MAGAts duped: Trump reveals he lied about grocery prices coming down after saying his promise to fix them won him the election 🤭

[RoryN]

He said he "won [the election] on groceries"

Welp...

Trump [now] says it will be 'very hard' to bring down grocery prices

Asked whether his presidency would be a "failure" if grocery prices don't come down, Trump responded it would not, while blaming the current administration for the way it handled inflation that led to higher food prices in the first place.

"Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard," he said in the interview published Thursday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/trump-says-hard-bring-grocery-prices-down-why-rcna183960

Early prediction:

*The new administration will try to go scorched earth - and potentially succeed - on various areas of government & other entities / policy, at a level not attempted during 2016-2020
*They will (finally) warn that an "adjustment period", a.k.a. financial or other chaos / hardship, should be expected & tolerated for the "short term" before things get better
*The people who voted for them will not, in fact, have the patience or tolerance for said period (though they may lie and say they do)
*The people who didn't vote for Trump will immediately point at everyone who voted for the chaos and say "You morons get 100% of the blame this time around."

 

[RoryN]

Before MAGAts try to save him on this one:

“Prices will come down...You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

Source: Trump, August 2024

"I won on the border, and I won on groceries"

Source: Trump on Meet The Press

 

[Lazaran]

And DonOld and the MAGAt republicans ARE going after Social Security and Medicare, etc:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/maddow/blog/rcna183593







But, hey, on the bright side, DonOld IS going to hand Ukraine to Putin, so…

 

[Escierto]

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

H. L. Mencken

 

[RoryN]

And DonOld and the MAGAt republicans ARE going after Social Security and Medicare, etc:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/maddow/blog/rcna183593

Shocker, eh?

 

[RoryN]

Hellllloooooo MAGAts.....?

 

[RoryN]

Midday fun bumpy!

 

[Lazaran]

Don’t expect any MAGAts to acknowledge this thread.

MAGAts are known for their cowardice (and their ignorance).

 

[YDB95]

Before MAGAts try to save him on this one:

Rest assured, they will cook up some excuse. It's only a matter of time.

 

[PintlerMan]

And Resident Biden lied about his crack head son being pardoned too, so they are both liars, so whats you point? bunch of lib bla bla bla.

 

[RoryN]

And Resident Biden lied about his crack head son being pardoned too

Did he campaign on that to win votes?

False equivalency is fun. Poor dumb, desperate MAGAt. Thanks for getting triggered.

 

[Politruk]

And Resident Biden lied about his crack head son being pardoned too, so they are both liars, so whats you point? bunch of lib bla bla bla.

See Whataboutism.

 

[Politruk]

And Resident Biden lied about his crack head son being pardoned too, so they are both liars, so whats you point? bunch of lib bla bla bla.

The difference is that grocery prices and Social Security matter.

 

[RoryN]

Shocker: Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices
The president-elect is no longer so sure that he can ease the cost of everyday expenses for Americans

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Donald Trump loves to talk about groceries. “The word grocery,” he said with a childlike sense of wonder during an event at the Detroit Economic Club in October. “You know, it’s a sorta simple word, but it sorta means like everything you eat. The stomach is speaking. It always does.”

The idea was that grocery prices are high because of President Joe Biden, and the only way to bring them down was for Americans to send Trump back to the White House. Trump had been pressing this point repeatedly down the stretch of the campaign.

“Prices will come down,” Trump said in August. “You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.” He added in September: “Vote Trump, and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket. Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down.”

Inflation is far more complicated than Trump seemed to realize during the campaign — or than he wanted Americans to realize — but it doesn’t matter. Americans did indeed vote to give Trump another term in office, and economic factors seem to be one of the biggest reasons they did so. Trump acknowledged this during an interview with Meet the Press on Sunday — again marveling at the word “groceries” as if he’d never considered it before a few months ago.

“I won on groceries,” he said. “It’s a very simple word. Who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries. When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs. They were double and triple the price over a short period of time. I won the election based on that. We’re going to bring those prices down.”

One problem here is that the foundation of Trump’s economic plan for the United States is imposing sweeping, staggering tariffs on goods imported from key trade partners with which he may or may not have an ax to grind. Economists have long insisted this will result in prices going up, not down, as retailers pass the burden of these tariffs on to their customers. Trump seemed to acknowledge this possibility in the very same Meet the Press interview.

“I can’t guarantee anything,” he said when he was asked if he could guarantee tariffs wouldn’t result in American consumers paying more, something he said wouldn’t happen seconds earlier. “I can’t guarantee tomorrow.”

Trump seemed even less sure while speaking with Time for his “Man of the Year” cover story, the transcript for which was released Thursday. When the president-elect was asked if his presidency would be a failure if grocery prices didn’t go down, he said, “I don’t think so.”

“Look, they got them up. I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will,” Trump said before going on about how the supply chain is broken and so is “what they’re doing with the cars” and how all of this is the problem.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-walks-back-vow-grocery-prices-1235202052/

 

[YDB95]

Anyone who was dumb enough to believe he even could bring prices down (never mind actually would do it if he could) deserves whatever they get.

 

[Lovethatbigass]

And DonOld and the MAGAt republicans ARE going after Social Security and Medicare, etc:

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/maddow/blog/rcna183593







But, hey, on the bright side, DonOld IS going to hand Ukraine to Putin, so…

If I lose all 3, I'll commit suicide. I'll have nothing.

 

[Politruk]

Anyone who was dumb enough to believe he even could bring prices down (never mind actually would do it if he could) deserves whatever they get.

The problem is that we all get what they deserve.

 

[RoryN]

If I lose all 3, I'll commit suicide. I'll have nothing.

I imagine this isn't an uncommon sentiment in the U.S., sadly.

The economic math is bleak. It's about to get much worse, thanks to fellow moronic Americans willfully voting grifters into powerful positions.

They're going to try and gut everything for their own profit, and give nothing back. Our country might as well be a sunsetting franchise like Red Lobster or TGI Friday's - those business owners are doing the same thing.

 

[eric_erosfan]

The problem is that we all get what they deserve.

Nah. Nullification is your friend. I expect the Northeast and West coast states to band together to resist anything coming out of DC the next 4 years.

 

[RobDownSouth]

And Resident Biden lied about his crack head son being pardoned too, so they are both liars, so whats you point? bunch of lib bla bla bla.

Waddaboutism is the best you've got?
You've got nothing, sonny boy.

 

[Lovethatbigass]

Waddaboutism is the best you've got?
You've got nothing, sonny boy.

And it's not even a good one anymore. What kind of jerk off compares someone lying about slashing Social Security compared to some guy's son?

 

[YDB95]

The problem is that we all get what they deserve.

True. But it looks like that's what we've got to go through for people to get it through their heads that right-wing economic policy accomplishes nothing but to line the pockets of the already-rich at everyone else's expense.

 

[RoryN]

...it looks like that's what we've got to go through for people to get it through their heads that right-wing economic policy accomplishes nothing but to line the pockets of the already-rich at everyone else's expense.

States like Alabama & Mississippi have been presented this lesson for decades, with zero head penetration.

I think that mentality might be spreading.

 

[RoryN]

Did he walk back or explain his comments yet?

No?

Oh dear.

 

[YDB95]

States like Alabama & Mississippi have been presented this lesson for decades, with zero head penetration.

I think that mentality might be spreading.

I've got my theories about why the Deep South remains so clueless about the whole thing (Appalachia too, which has been chronically poor for even longer), but that's beside the point here.

The way I see it, the mentality already spread far and wide back in the '80s. Remember how the Republicans won all three of that decade's elections by wide margins...and how they've only won the popular vote twice since then, and both times by tiny margins. So we've made some headway since then. For example, the Republicans seem to have retired "If we cut taxes on the rich, they'll invest that money and create jobs for everyone," because too many people finally figured out that's horseshit. But there's still a stubborn base of voters who always fall for some of their other simplistic answers. It's going to take some much stronger medicine to wake them up - and yeah, some folks will never wake up. But one way or another, you can bet the next couple of years are going to provide just such an opportunity.