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.
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.