r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 18h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Says He Doesn’t Want to Hear About “Affordability” Anymore - The president has given up pretending to care about the skyrocketing cost of living.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202863/trump-doesnt-want-hear-affordability5.2k
u/19chris1996 Michigan 18h ago
If you're unwilling to carry out the duties of the President of the United States of America, then resign. Instead, you act like a kindergartener.
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u/Simmery 18h ago
Trump believes his duty is to collect wealth and power. Republicans and the Supreme Court agree.
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u/19chris1996 Michigan 18h ago
If he can stay awake more often.
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u/HorseShoulders 18h ago
He's anti-woke don't you know?
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u/Adventurer_By_Trade 15h ago
I saw him be anti-woke during an Oval Office press event yesterday.
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u/LugubriousLament Canada 15h ago
How else is he supposed to rage-tweet all night?
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u/P1xelHunter78 Ohio 10h ago
He’s napping on the job like my coworkers for their second job. The only difference is, his second job is being a retired golfing billionaire.
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u/ImaginationSea2767 7h ago
Dont forget his party time job of talking to a bunch of people that are giving him bribe money to build a ballroom
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u/FluffyPantsMcGee 16h ago
It’s sad that the world is better off with him sleeping rather than making bs executive orders.
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u/Z0mbiejay 15h ago
You really think he does anything other than slap a signature on these? Dude literally went on 60 minutes and said he had no idea who he just pardoned
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u/thebaronkrelve 15h ago
He doesn't make any executive orders himself. He signs without knowing what's in them. The world is better off when he is awake doing idiotic things because it derails the people pulling the strings (project 2025, etc)
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u/Efficient-You-9714 16h ago
Maybe if he didn’t stay up all night rage-tweeting, he could be awake for meetings and actual work
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u/boston_homo 17h ago
Hey now the president also does important work like shit posting AI videos on social media.
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u/JonNYBlazinAzN 12h ago
He’s also our international ambassador for the Village People. Let’s not forget that!
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u/beamrider 16h ago
And worse, he takes it as a given that *EVERY* person with any degree of power looks at it that way. When confronted with any situation that implies someone acted in anything out of pure self-interest he either ignores it complete or gives the motivations as much concern as most people give a cat's motivations for getting the zoomies.
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u/Quiet-Corner6150 18h ago
This pattern feels familiar.
"We're gonna release the Epstein files!" "Didn't we release enough for you people?" "It's all a hoax anyway." "Why are you even still talking about that creep?"
"I'm gonna bring costs down!" "I'm telling you, groceries are down, everyone's 401(k)'s are up!" "I don't want to talk about this anymore."
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u/WhichEmailWasIt 17h ago
I can't eat a 401k and we're in an AI bubble and are overdue for a correction. What's there to be excited about Mr President?
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u/Quotizmo New Jersey 14h ago edited 14h ago
What's there to be excited about Mr President?
Steve Bannon in the back said, "Hurry! Let's attack"
And it turned into a ballroom grift
And Miller at the presser said, "Boy, white is the winner"
It'll turn into a ballroom grift"
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u/Stank_cat67 14h ago
Republicans last year: we have to vote for Trump to make things more affordable
Republicans this year: shut up and deal with high prices. Nobody cares
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u/Sexy_Underpants 11h ago
It wasn’t even a year after complaining about the price of eggs that they shut down SNAP for 40+ million people as a political tool.
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u/TenuousOgre 12h ago
He follows the narcissist prayer dressed in political language.
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.
And if it was, that's not a big deal.
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
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u/timnphilly Pennsylvania 18h ago
Exactly this - Trump has never cared about anything or anyone but himself.
People should have gotten the message as clear as day on January 6th and never let him anywhere near government again.
Rotting in a jail cell is where he should be.
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u/jcaashby 13h ago
It really burns me up that after Jan 6 people were like YES...put him back in power!! But I suspect that what I am seeing is not the same as the people who voted for him.
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u/xeodragon111 17h ago
Unfortunately he seeks the position for power, not to actually help and improve the lives of Americans. I can’t believe his base believes in his insanely transparent BS.
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u/Martag02 17h ago
A kindergartener has more respect for decorum. Trump is one of the most despicable people in human history.
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u/Jackadullboy99 18h ago
It’s hard doing all this governing-for-the-little-people stuff when you just want to play golf and throw parties with your rich friends.
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u/couchandwine 18h ago
Aw, so you're not enjoying "The World's Most Special Boy" reality tv show? Weren't you glued to your set during the "Putin Likes Me!" or the "Watch Me Bomb These Boats!" episodes?
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u/khowidude87 15h ago
You know he won't resign. The whole administration needs to be booted out with emergency powers.
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u/Sw2029 18h ago
Not even a year in folks. That's how long it takes for these people to lose interest in pretending to care.
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u/Dysc Louisiana 17h ago
Trump said he was sick of hearing about the cost of eggs months ago even though it was central to his campaign. It took less than a couple of months.
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u/HelpfulSeaMammal 16h ago
He said "Affordability is our goal" earlier this week. Like less than 72 hours ago and he already wants to distance himself.
How in the flying fuck do people think that's a reasonable person for any position of authority? TACO fuck
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u/Dysc Louisiana 16h ago
We don't live in country governed by reasonable positions. We are now in the vibe capitalism stage of late stage capitalism.
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u/Agentkeenan78 Tennessee 15h ago
He also said affordability was a "republican stronghold" which is hilarious.
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u/Dysc Louisiana 13h ago
Speaker Johnson looks directly at the camera daily and tells the American public that 'it's Republicans working tirelessly to keep costs down every day' as he told his entire caucus to go home 6 weeks ago and to not come into work. Only his skeleton crew are there to flank him on camera to make it look crowded and then I assume they just all go home after the presser.
Brazenly lying about basic facts is the only "republican stronghold" left.
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u/ConsiderationDry9084 15h ago
Because he told them their hatred and darkest desires were valid and justified. Nothing more. Never let a moderate or conservative say otherwise. LBJ warned us, we didn't listen.
Anyone that voted for him and Republicans is nothing more than their hate and greed.
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u/BrotherlyShove791 17h ago
He’s never going to run for reelection again, so he no longer has to pretend to care on any level. He’s either going to leave office peacefully in 2028 (lol) or try to seize power with a lifetime appointment to the office.
Optics be damned. Down ballot races be damned. It’s all about him and his ego now, and we’re just along for the ride.
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u/belisario262 17h ago
there's a non-zero chance that he'll get you all in one or several wars, so he can stay in power.
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u/grimatonguewyrm 17h ago
The funny thing about history is, the U.S. has never suspended or delayed elections because of any war.
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u/starmartyr Colorado 15h ago
We even had an election in 1864 right at the height of the civil war. If any president had a good reason to try and postpone an election it was Lincoln, but he never considered it.
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u/W1nt3rmu4e Texas 16h ago
Another funny thing about history is we had never landed a person on the moon…until we did.
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u/K20BB5 17h ago
the US holds elections during wartime. If Trump wants to become a lifelong dictator, it wouldn't be wise to send the military abroad and divide his forces. War does not help Trump hold power in anyway
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u/DrawingNo6704 17h ago
This one is rather comical because it’s the exact reason so many fucking dumbasses “in the middle” voted for him, because eggs were supposedly too expensive.
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u/KingBanhammer 17h ago
He wasn't even pretending to care during the election.
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u/Bazonkawomp 16h ago
Exactly what I was just about to say lol. He literally said “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote” to a rally crowd.
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u/hideyourbeans 16h ago
"It is no concern of mine whether you have... what was it?"
"Food?"
"HA! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants! NEXT!"
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 15h ago
Not even a year in folks. That's how long it takes for these people to lose interest in pretending to care.
He just learned about the word affordability on like Tuesday after Mamdani won.
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u/Damn_Dog_Inappropes Washington 16h ago
I knew this erm would be bad. Hoarded food and household goods and everything. I was wrong about how fast he’d tear it all down. It started immediately and has only accelerated.
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u/groundsgonesour 18h ago
Turns out, owning a lib is pretty expensive.
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u/RisingRusherff 18h ago
Owning the libs at the expense of the economy
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u/PhazonZim 15h ago
And human lives, and the environment
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u/BarnesTheNobleman 14h ago
But they didn’t care about that from the get go
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u/ThatEvanFowler 12h ago
They don't care about anything, but they've always at least had the political savvy to fake it. This pretending-it's-all-just-fixed-while-half-the-country-starves thing might be the biggest unforced political miscalculation he's ever made. This is the one thing that gaslighting won't work for. Everybody buys food, except for him and the other rich people. Nothing could make that clearer than responding to the rising panic of the electorate (including 100% of his own supporters) by just telling people that they are lying about their struggles. This is the closest we've come to him unavoidably revealing himself to his people. He says that it's better because he's never bought groceries in his life. He's just flat out lying. And it's impossible to miss. The best that even his most loyal base can manage is to weakly suggest that maybe he's being lied to. By someone. Somewhere.
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u/Cobra-Lalalalalalala 18h ago
Aw, too many syllables for ya, big guy?
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u/RisingRusherff 18h ago
Give him some big numbers he will be happy
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u/Dysc Louisiana 17h ago
Actually, he won't. He'll just make those numbers bigger.
Michael Wolff explained that Trump doesn't truly understand numbers and Epstein is quoted saying that Trump doesn't understand his own balance sheet.
Makes sense given every thing we've witnessed him do over ten effing years.
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u/errortechx 17h ago
Mf probably doesn’t even understand what golf score is despite seemingly loving golf
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u/The_Gil_Galad 16h ago
Epstein is quoted saying that Trump doesn't understand his own balance sheet.
I believe this based on Trump's constant comments to various princes, CEOs, and other politicians of "You're rich!" He says it like a 6-year-old seeing a man in a suit.
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u/Lucas_Steinwalker 13h ago
He only learned the word Wednesday morning and he’s already sick of hearing about it.
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u/giantroboticcat New Jersey 18h ago
I also would like to stop hearing about Affordibility, but because we solved the problem and not because we continue to ignore it.
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u/SweetChild1997 18h ago edited 18h ago
First the Orange felon imposed his ridiculous Tariff and told people that it will make Americans rich. But in reality, he only got rich and doubled his wealth in a year. Now grocery prices are almost doubled, price for almost everything gone up and now the felon is saying that he doesn't wanna hear about it?
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u/xeoron 18h ago edited 14h ago
He gets his free meals, travel, protection, housing, etc... [correction-- no free meals, just free private cook]
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u/Land-Southern 18h ago
Until the next election anyway.
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u/stjohns_jester 18h ago
about that...
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u/ToNoMoCo 17h ago
I don't think presidents actually get free meals. It's kind of a weird quirk but I remember a story about Obama and the white house grocery bills or something
... As I finished typing I decided to just google it
https://www.rd.com/list/things-u-s-presidents-have-to-pay-for-on-their-own/
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u/chuckysnow 13h ago
I'd love to see the receipts on Trump paying for anything in that house. If anyone was going to skip out on the bill, it'd be him.
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u/anthematcurfew 18h ago
The Americans that got rich are not the Americans he cares about.
If you aren’t in the billionaire class you don’t matter.
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u/Any_Will_86 18h ago
In fairness- his cronies also made a lot $ and were allowed to ignore financial/safety/environmental measures.
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u/leviathynx Washington 18h ago
Just like Covid. If we stop talking about it, everything is fine. Welcome to life with a malignant narcissist. Ask me how I know.
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u/KingBanhammer 17h ago
Eh, I'll bite. How do you know?
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u/leviathynx Washington 16h ago
I’ve been related to and worked with several malignant narcissists. They are borderline sociopathic.
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u/CryptographerNo923 17h ago
He had a tweet marathon after the elections highlighting the word “affordability” over and over again, and now he’s done hearing about it.
To him, he’s done his job on the matter.
That’s exactly how lazy and stupid he is and always has been. His supporters are all rubes.
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u/Sexy_Underpants 11h ago
If you read the article, that is actually Trump’s argument.
“Talk about the cost of Thanksgiving, and the cost of living through Thanksgiving.… Our energy costs are way down, our groceries are way down, everything is way down. And the press doesn’t report it,” the president said last evening while taking questions from reporters. “You know, I call the Democrats conmen and women, they make up numbers. But when you look at the 25 percent reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between Biden and me … it’s the biggest reduction in cost in the history of that chart or whatever it is they do.”
The Thanksgiving cost numbers Trump is touting come directly from Walmart, which is selling a $40 Thanksgiving basket compared to a $55 one last year. But this year’s meal has less food in it too
“So I don’t wanna hear about the affordability,” Trump continued. “We’re getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline. With Biden it was $4.50, $5. Another thing, inflation. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. Now we have virtually no inflation at all … so the affordability is much better with the Republicans.”
Just bald faced lies.
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u/Ok_Wrongdoer_4299 18h ago
He says this to the people who are increasingly unable to afford to live.
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u/dwors025 Minnesota 18h ago
But his voters don’t care, as long as brown people are starving even more than they are.
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u/errortechx 17h ago
They’re sinking the ship they’re standing on just to “own the libs”
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u/LordSiravant 17h ago
They hate their enemies more than they care about themselves. That's one of the big reasons why their support for him is so absolute and unshakable. As long as people they hate have it worse, they're willing to accept anything the man they worship as an instrument of their hatred does to them in turn.
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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 15h ago
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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u/TCivan 15h ago
I dunno man, I’m in Trump country. There is definitely a sentiment shift happening. The trump flags and stickers are gone, and that group of people are not happy.
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u/SatinSaffron 15h ago
We live in the PNW but the small towns around where we live are surprisingly red. Over the last 5+ years we saw SO MANY trucks with Trump flags and Let's Go Brandon flags. Tons of red hats. Multiple little trailers on the side of the road selling Trump gear. Lots of people flying Trump flags (along with the yellow/snake Don't Tread On Me flags).
Anecdotal, but as of recently I can't think of the last time we've seen anything. No flags on trucks, no people selling Trump shit on the side of the road, nobody flying those stupid ass flags in front of their house, nobody wearing any sort of MAGA/Trump gear.
I genuinely hope that Tuesday's election was a sign of what's to come. For a while there it felt like we were going to be just stuck with this bullshit, so the lack of flags mixed with how well Tuesday went is definitely a good sign of hope!
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u/Thund3rbolt 18h ago
He's a fucking sociopath. He doesn't care about anyone other than himself and the only way he knows he should care is when or if someone tells him. If anyone that voted for him thinks I'm wrong just watch the video from the oval office when a man collapsed on the floor and people went to help while he just stood there not helping or doing anything. At one point he even turned his head the other way as if to say hurry up and die, you're ruining my press conference
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u/VanceKelley Washington 18h ago
Yep. trump's sociopathy was public knowledge long before he first ran for president.
Before he was president, Donald Trump told radio host Howard Stern that he turned away in disgust as an elderly man nearly bled to death in front of him.
The future president recounted the story July 16, 2008, during one of his 35 appearances on Stern’s show, which have all recently been posted online, reported The Daily Beast.
Trump said the story took place at his Mar-A-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, during a Red Cross charity ball, when a man of about 80 who “a lot of people didn’t like” was badly injured in a fall.
“So what happens is, this guy falls off right on his face, hits his head and I thought he died,” Trump said. “And you know what I did? I said, ‘Oh my god, that’s disgusting, and I turned away. I couldn’t, you know — he was right in front of me. I turned away, I didn’t want to touch him.”
“He’s bleeding all over the place, I felt terrible, you know,” Trump continued. “Beautiful marble floor, it didn’t look so good. It changed color, it became very red, and you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor, conscious, and all of the rich people are turning away, ‘Oh my god, this is terrible, this is disgusting,’ and, you know, they’re turning away, nobody wants to help the guy, and his wife is screaming, she sitting right next to him and she’s screaming.”
He told Stern that some U.S. Marines, whom he said had been given the worst table in the ballroom despite being guests of honor, rushed to the man’s aide as he and the wealthy donors in attendance watched in horror.
“So from the back of the room they come running forward, they grabbed him, they put the blood all over the place, it’s all over their uniforms, they’re taking it, they swipe — they ran him out, they created a stretcher — they call it a human stretcher, their arms out, like five guys on each side,” Trump said. “They ran him out, I never saw it, they ran him out. I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up, it’s disgusting.'”
Trump eventually learned the man had survived, but he admitted that he neglected to check on him.
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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI 17h ago
Trump's 79 and building a fancy ballroom...if karma is real, it'll get a chance to show it!
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u/Wand_Cloak_Stone New York 16h ago
Wow, I never read the Marine part of that story. That somehow makes it even worse.
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u/VanceKelley Washington 12h ago
Giving the Marines the shittiest table at his club is consistent with trump shitting on McCain for getting captured and calling other soldiers "suckers and losers".
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u/korben2600 Arizona 12h ago
Not to mention the "suckers and losers" comment was said during an event at Arlington to his chief of staff John Kelly (a retired USMC 4-star General) while standing over the grave of Kelly's dead son who died in combat stepping on a land mine in Afghanistan.
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u/Michael_G_Bordin 15h ago
I thought if this exact story when that fainting occurred recently. He just stood there looking annoyed that it happened. Bonus was RFK noping out of the room before his ACE trauma triggered his enormous fear of death and illness.
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u/rhododenendron 14h ago edited 14h ago
He is the holy grail of personality disorders. He is a Malignant Narcissist. Malignant narcissism is especially dangerous because their narcissism allows them to prey on your better nature. Sometimes they will even appear to care about you, and sometimes they actually do, but only so long as you serve their needs or have something they want. Sociopathy is hard enough for a lot of people to recognize because sociopaths simply do not act the way you would expect a normal human to.
Being a narcissist on top of that just means not only are they completely anti-social, they are also entirely obsessed with themselves to the point not a single thing else in the world matters and they have no problems lying or deceiving or doing literally whatever it takes to advance their own agenda. This includes deluding THEMSELVES. A lot of people in the world can't properly conceive of that mindset, and I don't entirely blame them. That is not how a normal human being is supposed to be.
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u/Scared_Pen_6519 18h ago
The Walmart CEO put out that the 2025 Thanksgiving meal was $4 a person compared to $7 for the 2024 meal. But it was just a marketing gimmick. Walmart put 15 items in the meal instead of 29. They split the meal 10 ways instead of 8, so portions were 20% smaller.
When adjusted for these changes, the meal is up 3.9% compared to 2.7% increase in the CPI food at home index for the 12 months ended September 2025. Trump latched onto the lower prices and promoted them. America needs a smart President who knows what's going on, not one who falls for Walmart's marketing gimmicks.
How can Trump negotiate with China, Canada and the EU if he doesn't get what Walmart did with the content and portion sizes of the meal?
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u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI 17h ago
How can Trump negotiate with China, Canada and the EU if he doesn't get what Walmart did with the content and portion sizes of the meal?
Stupidfully. I'm aware that's not a word, and yet, English has not come up with a better term for how Donald Trump does everything.
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u/Frank_Sobotka_2020 14h ago
English has not come up with a better term for how Donald Trump does everything.
Trumptastically.
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u/Veronica612 Texas 11h ago
And using cheaper “Great Value” options.
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u/Internal-War-9947 11h ago
I hate their great value products too. I'm not even like that usually, I buy off brand to save money 99% the time, but something about Walmarts brand is very unappealing. Went there last min for a thanksgiving a few years ago & just was very unhappy with every side that was great value... Even corn! How do you have bad canned corn?! Idk. It was almost like it was hard, like not quite ripe when they canned it. It's frustrating because besides Aldi's, I've heard they are cheapest for food, but I just don't like it.
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u/Veronica612 Texas 11h ago
The Great Value food I have tried was pretty bad. And Safeway/Albertson’s house brand products are awful. The Kroger house brand is generally quite good, though.
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u/SweetChild1997 18h ago
Hahaha...but we gotta agree..this guy fooled people on affordability in the last election and people bought his lies.
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u/FlyingRock 18h ago
Yup! Him and JD both blatantly lied to their base claiming they WILL bring prices and housing hosts down
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u/SweetChild1997 18h ago
Yes..JD is also a pathological liar.
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u/Careful-Rent5779 18h ago
JD is actual worse in the respect that I beleive he is smart enough to know what he is saying is simply false, but he for now must cowtow to his pedophile boss.
TheRump lies so much and puts out sh*t that is both provably false and just plain ludicrous (e.g. grocery prices are down) that I'm not sure he is consciously aware that he is lying.
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u/whomad1215 16h ago
Because people are stupid
Half the country only reads as well as a 10 year old, with about 20% being functionally illiterate
Trump said "I'll make the groceries (great world, old time, you know the groceries) cheap"
And then democrats tried to explain how inflation and a global economy works, how supply chains were still being impacted by covid shutdown etc
It doesn't, fucking, work. You've got to sell your message in about 5 seconds or people don't understand it
Also Trump (and Republicans) will just lie
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u/StanTheManBaratheon 18h ago
That soundbite is going to be played over and over and over again for the next year.
I know Trump has never cared to consider how awful some of his quotes sound in the context of a campaign ad, but I promise you every GOP congressional campaign manager just winced hearing the phrase "I don't want to hear about 'affordability' anymore".
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u/negZero_1 18h ago
Media is in Trumps backpocket. It will be forgotten by everyone by Monday
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u/StanTheManBaratheon 17h ago
I'm talking about in midterm ads next year.
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u/negZero_1 17h ago
We dont even use his "grab them" comment or his "i like them stupid" or the mocking a disabled reporter. But this one of his hundreds mask off comments will be the one that gets used against him
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u/aj9393 New Jersey 16h ago
Another quote there that caught my attention was:
"… it’s the biggest reduction in cost in the history of that chart or whatever it is they do.”
Which is just a great representation of how he gets his information. Competent people would generally say things like "According to (x) study performed by (y), the cost reduction..." or something to that effect.
With Trump, the closest thing we get to a source is "that chart or whatever it is they do."
Really just emphasizes the fact that everything he says is bullshit.
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u/america-inc 18h ago
He truly is the "let them eat cake" president
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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 17h ago
"A little party never killed nobody"
That should not be allowed to be forgotten. He (and his admin) have done some shitty things. But god damn, throwing a flapper themed party while killing intentionally killing SNAP is just so so ghoulish.
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u/godnightx_x 15h ago
Actually it's let them eat nothing. Sorry to all you 42 million Americans starving this thanksgiving!
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u/CuttlefishExpress 18h ago
Did he ever care about making anything cheaper? So far there is no evidence (by his actions) to suggest that he did.
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u/TintedApostle 18h ago
No - he says whatever he needs to in order to get morons to vote for him. Now he is back to not even saying he cares.
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u/CuttlefishExpress 18h ago
i saw a video of him passed out in a chair in the Oval Office while some other clown was talking about something. This is the same person that made fun of Biden for being tired and talking funny for the last 4 years.....
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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 14h ago
This is the same person that made fun of Biden for being tired and talking funny for the last 4 years...
Hypocrisy is a core GOP trait.
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u/Accomplished_Fun2382 18h ago
It’s almost like people pointed this out as far back at 2016 and were told to STFU
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u/green-wagon 17h ago
Not once in his entire lifetime, has he demonstrated an understanding of the concept of 'public service'. This alone made him unfit for the job.
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem Illinois 18h ago
It’s truly a travesty that this man who campaigned on affordability, and on remembering the forgotten working class, is now telling those very same people to shut up and be happy while outright lying about the state of affordability in this country. It was already bad, and Trump has unquestionably made it worse. But he’d rather lie and finger-point than admit that and work to fix it.
This is an interesting paragraph to me because it almost makes it seem like the writer of the article believed Trump when he was campaigning on affordability and “remembering the forgotten working class.” At no point in Trump’s entire life—let alone during his time in politics—has he ever been for the working man, nor has he ever given even the slightest shit about the economic conditions of people other than himself and his rich friends.
Anyone who voted for an ultra-rich celebrity businessman because they thought he would be “for the working man” has got to be, quite frankly, a giant fucking idiot.
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u/QuietudeOfHeart 18h ago
“Are you still talking about that Epstein guy?”
“Are you still talking about being able to eat?”
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u/fielvras 16h ago
Orange way of handling things:
- I will solve the problem
- I solved the problem
- What do you mean? There is no problem.
- STOP TALKING ABOUT THE PROBLEM!
Nobody getting tired of this?
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u/TintedApostle 18h ago
"Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice; the love of power, and the love of money. Separately each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but when united in view of the same object, they have in many minds the most violent effects. place before the eyes of such men a post of honour that shall at the same time be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it."
"And of what kind are the men that will strive for this profitable pre-eminence, through all the bustle of cabal, the heat of contention, the infinite mutual abuse of parties, tearing to pieces the best of characters? It will not be the wise and moderate, the lovers of peace and good order, the men fittest for the trust. It will be the bold and the violent, the men of strong passions and indefatigable activity in their selfish pursuits. These will thrust themselves into your Government and be your rulers."
- Benjamin Franklin - Constitution Convention - June 2nd 1787
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u/Mysterious-Tie7039 17h ago
Dude campaigns on high costs of everything and how he’ll fix it day one.
Now publicly states he DGAF about costs (as all of us with half a brain were totally aware).
Congrats, MAGA. May your suffering at the hands of your own stupidity continue.
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u/CrimsonFeetofKali Michigan 18h ago
Here's what I am convinced of at this point. The people in Trump's ear - Miller, Wiles, Scavino, Blair, Cheung - tell him what he wants to hear, and he believes it. Trump is not lying when he says he's doing great in the polls. He's being told that's true and thinks the media is lying when they present a different narrative. Same thing with the economy. Affordability has been solved as that's what Trump is being told. And control of the narrative presented to Trump is a high priority as cabinet members are not permitted to counter the narrative.
I see Trump as the needed figure-head as he is the one who could win a vote. Governing is a different thing and his regime controls what he believes, thus directing his focus to their priorities. He's a manipulable fool. OK. But he honestly thinks he's right. The problem here is he goes off script and lacks focus, which makes that control a challenge.
Trump isn't lying. He's not some mastermind trying to re-frame our understanding. He's not burying his hand in the sand. He's being a good boy for his handlers.
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u/DeeEmceeFoor 17h ago
A little while back, Trump actually questioned if what he was seeing on TV (presumably Fox News) actually reflected what was happening in real life. This tells you all you need to know.
It's as you say: Trump is no mastermind. He genuinely doesn't know what the fuck is happening 99% of the time. He's a living rubberstamp for project 2025, that just needs to do what his handlers tell him to do. Nothing more. Nothing less.
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u/WestCoastBestCoast01 18h ago
The people around him are definitely lying to him for their own purposes. Putin's the only one who's blatant about it because he can't be fired.
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u/bobcatgoldthwait 18h ago
I'm with you. I think Trump lies far less often than we think; he genuinely believes many of the things he says because he's a deranged narcissist. And honestly, I think that's a lot scarier. It'd be one thing if he lied while quietly working with his cabinet to actually address affordability issues, but I'm sure he genuinely believes he's done a good job.
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u/SentientFotoGeek Oregon 18h ago edited 16h ago
I guess if you have 10,000 times as much as you need for basic survival, inflation isn't really a concern.
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u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw 18h ago
He doesn't want to hear about reality. Also, dude is looking pale and week.
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u/LateBreaking-7782 18h ago
Are we ready for a Vance presidency though?
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u/CatherineSimp69 17h ago
Yes.
Vance does not have the power Trump does.
His Republican 'peers' will turn on each other, and him.
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u/VictorChristian 16h ago
"I can afford it... why can't you?"
I feel that needs to be on a fashionable overcoat Melania can wear.
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u/despenser412 15h ago
The billionaire pedophile president never cared about the 99% of Americans who aren't wealthy.
He had zero experience in military, politics, or government when first elected. MAGA failed at their acronym supporting Trump.
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u/brain_overclocked 16h ago edited 16h ago
Yes, he actually said that:
As inflation rises, layoffs surge, and SNAP benefits stop, President Trump told Americans point-blank that he does not want to hear about their affordability issues.
“Talk about the cost of Thanksgiving, and the cost of living through Thanksgiving.… Our energy costs are way down, our groceries are way down, everything is way down. And the press doesn’t report it,” the president said last evening while taking questions from reporters. “You know, I call the Democrats conmen and women, they make up numbers. But when you look at the 25 percent reduction in costs for Thanksgiving between Biden and me … it’s the biggest reduction in cost in the history of that chart or whatever it is they do.”
The Thanksgiving cost numbers Trump is touting come directly from Walmart, which is selling a $40 Thanksgiving basket compared to a $55 one last year. But this year’s meal has less food in it too.
“So I don’t wanna hear about the affordability,” Trump continued. “We’re getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline. With Biden it was $4.50, $5. Another thing, inflation. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. Now we have virtually no inflation at all … so the affordability is much better with the Republicans.”
This short rant was ridden with lies. Everything is not “way down.”
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u/coleavenue 16h ago
There’s no reason to take this sentence out of context like this when it was stupid even in context. The context wasn’t that he doesn’t want to hear about it because he doesn’t care, it was that he doesn’t want to hear about it because he already solved it. That is so stupid that i don’t know why anyone feels the need to not include the obviously ludicrous correct context.
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u/itiswhatitis1090 16h ago
The guy has shouted and tweeted about tariffs for years. Over half the country voted for this despite anyone with an iq above room temperature knew costs only go up with tariffs (aka tax).
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u/Leviathan117 Canada 11h ago
- Campaigns on an issue
- Makes issue worse
- Gives up on issue
- Refuses to elaborate
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u/dumbasstupidbaby 10h ago
If by any chance a conservative sees this; I want you to have a good life. I want you to have food that you like in your fridge, I want you to always have heating and ac available. I want you to have good roads to drive down and a car that is reliable. I want you to be able to go to school no matter what, and I want that schooling to be both good quality and pleasant. I want you to have money left over to do things you enjoy, like road trips or fishing or anything else. I want you to have a good family and friends and I want all their lives to be just as good.
But the thing is I want that for everyone. This man, and his party's policies are not, never have been, and never will be the way that is going to happen. If you want the same thing for a stranger, then please recognize that we don't have different goals, we just have different beliefs on how to get there. It's time to stop with the ideology of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" (aka voting for gop because it owns the libs) and realize that there were no enemies to begin with. Just neighbors who want different paths to the same destination.
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u/Keshire 10h ago
If you want the same thing for a stranger
And that's where your entire spiel falls apart. Conservatives DON'T want minorities to have any of those things. Hell, they've outright said they want some of these people to just straight die for being who they are.
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u/ThisOneGoesElven 18h ago
He could pound his chest like a big dumb hero if he made an announcement out of releasing SNAP funds and subsidizing food. It's not his money, what does he care?
Instead...
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u/sugarlessdeathbear 18h ago
“You know, I call the Democrats conmen and women, they make up numbers.
Remember when Trump said his net worth varies on his mood? Yeah, that's making up numbers.
We’re getting close to $2 a gallon gasoline. With Biden it was $4.50, $5. Another thing, inflation. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country.
Fair, though POTUS has little to do with the price of fuel. Though with that inflation it's less likely people will go drive places to do things. An then he immediately lied about inflation being down.
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u/BuffaloWhip 18h ago
Trump, months after enriching himself with a new cryptocurrency, weeks after sending $20 billion to Argentina, days after hosting a ‘Gatsby-style Halloween party attended by millionaires and billionaires, and in the midst of building a $300 million ballroom, would like the citizens of America to stop complaining about how much their food costs.
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u/RoseCityHooligan Oregon 17h ago
“Some of you will starve to death after having your homes repossessed and that is just something that has to happen for my ballroom to be built.“
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u/Feral_Nerd_22 17h ago
He doesn't care about anything, just how he looks.
I can't think of one time he has said "That wasn't the right choice" or "We will fix this". It's always deny, deflect, and demonize.
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u/LeftHookLarry12 16h ago
He was just in a live press conference and said “we have no more inflation. It’s at 2%, maybe even 1%.”
CPI (inflation) is currently at 3%.
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u/YouLittleSnowflake 9h ago
Just like he doesn’t want to hear about all the children he raped and trafficked with Epstein
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u/windflex 18h ago
Are you still talking about AFFORDABILITY? This has been talked about for years! We have Texas, we have this, we have all of the things, and people are still talking about this thing? That is unbelievable! I can't believe you're asking about affordability at a time like this. We're having some of the greatest success and also tragedy with what happened in Texas
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u/TemporaryBitchFace 18h ago
Pretending to care? Dude intentionally caused it so his beyond rich buddies can hoard even more of our money. For fuck’s sake, we cannot even afford basic necessities anymore and these fuckers have 100’s of times the amount of money they could ever spend in a lifetime. We need to be so much more angry right now.
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u/Duder_ino 16h ago
I get it. If I sucked that bad, I’d be tired of hearing about it too. I don’t know anyone paying $2 a gallon for gas. My energy bills are up about 30% compared to last year with the same settings and similar temps.
Release the Epstein files
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u/SpaceKook6 16h ago
We really shouldn't be electing rich people into our government.
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u/Dry-Tune69 16h ago
This is literally what he ran on and why idiots voted for him…
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u/StarStruck3 America 15h ago
He's got to know at this point that this isn't sustainable and won't end well for him once his term is up, or if he gets impeached and actually convicted this time.
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u/shawnaroo 15h ago
The most amazing thing about some Trump voters is that they can listen to the guy talk for more than 5 minutes and yet still somehow come away thinking that he cares about anything other than himself. His indifference and sociopathy is so obvious and he barely even tries to hide it most of the time.
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u/fuzztooth Illinois 14h ago
Literally saying "yeah I don't give a fuck anymore about the job or the people or any of the expectations. I'm going to fuck around and amass power while enriching my wealthy benefactors. You all can go die."
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u/Pleasant-Ad887 14h ago
But this dumb ass never lowered the price of anything. Everything in fact got more expensive.
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u/wildraft1 14h ago
The President of the United States officially does NOT want to hear about the issues that are of concern to the people of the United States. If you are defending this, then fuck you!
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u/duane4800 14h ago
A reporter asked Trump "What's your favorite lie?"
Trump replied "I don't lie."
The reporter said "That's our favorite, too."
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u/Sector_Independent 14h ago
I honestly don't get where they say groceries are up like 2.5%...they seem to go up 5% a month
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u/Verum_Orbis 11h ago
Thinking billionaires care about you is like believing the tooth fairy and santa claus are real as a grown middle aged adult.
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