Trump's War Expected to Surge US Inflation

The 4.2% protection is

a sharp step up from the prior projection of 2.8%. Moreover, it is much higher than the 2.7% Fed officials estimated when they updated their own forecasts last week.

The revision is due to two primary factors: the war in the Middle East, and the ongoing impact from U.S. tariffs that, while lower than prior levels, continue to boost prices around the world.
("Global forecasting group sees U.S. inflation at 4.2% this year, much higher than Fed estimate," www.cnbc.com

American retirees will feel this Dummkopf Trumpf/Bibi Netanyahu-created inflation harder.

"Inflation ticked up in recent months, resulting in a 2.8% COLA for 2026 for people receiving Social Security and SSI payments. SSA estimated that the average retirement benefit would rise by about $56 a month, from $2,015 to $2,071, starting with payments that began going out in January 2026. That sounds like a meaningful boost - until you look at what Medicare is taking back simultaneously.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that the standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B, which covers doctor visits and other outpatient care, climbed in January from $185 to $202.90, a 9.7% increase. That effectively reduced the increase to the average Social Security check in 2026 from $56 to $38.10, after subtracting the Part B increase of $17.90 from the 2026 COLA raise. In that scenario, the Part B increase consumed almost 32% of the monthly increase. For retirees on fixed incomes, a real-dollar gain that shrinks by nearly a third before it even hits a bank account is far from the relief the headline number implies."

~snip~

These are financial problems that US and Israeli mega-oligarchs, as well as the good-for-nothing members of the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF), will never have to deal with.

Source: www.msn.com

Import prices jump almost 2% last month.

If they think inflation is going to be ONLY 4.2%, they're nuts.

Don't worry, inflation, poverty, terrible healthcare, malnutrition, five dollars a gallon for diesel gas, hospital closures, or homelessness won't affect the fabulously wealthy oligarchs who are enjoying Lobster Thermidor or finely-aged Tenderloin Steaks, all guzzled down with Dom Perignon.

Postal Service to Impose Its First-Ever Fuel Surcharge on Packages
The 8% fee, to cover rising fuel and transportation costs, will be applied to packages

www.wsj.com

The brain dead------------------- did that.

Inflation plus this wonky weather plus rising energy prices plus [insert latest stupidity from this administration]...

I've noticed groceries have jumped again. Certain items in particular are crazy high, like bell peppers. Reds are $2 a piece and greens are $1.40 a piece when they're usually $1.39 and $0.89, respectively.

"It's transitory."

#6 | Posted by BellRinger

And you wonder why you're treated like the piece of s*&^ you are...

The disaster you voted in to office is directly, DIRECTLY, responsible for the mess we're in. Biden was dealing with circumstances out of his control.

If you can't understand the difference, just STFU and admit you have no seat at this table with the adults.

#9. I remember all of the BS excuses the MSM came up with. Parroting the administration word for word. You did it too.

You remember what you were told to remember, dumbf*&^.

Which is why you'd be stupid enough to vote Trump then flippantly chirp 'BuT BiDenZ' every time your mistake becomes apparent.

You voted for this mess we're in, dumbf*&^. Anyone with an ounce of integrity or dignity would STFU at this point.

Anyone with an ounce of integrity or dignity would STFU at this point.

#12 | POSTED BY JPW

I think you've put your finger on the problem.

I remember 9+% inflation, idiot.

Doesn't matter what you remember if you're too dumb to understand the cause-and-effect relationships that lead to it.

I remember 9+% inflation

#14 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

If it were possible for you to remember everything you know, you'd be a Democrat.

Yeah, I said it was decades in the making and was exacerbated by a massive spending bill.

Decades in the making, huh?

"I remember 9+% inflation"

January's inflation was .8%; that's 9.6% compounded.

February's inflation was .7%; that's 8.4% compounded. And that's just what they're admitting.

I'm sure March will be cheaper, due to gas and grocery prices dropping like Trump promised.

And, of course, Rx bills dropping by 1500% definitely helps.

Yeah, I said it was decades in the making and was exacerbated by a massive spending bill.

#17 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Yes. The BBB.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), signed into law by President Trump on July 4, 2025, is projected to significantly increase the U.S. federal deficit, with estimates suggesting it will add between $3.4 trillion and $4.1 trillion to the national debt over the 2025"2034 period.

The fiscal year 2026 defense budget is set for roughly $838.7 billion to $901 billion, contributing to significant national debt, with proposals to increase spending by $5 trillion through 2035. This rise could add $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the decade.

Trumpy just asked Americans for another $200 billion more for his poorly planned and unnecessary illegal war (that is not a war).

Deficits only matter when democrats are in power. Of course.

Thanks BBB!

Thanks Bibi!

"You broke it, but we ended up buying it."
Signed,
The non-Islamophobic, peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer.

" I said it was decades in the making "

Nah, it was really the third stimulus. As Steve Rattner pointed out, it marked putting back in the economy MORE money than Covid had taken out. He warned it would be inflationary, and he was right.

Luckily, inflation in America came down further and faster than any other first-world country. But Biden, rightfully, got blamed for it.

Meanwhile, Trump wanted a stimulus 42% higher than Biden's.

IOW, Trump's inflation would've been WORSE.

"and was exacerbated by a massive spending bill."

Which you didn't oppose, even when you knew extending the expiring tax cuts would require trillions of new borrowing.

Why didn't you speak out against it when it mattered???

"This rise could add $5.8 trillion to the national debt over the decade."

Pfffft.

No way it's that little.

Deficits only matter when democrats are in power. Of course.

#20 | Posted by donnerboy

Trump and MAGA/GOP already added $1T to the national debt in the first five months of the current fiscal year that began in Sept.

"And I think we've been proven right, you know, they took one missile, went 2500 miles. They supposedly didn't have a missile like that. They had no missile with that capability. But they shot the now famous Ireland, the, the island that... The UK was very Afraid to give us, 'cuz they didn't want to get dragged in, but we don't want to get dragged into their wars either, you know, it's one thing we're very disappointed, I'll say it publicly, we're very disappointed with NATO."

- Braindead President of the United States, Donald Trump

www.irishstar.com

Why is this ------ the president?

Why is this ------ the president?

#26 | Posted by ClownShack

Because as terarded as he is, people like ballwasher, lfthndcuck, fortcuck, fistedp^&&* et al are even more terarded.

Hi Clownshack:

What's worse? The idiot in the White House or the imbeciles that voted for him?

What a country we have now.

What's worse? The idiot in the White House or the imbeciles that voted for him?

28 | POSTED BY C0RI0LANUS

It's a symbiote.

Why is this ------ (Trump) the president?

#26 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

I am told it is because he is a charismatic master of 5-D chess. I have been seriously told that hundreds of times.

The suckerfish and the suckers. Symbiosis, so to speak, is right.

Dysfunctionality is attracted to dysfunctionality.

I remember 9+% inflation, idiot.

#14 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-03-26 02:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

We're half way there already, and there is no end in site to the Trump-Israeli war on Iran.

They're not bombing the Basij anymore. Regime change was quietly abandoned.

They're not bombing the Basij anymore. Regime change was quietly abandoned.

#32 | Posted by sitzkrieg

So it failed and they've moved on to the saving face mode of the conflict?

when oil price gets above a certain point, everything goes up. We're reminded of how many products contain petroleum and it has to be made and shipped.

I was listening to some commentary that was primarily focused on food costs, but the overall gist was that fuel/energy is just the beginning. You have compounding factors depending on oil such as production of plastics, which is used for damn near everything. That's not even touching fertilizer.

People seem unable to process what is happening and what is coming. Fuel/energy? Food? Plastics? We are on the edge of the literal abyss. There is zero evidence of deescalation, zero. The war is expanding and ground invasion is imminent. Iran will definitely respond to this aggressively and depending on how serious the assault could trigger existential destruction of various Gulf States. The world will not recover from that. 30% of the world's oil removed from the global economy for a LONG time? That is possible. Not just a temporary months long halt, but if the gulf state's oil industry is devastated it could take decades to repair. If the desalination plants are hit then, well deaths in the millions-there is no way to supply water to the MILLIONS that will lose it. And the US and Israel CONTINUE to target Iran's nuclear plants. Like WTAF! These freaking fools are playing with global annihilation. What the ---- do you think will happen if we hit an Iranian reactor? Chernobyl level event? We are repeatedly hitting their nuclear plants for ----s sake.

And now Piggy is going to send in ground troops, to what effect?

He has been lying constantly about negotiations. So this ground assault will achieve what. Say BEST case scenario we capture Kharg Island or seize the islands in the strait? SO WHAT? We've effectively removed Iran's oil from the global market-up goes oil prices. Iran won't retaliate? Is that their thinking? If we destroy or prevent Iran from selling oil they will, what? Quit? ARE THEY INSANE???

Iran will retaliate against gulf oil production

Oh and Israel and the gulf states and the US military will start running out of interceptor imminently and be completely out of the in a couple of weeks.

We are on the edge of the abyss and piggy is pushing hard.

Why again is this happening?

And some perspective points

The NYTimes is reporting Iran has largely succeeded in destroying 13 US bases in the region.

The pride of our navy the USS Gerald Ford has been taken out of the war for months, if not over a year.

The USS Lincoln was chased out of the area by Iranian cruise missiles

AND AGAIN WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF INTERCEPTOR MISSILES

defencesecurityasia.com

The think tank estimates that at the current operational tempo, Israel could completely expend its Arrow interceptor stockpile by the end of March, placing the country only days away from running out of its primary exo-atmospheric missile defence capability.

The study further notes that the operational strain has been compounded by the damage or degradation of radar systems, forcing air defence units to expend more interceptors per incoming threat in order to maintain acceptable interception probabilities.

This dynamic has significantly increased interceptor consumption rates, intensifying the pressure on Israel's already limited stockpile of Arrow missiles designed to counter medium-range ballistic missile threats.

According to the report, the United States could be approximately one month or less away from exhausting available THAAD interceptor stocks if current expenditure rates continue without significant operational adjustment.

The Royal United Services Institute assessment indicates that replenishment timelines for high-end interceptors such as Israel's Arrow-3 and the United States' THAAD are measured in years rather than months because production depends on complex manufacturing chains, rare materials, and limited industrial capacity.

www.npr.org

Is this where it's headed?

why does our government release information such as inventory of critical munitions to the Royal United Services Institute?

Wouldn't that be highly classified and something we wouldn't want anyone to know?

Between this debacle and the Venezuela nonsense, I have zero faith in the military to do what's right.

They're going to follow orders no matter what.

So much for our "best and brightest"...

The Fat Idiot Pedophile has no ------- idea what he's doing.

why does our government release information such as inventory of critical munitions to the Royal United Services Institute?
Wouldn't that be highly classified and something we wouldn't want anyone to know?

#39 | Posted by eberly

Publicly available information ranging from contracts to produce munitions, timelines for the building of munitions, sales figures to various nations, capacity and capabilities of the munition systems, use of munitions during the June 2025 conflict, capacity for replenishment, diversion of munitions from other areas (i.e. Ukraine, Far East), use rate of munitions during current conflict, rate of missiles and drones fire by Iran at various targets, make-up of the various missiles being fired by Iran, public statements by various governments, first hand experience by former military personell, off the record communication with people in the administration, industry and foreign governments, etc. etc. etc.

RUSI is think tank closely tied to the MIC. www.rusi.org

While not exact figures, it is my opinion that they would be perfectly placed to understand the complexities of the interceptor missile issue.

But that is just me.

And I fully recognize that RUSI will have its own political agenda

However, given EVERYONE is saying it takes months to make missiles and we, Israel and the Gulf States are firing lots of missiles and we are diverting missile systems from S. Korea and Ukraine and attacks on Israel seem to be having more effect it does kinda make sense that stockpiles are drying up.

But, hey what do I know

"If they think inflation is going to be ONLY 4.2%, they're nuts."

Oh, none of them think it's going to be that low. They only know that's what they're going to TELL us.

"But, hey what do I know"

You know you hate Trump, the GOP, and anyone who even attempts to listen or repeat something from the Trump or the GOP. You also know you hate 1 poster here more than anything else.

Besides that?

You don't know squat.

To be PERFECTLY clear. IRAN is controlling the price of oil throughout the world. They can increase or decrease the price of oil by allowing or preventing tankers from passing.

That is a simple fact

Until Iran is forced from that Iran holds the world's economy by the short hairs.

Piggy seems to not have anticipated this.

Can anyone honestly think Iran will willingly give that control up? Under pretty much ANY circumstances?

And remember, the "fix" to this situation-Kharg Island, seizing the straits ONLY lowers the amount of oil going the market until such time as the war is FULLY won and all production is returned to normal-i.e. YEARS best case.

We. Are. ------

Thanks magat scum

"But, hey what do I know"
You know you hate Trump, the GOP, and anyone who even attempts to listen or repeat something from the Trump or the GOP. You also know you hate 1 poster here more than anything else.
Besides that?
You don't know squat.

#45 | Posted by eberly

I appreciate your astute and fact based counter argument. Very helpful

I have a question

How come YOU don't hate Trump?

I refuse to devote the energy to hating someone. I've hated in the past....not anymore. Too much energy to do that.

I don't support him. I didn't vote for him and I would never believe or trust him.

but it ends there. Hate is something else altogether.

Maybe your therapist could better explain that to you....but something tells me you don't listen well to folks like that. You're too tired from hating to pay attention.

I'm not going to bother arguing the philosophy of hate. I will say I will fight fascism until the day I die

Israel lost 21 tanks to Hezbollah yesterday

So, umm yeah we are winning.

Israel's Defense Minister is raising the alarm that they are running out of troops

UAE has joined war with US

Israel just announced attacking Iran's nuclear plant, again

www.msn.com

Images circulating online appear to show U.S.-made scatterable anti-tank land mines near a suspected Iranian missile facility outside Shiraz, raising questions about whether the United States has begun using area-denial weapons to hinder Iran's missile operations.

To me this smells a tad desparate