MAGA Starting to Blame Trump for Affordability Crisis

Monday, December 08, 2025

New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they're feeling across virtually every part of their lives ...

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Sean Duffy: "I hear President Trump talk publicly and privately -- he cares about affordability for the American consumer." (Trump literally called affordability a "hoax" just yesterday!)

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"They just say the word. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. They just say it " affordability."
Donald Trump, Dec. 2025

"It doesn't mean anything to anybody" means "It doesn't mean anything to me."

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-08 07:17 AM | Reply

So this is what it takes to convince them that the man they worshipped for so long has always been scum doing a scummy job?

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-08 08:25 AM | Reply

Much, much too late, MAGA. Millions of you will be dead or out on the street because of what you allowed Donald to do to you. You'll forever be known as the Stupidest Generation.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-12-08 08:27 AM | Reply

Prices in the beef and veal category are up 14.7%, while overall food is up 3.1% from September 2024 to September 2025 " the latest publicly available consumer price index data due to the government shutdown in October.

Maybe Infantino can give the disgusting orange chomo the FIFA affordability prize.

#4 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-12-08 02:52 PM | Reply

... President Donald Trump pressured farm-equipment manufacturers to drop prices for tractors as he announced $12 billion in farmer relief, his latest efforts to address Americans' concerns about shaky economic conditions under his leadership.

Trump said Monday that his administration would give companies such as Deere & Co. permission to "take off a lot of the environmental restrictions that they have on machinery," blaming them for driving up costs for farmers.

The long-awaited farmer relief is a tacit acknowledgment that the president's sweeping global tariffs have burdened some American businesses, including farmers, by contributing to price pressures and shrinking export markets. ...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 04:03 PM | Reply

You have to be MAGA levels of stupid to not yet see how Trump has screwed this nation.

#6 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-12-08 04:52 PM | Reply

#6 oh please, the complexity of the US legal system & government prevents anything new from being built or anything getting done.

I would add, this inability of the government is creating more extremism.

Educate yourself, read Abundance.

#7 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-12-08 06:11 PM | Reply

#7.... obviously missed the rwing SC making Money Speech in Citizens United and changing who actually is represented in Gov; before it was the People, now it's the Elites.

And 1Nut trying to 'educate' M8 on US Law and politics? bwahahahaha!

Now That's Entertainment!

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-08 06:18 PM | Reply

OneiroNUT didn't even know LA was in CA.

Doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

#9 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-08 06:28 PM | Reply

He's like AndreaMackris got a Green Card.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-12-08 06:39 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

@#9 ... Doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. ...

Wow. I've not heard that one in a while (decades).

But quite apropos as you use it.

@#10 ... He's like AndreaMackris got a Green Card. ...

Yeah, since that alias disappeared, I've noticed many similarities between what it used to post and what some of the current aliases post.

At this point, my main question is whether or not there is a troll farm active here.

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-12-08 07:32 PM | Reply

Wow. I've not heard that one in a while (decades).

My woman tells me I say old shit all the time. LOL

#12 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-12-08 07:52 PM | Reply