Summary
Trump admitted it will be difficult to lower consumer prices, despite campaign promises to reduce grocery, energy, and overall inflation costs.
Trump told Time that achieving price reductions is rare without major economic downturns.
During the campaign, Trump blamed rising costs on Democratic leadership and proposed tariffs as a solution, but economists warn tariffs could raise prices further.
Inflation, a key voter concern, played a significant role in Trump’s election victory, though he has yet to outline a clear plan to deliver on his economic pledges.
Oh my gosh! Oh my! Trustworthy Trump?! He lied… For political gain?
I’m sure the people who voted for him would be very upset right now if they could read.
But of course, Mon ami. Surely the ravings of one such as l’orange simply could not be believed?
Does this mean he’s backing down on tariffs? Jesus, one of the only things he actually campaigned on…
Shocker…
People are surprised by this?
God this country is so full of idiots.
Haha just wait until he tanks the economy and all these prices stay high.
A lot of people yelling that he’s not backtracking, that he’s just saying it’s hard. Did we not pay attention in 2016? “It’s easy, we’ll fix it in a day, I’ll do it faster than any other president”. Then it didn’t happen. Then it was hard, then it was in the works, then it was a concept, then it never came. We’re just going to have tons of repeats of the same old crap. I’m just waiting for the “who thought ending a war was difficult” quote to drop for Ukraine. (If it doesn’t just get handed over on a silver platter on day one)
Trump only took presidency for two reasons:
To not go to jail/be prosecuted.
Fame.
Keep pissing in the wind, to those thinking he’ll do even less of a quarter of the things he ‘promised’ to do. Has the first 4 years with this guy told anyone anything? Dumb Americunts.
Reason #3: To gift as much public and foreign money into his pockets as possible.
Britain’s worst mistake by far, and we have many charges to answer. I’m ashamed of my country for creating this monster.
Oh man. I wish I could see the faces being eaten.
They’re all currently in denial and even when prices increase further due to the tariffs they’ll just blame it on the previous administration.
Trust me, I’ve been trying to explain this to these people for a long time. Had a talk with one of them where I told them about this interview and their exact response was to blame Biden.
Yeah, you’re absolutely right. They never accept responsibility for their choices, they just blame others when they fail and try to claim other’s successes as their own.
But surely a few realize their fuckup before they manufacture fault and rage to aim at others.
Oooooh… what… a surprise. Well. Too late now…
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
No kidding, he just lied his ass off like he always does and the dickless MAGAT drones just slurped that jizz right up without ever stopping to think about how insanely fucking stupid the promis was to begin with…
Given how us dickless folks voted maybe that’s not the insult to use for those brainless jackasses
It’s not “the economy stupid”
Here’s the thing though, no it’s not hard to reduce the price of all of that, you just need to nationalize the industry for essential products. No more investors to please, no need to make billions in profit, prices can be reduced.
You said it’s not hard, but that’s gonna be really hard.
Quebec did it with electricity, passed a law to purchase all stocks at a set price on a specific date, got a loan from the USA, 3 years later it had been refunded using the profit it realized by nationalizing the industry… It was a 50 years loan if I’m not mistaken.
Or start assassinating the ceos of Ralph’s and Albertsons on the side walk and see if that helps, just a suggestion
What does it say that for a good 30 seconds I thought, “maybe it is the way to go, -could it hurt?” Is this reality now?!
bUT, frEe MaRkeT brINg DOwn pRiCe!
This is super clickbait. What’s Trump’s actual quote?
I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.
That doesn’t scream “backtracks on promise to me”. Actually, if anything, he’s saying that he’d still like to do it and he thinks they will. I mean, the other thing is he hasn’t even taken over, so we can’t really say he’s failed at anything. Look, I don’t like the guy very much either, but let’s save our outrage when he’s actually fucked up. Headlines like this is when some lazy editor just needs to crank a story out there.
If I asked someone if they like ice cream and they say “I’d like to get it. It’s hard not to have it, but I think I will”, the headline shouldn’t be “LOCAL MAN HATES ICE CREAM”. Fuck off lazy journalists and wake me up when something actually happens.
“Guys, the iceberg wasn’t even that big. I’m as skeptical of the Titanic’s engineers as the next guy, but right now, my side of the ship is farther out of the water than it’s ever been. Wake me up when the ship ACTUALLY starts sinking.”
