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39. Spoken by a person who was given and is now stealing all the money he has ever "had".

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:31 PM

Dec 2025

Never lived on a budget. Never tried to figure out if you or your family had the money for any basic needs, much less new glasses or shoes. Much less frivolities like clothes, heating, doctors' and dentist's visits. You who have had to live with a junk heap of a car until you had the means to get something better know what "affordability" means. It is very real.

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Trump Calls Affordability a 'Con Job' as His Edge on the Economy Slips [View all] speak easy Dec 2025 OP

I'm looking forward to a trip to the grocery store this BOSSHOG Dec 2025 #1

MAGATs will be making scenes at grocery store check-outs hadEnuf Dec 2025 #2

Who are you going to believe? Your lying eyes or me? Jacson6 Dec 2025 #3

He had an "edge" on the economy??? joshdawg Dec 2025 #4

Gotta love that corporate media! robbob Dec 2025 #37

It was so legitimate that he was going to lower prices on day one. Norrrm Dec 2025 #5

Inherited The Worst Inflation In History?!?! GB_RN Dec 2025 #6

He inherited an inflation rate of 3.0% in January 2025. subterranean Dec 2025 #10

Heating oil was 17 cents a gallon in the fall of 73. By March of 74 it was more than a dollar. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #11

Annual Inflation by Year since 1929 Wiz Imp Dec 2025 #15

Source belpejic Dec 2025 #53

It's from the CPI From BLS but I found it preformatted like this Wiz Imp Dec 2025 #54

Thank you! belpejic Dec 7 #56

Many of us on DU remember the 1970s stagflation. yardwork Dec 2025 #28

I Was A Kid At The Time... GB_RN Dec 2025 #44

Yes. Our first car had an 18% interest rate. yardwork Dec 2025 #47

Here's what has gone up for me this year, and at higher rates than inflation: NCDem47 Dec 2025 #7

Insurance and local taxes are through the roof. yardwork Dec 2025 #29

If Trump says good morning it is probably midnight. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #8

Contradicts himself in the same breath... sop Dec 2025 #9

That POS spews daily how "energy prices have gone down" Really Trump? We have Evergy in Kansas Bengus81 Dec 2025 #12

That's why I moved back to Tucson this Spring. ChazInAz Dec 2025 #30

Good move. All Evergy cares about is larger dividend payments (.69 per share now) and keeping Bengus81 Dec 2025 #32

Evergy victim here, too! slightlv Dec 2025 #35

yup, that's the thing these days Skittles Dec 2025 #49

Trump says, "Everyone who gives me millions of dollars says the economy is great". twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #13

MAGA Mango Mussolini is a walking pile of fake narrative words gohuskies Dec 2025 #14

The Make-Believe World of Trump 2na fisherman Dec 2025 #17

gah AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #16

He has never a day in his life had to go without a meal, worry about keeping a roof or paying for essentials, kimbutgar Dec 2025 #18

yes Skittles Dec 2025 #50

That's because he knows if he says it's a con his rubes will believe him ChicagoTeamster Dec 2025 #19

Trump is irritated that people are asking for his help Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #20

Suck it up you losers. Stop whining IronLionZion Dec 2025 #21

Hey shit for brains who is paying for your breakfast in the white house.........well the taxpayers are....while we have turbinetree Dec 2025 #22

Tell that to the $2 grapefruit in the produce department. Not a bag of grapefruit. One grapefruit. Vinca Dec 2025 #23

Dude doesn't set foot in a grocery store or eat much produce IronLionZion Dec 2025 #25

"but maybe McDonalds prices" speak easy Dec 2025 #31

Yup, he even spoke at the McDonalds conference on Nov 18 IronLionZion Dec 2025 #41

I have other ideas speak easy Dec 2025 #42

WE All Know (Even Some Maggots!) That "It Doesn't Mean Anything to Anybody" is Trump's Desperate The Roux Comes First Dec 2025 #24

Orange outside although full of shit inside. Conundrums abound. oasis Dec 2025 #26

His affluent followers won't care about what he says, but... yardwork Dec 2025 #27

Con-man from hell says what? Nt BootinUp Dec 2025 #33

I guess a Con Man would know a Con Job when he sees one. maxsolomon Dec 2025 #34

Of course, its all Biden's fault Bayard Dec 2025 #36

What "political edge"? When did this guy have a "political edge" on the economy? Escurumbele Dec 2025 #38

He had a slight edge last year just because he wasn't the incumbent. subterranean Dec 2025 #40

Spoken by a person who was given and is now stealing all the money he has ever "had". efhmc Dec 2025 #39

No, no, no. It is a "Don Job". It is true but not favorable. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #43

This message was self-deleted by its author bmichaelh Dec 2025 #45

Hey, Pedonald, MarineCombatEngineer Dec 2025 #46

Didn't just a day or two ago . . . Scubamatt Dec 2025 #48

Inflation Was 2.9% In 2024 ProfessorGAC Dec 2025 #51

That's nice maybe now trumpers will hear him Figarosmom Dec 2025 #52

In 2024, Trump campaigned on affordability. Said he was going to lower prices on day one. Norrrm Dec 2025 #55