The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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Fewer items and lesser quality
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Now that you've seen the comparison in #1,782
Good morning! Donald Trump spent the week insisting that all is well. Grocery prices are down, electricity is down, cars are down, gas is down, and Thanksgiving will apparently be cheaper than at any point since the Mayflower docked. He told this to foreign dignitaries over dinner as if reading aloud from a parallel universe, citing a “very powerful report” from Walmart that somehow proves the cost of living has plummeted under his leadership.
The problem? The “powerful report” was a sales promotion for a stripped-down holiday meal. Walmart’s “for-ten-under-forty-bucks” feast includes six fewer items than last year’s and relies on generic brands and shrinkflation as a marketing trick, not economic policy. But in Trump’s America, coupons have replaced data, and the difference between a discount and a delusion has been erased by executive order.
BBC Verify fact-checked the president’s economic fairy tales and found the story rotting on the shelf. Grocery prices have risen 2.7 percent since he took office, with coffee up nearly 19 percent and ground beef up 13. His 50 percent tariff on Brazilian beans hasn’t brought relief so much as higher prices and empty shelves. Electricity, which he promised to cut in half, has instead climbed 11 percent while his war on renewables kneecaps supply. Cars now cost over $50,000 on average, gas remains well above $3 a gallon, and his tariff tantrums have added at least another percentage point to inflation.
And then there’s food. Not prices this time, but access. A federal judge in Rhode Island had to order the president of the United States to feed his citizens, ruling that the Trump administration’s refusal to release full November SNAP benefits was causing “irreparable harm.” Judge John McConnell called out the USDA’s incompetence, noting that 42 million Americans were on the brink of hunger because the government couldn’t be bothered to push a button.
The administration tried to pass off “partial payments” as progress, Washingtonese for “we did nothing and wrote a memo about it.” McConnell wasn’t buying it. In a scathing ruling, he ordered the USDA to draw immediately from both the $5.5 billion contingency fund and the $23 billion Section 32 fund (normally used for school lunches and child nutrition) to make full payments by Friday, November 7. He rejected the USDA’s claim that doing so would ....
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Good morning! Donald Trump spent the week insisting that all is well. Grocery prices are down, electricity is down, cars are down, gas is down, and Thanksgiving will apparently be cheaper than at any point since the Mayflower docked. He told this to foreign dignitaries over dinner as if reading aloud from a parallel universe, citing a “very powerful report” from Walmart that somehow proves the cost of living has plummeted under his leadership.
The problem? The “powerful report” was a sales promotion for a stripped-down holiday meal. Walmart’s “for-ten-under-forty-bucks” feast includes six fewer items than last year’s and relies on generic brands and shrinkflation as a marketing trick, not economic policy. But in Trump’s America, coupons have replaced data, and the difference between a discount and a delusion has been erased by executive order.
BBC Verify fact-checked the president’s economic fairy tales and found the story rotting on the shelf. Grocery prices have risen 2.7 percent since he took office, with coffee up nearly 19 percent and ground beef up 13. His 50 percent tariff on Brazilian beans hasn’t brought relief so much as higher prices and empty shelves. Electricity, which he promised to cut in half, has instead climbed 11 percent while his war on renewables kneecaps supply. Cars now cost over $50,000 on average, gas remains well above $3 a gallon, and his tariff tantrums have added at least another percentage point to inflation.
And then there’s food. Not prices this time, but access. A federal judge in Rhode Island had to order the president of the United States to feed his citizens, ruling that the Trump administration’s refusal to release full November SNAP benefits was causing “irreparable harm.” Judge John McConnell called out the USDA’s incompetence, noting that 42 million Americans were on the brink of hunger because the government couldn’t be bothered to push a button.
The administration tried to pass off “partial payments” as progress, Washingtonese for “we did nothing and wrote a memo about it.” McConnell wasn’t buying it. In a scathing ruling, he ordered the USDA to draw immediately from both the $5.5 billion contingency fund and the $23 billion Section 32 fund (normally used for school lunches and child nutrition) to make full payments by Friday, November 7. He rejected the USDA’s claim that doing so would ....
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Shiftless2
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If you ever doubted it was about anything except the cruelty
That would explain it, certainly.
It's not the only possible explanation.
I suspect there's also a simple authoritarian element. Trump wants to be obeyed, regardless of how unreasonable his commands are.
That's substantiated by Trump's loyalty purge of the U.S. military, and such shocking excesses as demolishing the white house East wing.
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There you have it
