US workers are finding it difficult to afford basic necessities as the president claims ‘the economy is roaring back’
The White House insists that the affordability problem Americans like Levie report doesn’t exist. At a rally in Kentucky earlier this week, Donald Trump told the crowd: “Inflation is plummeting, income is rising, the economy is roaring back!”
Though the positive sentiment will be a tough sell for voters in the upcoming midterm elections.
After helping Congress pass huge cuts to healthcare and food assistance programs, Trump is now pushing to remove minimum wage and overtime protections for some workers. And though seven out of 10 Americans said that tariffs have led to higher prices, Trump has only doubled down on more levies.
Far from feeling like the US is in a golden age, workers said rising inflation means their paychecks can’t keep up with prices.
Pretty sure he was trying to kill Democrat voters. Because for someone who wants praise all the time, that sure was a time to easily get some. But he had other plans for that opportunity.
That was true at the beginning for sure about trying to kill Democratic voters, at least the black ones. Also: all he could think of was himself and “his” economy and his chances at reelection. Finding out these monsters were giddy about early indications that blacks were going to die in higher numbers was gross, but not all that surprising.
He didn’t give a flying fuck about any Americans, that’s for sure. That was nakedly obvious from the very beginning of the pandemic and didn’t get better.
And as you point out, it would have been one of the easiest opportunities to have people rally around their leader and have their approval numbers go sky-high, assuming that leader was in any way a normal human being with normal empathy, or at least the ability to even fake that empathy. PEDOnald has neither.