Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
www.huffpost.com
The president-elect walked back what was always a wildly unrealistic campaign promise.

Summary

Trump admitted it will be difficult to lower consumer prices, despite campaign promises to reduce grocery, energy, and overall inflation costs.

Trump told Time that achieving price reductions is rare without major economic downturns.

During the campaign, Trump blamed rising costs on Democratic leadership and proposed tariffs as a solution, but economists warn tariffs could raise prices further.

Inflation, a key voter concern, played a significant role in Trump’s election victory, though he has yet to outline a clear plan to deliver on his economic pledges.

    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      33·
      8 hours ago

      The absolute crazy thing is the energy prices. He said he’d cut energy prices in HALF within 12 months. Then he said it again. And again. He like quadrupled down on this and people actually bought it. This dude legitimately promised that all energy prices would be fucking halved in 12 months. I will eat my entire piece of shit car if that happens lol

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      105·
      10 hours ago

      my prediction is that they’ll eventually just start saying “we DID lower prices. for everything” even though every graph will show that the prices have perpetually gone up. for everything. and all the complete fucking moron troompa loompa voters will 100% believe that prices have gone down

      • AmidFuror@fedia.io
        44·
        10 hours ago

        The graphs will indeed show that prices dropped, but that part will be in Sharpie ink.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        10 hours ago

        “The price to buy a Banana has fallen from 3 Dogecoin to 1 Dogecoin. Who cares if it went up in dollars?”

      • blattrules@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 hours ago

        For sure this is going to happen; the only thing they took away from this election was that they can say whatever they want and push back on any kind of fact checking and they’ll just get rewarded for it.