President Donald Trump’s launch of a nationwide “affordability tour” this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration’s tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing.

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    If nothing else, it’ll be fun to see MAGA try and balance their cultish devotion to Trump clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.

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      clashing with their love of complaining about things getting worse.

      Blame immigrants, blame democrats, blame other countries… There will be no clashing.

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        don’t you know the tariffs aren’t working because of the ACTIVIST JUDGES?!

        don’t you know that CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS are cheating the system?

        don’t you know that RADICAL DEMOCRATS are needlessly non-compliant with ICE and THATS why it’s not all sunshine and rainbows?

        don’t you know that CANADA is to blame for the lack of tourism?

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        Trump could literally in broad daylight kick them in the balls while looking at them in the eye … and MAGA idiots will still blame the democrats for it.

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          “Trump HAD to kick me in the balls to get back at the Demoncrats because…”

          -Some MAGA moron probably

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          It was a Biden executive order with an autopen for sure. Trump is a patriot for following the law and kicking me in the balls.

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      Oh, that’s easy. It’s the immigrants’ fault. Or it’s Biden’s fault. Or it’s the Democrats’ fault.

      When objective truths don’t hold any weight whatsoever, blame can be assigned freely without having to perform mental gymnastics to make it make sense.

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      The same people that hung on to every syllable that came out of Biden’s mouth, pounced on the most minor grammatical mistakes, and seemed to have memorized every word the man uttered in his latest speech now suddenly they claim they don’t keep up with the news they haven’t heard what Trump is saying and they’ll look it up later.

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        Yep. All of them become Mariah Carey when it comes to knowing anything about what Pedonald is up to, include little Mikey Johnson…

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      Oh come on. Everyone knows its Venezuela thats been doing these nasty things to mercan patriots with their narcocommunist submarine regimechange programs.