WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday showed how he had learned to stop worrying about inflation and simply, in his own words, “love” it.
Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn’t dismiss the affordability issue as a “hoax” that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.
Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.
New gas pump sticker just dropped.
Indeed. But, if people have money for stickers, I’d encourage them to consider donating it to a food bank instead.
Political protest is the only way to effect any kind of change. You can certainly argue, how effective some stickers on a gas pump can be. But I don’t think donating the money to compensate for the negligence of the government you’re protesting against will be more effective. One might even argue that’s counterproductive.
It’s not my job to make up for government spending. I voted to help those people with tax dollars. Most of the country didn’t. This is the society we’ve collectively decided to build and now we all have to live in it.
Ofcourse! The country of Australia only uses stickers as currency.
What’s even more infuriating than statements like this are, to me, the attempts to walk them back by framing it as “It’s not that we don’t care, it’s that our chief concern is Iran not getting a nuclear weapon, even if it means you have to be poor.”
We had both a non-nuclear Iran AND a more affordable America (sort of) without this war, and it’s perfectly transparent that the war is becoming long-term because it gives Donald an easy mechanism for market manipulation so the people on his Signal chat can time the increases and decreases based on his public statements.
He’s also trying (and failing, hard) to pull a Netenyahoo: Start a forever war to justify staying in office forever.
There’s some truth to this.
I’m strongly anti-war myself and remember vividly Fareed Zakaria, the supposed liberal, on CNN speaking of Donald in glowing terms after he decided to drop a MOAB on Afghanistan. I’m certain Donald remembers how well the liberals spoke of him when he decided to escalate their forever war too.
Don’t leave out Clinton praising Trump’s Iran strikes. There never been a Democrat that wasn’t foaming at the mouth over war.
You’re right. Buncha motherfuckers.
I think he’s cuckoo for coco puffs on the Alzheimer’s slide. There’s an inertia to reactions and statements that lingers as they fade away.
This is expected.
The infuriating part is his supporters in office won’t 25th him. I think they’re waiting until after the midterms deliberately. As is, they don’t have a president to tell them what to do, just an empty sac to whisper suggestions to.
What’s surprising is that anyone would be surprised that stupid shit came out of that moron’s mouth.
I don’t know that I agree. Donald is and has always been corrupt, but people have memories of the economy doing well during his first term before COVID hit, and that makes it more understandable that people voted for him as the candidate of change, at least economically. (Note that I am not saying I agree with these votes and am not a Donald supporter.)
That Donald is willing to say these things openly tells me that, cognitive tests notwithstanding, he is not fully in charge of his mental faculties anymore. I imagine the Epstein Class appreciates having a useful, easy-to-manipulate person like him in that particular office.
So, you’re surprised?
Me? No.
I knew it was just an electoral strategy, and a good one. After four years of Biden/Harris ignoring the exploding cost of living, they’d have been stupid not to make affordability one of the centerpieces of their platform; Thing is, anyone who’s been alive for more than a couple of decades knows that both ruling parties couldn’t care less about affordability.
