WASHINGTON (AP) — President 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.
“Our nation is doing better now than ever before,” Trump insists while campaigning, vowing that interest rates and oil prices will plunge once the war with Iran — which he started — comes to an end.
It was never his intention or desire to stop inflation. He’s been the one deliberately causing it because he doesn’t give af about anyone else paying the price.
“failed to fix” is the same thing as “caused”? weird language. I’m quite sure the tarrifs did nothing but punish citizens for not being strong enough to stand up to this or any other asshole.
I mean to be fair inflation wasn’t exactly good before Trump came along, so he both failed to fix it and made it much worse.
“Trump fueled inflation…” Fixed it for you.
Failed to stop inflation? That’s like claiming nestle failed to ensure the supply of and rights to water for local townships they’re actively stealing water from. It’s like claiming ai tech bros failed to reign in energy sector orgs and corps from raising prices and gouging customers in order to get payoffs and pass on costs to individuals rather than their buddies in big business.
He purposefully increased inflation through intentional economic harm to play a play he has all his life - make shit drastically worse and harmful to large swaths of people and accept and force bribes in order to extort big and small players alike with promises of giving them exceptions to that harm.
Oh yeah, because fucking INFLATION of all things is what I was worried about.
The billionaires will not broadcast our dissent. Big fucking surprise.
If you didn’t already
go vote
I did early voting. Absolutely uneventful. Took 5 minutes, plus the ten minutes to walk to the place.
What’s interesting to me is that I’m absolutely sure Donald believes everything is a-okay. He is chronically online and consumes nothing but algorithmically-weighted content and Fox News, and someone who does that is living in a different reality than the one that actually exists around them.
That said, let’s all hope the two dozen or so DSA’s get elected. That’s the only shred of change we’re going to get at the national level, because centrists’ record demonstrates that they’re a-okay with price gouging and inflation too.
