Don the con
Trump says affordability is “a con job by the Democrats.” Who ya gonna believe, The Donald or your lyin’ eyes?
When Trump speaks of cons, we should listen. He should know, he’s the king of cons. But like all Republicans, Trump accuses others of what he himself is doing.
“During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump claimed, “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on day one.” But it’s been the opposite. Prices have gone up since his return to the White House, with groceries about 2.7 percent higher in September than they were a year earlier.”
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“A young man on TikTok showed the 11 items he’d purchased during a recent shopping trip — a zucchini, a can of crushed tomatoes, a carton of white mushrooms, fresh ginger, a bag of spinach, naan bread, an onion, coconut milk, a chili pepper, a can of cashews, and manchego cheese.
“The price was $40.38.
“I really don’t understand how we are expected to pay for groceries anymore,” he said. “It is so unbelievably expensive just to live.”
“This is not a Democratic “con job.” What this young man said is a daily lament amplified by millions nationwide, regardless of their political leanings, every time they look at the final tally of their food bill.
“But Trump can’t be bothered to understand how Americans are feeling.”
Like any other billionaire, Trump doesn’t do grocery stores. But that doesn’t excuse his ignorance about everyday grocery prices—you can read about that and see it on TV (well, maybe not Fox News). And despite his public bloviating, the fact that he lifted tariffs on coffee, tropical fruits and other groceries is a tacit admission that prices are a problem (and that consumers, not exporting countries, pay the tariffs).
Why aren’t Democrats exploiting Trump’s effete detachment? Probably because the administration is a firehose of outrages: Medicaid cuts, SNAP cuts, housing affordability, troops stationed in American cities, assassination drones off the coast of South America, threatened war with Venezuela, obstruction of the Epstein files.
Mamdani campaigned on housing affordability and won. Democratic candidates in the midterms need to campaign on kitchen table issues next November.
Trump doesn’t understand grocery affordability