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.
I mean, inflation was effectively down to a bit over 2% in the weaning months of the Biden admin, which means it had been (for all intents and purposes) stopped.
I think it’s fair to say that (thanks to tarriffs, deregulations, and wars) Trump created inflation.
Came here to say this. What should be made clear in the headline is that donnie fucked up an economy that was called the envy of the world.
Twice. He achieved that twice. He did it in the first term when he failed to address COVID properly, and then people put him back in office where he’s already done more damage in half the time. I’m almost certain that our place on the world stage is irreversibly gone. And people continue to cheer as he yanks more and more jenga blocks without even the courtesy of a test poke. They’ll continue cheering when the tower comes crashing down. They are too dumb to recognize how fucked they are.
You should read the book Blockers. It’s infuriating as fuck.
And that’s just one author and one book. Who knows how many stories there are out there yet to be told - or may be never told - about how much donnie and his brainless accomplices have done to fuck this country up.
And as far as I know, not even one of them has paid the price for doing it. Yet.
How quaint to think he’s capable of reading an actual book in the first place…
…and that he’d read anything other than Mein Kampf or Turner Diaries
Why would you say that I’m not capable of reading an actual book? The fuck did I do?