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.
For the jackoffs that voted for PEDOnald, I’d love for them to explain why they expected otherwise. He is a Republican, after all. When has a Republican last been a responsible steward of the economy?
The guy couldn’t even do the most basic of shit when it came to a pandemic, FFS.
The guy couldn’t even do the most basic of shit when it came to a pandemic, FFS.
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.
To be fair Biden didn’t do any good in the pandemic during his time overlapping it either.
Like deploying the military to launch an immediate Emergency Covid Vaccination Plan that hit its objectives in half the time, saving millions of lives?
Trump could have done that, but he was fully obsessed with planning his Insurrection, instead of getting the new vaccine out to the citizens.
I’m not even sure what that means.
That Biden had a terrible covid response that contributed to many unnecessary deaths too. What isn’t clear?
Gotta get that both sides in there.
Stock up on your stickers now!
Can’t wait for the extreme outage from the maga idiots who both put the Biden stickers on the pump, but are absolutely appalled at the trump stickers.
Everything went up months ago. I guess the media is just now catching on?
Number of wars? Going up!
(Sorry – special operations – or whatever the latest buzzword is.)
Hey the stock market is going down though!
The stock market going down isn’t the problem if you know when it is going to go down.
That’s why his handlers have been having him pump it up and down every month.
It just isn’t working like it used to because 🌮
And my bank account savings as well
I was told “affordability” was a made up phrase by democrats to hurt Trump. Are you saying it is a real issue? Am I suppose to believe my lying eyes or what Trump tells me is obviously true?
Guess this is just more propoganda
Random quote from someone in Williamsburg, VA. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a national news article quote someone from my town (well, technically, we just moved on town to the south) lol
Just the start. When the westen leaders stop blaming Iran and start blaming the usa and israel
