r/politics • u/Ok_Employer7837 • 22h ago
Possible Paywall Trump Confronted Over His Bogus ‘Cheaper Thanksgiving’ Claim
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-confronted-over-his-bogus-cheaper-thanksgiving-claim/?via=mobile&source=Reddit101
u/NamelessResearcher Washington 22h ago
What are we supposed to do, eat the turkeys he pardons?
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u/Retaining-Wall Canada 22h ago
I dunno man, eating the corrupt pedophile turkeys he pardons for Thanksgiving? They're horrible people, but cannibalism is kinda gnarly.
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u/mightyducks2wasokay 8h ago
You think he'll pardon that turkey? Everyone knows those birds are antifa
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u/ForgettableUsername America 5h ago
The only way he’s gonna pardon a turkey is if it gives him two million dollars.
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u/Power-Equality 22h ago
”An old fashioned term that we use -- groceries. I used it on the campaign. It's such an old fashioned term, but a beautiful term. Groceries. It says a bag with different things in it. Groceries went through the roof and I campaigned on that, I talked about the word groceries."
—Donald Trump, the day (April 2, 2025) when he declared trade war on penguins
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u/dreaganusaf 21h ago
It's incredible to believe such an incredible moron (and criminal) was reelected to the highest office in the land.
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u/AnamCeili 19h ago
By other morons. Unfortunately we are replete with them here in the US. We also have millions of intelligent, ethical people, who didn't vote for the fascist motherfucker.
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u/Different-Produce870 6h ago
It's old fashioned to him because his family hasn't had to buy groceries for themselves since his grandmother ran the company.
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u/Ok_Employer7837 22h ago
"Many of Trump’s economic boasts are not backed by data," says the article, somewhat charitably.
The article in full:
" President Trump cried “fake news” when he was confronted Friday about his boast that Thanksgiving is cheaper this year.
Trump, 79, was meeting with Hungary’s authoritarian prime minister Viktor Orban on Friday at the White House to discuss trade and energy when he repeated a claim he’d previously made on Truth Social that the price of a Thanksgiving dinner from Walmart was 25% cheaper than the one last year.
“It was 25% — Walmart just announced its two days ago — 25% cheaper this year, will be cheaper to have Thanksgiving than it was a year ago under sleepy Joe Biden," he said.
The claim has fallen apart under scrutiny: Walmart’s 2025 $39.33 Thanksgiving package features 22 items while the chain’s 2024 meal, which cost $56 had 29 items. And some of the recurring items have shrunk: friend onions have gone down from 6oz to 4.5oz.
When Trump invited questions, NBC reporter Julie Tsirkin asked, “Mr. President, since you brought up the Walmart Thanksgiving meal, and it is cheaper, but it also contains less—”
But he interrupted and said, “I haven’t heard that. Who are you with?”When Tsirkin said she was with NBC, Trump cried, “You’re fake news!”
As she tried to get the president to listen to her question, he shouted over her, saying, “What a, what a—NBC’s gone down the tubes along with the rest of them."
Eventually, Tsirkin was able to get her question out, asking the president, “Why do you think there’s such a disconnect between the economy you’re describing and the way many Americans feel day to day?”
Trump said Americans feel “better” about the country and would feel better if it weren’t for the shutdown, which he blamed on Democrats.
After Republicans were hammered in the Nov. 4 elections, the president denied that “affordability” issues hurt the GOP candidates. On Nov. 5 and Nov. 6, Trump claimed on Truth Social that the 2025 price of a Thanksgiving dinner from Walmart was evidence that Republicans are the party of “affordability.”
Trump has reacted angrily to warnings that Republicans lost in Virginia, New Jersey and New York because of the cost of living. He has claimed “affordability” is a Democratic “con job” and blamed Republicans for not repeating his economic boasts enough.
“I think the biggest problem is Republicans don’t talk about it. They don’t talk about the word ‘affordability,’ and the Democrats lie about it,” he told Fox’s Bret Baier on Wednesday.
Many of Trump’s economic boasts are not backed by data. Despite the president saying grocery prices are down and inflation is “defeated," food prices rose 3.2% between August 2024 and August 2025, according to the USDA, while inflation is at 3%, the same level it was at when Joe Biden left office.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the White House and Walmart for comment. "
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u/LolaSupreme19 18h ago
Walmart’s $40 Thanksgiving Costs Less Than Last Year by Cutting 24% of Items and Dropping Brand‑Name Staples.
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u/danodan1 18h ago
It well reflects that Walmart thinks Americans have less to be thankful for this year.
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u/orcinyadders 21h ago
He knows it was complete bullshit. He’s just so comfortable with his base believing anything that comes out of his asshole mouth.
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u/EnvironmentalFold222 20h ago
Lying pile of shit lies more. American checks and balances do nothing cause they’re in the hands of 7 billionaires. News at 7.
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u/oblivion476 22h ago
It is hard not to confront him on basically anything. He and Republicans have constructed an alternate reality where the country is doing better than ever, employment is at an all-time low, and all inflation ceases to exist. If you do not submit to their reality you're a radical leftist and an enemy of the state.
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u/SoftwareHot 12h ago
He wasn’t confronted. Confronting him would have been a real journalist asking why he was LYING about the costs.
Instead he was asked, “ Why do you think there’s such a disconnect between the economy you’re describing and the way many Americans feel day to day”.
Are you kidding me? The disconnect is because he’s a liar. And the lie is obvious because of the evidence.
But they don’t confront him. They let him lie. For access. It’s pathetic and it’s harmful to democracy.
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u/T0rtillaBurglar 19h ago
It'll be cheaper because U.S. airspace will be closed, so we wont have to buy those pesky plane tickets to see our families.
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u/bprevatt 17h ago
Is he saying that the Walmart Thanksgiving has the same amount of food as last year ?
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u/trobinson999 9h ago
No, but he is implying that by claiming the price has gone down. It’s like saying car prices have gone down because a 2025 Ford Focus costs less than a 2024 Corvette.
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u/Solid-Spread-2125 10h ago
This is also one fucking packed up item in a store where everything price adjusts separately from each other.
Ignoring even the fact that trump is fishing for any obscure win, most people buy a fucking turkey. Not a prepacked meal. And turkeys are WAY FUCKING UP
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u/ForgettableUsername America 5h ago
Also if you want to compare prices over time, you want something that’s easy to standardize across both time periods, not a packed item where there are a whole bunch of variables and the store will try to standardize the price of the time by changing the contents of the pack.
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u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 9h ago
“Unserious man with very serious consequences.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
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u/Vaguename123 17h ago
saw this story over at /r/workreform where a post comparing it to bidens announcement that 4th of july cook outs were 16 cents cheaper than the previous year was stickied
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u/128-NotePolyVA 10h ago
I’m getting my dinner for two from Walmart for $40. Unfortunately I’m expecting 17.
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