6 in 10 Americans blame Trump for high prices

[1blackman1]

I thought Trump ran on lowering prices on everything starting day 1. Here we are 9 months in and prices are still high.

What policies have he and the republicans supported that lowered prices since January 20, 2025?

[Yssup Rider]

Congress is a semi-circle jerk. The entire country is run by the late night social media post of a sociopathic liar.

How is that number only 60?

There is nobody else to blame.

[Hdtown]

It's all on Diaper Don and his cronies.

[1blackman1]

Trump said to Beair that prices are down and grocery prices are down. Republicans are also saying that grocery prices are down because deisel prices have dropped. Anyone agree that prices are down? Is it - as Trump claims - Democrats lies that prices are not down?

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

...What policies have he and the republicans supported that lowered prices since January 20, 2025?

Keep us updated on your crowd sourcing of information, verification of trend data, researching and critical thinking goes.

Some of us might want to try that instead of researching, reading schtuff, managing our budgets and doing our own critical thinking.

Doubtful, but hey, ya never know...

[1blackman1]

So you have no answer and just posted something asinine because you had nothing better to say. I asked about policies if any.

[Precious_b]

Originally Posted by Hdtown

It's all on Diaper Don and his cronies.

Yup. As posted by them there maggies when the libbys were in the same position when the Hill closed for biz.

Amazing they ain't owning it like they said they should.

....wait. That's right. It's the other guys fault when maggies are in control. It's the other guys fault when the libbys are in control.

How foolish of me.

[Why_Yes_I_Do]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

So you have no answer and just posted something asinine because you had nothing better to say. I asked about policies if any.

Would your first two questions in the OP qualify as evidence in a court case? You make unsubstantiated statements and want answers to non sequiturs? In an ironic way, that would actually qualify as a textbook definition of asinine - IMMHO.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by 1blackman1

I thought Trump ran on lowering prices on everything starting day 1. Here we are 9 months in and prices are still high.

What policies have he and the republicans supported that lowered prices since January 20, 2025?

You guys were blaming Trump for higher prices back in March, before he had a chance to do anything. And even now he's only been in office for 10 months. Inflation hasn't really changed since he took office. Please give him some time.

His two hallmark policies, high tariffs and aggressive deportation of illegal immigrants, haven't had time to work their ways through the system. On one hand, they could push up prices of tariffed goods and of labor. On the other hand, they could put the USA into recession which could cause inflation to moderate. Or maybe we'll have the best of both worlds, stagflation!

He'll be hard pressed to fuck up things worse than Biden and the Democrats did in 2021 and 2022, but he may just be up to the task. It's possible the Supreme Court will save him from himself, judging from some of the conservative justices' questions today about the tariffs.

[Yssup Rider]

That’s awfully kind, Tiny. I was willing to wait on see in 2016, and he fucking things up sideways from day 1 right on through the end.

We’ve seen it back on steroids in the first 10 months of his revival.

The question isn’t can he fuck it up worse than Biden did in 2021 and 2022, but who will save us from this lunacy and will any of us live to see that person arrive?

The worst is yet to come and we all know it.

[lustylad]

Originally Posted by Tiny

He'll be hard pressed to fuck up things worse than Biden and the Democrats did in 2021 and 2022, but he may just be up to the task.

I doubt it, at least when it comes to the inflation rate.

Biden and the Democrats inherited a 12-month CPI increase of only 1.4% when they assumed office in January 2001. They very quickly exploded it to a peak of 9.0% by June 2022.

From there, the pace of consumer price inflation began to slow again as the Fed woke up and belatedly tightened the monetary reins. Trump inherited a rate of 3.0% when he returned to the White House in January 2025. The most recent CPI report (for September 2025) put the annual rate at 3.0%, the same as it was on Inauguration Day.

To fuck things up as badly as Biden and the Dems did, Trump and his team would have to TRIPLE the current annual rate of inflation by driving it back up to 9%. I don't see them promoting ANY mix of policies (fiscal, monetary, tariffs, energy etc.) that would be that reckless and irresponsible.

Sure, Trump's tariff policy blunders might add as much as a full percentage point to the current inflation rate. But that pales in comparison to the damage wrought by the Biden team's insane 2021-22 spending spree, which exploded the inflation rate by over 7 percentage points in less than 18 months.