Trump backtracks on campaign pledge to bring down grocery prices
Trump backtracks on campaign pledge to bring down grocery prices
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.
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This is super clickbait. What's Trump's actual quote?
I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.
That doesn't scream "backtracks on promise to me". Actually, if anything, he's saying that he'd still like to do it and he thinks they will. I mean, the other thing is he hasn't even taken over, so we can't really say he's failed at anything. Look, I don't like the guy very much either, but let's save our outrage when he's actually fucked up. Headlines like this is when some lazy editor just needs to crank a story out there.
If I asked someone if they like ice cream and they say "I'd like to get it. It's hard not to have it, but I think I will", the headline shouldn't be "LOCAL MAN HATES ICE CREAM". Fuck off lazy journalists and wake me up when something actually happens.
"Guys, the iceberg wasn't even that big. I'm as skeptical of the Titanic's engineers as the next guy, but right now, my side of the ship is farther out of the water than it's ever been. Wake me up when the ship ACTUALLY starts sinking."