then call us lazy, irresponsible, and financially illiterate. The purpose of a system is what it does.
No the system can certainly behave in a way that was not its intended purpose.
Ostensibly capitalism is about trade and labor and resource distribution.
De facto it is a vehicle for wealth concentration and creating an advanced feudal state.
Ostensibly it isn’t, look it up on Wikipedia.
There’s benefit of the doubt, and then there’s gullibility.
Failed!? He fucking made it worse. ON PURPOSE!!!
Failed to stop?
Is the writer fuckin stupid?
He CAUSED most of the current US inflation that the previous admin had made progress on getting under control.
Can we at least be accurate with the fucking news.
We’re trying to find the guy who introduced tariffs and started a war with Iran.
He didn’t fail to stop it, he succeeded in worsening it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Removed by mod
So basically they will get fu*ked only because of gas price?
Nothing about foreign policy, nothing about Trump sucking toes of bibi & pootin, nothing about US citizen getting shot & murdered by ICE? Nothing about massive corruption?
And… Ah yeah I forgot, what about the Epstrump files?
Delusion can survive a lot of things, but losing everything can help.
He didn’t stop inflation because he didn’t try to stop inflation. He continues to actively sabotage the economy so he and his minions can profit.
Failure implies that he tried.
Yup, and even if there is a MASSIVE blue wave, the orange pedo and all his propaganda outlets will spend the next 2 years blaming EVERYTHING on Dems…and 2028 will be 2024 all over agin
There will be a massive blue wave, but Republicans aren’t simply letting themselves be Constitutionally and democratically removed from power. They’re not leaving or losing, they know this is their last stand and will do anything to keep power. They’ve said they will cheat, not accept results, and essentially coup the government when they lose.
I just saw a bunch of YouTube vids about they’ve already filed motions to toss out ballots in seeing states, and now people in TXs are saying their votes were flipped on machines similar to TN.
The next 2 weeks are gonna be vicious
Yep, and they’re already deploying ICE to polling places. I just saw an example in Florida, where they “had to pull someone over and it happened to be a few feet away from a polling place” and they “happened to stay there for a long time”.
Buckle up, stock up on necessary items for food, water, and safety, and VOTE.
Also please do some phone banks to get others to vote too. Environmental Voter Project is a great organization that I’ve done for the last few weeks.
It’s not hard at all, each session is only an hour, and you make calls at your own pace. It feels great to actually get people out to vote, because instead of just having a 1x impact by casting your own vote, you could have a 100x impact if you encourage 100 people to vote (which isn’t hard, you can hit 100 in like 3 one hour sessions). This legitimately makes a difference in elections, take a look at their results.
