Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
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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.

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    33·
    9 days ago

    I don’t think we need a headline or a news story to know this … nothing he says means anything. The next four years is just going to be a never ending parade of bad faith, anger and anxiety.

        • Zier@fedia.io
          2·
          9 days ago

          Then we get Just Dumb Vance and the christian taliban as our overlords. An even worse cult.

          • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 days ago

            Vance doesn’t have the same cult of personality that Trump has. With him in charge I suspect the infighting would make it impossible for them to get anything done.

    • aramis87@fedia.io
      9·
      9 days ago

      I think this is just his handlers and the media setting up a backstory so that, when people start complaining about prices not coming down, their side have something to point back to to say, “Hey, no, we told you it was an issue!”