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BumRushDaShow

(172,297 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 04:19 AM Aug 2025

Could be to address

his "will lower prices on DAY ONE" type of assertions when he was running for the 2nd term. I.e., at the beginning of 2025 after the inauguration, the promise was that prices would "go down". The quote -

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One.”


But we know, they really haven't, at least for groceries "as promised". If you go back to 2022 as a starting price - which may have been used because that was the "peak" period of inflation, it was heading down under Biden but 1/2 way through 2025, that drop has stopped, and prices are creeping back up.



Trump promised lower grocery prices ‘on Day One.’ Here’s what happened

Normal people know this is hyperbole, but the MAGat adherents and those who don't pay attention except to the bling, would buy that garbage, which is what helped to propel him back to the Presidency.

ETA - TX (D) Lloyd Doggett has a 45 "economic promises" timeline through to the first 100 days - https://doggett.house.gov/issues/trumps-economic-promises-timeline

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