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Donald Trump on high prices: ‘I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down.’

Chris Graham
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White voters were the backbone of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and the chief issue for them, supposedly, was high prices, which Trump promised repeatedly on the campaign trail would come down immediately if he was in charge.

The guy’s not even president again yet, and he’s already walking it back.

“I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard,” Trump told Time, in the interview with the magazine for its “Person of the Year” issue.

This is a 180 from Trump on the campaign trail, who, for instance, at an August campaign rally, said “prices will come down, you just watch, they’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast.”

This was The Trumper at a rally in September:

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

He even said it again last week, at the Fox Nation “Patriot Awards” made-for-TV MAGA masturbation-fest:

“We’re going to get your prices down.”

He sold y’all a bill of goods, literally.

From the emphatic tones of as recently as a week ago, now Trump is all, “the supply chain is broken.”

He actually used that as the excuse in his sit-down with Time.

“You go out to the docks, and you see all these containers. And I own property in California, in Palos Verdes. They’re very nice. And I passed the docks, and I’ve been doing it for 20 years. I’ve never seen anything like it. You know, for 17 years, I saw containers and, you know, they’d come off and they’d be taken away, big areas, you know, you know, in that area, you know, where they have the big, the big ships coming in, big, the port. And I’d see this for years as I was out there inspecting property and things, because they own a lot in California. And I look down, and I see containers that are, that are 12, 13, 14 containers, you wouldn’t believe they can hold each other. It’s, like, crazy. No, the supply chain is, is broken.”

Somewhere in that, he calls it a weave, is him telling you, you’re still going to be paying a lot for eggs.

 

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Chris Graham

Chris Graham

Chris Graham is the founder and editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1994 alum of the University of Virginia, Chris is the author and co-author of seven books, including Poverty of Imagination, a memoir published in 2019. For his commentaries on news, sports and politics, go to his YouTube page, TikTok, BlueSky, or subscribe to his Street Knowledge podcast. Email Chris at [email protected]. Support AFP by signing up for our newsletter and/or powering our work with a one-time or monthly contribution.

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