Trump on grocery prices: "It's hard to bring things down once they're up."
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Depends on how you heard him,.. Prices, in general, never come down, and the negative inflation required to actually make that happen would be very bad for the economy as a whole,.. But one way to make higher prices feel acceptable is to put more money in people pockets via wage growth... A bottle of domestic beer used to be $1 whereas now it's more like $5, but it actually feels less expensive to me now than it did back in the day...
Talk about mental gymnastics.
Better jump shot, too. Some say the best jump shot ever. 40 inch vertical leap. Many people said he should have gone into the NBA.
Projection. I guess you didn't understand the concise explanation in post 18. This is EXACTLY what's happening. Sorry you don't get it.
what about my eggs????????????
Killing more chickens as we speak,.. Eggs will be through the roof come Easter.
Please show us where, at any point, that Trump explained it like this.
You say spin, i say hes a LIAR.
what about my eggs????????????
They're my eggs and I want them now!
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Everybody with a brain knows companies, corporations are NOT going to cut their profit margins for a crazy old man that thinks he can control prices, products.
I lean more towards spin personally. He usually has always delivered massive word salads that deliver just enough kernels of accurate information that his followers could latch onto those as to what he actually meant. See rifler’s last few posts.
BuT dA bAcOn PrIcEswhat about my eggs????????????
His responses are so bot-like. I’m not sure he even thinks first.
He'll be along in a minute with a post using "lol" more than a teenage girl sending texts.
Or derp. I pointed him to the post that perfectly explained this to him and he laughed. Willful ignorance should be a sin.
So trump lies to get elected and people call him out. maga bitching about prices for 4 years tells us people voted for trump for prices to come down (supposedly) since he told us they would. Now the truth comes out and maga still defends that fat orange twat. You people are delusional. I figured the cult would’ve slowed a bit post election. But nope full steam ahead on the dumb ****ness.
You are correct, no one can lower prices on groceries outside of a few items. The goal is to stop or drastically lower the price increases that the democrats created by spending 1.5 trillion dollars on pet projects and Trump will lower energy prices which have an effect on prices of everything.
Just one more lie the maga cult was a dumb enough to buy into. Can you spell " let's build a wall and Mexico will pay for it?" Bone spurs is already going back on his promises. Did anyone think he would do differently? The cult members are such dupes it's laughable.
This X1000. Bending over backwards to try to explain his immediately happening lies.
How exactly will he lower energy prices?
They think that drill baby still passes onto the consumer.
Just curious when he said he would make eggs cheaper? Gas, sure, because he knows by increasing supply it can go down.
The current administration simply took credit for prices not going up as much as they were, but if you can have policies and actions that limit inflation (which is there every year) then that's a win
He won't. It was just one more lie he was willing to sell to the cult members to get their vote. And they're morons enough to believe it. It all comes back to land on the dupes that voted for him because they believed his outlandush lies, again. His failed presidency will rest on the morons that elected him.
In fairness, as a general matter, we've had what, like 2 periods of deflation in the last 100 years? (And neither of them were good.)
Now of course, when you get to the level of individual components of the economy (eg, food prices or more specifically, say, "eggs"), some go up and down. (Indeed, I read an interesting piece the other day about the "Waller Rule" - a focus on individual economic subcomponent prices rather than broad-based indices - that Fed governors and observers may be looking at more when considering interest rate decisions.) Aside from dietary changes affecting things like demand, my wild guess is that distribution costs may be as big a driver of food prices as production costs are. Those can be influenced by everything from merger policy, to tax policy, to energy policy, to trade policy, and beyond. Plenty of levers to try to pull.
Now of course, when you get to the level of individual components of the economy (eg, food prices or more specifically, say, "eggs"), some go up and down. (Indeed, I read an interesting piece the other day about the "Waller Rule" - a focus on individual economic subcomponent prices rather than broad-based indices - that Fed governors and observers may be looking at more when considering interest rate decisions.) Aside from dietary changes affecting things like demand, my wild guess is that distribution costs may be as big a driver of food prices as production costs are. Those can be influenced by everything from merger policy, to tax policy, to energy policy, to trade policy, and beyond. Plenty of levers to try to pull.
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I don’t know about eggs alone. But he absolutely said he would make groceries cheaper. Hell in the quote I provided he said he would make the price of everything come down fast.
I don’t know why Trump is immune to accountability, but he sure as hell seems to be given how many morons are accepting his hard pivot away from his campaign promises.
Trump in August: "From the day I take the oath of office, we’ll rapidly drive prices down, and make America affordable again. Prices will come down. You just watch. They’ll come down and they’ll come down fast."
So was Trump ... lying???
I'm guessing a lot of people heard things like this and took him for his word.
Quote of relevance to groceries and thus eggs: "So when I win, I will immediately bring prices down." -Donald Trump (August 16, 2024)
Starts at :50
This is going to be great. I can’t wait.
When the tariffs and immigration and a bird flu pandemic kick in I’m going to laugh as we all buy our $15 eggs.
When the tariffs and immigration and a bird flu pandemic kick in I’m going to laugh as we all buy our $15 eggs.
Trump backtracking already on campaign promises.
Republicans constantly campaigned on the issue of high food prices and people believed they would lower them, EVEN THOUGH WE TOLD YOU THEY WOULDN'T. Now they will do what we said they would do AHEAD OF TIME. But none of that mattered to you because it was democrats saying it. We're constantly correct, ahead of time, and you guys ignore it. Funny and sad.
This expectation is not based on anything all the experts are saying. Rather on your man-crush on a total piece of shit.
You're just too simple to understand what he means.
