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Two years after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump staged a New Jersey press conference flanked by grocery staples to spotlight inflation under Democrats, food prices are still rising despite his pledge to bring them down.

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Gas prices are up Grocery prices are up Utility prices are up November is coming

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-- Ted Lieu (@tedlieu.bsky.social) 3:30 PM · Aug 12, 2026

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... Standing between tables piled high with fruit, beef, cereal, milk and other household staples at his Bedminster golf club on August 15, 2024, Trump blamed the Biden administration for sharp increases in groceries.

The spectacle, complete with charts showing higher prices, was aimed at undercutting the Democratic nominee, Kamala Harris, and highlighted Trump's central promise: he alone could tame inflation and lower the cost of living.

Two years on, higher gasoline and grocery prices are squeezing household budgets and turning the cost of living into the top issue for American voters.

Voters now give Democrats a slight edge over Republicans in who they view as better stewards of the economy for the first time in nearly a decade, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-15 07:55 PM | Reply


@#1 ... Voters now give Democrats a slight edge over Republicans in who they view as better stewards of the economy for the first time in nearly a decade, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. ...

Wow.

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-15 07:55 PM | Reply

Tyson Foods says it will close beef plants amid cattle shortage

www.usatoday.com

How's stinky doing with the screwworm infestation?

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-15 08:02 PM | Reply

The fat bald pedophile can't change his own diaper

#4 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-08-15 08:10 PM | Reply

@#3 ... Tyson Foods says it will close beef plants amid cattle shortage ...

So, in the supply-and-demand world, less supply seems to indicate higher prices?

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-15 08:25 PM | Reply

The photo from the article ...



#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-15 09:57 PM | Reply

@#6

In that photo, I notice a container of Folgers coffee, the red container with the black lid on the top of the pile.

Before Pres Trump, I had been paying $7.99 for that container.

Now I am paying $15.
(
www.walmart.com )

Double what I had been paying.

YMMV ...

#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-08-16 03:22 AM | Reply

Food & Water Watch analysis of the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) and corporate income data finds that since President Trump took office in January 2025:

Beef prices are up 23% for choice beef, 24.2% for ground beef, 24.7% for ground chuck, and 25.2% for chuck roast " nearly five times the CPI increase of 5.1% over the same period.

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

Affordability is a hoax.

~ stinky ~

#8 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-16 06:06 AM | Reply

Hell, even my dark chocolate, that helps me wake in the morning, is way up. Trump;s early life, as I understand it, was as a wildly pampered kid of super rich parents....he had no way to know how the middle class live, never mind we the poor. He was and is about himself. Does't belong as President of this huge country. He is profiting mightily by things, so of course he smiles a lot.

#9 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-08-16 06:47 AM | Reply

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