Trump says he is going to “make America affordable again.” It’s a pledge he made frequently during the campaign. And now, after dropping it from his lexicon for more than eight months, he’s saying it again as polls show voters rank the economy and cost of living as their top concern and blame Trump’s policies for making things worse.
Thus far, Trump has spent far more time boasting about how great the economy and stock market are doing than acknowledging any economic anxiety.
The one I heard enough that I wouldn’t be surprised to find out it was the scripted official response was along the lines of “I know which one my life was better under.” These are also the same folks who parroted the “How come eggs is so darn expensive?” only to pivot directly into understanding that the president doesn’t control the egg prices, which are controlled by complex market conditions that they’re now fully able to articulate, the moment Trump was sworn in. Weird, huh?
Now they’re struggling to understand why coffee and beef are so expensive and why every time they go to Walmart it’s always out of this and that almost as bad as it was back at the start of the covid epidemic. Gee, who was president then, too? Starting to see a pattern here.